Giorgio Sancristoforo Sound Artist

Project Audioscan: transforming city noise into music

“Audioscan embodies the confluence of three stages of modern music technology: tape recording, electronic synthesis and processing, and personal-computer-based digital audio. It starts with recordings of street sounds, turns those into electronic instruments processed by electronic effects, and then creates the final composition in a digital audio workstation. Although all the steps (except final mixdown, [...]
BERNA 2 DEMO AVAILABLE NOW

Berna is a software simulation of a late 1950s electroacoustic music studio. Oscillators, filters, modulators, tape recorders, mixers, are all packed in a easy-to-use interface with historical accuracy. Explore serial, concrete and tape music or create new strange sonic worlds with instruments inspired by the greatest studios of the early days of electronic music. [...]
Live in Bologna at the Arena del Sole Theater

Notturno part II: the music of gesture I was Invited by the italian national newspaper La Repubblica to perform at the prestigious “La Repubblica delle Idee 2012″, a 3 days festival in Bologna that hosted an incredible selection of talks and lectures with intellectuals, scientists, nobel prize winners and artists, as well the Italian Prime Minister. [...]
Selenofonie – Video Installation

Selenofonie a video installation Selene (Greek Σελήνη [selɛ̌ːnɛː] ’moon’;) Fonia (from Greek: φωνή, phōnḗ, “voice, sound”) I always had a passion for astronomy since I was a kid. Some months ago I’ve got a 200mm telescope and a dedicated webcam to capture videos of the Moon surface. My exploration turned into a video installation premiered at the National Museum of Science and [...]
Tapping into Iannix

Why french music software is always a step beyond… What’s the best thing after Max/MSP? Having MaxMSP controlled by the fabulous Iannix software. This morning I’ve done a little study in which a Iannix score controls a feedback network in MaxMSP. enjoy! Iannix is free and great! visit the Iannix Team [...]
That Stockhausen Sound

A simple MaxMSP patch to re-create the sound of the original recording of the legendary STUDIE II This could be filed under “contemporary musicians that get crazy at sound design or sound designers that get crazy at contemporary music, thread”… This year, Santas brought me the wonderful Studie II score, so after a while [...]
Variations 1.0.1 AVAILABLE NOW

A software for live electronics and algorithmic composition Some months ago I’ve started dreaming of a software, a tool made to help me develop evolving musical structures in realtime. What I was looking for was a way to arrange sounds coming from the Buchla synthesizer or any of my softwares, without the use of a [...]
Music for Kenneth Anger

Real-time film performances chapter 1 Music for Kenneth Anger is the first chapter in a trilogy of performances dedicated to the American avant-garde cinema. The performance was held at Milan’s LOFT 21 on February 26th 2011 and hosted by the Inlandempire Project. During the performance the movie “Inaguration of the Pleasure Dome” was screened. Kenneth [...]
Moments in Time

A composition by Giorgio Sancristoforo All the music is AIF 44.100Hz, 16Bits Download size : 300+ MB DOWLOAD HERE For Apple Macs only Moments in Time is a music software LP (s/LP) Music in a permanent state of evolution. Moments as sound “pictures” of eternity. Tweet
Rediscovering Franco Evangelisti

Incontri di fasce sonore is one of Franco Evangelisti masterpieces. Recorded in 1957 at WDR, Cologne, it is one of the classic scores of the integral serial music era. This video was a preliminary study to investigate the possibilities of playing 1950s serial music with the Buchla synthesizer and Max/MSP. I’ve programmed 315 mixtures of [...]
TINY WORLDS EP

Music Release Four adventures in micro sounds for your listening pleasure. What is a micro sound? Can we call it the Boson of music? Download here Tweet
John Cage 100s

Milan celebrates the american composer Setp. 5th 2012, happy birthday Mr Cage! Yesterday the prestigious Triennale Design Museum of Milan hosted us for a whole John Cage day and evening of lectures and performances (see previous post). A massive crowd attended My contribute was an interpretation of Variations VI (1966) Many thanks to Sandro Mussida [...]
Happy Birthday John Cage

Lectures and performances in Milan 5 Settembre 2012 Triennale di Milano Viale Alemagna, 6, 20121. Milano. 17.00 – 18.00 Guida all’Ascolto “Empty Words”- Elio Marchesini 18.00 – 18.45 Dialogo tra Inkyung Hwang, autrice del “Lungo treno di John Cage” e Michele Porzio, [...]
Sound of the month: China!

August recording features a little collection of sounds I’ve taken during of my trip to the great China. As usual you can download the recording from the soundcloud widget here Shanghai, the Yu Garden Cruise on the Li River (near Guilin) Guilin Park Guilin Airport Ancient city of Pinyao The Great Wall, Mutianyu section (Huairou [...]
Notturno

A journey in the Hephaestus lab In 2010 I’ve got a commission for a music performance and an installation by the Reggio Emilia Theatres foundation for the annual Aperto Festival in October; the theme of 2010 was the labor of man. The commission required a site specific work. So after a few debates, me and [...]
Rehearsing John Cage’s VARIATIONS VI

For a Plurality of Sound Systems (Buchla200e, Radio, Tape Recorder, Max/MSP) Score from Edition Peters The score is made of symbols printed on transparent plastic sheets, the symbols set the number of available and possible sound systems (a sound system is made of speakers, generators and components such as filters, modulators, amplifiers). The symbols are dropped [...]
Sound of the month (MAY)

Every month an environmental sound May soundscape is a recording taken in the early afternoon at the El Rastro Street Market of Madrid. The sound can be downloaded here – 320Kbps mp3 Tweet
Electronics and percussions

Electronics and the Basel Symphony Orchestra Percussionists. A new work with the composer Francesco Paradiso. MAY 4th, 2012 BASEL, SWITZERLAND Again I’ve been invited to collaborate with the Composer Francesco Maria Paradiso, this time is a piece for percussions and fixed electronic media called “Taran Tam!” I’ve worked with Francesco creating for him electronic sounds [...]
The year of John Cage

Celebrating the Centennial Anniversary This year the music community celebrates the most prominent figure of experimental music, the maestro of the great opening to all sounds: John Milton Cage Jr. To join the celebration I will post news and works of mine in honor of the composer through the whole 2012. In my classes I [...]
Sound of the month (APRIL)

Every month an environmental sound This month’s soundscape is a recording taken at 6 o’clock in the morning in Lesa (Lake Maggiore), Italy. Various birds and animals, a distant lakeshore. The sound of spring that comes to life to life, finally. What a lovely sound to wake up with. The sound can be downloaded here [...]
Four Minutes for Filtered White Noise and Shortwave Radio

A shortwave radio scans through North-African, Chinese, Russian, French, English and German channels, the output is then forwarded to the Buchla. Inside the synthesizer a white noise is processed with three narrow bandwidth band pass filters connected in serial configuration so to obtain quasi-sinusoids sounds. Both the sources are further transformed by a balanced modulator, [...]
James Joyce and Electronic Music

Unexpected Word Space: the theater of sound My latest work was a collaboration with the Italian composer Francesco Paradiso. Together with Massimo Marchi at AGON and the actress Adele Pellegatta, we have created a very singular performance of words and sounds based on a Finnegans Wake extract. Of course there is a link between this [...]

Project Audioscan: transforming city noise into music

“Audioscan embodies the confluence of three stages of modern music technology: tape recording, electronic synthesis and processing, and personal-computer-based digital audio. It starts with recordings of street sounds, turns those into electronic instruments processed by electronic effects, and then creates the final composition in a digital audio workstation. Although all the steps (except final mixdown, [...]

BERNA 2 DEMO AVAILABLE NOW

Berna is a software simulation of a late 1950s electroacoustic music studio. Oscillators, filters, modulators, tape recorders, mixers, are all packed in a easy-to-use interface with historical accuracy. Explore serial, concrete and tape music or create new strange sonic worlds with instruments inspired by the greatest studios of the early days of electronic music. [...]

Live in Bologna at the Arena del Sole Theater

Notturno part II: the music of gesture I was Invited by the italian national newspaper La Repubblica to perform at the prestigious “La Repubblica delle Idee 2012″, a 3 days festival in Bologna that hosted an incredible selection of talks and lectures with intellectuals, scientists, nobel prize winners and artists, as well the Italian Prime Minister. [...]

Selenofonie – Video Installation

Selenofonie a video installation Selene (Greek Σελήνη [selɛ̌ːnɛː] ’moon’;) Fonia (from Greek: φωνή, phōnḗ, “voice, sound”) I always had a passion for astronomy since I was a kid. Some months ago I’ve got a 200mm telescope and a dedicated webcam to capture videos of the Moon surface. My exploration turned into a video installation premiered at the National Museum of Science and [...]