#OUTNOW: Intra Muros

I'm pleased to announce the release of "Intra Muros", a new ambient album I composed with Enrico Ascoli:

 

Check it out here: linktr.ee/matteomilani

Intra Muros is a project born during the quarantine nights in March 2020, via a remote collaboration (Milan> Turin). 

The eleven sound-objects, improvised day by day in a sort of creative ping pong between the minds of Matteo and Enrico, overcome the physical barriers of their confinement and recompose themselves the form of apparently stable, but remarkably articulated sound sculptures. 

During the quarantine the apartments have become simultaneously protective shells and static prisons that vibrate, perturbed by ambivalent feelings of calm and tension. 

The tracks symbolize these movements of the souls in constant balance between fever pitch and research of a new interior peace, giving life to an immersive and iridescent sound textures. 

Composed & Mixed by Matteo Milani & Enrico Ascoli 

Mastered by Matteo Milani

#OUTNOW: Wasted Planet

In this surreal moment where a hypnotic silence takes hold of our cities, where the Internet makes us feel closer than ever, I am extremely happy to announce the release of Wasted Planet, a disc composed together with my friend Giovanni Dettori and published by Miraloop Diamonds. The album is the result of a long experimentation and research of new timbres and atmospheres between classical and electronic. The fusion between the depth of acoustic instruments belonging to the orchestral world and the detail of abstract sound textures, has allowed us to create suggestions with a cinematographic flavor, an omen of an uncertain future.

An ideal alternative soundtrack to reflect during our long quarantine period? Maybe ... the answer is yours!

Thanks to Feyzi Brera (Violin, Viola), Engjellushe Bace (Violin), Stefano (French Horn) and Micol Pisanu (Soprano) for the masterful performances.

Happy listening!

Matteo

Discover "Wasted Planet" now - available everywhere!

Unidentified Sound Object @ the 2020 NAMM Show

Save 30% on our sound effects libraries to celebrate NAMM 2020 using the exclusive promo code "namm2020" - let's meet up at the Anaheim Convention Center (January 16-19)!

START SHOPPING: unidentifiedsoundobject.com/shop

OUT NOW: Imagined Spaces – IR Library

A creative collection of carefully synthesised Impulse Responses.

I'm proud to present Imagined Spaces, a new REmatrix library, the result of an extensive research in collaboration with MoReVox and Overloud. Imagined Spaces blurs the line between filtering and reverberation. Sound designers, sound editors, mixing engineers, composers and anyone who paints with sound will enjoy the surprising stuff included in the library, from strange but realistic locations to alien and odd ones.

Lots of IRs have been developed in Kyma sound design environment with synthesis/processing algorithms in the frequency and time domain, like waveshaping, frequency and time scaling, iterative convolution (spectra recombination of different IRs), among the others.

To create reverbs rich in diffuse field, white and pink noise has been treated with radical equalisation curves. Subsequently, Pro Tools has been abused for pitch and time alteration, dynamic filtering or capturing the sonic characteristics of custom plug-in chains to obtain eccentric ambiences with extremely different durations.

Imagined Spaces is conceived as a key tool not only to “paint" your tracks with air, depth and new perspectives, but also to expand and transform the original material into new ones.

With this advanced sound design collection, you can add life to dry and poor sample or original recordings. If you’re looking for tactile effects, Imagined Spaces is the spark you need to boost your imagination: you’ll easily get a density never obtained before with classic convolution and algorithm reverbs.

Try it for yourself!

Yuri Esposito @ 70th Venice Film Festival

by Matteo Milani - U.S.O. Project, 2013

Yuri Esposito is a film that I recently supervised (as sound designer and ambient music designer) which got its world premiere during the 70th Venice Film Festival, with the support of Biennale College – Cinema. "Yuri Esposito" is a man whose slowness pervades every action in his life and comes to constitute its essence, but his perennial lethargy is challenged by a surprise paternity. It's directed by Alessio Fava - I previously worked with him on the ironic science fiction short film “Project Genesis” set in a future in which the machines give life to human beings (you can watch it here).

 

Press quotes: 

"The slow Yuri is a descendant of such minimalist screen clowns as Buster Keaton and Pierre Etaix; and Fava’s assured directorial sense touches on the signal difference between Hollywood movies and art films: pace. The slow Yuri is an art film in the bustle of a multiplex world". - Richard and Mary Corliss @ TIME.com

"The Italian film, “Yuri Esposito” — really stands out as a commercial entity. At yesterday’s panel, Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice praised it, and Richard Corliss of Time Magazine said it was one of the four or five best films in the entire festival. I like it very much as well (...) It’s funny, sad, a character study, a fable . . . and a very good movie". - Mick LaSalle @ SFGate.com

"That quite fragile balance between comedy and drama lead to a true sentimental and somehow bittersweet film. The linear narration, despite the initial idea, doesn’t boast of creativity but it is worked nicely and fulfills all the initial expectations for a charming film". - 24 fois la vérité par seconde24 

[read more reviews and articles - via Biennale College]

Listen to my original tracks composed for "Yuri Esposito":