FRANCESCO CASANOVA

CHAOSM - Live at IEM CUBE - 30/01/23 (Binaural)

Played live at IEM CUBE in Graz 30/01/23 in 5th order ambisonics, this version is decoded in binaural.

Description:

Chaos is not a generic and indeterminate mass of matter, but a constantly changing dimension where the speed of the emergence of new determinations leaves no space for the formation of constant elements over time. What defines CHAOSM is a constellation of a-rhytmic patterns and digital errors that moves around the room, a meaningless assemblage of endless sonic perspectives.

Rhizomatic Mutual Jam - SMC2021

Networked music performance between Rome and Turin

Work selected for the live music program of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2021) with Giorgio Alloatti, Andrea Reali, Federico Briata and Matteo Tomasetti

Description:

We are experiencing a reality that until a few months ago we could only trace in some sci-fi movies. The body becomes obsolete, our lives enter a purely cognitive dimension. Networking means creating relationship networks, sharing experiences and ideas, creating(...)contexts to communicate and create artistically so that the artists and public get confused and lose their original meaning.

The term rhizomatic derives from rhizome which in botany is a particular type of root where any point is connected to any other point in a non-hierarchical way: there is no center, no direction, only concatenations. In philosophy Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari place the concept of rhizome at the center of a widespread organizational model capable of describing and changing social and cultural processes.

For this purpose we have set up two NINJAM servers. NINJAM is a Client/Server software that allows you to play synchronized via the Internet. Any participant can listen to any other participant. Users can also edit his own personal mix as they wish. Since the inherent latency of the Internet prevents true real time synchronization of the jam and playing with latencies of tens of milliseconds is in fact impossible, NINJAM provides a solution by making latency (and the weirdness) much longer. Latency in NINJAM is measured in measures, and that's what makes it interesting.
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EU-SAT

WebVR online installation selected for the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF 2021)

Description:

This installation / composition aims to be a symbiosis between what is beyond the sky and what we feel on earth. Inspired by "Serenata per un satellite" by Bruno Maderna where we find the elements of a futuristic avant-garde made of experimentation and the dream of space The algorithm parameters are controlled by calculating the SGP trajectories obtained through NASA's TLE, creating an ensemble of seven satellites: ISS, Kestrel, Tempest-D, Cuberrt, Dellingr, Ubakusat and Halosat(...). The trajectories of the satellite's orbits are calculated in the future. The data of the future transform and change the sound material in the present, creating a dialectic between what will be and what is. This work is conceived as an open work in continuous evolution.

It wants to recall an imaginary of a utopia where technology can shape the future according to the needs of everyone in the present, imagining a symbiosis between all natural elements such as the human, the non-human, the earth and space. Read more

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Fluid Node - A-Lumiere

Live Electronics performance @ Teatro della Fortuna - Fano (Italy)

A-Lumiere is an experimental duo formed by Matteo Tomasetti and Francesco Casanova

Description:

"The amount of binary information produced in the anthropocene can be represented as a multiform fluid in continuous evolution. A liquid 'chaosm' led by creatures from the deepest abyss with metal heads and fiber optic tentacles that carry the immateriality of our existence. The Fluid-node performance aims to represent a sound representation of individual precarious existences that flounder immersed in a historical moment characterized by environmental disasters and global pandemics. Investigating space, time, gestures and the sound landscape through the information technology medium."

Metamorfosi nel tempo (AV composition)

- Music: Giovanni Costantini and Paolo Gatti
- Visual: Francesco Casanova
- Viola: Luca Sanzò

Selected for the international exhibition “Circle 2021″ at Cica Museum, Gimpo - South Korea

Description:

"In our memory the sounds and images fall apart and mix, now more alive and present, now more distant and confused. Our memories tell us what it was, but other sounds and other images contaminate them, filtering them and giving them new meanings. Time, inexorable, fragments, recomposes, modifies, re-elaborates our experience, and the more it moves away from us, the more it becomes obscured and transfigured: timbres and colors, as well as melodies and shapes, mix and show themselves to the our minds through each other, in a continuous game of metamorphosis."

BitNet Laptop Ensemble - Opening Act to Richard Devine

The Bitnet Laptop Ensemble is made up of 6 performers and 6 laptops. Shapes, images, synthetic materials, noises, melodic and rhythmic gestures alternate the scene to take the listener to remote digital places. BLE mainly uses programming languages such as Max / Msp, C-Sound, Touch Designer as the primary platform for sound / video synthesis / analysis and software such as Ableton Live for live realization.

The BLE is made up of: Francesco Casanova, Matteo Tomasetti, Filippo Gualazzi, Gianluca Stefanelli, Luis Braschi and Federico Turchi.

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