Orange Flower by Alexandre Fenerich
Duration: 7‘28

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“Orange Flower” was made after continued promenade of sound recordings in the city of Ouro Preto. Alexandre Fenerich was trying to identify, among hills and churches, a permanent and indecipherable malaise that takes me whenever I visit the town – something deeply brazilian that creates body from the writings of Manuel Bandeira about the city of gold's feeting opulence and the stories of the ancient residents, that are listen on the bars and streets. The smell of archaic stones hides traces of leprosy, of syphilis, of the blood from the black slaves searching for the wealth of the Earth – from what we want to forget and emerges from the voice of insanes.

In the journey Fenerich met Antonio. He, with his clarim's voice, anounced the upcoming immense moon, bearer of erst affections, aromas and souls.

Grayscale by Alexandre Fenerich
Duration: 8’52

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GRAYSCALE is a result from a series of Soundwalks on the 9 de Julho avenue, in São Paulo, where Alexandre Fenerich was born. Catching the heavy traffic sound, the piece tries to exhibit several layers of grey (tones of white noise), in rhythms as waves. It restores its cold and desert atmosphere, sometimes filled with unexpected voices.

Etude d’apres Mahler by Alexandre Fenerich
Duration: 6‘54

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Etude d’apres Mahler combines two versions of Mahler's Symphony: one recorded on a vinyl disc and another as score for a midi instrument, realized by a bad synthesizer. Upon that, the sound recording of an urban rainforest and of a procession of mendicants from Para are mixed with Mahler's versions. In the search of Nature, a serie of farces are created and superposed. The piece creates a game of listening in the search of the cause of recorded sounds, as in Pierre Schaeffer's Ètude des Bruits – which is honored by the title.

Ewig und die Zeit by Duo N-1 (Alexandre Fenerich and GIULIANO OBICI)
Duration: 9‘25

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“Always and the Time” is constructed upon a loop on the last notes of Mahler's Der Abschied, from the song cycle waves created by the turntable's movements, grasped by a camera. A Pure Data patch control that image in real time and processes it in zooms and distortions in a way to make it completely abstract.

Dialonirica by Duo N-1 (Alexandre Fenerich and GIULIANO OBICI)
Duration: 6‘00

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DIALONIRICA (2009, São Paulo) is a collage of several sources: cable static, radio un-tuned station, feedback, motors, oscillators, old discs etc. Das “Lied von der Erde” – a repetition of the notes E-D-C above the word Ewig (always). It is the last track of the N-1's album Jardim das Gambiarras Chinesas.

Above the Ewig's motif the duo has improvised with loop machines and a saxophone, in a way to never finish the piece and the album.

Ocean Sea Noises by Duo N-1 (Alexandre Fenerich and GIULIANO OBICI)

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OCEAN SEANOISES (2010-2012) is an homage to Rimbaud’s poem “The Drunken boat”. The piece explores sound and image aspects such as immensity, noise, movements and ripples, having, in the prominent blue, the sea as theme.

It falls into a continuum of sounds and images whose minimal variations are conducted by the performer's improvisations on stage. The sound follows the “ferocious SeaNoises” - the verse of Rimbaud's poem. A vocal improvisation is written as data to a filter. It shapes the noise from an unrecorded turntable disc to the voice’s partials. A Pure Data patch controls a sound script and is manipulated live. Granular Synthesis sounds, as tiny melodic traces, are added to the filtered chords.

The images follow the sound suggestions, whose material is looped.

Metamix by Duo N-1 (Alexandre Fenerich and GIULIANO OBICI)
Duration: 8‘43

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Metamix is an archaeological essay of an almost present instant confined into the implacable memory of a machine whose vocation is to remix the past. It is the archaeology of an instant unfolded in repetitions and recombinations of itself.

The performance is divided into two parts. The first is an improvisation with everyday sound objects like two pic-nic turntables playing old songs, kid's flutes and small percussion instruments, bike horns, whistles etc. Sound and image of this improvisation are recorded and, later, the stored material is automatically re- mixed with itself by the machine. In the second part, the performers leave the scene and the remixed movie is shown.

Links:
„The Drunken Boat“ by ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Garden of Chinese Gambiarras
Metaremix

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