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This is what I am working on since months. First of all I do own a café and cake bakery in Zurich with my partner in crime, Sara Hochuli and this is how I earn my money. Currently Sara and I are working on a new project in Reykjavik. During all the ups and downs I found a little time to make music for the documentation. Watch the first part and enjoy what I am doing :-)

Adriano Orrù & Silvia Corda @ 6. IOIC Stummfilm-Festival in Zurich

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November and December 2015 have been very exciting for me and Silvia, indeed! In a few days we had a tour in Portugal and Switzerland and two releases involving us. Being a musician includes sometime to experience periods so frantic alternating with others completely steady. We had 3 concerts in Lisbon playing together with fantastic musicians like Maria do Mar, Luiz Rocha (my fellows in the Endtitles’ release “Orrù Mar Rocha – Live at MIA 2015”) and also Maria Radich and the Variable Geometry Orchestra (46 musicians for this issue) conducted by Ernesto Rodrigues. We met a lot of friends there, great musicians and lovely people! A few day after we flew to Zurich to play over a silent movie – Spartacus – during an interesting festival called Marathon der Hochkulturen. Great experience indeed, a nice venue (Kunstraum Walcheturm), good instruments (grand piano and doublebass) to play on with the help of an experienced sound engineer. And, above all, Sara and Dominik who made this magic real!

Thank you, Silvia & Adriano

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Photos by Dominik Grenzler

Arovane @ 6. IOIC Stummfilm-Festival in Zürich

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das IOIC stummfilm festival findet jährlich in zürich statt. ich folgte spontan der einladung einen film live zu vertonen. eine premiere für mich und eine wunderbare gelegenheit meine erfahrungen als sound designer für dieses projekt umzusetzen.

nach einem kurzen flug und einem kühl, nebligen empfang in der schweizer stadt des kantons zürich lud mich die intime atmosphäre des festivals mit kleinem aber feinem, sehr aufmerksamen publikum in den alten hallen des kunstraumes walcheturm ein. schwarz weiß filme aus den 1920’er jahren flimmerten über die leinwand, dazu improvisierte elektronik und musik von akustischen instrumenten als untermalung.
aber es war mehr als nur untermalung. klänge verschmolzen mit der handlung auf der leinwand, musiker reagierten auf ausschweifende posen der akteure im film. faszinierend, die dynamik die dadurch entstand.
mein set für den film salome (1923) von aubrey beardsley bestand aus elektroakustischen/ elektronischen soundscapes kombiniert mit improvisierten piano klängen. der emotionale gehalt des filmes und die ambivalenz von salomes gefühlen drückte sich in der diskrepanz von abstrakten klängen und den warmen, vollen, erdigen klängen des blüthner flügel aus.
 „The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.“

danke, uwe zahn

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Photos by Dominik Grenzler, IOIC Institut

A quick chat with: Oblique Noir

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ET: What are you working on right now?

ON: I am about to mix several tracks to be realeased next year. I set up a new PC with UAD Apollo Firewire for doing this but it took me a few weeks, unfortunately, To get the UAD interface running on Windows is no walk in the park. But now, it’s a pretty well sounding and efficient setup.

ET: What is your favorite modular element at the moment?

ON: I created some sounds again with my Cwejman VM-1 which was one of my first modules. It’s a fully functional synth for Eurorack, kind of limited with in- and outputs, but it has a filter which can be morphed seamlessly from low- through band- to higpass. You can listen to some lead and bass sounds at my Soundcloud.

ET: Any recomandations on artists or albums this year?

ON: At the moment, I like to listen to Coh «To Beat» (which is from 2014 I think). Nice evolving wavetable-like sounds and very well produced while never using standard drum and percussion sounds.  All rhythmic elements are sound modulations and movements which is very interesting.

Photo by Dominik Grenzler