A project by Nicola Ratti and Giuseppe Ielasi consisting in the construction of horizons and layers through an extensive use of acoustic instruments, electric guitars, turntables and percussions. The depth of field of the scene that creates, receives the intensity and diversity of the two musicians who are in this place to share and discuss the possibility to obtain a result that goes beyond the individual expectations. The duo embraces a wider range of styles compared to recent Ielasi works on the 12k label and Ratti works on Early and Preservation labels. Hints of an impressionistic post-rock split and merge with the speculations of electro-acoustic environment. Electric guitars and laptops together to create an adverse and dynamic soundscape.
Giuseppe Ielasi was born in 1974, lives and works in Milan. In 1988, he started playing the guitar, and worked for many years in the area of ’improvised music’. Between 1997 and 2006 he played with Taku Sugimoto, Jerome Noetinger, Mark Wastell, Martin Siewert, Nmperign, Brandon Labelle, Nikos Veliotis, Alessandro Bosetti, Gert-Jan Prins, Phill Niblock, Oren Ambarchi, and many others. Since 2007, he directed his interests toward solo performances ’site specific’, often using guitars as the main instrument, but integrating microphones and multi-channel sound diffusion systems, in order to create a complex web of noise in relation to space. He recently collaborated with the Austrian video artist Michaela Grill and participated in performances and installations by Renato Rinaldi and Armin Linke. His latest album, August ’was considered one of the best of 2007 for the magazine The Wire and he received a nomination in the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards in 2008.
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