Memories of  You (Real Time Prototype)
28-07-2018
The computer sound composition is dedicated to the legendary jazz musician Lionel Hampton, who was interrupted by a thunderstorm during the first edition of the Festival [Fano Jazz by the Sea].
In the first part of the performance, the artist translates the sounds of space into the notes of Hampton’s Memories of You using the SuperCollider software in real time. Then, he dilutes the original track into the rain, redesigning it according to his compositional method, known as Nn.
Nn theory was developed in 2015 by Alessio de Girolamo, with the help of the scientist Vincenzo Schettino and the orchestra conductor Francesco Oliveto. Nn theory highlights the curious structural identity, and the coincidental shared age of Niels Bohr’s atomic model (which interprets the periodic table of the elements) and the 97-key Bösendorfer Imperial 290 piano, designed by the composer Ferruccio Busoni. The study revealed that the two systems were so identical that they were essentially interchangeable, making it ideally possible to attribute a note of the aforementioned piano to each chemical element.

(Milena Becci)




original soundtrack
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