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Music For The Flying City

by Demikhov / Nàresh Ran

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    Abbiamo realizzato un’edizione limitata di 24 tape loops, ciascuno alloggiato in una scatola di latta decorata a mano con uno stencil di quattro colori diversi: nero, bianco, giallo, rosso.
    Ciascun box contiene, oltre alla tape, una fotografia, prova del ritrovamento dei nastri contenenti la colonna sonora in oggetto.
    In copertina, l’illustrazione della città voltante ad opera di Bejond (Matilde Morandi), stampata su un foglio di acrilico, fluttua liberamente nel box della cassetta.
    Ogni pezzo è unico: ogni box è differente e ciascuna audiocassetta contiene una porzione di brano diversa. Trattandosi di loop, inoltre, anche le singole cassette non hanno né inizio né fine. All’interno del box sarà inclusa una card con codice download.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Music For The Flying City via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Music for the Flying City è un progetto collaborativo tra Demikhov, Nàresh Ran e Bejond, prodotto da Dio Drone.
Si tratta di un unico brano generativo privo di inizio e di fine che esula dall’intervento dell’uomo nel suo prodursi. Il brano si ispira al progetto architettonico della città volante dell’architetto sovietico Georgii Krutikov (1928), ed è pensato per accompagnare la vita a bordo della città.

Demikhov & Nàresh Ran
artwork _ Mati.bejond


DIODRONE 094

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released June 23, 2022

This work was born from a fortuitous discovery.
During an urban peregrination, we came into possession of a mysterious box containing a series of anonymous tapes. The date and place of the discovery will not be revealed.

After tortuous research, it emerged that these were the authentic tapes containing the soundtrack intended to decorate the spaces of the flying city designed in 1928 by the young Soviet architect Georgii Krutikov.

Well before the experiments of Brian Eno and Terry Riley, the anonymous author of the song collaborated with Krutikov in the development of a complex system that involved the simultaneous use of several tape loops. These loops, containing short fragments of sound information, were of different durations and recombined in different ways.
The result was a self-generative piece, without beginning or end, whose perpetual generation accompanied the fluctuation of the city and the lives of its inhabitants.

Out of curiosity, we were able - not without effort and only thanks to some sketches also kept in the box - to reconstruct the conditions to simultaneously reproduce all the tapes at our disposal, as faithfully as possible to what happened on board of the flying city.

In order to make the piece accessible to the contemporary listener, we decided to transfer its content onto audiocassette, choosing however to use loops, in order to respect the idea of the anonymous composer and Krutikov of a piece that could "never begin nor end".

Each audiocassette contains a different and unrepeatable fragment of this piece, testimony to the eventual production of a combination of sounds destined, in all probability, never to be repeated again.

Given the scientific intent of this publication, the flaws present on the tape have been preserved for documentary purposes; however, they do not prevent one from reliving the authentic experience of inhabiting a flying city.

Demikhov & Nàresh Ran

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