Fades is a multiple project I've been working on for many years now. Started in 1999 it focuses on frequency, sequency, phase and waveshape relationships. It exploits the essential characteristics of sound itself, its causality with human perception, explores different tuning systems and the peculiar spatialization effects of periodic composite waveforms. Conceived in the shape of sound installation Fades has then developed into different formats (check the media section for samples).

sonic environment
in a dark ambient a multi-speaker system is used to distribute the sound through the space. The texture-alike piece is set to explore the harmonic taste within a given scale in just intonation.

live
sound is real time computer generated, the few and simple source elements are combined together trough live manipulation to develope more complex and slow growing sound structures.

online
web-based version, accessible directly from the browser, platform independent. It generates different slow changing sound+color structures at every connection and offers the opportunity to set up a Fades Set environment in private or public spaces simply by connecting one or more computer to internet. Thanx to java technology and the JSyn library developed by Phil Burk and SoftSynth.

CD
in february 2005 Massimo Simonini offered me to produce the CD version of Fades under his Bologna based label I Dischi di angelica.

standalone application
downloadable OSX standalone application. The link redirect to fades.net website, look there.

Dream icon sky modulor space
A moment of absolute psychophysical drift. An immersion in a colourful sonic ambience that recalls twentieth-century artists’s works particularly focused on the relationship between human body and architectural space (Dan Flavin, Le Corbusier, Anish Kapoor, Maurice Agis, Verner Panton, Marian Zazeela, James Turrell to list just a few of them). Thanks to digital techniques their works are moved from the original place, rehandled, manipulated and offered to the audience in the shape of light and sound furnishing. A different dimension that combines contemplative fruition of ambiences with seventies style visionariness.

Il Suono Fluido
Audio+video. The performance involves the audience to play with shadows and moving shapes on a big screen. Sound and images connected to obtain an interactive act in a colorful ambient.

CifraX
Sound installation and computer piece.

440 TV
Most common sinewave experience and homage to old times when televisions used to stop their programs at certain hours of the day.

Noise TV
Another liminal electronica: "snow effect" and white noise sound.

yes/no
Highly recommended. "to do or not to do?" vademecum for masses.

External projects, partnerships, collaborations...

Pushing the Medium
international symposium on sound and mixed media art.

Giambotta Projekt
mixed media collaborative project

Web Session
a stage on the web