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Flatline Voyages

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1.	_line Voyages 06:56	buy track
2.	Speaking Voids I 01:49	buy track
3.	A Circle Has No End 09:12	buy track
4.	In I Reached (feat A Distant Shore, Asymmetric Cut, Andrea Marinelli) 11:56	buy track
5.	Vacancy (Speaking Voids II) 06:12	buy track
6.	Out I Wondered (feat MDC, A Distant Shore) 10:04	buy track
7.	A Certain Sense of Loss 09:52	buy track
8.	Speaking Void III 01:02	buy track
9.	Flatline Voyages 07:27	buy track

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Flatline Voyages is a sound project that explores the relationships between drone music, radio interferences, and short wave transmissions. It combines a series of SDR recordings from all over the world (number stations, Iran radios, Chinese traditional music, beacons, radio hams) and sounds gathered from fellow electronic musicians, coalescing them in a slowly evolving artificial soundscape. It was conceived a series of extended listenings I made during lockdowns, navigating the SW spectrum from my studio.

During quarantine and lockdowns, I found myself listening to short-wave radio stations more and differently than ever before. If before the COVID-19 situation, my research was only to gather new material to use in my sound practice, after the first days of confinement, all those far away radio stations became a way to plunge myself into a new dimension, where nostalgia, absence, distance, and presence lived together. The aural component was partially deprived of its information content and became a means to explore a world forced away from us. After some months, I found a word that perfectly described it: "flatline voyages”, inspired by a passage by Mark Fisher.

If according to Pierre Schaffer, ”the only difference between music and noise is the intention", then both radio signals and musical sounds can be decontextualized and coerced in a different environment, trying to rebuild that aural soundscape that accompanied me back then, in a dialogue which is not yet sound art, nor is radio art, floating in between.

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released March 29, 2024

The project is conceptually divided in nine movements:

1. _line Voyages
2. Speaking Voids I
3. A Circle Has No Ends
4. In I Reached (feat A Distant Shore, Asymmetric Cut and Andrea Marinelli)
5. Vacancy (Speaking Voids II)
6. Out I Wandered (feat MDC and A Distant Shore)
7. A Certain Sense of Loss
8. Speaking Voids III
9. Flatline Voyages

The fourth and sixth movement make use of sounds kindly provided by four different electronic musicians: Andrea Marinelli, Asymmetric Cut, A Distant Shore, and MDC.

Cover picture by Gabriele GAAB Faoro (www.gaab.studio)

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