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Antonio D'Amato

Un certain vertige

This piece was originally composed expressly for the directional rotating speaker developed by Peter Färber at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and a quadraphonic setup. Un certain vertige is a piece and a composition study based on the idea of blurring boundaries between two related but contrasting sound materials, that are progressively processed in order to merge in a unique fluxus. A large amount of processes that corrode and degrade the sound are implemented in order to create subtle organic textures with dense harmonics. The dialogue takes advantage of the experimental loudspeaker and the timbral transformation due to the hall reflections. The spatialization technique tries to merge the rotating loudspeaker and the quadraphonic setup in a seamless panorama where they respond each another. This stereo version of the piece is based on a binaural recording of the piece, integrated with a spatilization algorithm.

He graduated at Conservatory in Piano, Harpsichord, Music for Multimedia, Music Pedagogy, Electronic Music and Sound Engineering. He also studied Composition for eight years, Bassoon for three years, Baroque Organ, Ondes Martenot in Strasbourg and Paris, Sonology at ESMUC in Barcelona and later Electronic Music at ZHdK in Zürich. Some of his instrumental works are published by Forton Music, U.K. In summer 2015 he was trainee at ExperimentalStudio des SWR in Freiburg, and in 2016 at ZKM in Karlsruhe. His works have been performed in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Slovenia, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, UK and USA.

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