Everything began when I was asked -some weeks ago- to write the music for an installation about "the opposition between digital and human". The circle and the square.
It's an opposition, but sounded instead pretty normal to my ears, because electronic music is all about the shape of the sound's waveforms: sine (half circle) or square...
So I imagined a music that combined a 'pure' vocal part with hard electronic music, a kind of bit-sound. Then, thinking a little more about it, I remembered a medieval song by Roland de Lassus (Hola, ho que bon echo) and used its theme as central part, transfoming the original echo in a pan alternance. The voice is the italian soprano Matilde Lazzaroni (follow her on Instagram!), a fantastic singer I've met in Venezia's Biennale for the contemporary operas.
This is how an Ancient Digital Song is born. I enjoyed so much its writing, that I now have a full medieval project I will work on later this year! can't wait!
Want to listen to it? it's all yours in my community page
