{"id":10608,"date":"2021-07-23T11:11:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T09:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digipur.it\/?p=10608"},"modified":"2021-07-23T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T09:11:14","slug":"echo-ex-machina-is-simone-faracis-debut-album-out-on-october-1st-2021-via-slowth-records-first-single-apparatus-songmachine-out-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digipur.it\/en\/echo-ex-machina-is-simone-faracis-debut-album-out-on-october-1st-2021-via-slowth-records-first-single-apparatus-songmachine-out-today\/","title":{"rendered":"“Echo Ex Machina” is Simone Faraci’s debut album, out on October 1st, 2021 via Slowth Records; first single “Apparatus [songmachine]”\u00a0out today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Echo Ex Machina<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is the first solo record by\u00a0Simone Faraci<\/strong>, an Italian musician based in Bologna, where he has been active for several years in the electroacoustic improvisation scene, also with the collective Minus of which he is one of the founders. After various experiences in the field of classical music, he currently focus on\u00a0experimental and electronic music<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

To be released on CD and on all digital platforms on\u00a0October 1st, 2021<\/strong>\u00a0by\u00a0Slowth Records<\/strong>,\u00a0Echo Ex Machina\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>was born from a suggestion that arose during the pandemic. In fact, over the past two years we have increasingly surrounded ourselves with\u00a0voices mediated by technological tools<\/strong>. These voices come from afar, dismembered and reconstructed by digital technology.<\/p>\n

The idea of a project about this theme initially materialized in a live solo presented for the historical research, production and musical teaching center\u00a0Tempo Reale,\u00a0founded by Luciano Berio in Florence.\u00a0Everything then evolved using the collaboration with the vocal performer\u00a0Agnese Banti<\/strong>\u00a0and finally transformed into a\u00a0concept album<\/strong>\u00a0in five parts, to be enjoyed however as a single composition.<\/p>\n

The record is based on four concepts:\u00a0voice, distance, machine, metamorphosis<\/strong>.\u00a0The title summarizes these concepts by referring to the figure of Echo and her myth, handed down by Ovid in\u00a0The Metamorphoses<\/em>.\u00a0In Ovid’s work, Echo loses her body and turns into pure sound that wanders invisibly through the woods.\u00a0Likewise, our voices travel bodyless in the video call stream and social media feeds, like an echo of our presence.\u00a0This topic is approached in a different way in each of the five tracks,\u00a0along the course of a concise and extremely fresh electronic flow.<\/p>\n

Out today\u00a0July 23th, 2021<\/strong>\u00a0in a radio edit version, the first single\u00a0Apparatus [songmachine]<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0represents an imaginary singing machine capable of producing various voices.\u00a0In this track, different techniques are used to elaborate the voice that becomes a malleable material, in constant evolution.\u00a0A series of vocal metamorphoses alternate on the rhythmic grid traced by a vocal synthesis motor: voices that seem to come from metal bodies, voices that turn into birdsong, madrigals played by a turntablist, or the autotune used as a distorting mirror of the\u00a0vocal timbre.<\/p>\n