Giorgio Sancristoforo: Variations on Incontri di Fasce Sonore (2011)

Using the sound material of Incontri di Fasce Sonore by Italian composer Franco Evangelisti, Giorgio Sancristoforo uses a Buchla unit to trigger sounds in MAX/MSP in a brilliant attempt at a “live remix” of a seminal piece of 1950s electronic music.

Sancristoforo’s website is a veritable cabinet of curiosities, and includes such wonders as:

• Berna, a software emulation of the classic electronic music studio of the 1950s (an idea from my dreams, but sadly for Mac only) 
• the Roton, a lovely graphic score inspired by Cornelius Cardew’s famous Treatise, comprising 23 circular plastic transparencies
• and, perhaps most surprisingly, an album of blazing, four-on-the-floor neo-disco realizations.

July 28, 2011, 11:31am