This is P.NG5361.B and since 1985 I have been working with Eraldo Bernocchi
(http://www.myspace.com/eraldobernocchi, http://www.eraldobernocchi.net/)
and Luca Di Giorgio (as well as a long list of friends and collaborators) as SIGILLUM S (http://www.sigillum-s.com/ ), an Italian post - industrial audio project of many different natures, where concepts have led the effort and employed sound as a tool for the exploration of the forbidden areas of the subconscious.
The result has been a endless paradigm of alien electronic mutations, merging concrete noise research with acoustic transmigration, while visuals and many other forms of media have been also adopted, in order to achieve maximum interaction intensity.
1985/12/23
- FIRST REHEARSAL
1986
- SIGILLUM S (Private Edition) cassette
- HHHARD (Private Edition) cassette
- TRANCE FLEXURE (BROKEN FLAG) cassette
1987
- 3 live shows in Italy (with cassette release for each)
- BARDO THOS GROL (Private Edition) cassette
- OF WILL / THE DEATH OF ALL FANATICS - split with GERSTEIN (INFEKTION) cassette
1988
- 3 live shows in Italy (with cassette release for one)
- BOUDOIR PHILOSOPHY (ADN) LP
- KLIMAX AXIS (Misty Circles) cassette
- THROAT DRUMMED MUTILATION (PRIVATE EDITION, LIMITED / FREE) 7"
1989
- MUTILATED TERRORISM (MINUS HABENS) 12"
- STUDS AND DIVINITY (MINUS HABENS) cassette
- SIMULACRA – split with AIN SOPH (CTHULHU) cassette
1990
- 1 live show in the UK
- TERROR AUTO-OBSTETRICS (AWB) 7"
- HALLUCINATED MOISTURE OF SYNAPTIC SLAUGHTERHOUSE (MINUS HABENS) LP
1991
- 4 live shows in Germany
- DISPERSION: SLICED CARRIONS AND PIXEL HANDCUFFS (MINUS HABENS) CD
- ES DATABASE CHRONOLOGY (MINUS HABENS) cassette
- ORDER OF THE GASH (MINUS HABENS) VHS
1992
- 4 live shows in Italy, Germany and Holland
- GHOST PARADISE, WITH OUT OFF BODY EXPERIENCE (CRAZY DEPT) 12"
- BARDO THOS-GROL (UNCLEAN) CD
- CYBERTANTRICK QUANTUM LEAPS (ARTWARE) CD
- BEDSCANNER PHILOSOPHY ... (MINUS HABENS) CD
- HETEROMORPHONICKS (UNCLEAN) CD
- AUTOSIMBOLISTICK CONFIGURATION (MINUS HABENS) VHS
1993
- 6 live shows in Italy, France, Germany and Canada
- ATOM! (UNCLEAN) MINI CD
- FUTURE EROS CHANNELS (BODY & BLOOD EXPLORATION) 7"
- HELIX PARASITES (MINUS HABENS) CD
- HYPERMUSEUM (MINUS HABENS) CD + BOOKLET (including collaboration projects)
1994
- 5 live shows in Germany and Italy
- LIVE ASSAULT (VERBA CORRIGE) CD
- MALATTIA 1: HALLUCINATED.../MUTILATED (VERBA CORRIGE) CD
- Kick off of SOLO PROJECTS (ASHES, SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS, SOMMA, KOMPLET, CHARGED, SIMM, SIDRA and much more)
1995
- MALATTIA 2: DISPERSION.... (VERBA CORRIGE) CD
- More SOLO PROJECTS
1996
- 1 live show in Germany
- More SOLO PROJECTS
1997
- TIDAL SURFACE TENSION, (OLD EUROPA CAFE) LP
- More SOLO PROJECTS
1998
- FIVE FORECASTS EP (PRIVATE EDITION, LIMITED / FREE) CD
- SIMULACRA (SIG. S / AIN SOPH SPLIT - OLD EUROPA CAFE) LP
1999
- PRIVATE8788 (BLADE) Ltd. CDR special package
- KLIMAX AXIS (OLD EUROPA CAFE / MISTY CIRCLES) LP
- ABSTRACTION (DAFT) CD
2000-2006
- More (mostly) SOLO PROJECTS
- Occasional compilation tracks
2007
- Back to full activity
- 1 live show in Poland
- 23/20 (VERBA CORRIGE) CD & 2XLP
2008
-1 live show in USA
- TERROR AUTO-OBSTETRICS (BLOODLUST!) CD EP
- ORGANIC SKYSCRAPERS AND OCCULT WASTELANDS (DIOPHANTINE) 10“ + 3“ CD
...Forthcoming ...
- WROCLAW 071111 (VERBA CORRIGE) CD
- Kick off of ARCHIVIO INDUSTRIALE: REISSUE & UNRELEASED CD SERIES (VERBA CORRIGE)
- Kick off of VINYL REISSUE & UNRELEASED CAMPAIGN (VERBA CORRIGE)
- DONWLOAD AVAILABILITY OF MAIN RELEASES
This is novel science of REVERSE MIXOLOGY: using as source our self-defined EPIDEMIOLOGY, we have pushed ourselves through the challenge of reconfiguration without external reference…..the original pathological strains have been butchered, dissected and looped, in order to give space for our contemporary visions to blossom… from the latest abstraction, now a pure, hyper dense matter is born, the shaking offspring of a super body-machine.
Finally, the early seeds have erupted and mutated into a devastated series of environmental debris, where subject and context merge into a semantic representation of near future catastrophes: let your sense melt your mind…welcome to SIGILLUM S, 21st Century Version !
www.sigillum-s.com
www.myspace.com/sigillums
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sigillum+S
http://www.facebook.com/pages/SIGILLUM-S/144242646860
http://www.lastfm.it/music/Sigillum+S
http://www.lastfm.it/group/Sigillum+S
In 1993 I have also started SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS (SRS), where I have been dealing with audio and visual extremes of all kinds, generating a pretty significant number of releases for labels throughout the world, as well as presenting stage performances of specifically intense nature.: since then, SRS has been busy sharpening all the edges of excessive dissensions and notions, implying multiple turnovers of neglected, infected and devastated confines.
The SSHE acronym stands for Super Sound High Energy which, when linked to RETINA STIMULANTS is intended to conjure a strong citation of sensorial synesthesia, with hyper intense acoustic frequencies inducing overwhelming visions.
In fact, it all goes down into the subliminal arena, where no real distinction exists among neural signals and cognitive dynamics, where pulses and ideas become a fluid stage for matter to be born out of energy: rather than adopting standardized formulas, I am targeting an immersion into the hidden tanks of this primeval pool, coming back with odd beasts of unclear origin, disorderly entities with a twisted brain, a huge sensual drive and the tendency to consider themselves actors in an endless misshapen TV series.
Right there its where I have always wanted to place my projects, thinking about myself more as a conceptual sound producer or (better) a noise-movie director than anything else.
From an operative stand point, the power and subtleties of the screen show have always attracted and inspired me, providing formal basis for a different kind of sound making, where the subject is usually well defined and the tumult script is conceived as an integrated unity of instrumental choice and a-tonal derangement: the intended effect is a mixture of subjective representation of inspirations and descriptive process of sensorial output, relying on a shifting platform of events and effects to generate a truly multi-layered shape.
I have been refining a method where visual reference / approach permeates the sound structure, feeding then back to precise images (both on partition and/or cover format) to fully complement the results.
The video creations have been extensively used to draw and embrace the audience into our acoustic phenomena and then suck them further into the emotional and cerebral pits where we dwell: the SRS videos and audio-visual live performances are a good example, with a melt propaganda / visual nucleus collapse built using source materials shot in various urban locations of special relevance (abandoned suburbs, non-operational factories, motor ways, railway stations, etc.) the scope is a sensorial re-mapping / re- programming of orientation / prioritization in contemporary social traffic.
Refer to http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sshe+Retina+Stimulants for more details on the various releases, as well as this web site BLOG for forthcoming releases.
More recently, KOMPLET has also started, in order to have the appropriate environment for more rhythmic solutions. additionally, when fanfares and blows collide in a frenzy of peripheral philosophy and cabbalistic skill, SRS & KOMPLET merge definitions and explode together !
Refer to http://www.aferecords.com/ (Releases section / Afe [standard / limited editions 001-025] / afe013lcd KOMPLET FEWER MOLECULES THAN DESERVED ) for more details.
SIDRA in another project, a collaboration with Tiberio Longoni (Peter Sellers & The Hollywood Parties, 198X, etc.) where post noise guitar canals mate with desk top jazz and redefine blues as heard from the ears of hybrid creatures from a Yellow Lagoon:
refer to http://www.aferecords.com/ (Releases section / Afe [standard / limited editions 076-100] / afe082lcd SIDRA A SWAMPADELIC BLESSING OF DOWNTOWN SF - THE OFFICIAL BOOTLEG ) for more details.
Besides SIGILLUM S, SRS, KOMPLET and SIDRA, I have also been contributing to a number of other projects (such as IUGULA-THOR, THE SODALITY, APOCALYPSE FANFARE, HELIX and many more), as well as getting involved with writing at different level (the Italian MANUALE DI CULTURA INDUSTRIALE, articles and interviews in a few magazines) and with radio broadcasting.
October 2009
