Floating Signal

Floating Signal
Simon Balestrazzi, Max Eastley, Alessandro Olla, Z’EV featuring Marco Cappelli

The Floating Signal project was created as a documentation of sorts for SIGNAL – Advanced Music and Collateral Languages, a music and cross-media festival which takes place in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) since 2007.

Floating SIGNAL was recorded between September and December 2007 in three separate sessions.

The first, recorded at Ticonzero Studio, consisted of three long improvisational performances by Z’EV on his peculiar set of unamplified percussion and Alessandro Olla and Simon Balestrazzi on laptop and amplified objects.

The second was a brief free improv recording by Alessandro Olla and Simon Balestrazzi with special guest guitarist Marco Cappelli, which took place on Casa Angioni stage, during the rearshall, short before Marco live appearance at Signal.

Finally a third last session took place in the Crypt of S. Domenico Church with Max Eastley on his self-built arc. Max both played improvising with Alessandro Olla and Simon Balestrazzi and on unedited selections from the previous sessions.

These overdubs were done in real-time in single takes in an effort to capture the spontaneity of the performances. Several months later the present material was culled from about four hours worth of recordings and edited and juxtaposed till the current form.

Simon Balestrazzi laptop and amplified objects
Max Eastley arc
Alessandro Olla laptop and amplified objects
Z’EV unanmplified percussion
Marco Cappelli guitar – Featuring on tracks 4 and 9
All compositions by Balestrazzi/Eastley/Olla/Z’EV.
Recorded at Ticonzero Studio, Casa Angioni and Crypt of S.Domenico Church (Cagliari, Italy) on September-December 2007 by Matteo Sanna.
Edited and mixed by Simon Balestrazzi.
℗ 2009 TiConZero Records