{"id":8181,"date":"2021-01-27T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digipur.it\/?p=8181"},"modified":"2021-01-27T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T15:10:25","slug":"the-new-record-quiet-area-suite-by-composer-mattia-loris-siboni-is-an-exploration-of-silence-to-be-released-on-march-5-2021-by-slowth-records-listen-to-the-first-track-now-hush-and-look-aroun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digipur.it\/en\/the-new-record-quiet-area-suite-by-composer-mattia-loris-siboni-is-an-exploration-of-silence-to-be-released-on-march-5-2021-by-slowth-records-listen-to-the-first-track-now-hush-and-look-aroun\/","title":{"rendered":"The new record “Quiet Area suite” by composer Mattia Loris Siboni is an exploration of silence, to be released on March 5, 2021 by Slowth Records; listen to the first track “Now Hush and Look Around”"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many times do we look for it?\u00a0How many times does it scare us and we try to avoid it? But also how many times does it surprise us? It enters into our lives every day, conveyed by the numerous contexts to which it belongs: from the religious to the poetic, from the naturalistic to the socio-anthropological or scientific ones. It can astonish us during a walk in the mountains, miles away from the urban buzz, or it can oppress us within four walls. Silence in itself does not exist or perhaps it is not possible for us to hear it.<\/p>\n

Quiet Area suite<\/strong><\/em>, the second album by composer, musician, improviser and sound designer\u00a0Mattia Loris Siboni<\/strong>\u00a0to be released on CD and on digital platforms on\u00a0March 5, 2021<\/strong>\u00a0by\u00a0Slowth Records<\/strong>, derives from a simple question: \u201cHow many types of silence exist?<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0Yes, because you can find so many kinds of silence, in music as in the ordinary life. This project is a collection of\u00a0four acousmatic pieces<\/strong>, born from the desire to explore silence as an object of compositional investigation through its different types of form and use. The suite was composed with the intention of accompanying the listener to the experience of silence. How does silence permeate between the poetic and poietic level of the work? And how does the singular reflection of personal experience affect listening?<\/p>\n

The four tracks – the first extract\u00a0Now Hush and Look Around<\/em>,\u00a0Mind The Gap<\/em>,\u00a0Balumina<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Qui nella maest\u00e0 del silenzio<\/em>\u00a0– deal with different themes and materials: evocation, the call to silence, is traceable in the appearance and disappearance,\u00a0in waiting, in the memory of a familiar voice, in the residual sounds as in the soundscape. These tracks are not intended as “studies” but as a result of the application of a constantly evolving research; silence is not present in a didactic way but is observed according to all its audible and evocative meanings.\u00a0The goal is to stimulate in the listener an even minimal personal search for awareness of silence in every possible aspect.<\/p>\n

Premiered with an interview on\u00a0Son Of Marketing<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Now Hush and Look Around<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is the suite’s introductory movement and is characterized by the presence of pre-existing material (short film quotes from Federico Fellini’s\u00a08\u00bd<\/em>, DreamWorks’\u00a0Shrek<\/em>, Pixar’s\u00a0Toy Story<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Ratatouille<\/em>), which allow the investigation of the silence evoked and more precisely of the silence suggested.<\/p>\n

Mattia Loris Siboni<\/strong>\u00a0was born in Cesena in 1996 and is active in Forl\u00ec\/Bologna.\u00a0His main interests are the\u00a0acousmatic composition<\/strong>\u00a0and the interpretation of live\u00a0electronic music<\/strong>\u00a0on multi-channel and acousmonium systems. Mattia Loris Siboni is also a member of Elettronica Collettiva Bologna~ and Minus – Collettivo d\u2019improvvisazione, as well as being co-founder of\u00a0Slowth Records<\/strong>, the record label dedicated to the promotion and support of experimental music that will publish\u00a0Quiet Area suite<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0Passionate about the world of sound since he was a child, in 2009 Mattia Loris Siboni began his musical studies devoting himself to classical guitar.\u00a0Intent on embarking on his own musical path, in 2016 he enrolled in the Electronic Music course at the Conservatory\u00a0G.B. Martini in Bologna, graduating with a thesis about silence in electroacoustic music. He is currently attending Sound Design in the same Conservatory. His first collection of solo acousmatic songs,\u00a0Laeyee<\/em>, was released in 2018 by Miraloop Records – Diamonds. Siboni has played for various important music Italian festivals.<\/p>\n

\u201cChoosing silence does not mean depriving yourself of something but having the possibility to welcome everything!\u00a0I chose silence because, to listen to it and enjoy it, you have to stop yourself: the first necessary silence is the interior one. As a composer, but above all as a listener, I am intrigued by how all this can be reflected in the musical field, looking for a silence that is not only absence<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

So, fascinated by silence as a musical and compositional parameter, Siboni develops his personal research through the study of the\u00a0soundscape and human interaction<\/strong>, with maximum respect for the sound object and the space it occupies.\u00a0Among the composers who inspired him, we can find Fran\u00e7ois Bayle, Bernard Parmegiani and Denis Smalley. Siboni pays attention to the\u00a0morphological construction of sound<\/strong>, pursues the\u00a0evocative and extra-musical aspect<\/strong>\u00a0given by extrinsic bonds, works with the concepts of expectation and surprise and investigates\u00a0musical perception<\/strong>. And now it’s time for music, or better to say for silence, listening\u00a0Quiet Area suite<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n