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28-09-2024


On the occasion of Real Time, Alessio de Girolamo’s solo exhibition at Capsule Venice and of BIENNALE MUSICA 2024 - 68TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, Capsule Venice is proud to present the artist’s live set, Techno Shanghai. Taking place in the garden of the gallery’s Venice branch, the set showcases de Girolamo’s newest creations, intertwining his own musical history and inspirations with the soundscape of the city of Shanghai.

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TRE
08-03 / 28-05-2024Since 2016, the work on “real time” has evolved over various forms, culminating in a collaboration with the LIM (Department of Musical Informatics of the University of Milan) in 2023, which implements an interactive software called Real Time, which is aimed at fostering an immersive dialogue between the audience and the sound landscape.
The first presentation takes place at the Linea Project gallery spaces in Lecce, Italy.

Curated by Alice Caracciolo and Marco Vitale.

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Arcanum
03-11-2021Arcanum is an audiovisual code derived from the symbols used for the divinatory reading of the tarot “arcana.” Created on staff paper, the code magnifies and simplifies the rich details of historic tarot cards, presenting twenty-two images which are “constructed” on a musical staff and made up of corresponding chords of three notes each, which can be listened to online in succession.
Continuing my work with alphabets and numbers, here I explore the arcane code of the tarot, transforming visual details into fundamental structures that are scaled up to fill the entire staff paper, sometimes producing Escher-like figures. For the composition, I drew inspiration not only from the divinatory art of tarot, but also from Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin and his “mystic” chord: a succession of notes conceived by the Russian composer and pianist both as a harmonic foundation and as a key to reading the Divine in the symphonic poem Prometheus: The Poem of Fire. By sampling the wind, the quintessential invisible element, I synthesized a digital instrument similar to an organ with which I performed the soundtrack.

(Alessio de Girolamo)

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Atlantis
20-07-2020Atlantis is a project on the new soundscape that emerged during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. The composition was created for Living Room by NAM - Not A Museum, and commissioned by Manifattura Tabacchi (Florence). It is conceived as an Atlantis revealed by the retreat of the field of “decibels” that submerges it, interacting through echoes and paracusia with the architecture, which is deprived of its social functions and of the inhabitants who occupy it. 
Living Room by NAM - Not A Museum is a contemporary art program of Manifattura Tabacchi, based on the principle of interdisciplinarity among the arts and on community engagement.

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Background Noise from the Window
05-2020 / 09-2020Private collection of 5 soundscapes recorded during Milan’s first Covid lockdown. The tracks are recorded from the window of Alessio de Girolamo’s studio in Milan in spring/summer 2020.#1 original soundtrack

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Lsystem#3
21-12-2019Lsystem3 is a generative sound composition installed at MOCAUP for the 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen). The composition, inspired by algorithms called L-systems which are observed in nature, is a metaphor for the anomalous growth of Shenzhen.

The sounds used to activate the generative algorithms are samples of traditional Chinese musical instruments that slowly grow on themselves as they develop according to an L-system. The sound interacts with Loris Cecchini’s Waterbones installation within a black cube.

Curated by Manuela Lietti.



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Memories of  You (Real Time Prototype)
28-07-2018The 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)




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Lsystem#2
02-2018Lsystem is a composition created as part of an acousmatic installation for the 2018 TAI (Tuscan Art Industry) festival.
The score is composed using a method I’ve named Nn (nomen nescio), where the overlay of the structure of Niels Bohr’s atomic model onto the Bösendorfer Imperial 290 piano model assigns a note to each element of the periodic table. I performed the sequence of elements present in the chemical formulas that describe the process of chlorophyll photosynthesis, recreating on the computer the extension over the 97 keys of the Bösendorfer piano. The resulting score was then inserted into a c-sound programming environment that manages pre-samplings, evolving them to a climax that becomes a metaphor for biological growth in the work.
The resulting track, recorded in its evolution up to the buffer overload limit, accompanies a concrete sound sample, namely the nighttime recording in the courtyard of via Genova 17, capturing the sounds of activity from the adjacent factory.
The increasing climax generated by the program lies on this sound bed, articulating into 4 variations of the algorithmic process.

(Artext Interview with Alessio de Girolamo by Dino Ascardi)

*Lindenmayer used L-systems to describe the behavior of plant cells and to model the growth processes of plant development.




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Lsystem#1
02-2018This sound installation is a composition of generative sounds programmed through L-systems* functions. The work originated from a collaboration with Loris Cecchini on the occasion of the exhibition The ineffable gardener in San Gimignano (Galleria Continua, 2018).

*An L-system (Lindenmayer system) is a parallel rewriting system and a type of formal grammar applied to the phenotypes of plant cells.



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Abitare un ritardo sonoro
01-2018Sound Performance at Fondazione Arthur Cravan. (Dialogues processed through a delay effect, in headphones).

Curated by Ermanno Cristini and Giancarlo Norese.original soundtrack

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