Roberto Paci Dalò + Scanner: The Maya Effect

A live improvised duet that combines live electronics and bass clarinet. Restless, sensual and elegiac, the music that Paci Dalò and Scanner produce is always of the moment, captured live, so this will be a rare opportunity to hear these two long-term friends collaborate in their UK debut.

Scanner

Scanner, British artist Robin Rimbaud, has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings since the 1980s, connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. His adventures are brilliantly strange – from scoring 1,000 dancers in Trafalgar Square London for the Olympics, creating permanent soundtracks in a London house, Riga Airport and a working morgue in Paris, to scoring the world’s first VR ballet with Dutch National Ballet. He doesn't drink alcohol, tea, coffee, or smoke and has kept a diary every day since he was 12 years old, never missing a daily entry.

Roberto Paci Dalò

Roberto Paci Dalò’s music combines avant-garde, electronics, early music, improvisation and traditional music(s) in an unusual way. His work has won him international admiration from, among others, John Cage, Robert Ashley, Giya Kancheli and Aleksandr Sokurov. Clarinetist, live electronics and composer wizard Roberto has performed worldwide in collaboration with such artists as Kronos Quartet, Scanner, Julia Kent, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, Jon Rose, Terry Riley, Tom Cora, David Moss, Fennesz, Akio Suzuki, Philip Jeck, Olga Neuwirth, Stefano Scodanibbio, Tibor Szemzö, Zahra Mani, Robert Lippok, Mouse on Mars, Tenores di Bitti and Luigi Lai. Parallel to his music work, Roberto is an established theatre director and visual artist. His radio works are an international reference in radio art. He leads the group Giardini Pensili and is the recipient of the Berliner Küsterprogramm des DAAD Fellowship, the Premio Napoli 2015 and the Q21 / MQ MuseumsQuartier Wien 2017 residency. Roberto exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia 2022. He is founding director of Usmaradio – the Research Centre for Radiophonic Studies at UNIRSM (University of the Republic of San Marino).

Marta Salogni

Marta Salogni is a record producer, engineer, mixer and sonic artist working from her Studio Zona in London. She has worked with artists such as Björk, Bon Iver, Depeche Mode, Damon Albarn, Black Midi, Valentina Magaletti, English Teacher, Squid, Animal Collective, Alessandro Cortini, Holly Herndon, Circuit des Yeux.As well as operating within the scenes of recorded music, she performs improvised and composed sets using tape machines as instruments, creating loops, feedback and delays through the manipulation of both live and prepared sounds.She has performed at numerous venues and festivals in London and Europe such as Cafe OTO (UK), Teatro San Fedele (Milan), Le Guess Who (Belgium), Jazz is Dead (Turin), and Robot Festival (Bologna).She released her compositions with record labels Hands In The Dark - Music For Open Spaces (with Tom Relleen), Melos Kalpa, and Canti Magnetici - l’ebbrezza delle grandi profondità (with Francesco Fonassi).

Silvia Tarozzi

Silvia Tarozzi is a violinist, improviser, composer and vocalist. A graduate in violin, chamber music and early music, her personal research on sound and instrumental gesture is expressed in numerous artistic collaborations with composers of her time, including Pascale Criton, Éliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, Philip Corner, Cassandra Miller, Martin Arnold, Pierre-Yves Macé and others. Mi specchio e rifletto was her first record. She is the violinist of the French ensemble Dedalus and has performed as a duo with the cellist Deborah Walker for almost 20 years. Ealier this year Unseen Worlds released Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d’amore, a new album by Tarozzi and Walker, featuring personal and experimental reinterpretations of Italian folk music.

www.silviatarozzi.it

Valeria Sturba

Valeria Sturba is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer who graduated in violin and also plays theremin, keyboards and minisynth, and loves to creatively crease electronic effects, looper and assorted sound toys. Her musical horizons range from songwriting to rock and jazz, tango to free improvisation, the soundtracks of silent films to the live accompaniment of theatrical performances. She is one-half of OoopopoiooO, a surreal Dadaist duo with Vincenzo Vasi, and part of the Grande Abarasse Orchestra of John De Leo and the Assassins quartet of Francesco Cusa. She has collaborated with Tristan Honsinger, Enrico Gabrielli, Fabrizio Puglisi, Mauro Ottolini, Cristina Donà, Médéric Collignon, Stefano Benni, Hamid Drake, Lino Guanciale, Ermanno Cavazzoni, Anna Maria Hefele, Giancarlo Schiaffini and many others.

Spiralis Aurea

Stefano Pilia, Alessandra Novaga and Adrian Utley will present an adaptation for three electric guitars and electronics of Pilia's new work Spiralis Aurea, recently released on Die Schachtel. Spiralis Aurea is a work of musical architecture that intertwines sacred geometry, collective experience and elusive connections between nature and humankind. “A major new work from Italian avant-gardist Stefano Pilia, reinterpreting medieval liturgical music and 20th-century minimalism through unusual concepts and techniques. It’s a stunning piece of work that lands somewhere between Michael Nyman, Mica Levi and Arvo Pärt… Rendered with such a brilliantly unusual command of composition and space as to elevate it to a higher realm. Followers of work by anyone from Bach to Lucy Railton and Kali Malone should be equally in thrall to the magic contained within” – Boomkat

https://dieschachtelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/spiralis-aurea
https://soundcloud.com/stefano-pilia/sets/spiralis-aurea

Stefano Pilia

Stefano Pilia is a guitar player, producer and composer concerned with researching the sculptural properties of sound as well as sound’s relationship with space, time and memory. he has been founding members and collaborators of several seminal projects and bands in between improvisational, electro-acoustical and avant-rock sensibilities such as 3/4HadBeenEliminated, In Zaire, Il sogno del marinaio, Massimo Volume, Afterhours, Adrian Utley, Mike Watt,Valerio Tricoli, Silvia Tarozzi, Anthony Pateras, Alessandra Novaga, Katia and Marielle Labeque, David Tibet, David Grubbs, Rokia Traorè, Oren Ambarchi, John Parish, Fire Orchestra!, Erik Kessel, Scanner, Gianluigi Toccafondo, WuMing, Phill Niblock, David Maranha and many others. His discography, has been released on a number of well established record labels (Die-Schachtel, Maple Death, Improved, Blue Chopsticks, Black Truffle ecc). He has played extensivly all over Europe, North America, Australia and Africa and collaborated with theater, dance and cinema productions.

Alessandra Novaga

Alessandra Novaga is a Milan based guitarist and composer. For years she has been exploring the possible territories in which her instrument can lead her. She has crossed the classical territories, in which she trained, graduating from the Musik Akademie in Basel, until reaching impalpable abstractions without placing limits on one or the other.

The sound, the meanings, the encounters and the narratives are the elements that guide her.

In addition to her solo projects, her collaborations currently see her often playing with Stefano Pilia, and with the trio of which she is co-founder, What We do When in Silence, together with Nicola Ratti and Enrico Malatesta. In recent years she has collaborated with Loren Connors, Elliot Sharp, Adrian Utley, Sandro Mussida, Kid Millions, Object Collection, Patrizia Oliva, Elena Kakaliagou.

Adrian Utley

Adrian is most widely known for his work as a member of Portishead.

The past couple of years have found him producing Sorry for Domino and co-producing Ladan for Mute. He’s also working on a couple of solo albums.

Late summer 2022 he will be doing some live shows performing the “Arcadia” soundtrack composed with often collaborator Will Gregory in 2017 for the BFI film of the same name which was directed by Paul Wright.