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About Me

elio martusciello:
to extend the visibility (videos and/or installation)
These videos are only a part of a series of my videos (2006-2007) that look a total integration of technological, natural and cultural resources.
to extend the visibility IV
to extend the visibility VII
to extend the visibility IX
to extend the visibility XIII (africa)
Elio Martusciello was born in Naples in 1959. He has studied photography with Mimmo Jodice and visual art with Carlo Alfano, Armando De Stefano and Rosa Panaro. He is a self taught musician, composer. He teaches "electronic music", "audiovisual" and "multimedia and installation composition" in the classes of degree "music and new technology" at the conservatory of Cagliari.
In International competitions his works have been awarded ("Grands Prix Internationaux de Musique Electroacoustique" Bourges, with: "Limite inferiore sinistro"-1994, "Movimento quietudine"-1997, "Proiezioni"-1997, "Cattura magica"-1997, "Wave"-1999, "[email protected]"-2000, "Presenti successivi"-2003, "Aesthetics of the machine"-2005; "Luigi Russolo" Varese, with: "Cthulhu"-1991, "Anamnesi"-1992, "Ambra"-1994; "Phonurgia nova" Arles, with: "Peut-être"-1997; "CIMESP" São Paolo do Brasil, with: "HZ - Limits of the Technology"-2001; "imaginaria film festival 2007", with: "to extend the visibility IV"). In 2004 his work "Proiezioni" have been awarded with "Les Euphonie d'Or 1993-2003" at the Grands Prix Internationaux de Musique Electroacoustique Bourges.
Presentations, concerts and conferences at other International festivals, universities, associations and reserch centres include: VIII Festival di Musica Contemporanea-900 Musicale Europeo (Napoli), Ina-GRM (Paris), Futura (Crest & Lyon), Les Musiques (Marseille), Link (Bologna), Musica Verticale (Roma), Synthèse (Bourges), CRM (Roma), Henie Onstad Arts Centre (Oslo), PANaroma (São Paolo do Brasil), Connecticut College (New London-USA), Centre d'études et de recherche Pierre Schaeffer (Paris), Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society (Seoul), Soundscapes Symposium (Barcelona), Spaziomusica (Cagliari), 102 rue d'Alembert (Grenoble), Istituto Gramma (L'Aquila), Césaré (Reims), Musica Millemondi (Napoli), MM&T (Milano), "Inventionen 2000" Berliner Festival Neuer Musik (Berlin), Zeppelin (Barcelona), Festival for ny musikk "Music Factory" (Bergen), Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung (Darmstadt), Attraversa/o (Palermo), International Music Festival (Besençon), Elektrophonie (Doubs), Festival "Entre cour et jardins" (Dijon), Dispositif Coopèratif Audio "Collective Jukebox 4.0" (Genéve), Festival Acces-s, Culture Electoniques (Pau), Trans'électroacoustique, Project'son Festival (Marseille), Controindicazioni (Roma), Musiques Vivantes / GMVL "Aujourd'Hui Les Musiques du Futur" (Lyon), Electronicittà (Marseille), PEAM/03 "Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting" (Pescara), microOnde (Montessu), KuenstlerHaus "compilations & databases" (Bremen), Superfici Sonore "ixem" (Firenze), Dissonanze (Roma), Rien à voir (Montréal), Dal Niente Projects (London), Espace Odyssées (Paris), Raum (Bologna), EMS - Festival (Stockholm), Elettronicittà (Marseille), Festival di nuova consonanza (Roma), Kontakte (Cagliari), Risonanze (Venezia), Projektgruppe neue musik (Bremen), L'espace du son (Bruxelles), Interzona (Verona), Festival Archipel (Genève), Musique Action (Nancy), Interferenze (San Martino Valle Caudina), Angelica (Bologna), Someone Says Somethings (London), Acousmania (Bucarest), musicaXimmagine (Firenze), Akousma (Montréal), Signal (Cagliari), Istants Chavirés (Paris), Pannonica (Nantes), Siberfest IV - International Electronic Music Community Concert (Sibiu - Transilvania), XVIII Jornadas Internacionales de Musica Electroacustica (Cordoba - Argentina), Sonoimágenes (Buenos Aires), Inouï (Avignon), etc...
In 1993 he was Composer in Residence at the "Centre National de Création Musicale" - "GMEM" (Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille) and in their studio composed "Non-nato". In 1997 he was Composer in Residence at the "Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB) " and in their studio composed "Wave". In 1998, he was commissioned by the "RAI Radiotre (Audiobox)" for whom he composed "Voices from Audiobox". In 1999, he was commissioned by the "Benevento SoundFiction" for whom he composed "Abita ". In 2000, he was Composer in Residence at the "Césaré (studio de création musicale) " and in their studio composed "I.S.O. ". Also, in 2000 he was Composer in Residence at the "Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB) " and in their studio composed "rita's kitchen". In 2003 he was Composer in Residence at the "Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB) " and in their studio composed "Circé".
He is also a Live Improvising Musician and has worked with musicians such as (etre), Ana-Maria Avram, Simone Balestrazzi, Alessandro Bosetti, Eugene Chadbourne, Mathieu Chamagne, Guy Chenevier, Ellen Christie, Mike Cooper, Crashbonsai, Alvin Curran, Chris Cutler, Rhodri Davies, Richard Deutsch, Jacques Di Donato, Michel Doneda, Iancu Dumitrescu, Isabelle Duthoit, Pierre Faure, Wolfgang Fuchs, Gianni Gebbia, Lelio Giannetto, Pascal Gobin, Michel Godard, Fernando Grillo, Tim Hodgkinson, Giuseppe Ielasi, Pasquale Innarella, Xabier Iriondo, Thomas Lehn, Christian Malfray, Sabina Meyer, Jean-Marc Montera, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Roberto Musanti, Jerome Noetinger, Richard Nunns, Okapi, Alessandro Olla, Mauro Orselli, Tony Oxley, Roberto Paci Dalo, Evan Parker, Miriam Palma, Olivier Pasquet, Walter Prati, Claudio Rocchetti, François Sarhan, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Domenico Sciajno, Mario Schiano, Frank Schulte, Fabrizio Spera, Gianfranco Tedeschi, Stefano Tedesco, Michael Thieke, Olivier Toulemonde, Giovanni Trovalusci, Luca Venitucci, Joe Williamson, Z'ev, and others. He composes music for "Cane Capovolto" a cinematographic and video research collective with Alessandro Aiello.
He is a founding member of "IATO" (musicians collectives), "IXEM" (Italian eXperimental Electronic Music) and "BOWINDO" (new experimental italian label founded with Giuseppe Ielasi, Domenico Sciajno, Alessandro Bosetti, Valerio Tricoli and Renato Rinaldi). In 2002 started his collaboration with the multi-media art/life projects "Arturo" and "La locandaccia". He collaborates with dancers group ADAMA (Alessandra Cristiani, Maddalena Gana, Samantha Marenzi) and Gabriella Riccio. He work with Citrullo International s.r.l.: Luciano Barcaroli, Carlo Hintermann, Gerardo Panichini and Daniele Villa (documentaries, audiovisual events, cinema, television, multimedia) and Studio Brutus: (animation, game design, web design, video broadcast, graphic design)
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
Cultures électroniques 8 (IMEB, 1995)
E. e M. Martusciello: meta-harmonies (Staalplaat, 1995)
Cultures électroniques 10 (IMEB, 1997)
Project'son (GMEM, 1998)
Ossatura: dentro (Recommended Records, 1998)
Schismophonia: radio-lines (Goethe-Institut Rom, 1999)
E. e M. Martusciello, M. Schiano: Trio di Napoli (Discoteca di Stato, 1999)
State of the union 2001 project by Elliott Sharp (EMF, 2001)
Ossatura: verso (Recommended Records, 2002)
E. Martusciello, R. Nunns, M. Cooper: Cineclub Detour (Hipshot, 2003)
Ossatura: Audiology II (FMP 2003)
Aesthetics of the machine (bowindo, 2003)
Ossatura: Art Bears revisited (Recommended Records, 2004)
Elettronica Italiana vol.1 (EMI Music Italy, 2004)
Punti di ascolto (CEMAT, 2004)
Unoccupied areas (Recommended Records, 2005)
Taxonomy: A Global Taxonomycal Machine (Ambiances Magnétiques, 2005)
Hipshot guitars vol.3 (Hipshot, 2007)
SELECTED VIDEOGRAPHY
with mike cooper : stolen moments (2004)
red kodiak (2004)
aesthetics of the machine (2005)
reiecta (2005)
with ester curcio and vittorino curci: compensazioni (2006)
naturalis electronica (2006)
the series of videos: to extend the visibility (2006-2007)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/8/2007
Band Website: xoomer.alice.it/eliomart
Band Members: He is a regular member of the improvising groups:
OSSATURA
with Fabrizio Spera and Luca Venitucci
SCHISMOPHONIA
with Mike Cooper
TAXONOMY
with Graziano Lella and Roberto Fega
BINDOU ENSEMBLE
with Ana-Maria Avram, Chris Cutler, Rhodri Davies, Iancu Dumitrescu and Tim Hodgkinson
LE PECORE DI DANTE
with Tim Hodgkinson
DA
with Paganmuzak
Sounds Like: elio martusciello: aesthetics of the machine

The video-musical research that I have undertaken goes beyond the man’s "point of view-listening" to experiment what could be defined as the machine’s "point of view-listening" (aesthetics of the machine). Therefore, an aesthetics that privileges an "other-feel", the meeting with the "outerness", the utopia, an opportunity for discovery, growth and extension of man’s possibilities.
The audio frequency field constitutive of this work is out of the possibilities of our perceptive system; in fact it’s placed in the area of ultrasounds (up 20kHz) and of infrasounds (down 16Hz). For all the duration of the work, these sounds are generate at the maximum volume available for the digital systems (0dB). Therefore, this compositions is totally full, saturated, dynamicless, with a volume level always coincident with "fortissimo" (classical notation), from which the area available by the human perception is just excluded. What remains at our hearing? Only silence? All that we perceive in this work, instead, results to entirely be the discard, the drift, the limits of the technology and of our auditory apparatus, all that springs out of the interferences, from the collisions, the clashes of these iper-frequencies, their resultants, the difficulties and the noises that the system of sound-reproduction (amplifiers, loudspeaker, filters, etc.) produces, from the surrounding space (objects that vibrate), our same auditory apparatus and body (often is not our ear but our body, in his totality, that feels and vibrate).
Therefore…a pure “objective” sound (a simple “sinusoidal wave”), fully inorganic, inexpressive, beyond-human, a sharp, metallic object, that can also hurt, a totally “extraneous” sound (a limit-experience, sometimes toxic, harmful…but not only for the men but also for the machine). Well, all that we listen in this work is the meeting point between man, his technological extension and the "outside" of our "feel"; an arduous way that carries us in a dark zone, perturbless (extraneous and family at the same time), outside of our mind and of our thought (which is also its interior).
The video is not a romantic counterpoint of the sound but only a technological sinesthesia (physic of the phase)
elio martusciello: naturalis electronica

concert for orchestra, computer and video - akous(ma)chinebodies_orchestra
(montréal/canada 2006)
taxonomy:
elio martusciello, graziano lella, roberto fega

first taxonomy performance (IATO). elio play guitar and electronic devices, graziano play laptop, roberto play sampling and signal processing
Studio Brutus/Citrullo Int./Taxonomy:
H2O

H2O is a composition interpreting the theme of audiovisual crossover, thanks to a stratified execution of progressive passages: from video shooting, passing to a rewrite in digital graphics, finally focusing the interactive feedback with the shadows form of sound produced by the musicians. The visual flow develops and integrates with the music, producing a decidedly new, electro-digital, highly hibryd. H2O was born from a meeteng between a group of designers, programmers and videomakers with the music group Taxonomy. Citrullo International s.r.l.: Luciano Barcaroli, Carlo Hintermann, Gerardo Panichini and Daniele Villa (documentaries, audiovisual events, cinema, television, multimedia) Studio Brutus: (animation, game design, web design, video broadcast, graphic design) Taxonomy: Elio Martusciello, Roberto Fega, Graziano Lella (electroacustic composition and improvisation music).
H2O has been selectioned and presented in the following festivals: Torino Film festival 2006, Roma Film festival 2006, Live!iXem 06, Netmage 07, Optronica 2007, Sonar Film festival 2007, Cyborg Film festival 2007, Fluid 2007, IMMArts TechArt07, Annecy Animation Film festival 2007, Italiani Indipendenti 2007, HIPERSONICA 2007, REMIXED 2007, aniMOTION festival 2007, MusicAL 2007, SHOOT OFF.
Record Label: rer, bowindo, ambiances magnétiques, staalplaat, gmem, imeb. etc.
Type of Label: Indie