U.S.O. Project in Blow Up Magazine #126, November 2008

U.S.O. Project, aka Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi, interviewed by Michele Coralli in Blow Up magazine.

Blow Up is a monthly Italian magazine about “rock & other contaminations”: out rock, electronica, techno, house, experimental, industrial, improv/jazz, traditional.

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The Conversation: opening sequence

Editor and Sound Mixer Walter Murch’s comments about this opening sequence [mp3]:

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A hovering perspective, hypnotic in its descent. Union Square bustles. Through the first transition programmable servo lens, engineered for this very shot, we hone in on a thousand little theaters settling on a disquieting mime. Long reaching shadows breed paranoia as the wondrous sound design is at once jazzy and dissonant, much like Harry Caul himself.

[click to watch - format: QuickTime H.264, 720×400 | Size: 37 MB]

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Oscillators behind the glass

Between 1955 and 1983, in Milan is developing one of the most important musical experiences of the 20th century. It is called Studio di Fonologia Musicale and collect, as well as the most technologically advanced machines of the time, even the finest musicians, who converged there to produce the first real electronic music in Italy that has ever been produced.

[leggi l'articolo - read the full article]
[download the interview with Maddalena Novati - mp3]
[inside Rai Musical Phonology Studio]

[via altremusiche.it - by Michele Coralli]