THE ROOM ABOVE / LUCA FORCUCCI
Vinyl / Digital
Luca Forcucci / THE ROOM ABOVE
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Artist : Luca Forcucci
Title : THE ROOM ABOVE
Catalog No. : MATTER023
Format : Vinyl / DIGITAL
Edition : 300 - vinyl / open - digital
PRICE : ¥3,850(incl. Tax)
Street date: 1st of June 2022 digital and pre-order for Vinyl will be ship out on 11 December 2022
*Attention: As you know, vinyl production is currently very slow. The release date of this pre-order is just a schedule and may be delayed before shipping. If it arrives from the factory sooner, we will ship it out as soon as possible. We thank you in advance for your understanding.
Recoded at The Helvetic Circle, Genoa by Luca Forcucci
Field Recordings by Luca Forcucci
Composition, prodcution and mix by Luca Forcucci at Helvetiic Circle,
Genoa and Atomic Lady, Berlin
Photos by Luca Forcucci
Mastering by Taylor Deupree / 12k Mastering
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The Room Above was recorded in the church of the Helvetic Circle in Genoa, in the 2020 lockdown. I played the church's organ in the present moment, with no score, over four consecutive days, possibly inspired by long sonic walks in the surrounding mountains and along the Ligurian coast. The intrinsic architectural sonic spatial identity of the building entered the recordings. The cumulation of sonic spaces - those initially present, those of field recordings, those of future concert venues, and those imagined by the listener - lead to a sonic moiré, a polyphony of spaces. Such a sonic moiré is the perception of several strata of spaces, as is comparable to the perception emerging from Marcel Duchamp's rotoreliefs between the work and the perceiver, in a cinematic experience for the mind.
Luca Forcucci (CH/IT) is an artist and composer with a focus on perception, subjectivity and consciousness, which he explores through performances, electroacoustic compositions, installations, photography and texts. He has collaborated with dancers in Brazil and California, with musicians playing indigenous instruments in Southern Africa, with musicians playing contemporary music, with turntabilists, with poets. He dives on a regular basis into field recordings’ expeditions in locations like the Brazilian Amazon, Shanghai, the Swiss Alps or Norwegian fjords to find sonic material for his work. He regularly collaborates with neuroscientists on questions regarding the perceptive properties and the field of possibilities of the firstperson experience.
His music is published by Subrosa in Bruxelles, Universal music, Cronica Electronica in Porto, Glistening Examples in the USA, Elektramusic, Syrphe in Berlin, on his very own label LFO Editions, and now by the the Japanese label mAtter.
His work won numerous prizes and is presented worldwide on a regular basis in places like Festival Ars Electronica Linz 2021, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía 2020, EPFL Artlab 2018, ISEA 2018 Durban, ISEA 2017 Manizales Colombia,Red Bull Station São Paulo, Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica Rio de Janeiro,The Lab San Francisco, Festival Multiplicidade Rio de Janeiro, Presences Electroniques Festival Geneva, Biennale of São Paulo on the invitation of Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Miller Gallery Pittsburgh USA, MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts Rome, Rockbund Museum Shanghai, Swatch Art Peace Hotel Shanghai, House for Electronic Arts Basel.
He studied electroacoustic music with the Swiss composer Rainer Boesch in Geneva, and was produced, by Al Comet, former member of The Young Gods. He conducted also his research at the INA/GRM in Paris, and he achieved a PhD in Sonic Arts in the UK with a research about mental imagery and sonic architecture
website >> https://lucaforcucci.com/