Artetetra released โlooongplayโ by Babau & Bienoise
๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ was born in 2022 during a SHAPE+ and Nextones artistic residency in Valdossola, Italy, centered around BABAU's nomination as SHAPE+ artists 2022/23. Initially conceived as a tutorial and tongue-in-cheek artistic text conceived by Babau, ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ was built with a playful approach to music theory exploring the research on audio, listening and improvisation of scholars and musicians such as Pauline Oliveros, Micah Silver, Jace Clayton and Jem Finer. These speculations were combined with lighthearted inputs from video game habits and Zen philosophy teachings elaborating a practice of improvisation and composition which sees musical interaction as:
๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ/๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด. ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด. ๐๐ง ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐จ๐ฐ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต, ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด.
From this residency week of interaction with musician Bienoise (Alberto Ricca) and fashion designer/artist Flora Rabitti (Atelier Florania) and a year of further development, the artists have crafted two long tracks in which they mixed computer music techniques with electroacoustic improvisation and sound manipulations which engage with these ideas.
Influenced by the approaches of computer music pioneers such as David Behrman, Carl Stone and John Bischoff, ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ #1 & #2 were composed starting from two canons written by means of electronic arpeggios that were later expanded thanks to Max/MSP sound extraction patches. The patches took a portion of the initial audio, generating longer and longer sound patterns. From this initial unpredictable structure, the musicians have included further improvised overdubs including wind instruments (alto saxophone and toleat), field recordings, and additional synth lines.
The result is an immersive two-piece work in which the architectures of the composition change continuously at a slow, unpredictable pace.
