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Alberto Novello practice repurposes found or decontextualised analogue devices to investigate the connections between light and sound in the form of contemplative installations and performances. He repairs and modifies tools from our analogue past: oscilloscopes, early game
consoles, analogue video mixers, and lasers. He is attracted to their intrinsic limitations and strong ‘personalities’: fluid beam movement, vivid colors, infinite resolution, absence of frame rate, and line aesthetics. By using these forgotten devices, he exposes the public to the aesthetic differences between the ubiquitous digital projections and the vibrance of analogue beams, engaging them to reflect on the sociopolitical impact of technology in a retrospective on technologisation: what ‘old’ means, and what value the ‘new’ really adds.
He has assisted Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, Nicholas Collins and Trevor Wishart, completed the master Art Science Technologies with Jean Claude Risset, and graduated in Electronic Music at the Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatory of Den Haag. He worked for Texas Instruments, Philips Research, and Auro Technologies creating software for their audio applications.

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The piece was created and recorded at the EMS studio of Stockholm using only their large Serge System dating back to the 70s.
The idea of the composition came from trying to do something different compared to my usual standards and focussing on slow evolving timbre, just simple generator modules with some feedback and very slow fade ins and outs. I decided to record 4 independent voices for later quad playback.
This is a stereo version of it.
For two of the voices I used two Timbral Oscillators going to the Wave Multipliers with The two Precision VCOs. For the other two voices I created feedback loops of their output passing through the Resonant Equaliser, Frequency Shifters and Ring Modulators. The piece is the unedited and un filtered recording of the 4 tracks. I just added Reverb at the end.

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from Modulisme Session 078, released January 6, 2023

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