Biography
Collaborative output by respected electroacoustic sound artists Valerio Tricoli and Thomas Ankersmit, the five tracks on Forma II were composed and recorded in Berlin from 2008 to 2010, and include four shorter electroacoustic pieces based on experiments with a Serge analogue modular synthesizer and one long-form tract of overdubbed saxophone exploring the timbral extremes of Ankersmit's instrument.
The hyper-sensitively detailed electroacoustic pieces move between ultra-vivid blizzards of textural detail to plangent drone and vast atmospheric diffusions. Through deft computer and tape processing coupled with almost tangibly "real" sound sources such as metal foil floating on ultrasonic soundbeams or the man made resonance of the radar domes at Teufelsberg outside Berlin, the pair create a kinetic space which challenges our perception of simulated, or virtual shapes and spatial settings, and non-virtual, acoustic tangibility.
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