Name: A Ballad for Cephalopods
Duration: P00H10M44S
Description: Friends of Rocky is the alias of Ricardo Velarde born and grew up in the Barranco neighborhood in the coast of Lima, Peru.

Friends Of Rocky - A Ballad for Cephalopods

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Friends of Rocky is the alias of Ricardo Velarde born and grew up in the Barranco neighborhood in the coast of Lima, Peru.

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« Since I was a child, I have been interested in electronic music, films and art. After school in the 90 ́s, I went to Europe to connect with my Italian ancestry and all the classic art I had always admired through pictures in art books. I spent a year in Florence, visiting museums by day and illegal techno and electro parties in abandoned factories by night. Then I went to London to attend film school and ended up staying there for 10 years. Time passed quickly, shooting short films in Cambridge, and driving back to London the same day to attend jungle parties on raided supermarkets at night, sleeping and attending Bernard Parmegiani ́s quadraphonic performance in ICA the next day... Every other day was like that: beautiful but exhausting. Until the day I tried an electronic instrument: a dodgy and primitive Roland TR 606. From that day on I stayed home most of the time playing and recording my brand new Livewire modular system and Metasonix Wretch Machine. More recently, back in Lima, I managed to shoot my first feature film in Super 16mm called The Light on the Hill, a mystery thriller at 5000 meters above sea level in the mountains of Cusco, featuring sounds made with the Metasonix TM boxes and other synths and modular. And even though it took me to Montreal and Sitges film festivals, back in Peru it was treated like rubbish and was put in commercial theaters in Halloween to compete with cheesy horror and stupid romantic comedies, and was removed from theaters in a week. Angry with the commercial film distribution system and theaters, and full of debts, I decided to concentrate on my new Serge Modules and Metasonix gear to avoid going crazy. »

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from Modulisme Session 036, released February 21, 2021

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