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Oh! Uomo

by Andrea Penso

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Andrea Penso "Oh! Uomo"
C30/CD - Canto 33

Oh! Uomo (Part I)
“What I love are not the pieces, but the repetitions, the protractions; to proceed slowly on my way, to come back, back to the same thing, being a litany, litany as life, to stay long there before ending, not willing to make music of a man – and above all of a composer, and and above all of a westerner – but rather music of a sparrow, a quite indecisive sparrow perched on a branch, a sparrow trying to call a man…” (H.Michaux)

"Oh! Uomo (Part I)" is a composition based on a fragment of Bela Bartòk "III Der Stampfer (Stamping Dance)" ; from his folk music studies. The opening sequence, recorded on magnetic tape, was cut and transformed into a tape loop, then manipulated analogically and digitally to change its tone and progression.

Oh! Uomo (Diaspora)

"It is a painful pace of women, elders, and children, donkeys and oxen-backed. They cross dusty roads, mountains, and deserts. A faceless people is moving towards exile, and dispersion."

This piece, deeply inspired by Angela Ricci Lucchi and Yervant Gianikian's work, is dedicated to them.

"Oh! Uomo (Diaspora)" consists of two overlapped and manipulated ​ tape loops: the former created from an Armenian folk melody for harmonium solo recorded in the early 20th-century; the latter from a modern dance audio-cassette, found by chance in a van parking lot in Turin.

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

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Oh! Uomo (Parte I)

"Io non amo i pezzi, ma le ripetizioni, le lungaggini, andare piano per la mia strada, tornare, tornare alla stessa cosa, essere litania, litania come la vita, e star li a lungo prima di finire, e non volersi decidere a far musica d'uomo e soprattutto di compositore, e soprattutto di occidentale, ma piuttosto musica di passero, un passero un po' indeciso, appollaiato su un ramo, un passero che tenti di chiamare un uomo... " (H.Michaux)

"Oh! Uomo (parte I)" è una composizione basata su un frammento del brano "III Der Stampfer (Stamping Dance)" di Bela Bartòk, dai suoi studi sulla musica popolare.
La sequenza iniziale, incisa su nastro magnetico, è stata tagliata e trasformata in un tape-loop, poi manipolata analogicamente e digitalmente cambiandone tono e andamento.

Oh! Uomo (Diaspora)

"E' un andare doloroso di donne, vecchi e bambini a dorso di asini e buoi. Attraversano strade di polvere, montagne e deserti. Un popolo senza volto va verso l'esilio, la dispersione"

Questo brano è profondamente ispirato dalle creazioni di Angela Ricci Lucchi e Yervant Gianikian, a loro è dedicato.

"Oh! Uomo (Diaspora)"​ E' composto da due tape-loop sovrapposti. Uno creato da una registrazione dei primi anni del '900 di una melodia popolare Armena per solo harmonium, l'altro creato da un nastro, trovato per caso in un parcheggio per furgoni nella città di Torino, dove era incisa della moderna musica dance.

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Andrea Penso (Italy, 1985) is a sound maker, already active under different aliases (with some albums under Denovali records).
He manages the independent music label Invisibilia Editions.

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released January 29, 2022

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