Aisthànomai: Exploring Voice, Matter, and Nature through Electronics, Sound, and Technique

DISCOGRAPHY / ALBUMS

Aisthànomai, Tragedy of Consciousness

02.22.2008 © Romina Daniele/ RDM Records

1. Intro (3:12)

2. Materia [Matter] (5:11)

3. Entr'acte (2:00)

5. Dix ans, vingt ans (2:00)

6. Nuit sur les Champs Élysées (take 1)

7. Nuit sur les Champs Élysées (take 2) (3:04)

8. Sguardo (take 1) [Glance] (3:30)

9. Sguardo (take 2) (4:32)

10. Fallacità (take 1) [Fallaciousness] (3:41)

11. Fallacità (take 2) (2:15)

12. La prova [The proof] (7:18)

13. Poesis I (9:09)

14. Poesis II (4:44)

15. All'esterno di me [Outside me] (4:48)

16. Vero (remake I) (2:52)

17. Vero (remake II) (1:43)

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Romina Daniele has been awarded with the Demetrio Stratos International Award and in her new album we can notice not only a great vocal ability - power and versatility – but a great talent interpreting the sense of music and composing abilities as well.

You can listen/read ‘Aisthànomai’ like a theoretical work, an organized anthology and a poetical-musical form.

First, it is necessary to read the booklet texts where the aesthetics topics are discussed. "‘Voice-Matter-Nature. ‘Electronics-Suond-Technique. Language-Text-Concept’. These are the territories in which Aisthànomai takes shape… and where my cognitive non-condition law is placed as an expressive aim freely pursued."

In a second point of view, the work offers a charming performance/interpretation. The transfiguration of the song form through the organic changing of the voice (Materia), vocals-electronics assimilation (Echo, Vero Remake II), the dramatic experimentation on the text-vocals (Dix ans, vingt ans), sound poetry (Vero Remake I) and the total theatre-song (Poesis I). (...) Finally, almost in despite of her theoretic will (which can hamper the total fruition), ‘Aisthànomai’ is mainly a sensory experience (if not sensual) with the vibrating woman body, into urgency (impact) of the reunification. "I do not enjoy all the happiness, remember, it is divided in two parts, and both include emptiness’, it seems Emily Dickinson. But it is necessary to get into the voice labyrinth [D. Capuano on BLOW UP MAGAZINE 119].

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AISTHÀNOMAI, THE TRAGEDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Published the Romina Daniele new album

The winner of the Dementrio Stratos International Award for the vocal research and the musical experimentation (2005 edition, confirmed in 2007), ROMINA DANIELE,

publishes today the record:

Aisthànomai, Tragedy of Consciousness

(Voice and electronics)

The record, produced by Romina Daniele, comes two years later the important award.

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Born in Naples and living in Milan, Romina Daniele has carried on studies about history, methodology of art and aesthetics and has gone through different musical and didactic experiences. All the studies carried on over the last two years in poetry, music, vocalism, theatre and art, have been fundamental for the production of this record.

The main elements are: the sound research and the exploration of the dynamics, the overtones and the frequencies, the interlacing and/or the conflict between the sound waves, besides being musical, also acoustic.

The voice in its differing, unexpected and sudden shades, dominates a wide sign universe, in which faraway melodies and ancient calls meet contemporaneous technologies of composition in the avant-garde dimension; weaving the way to explore the perception territories and its processes.

Between construction and dismantling, composition and instinct, Romina Daniele performs the tragedy of consciousness in an open comparison with the listener. To find the human awareness (by man on man), or the reasons for its absence.

It's can be found in the theoretical line of the project: "Aisthànomai is the Greek term that means "to perceive, to understand". It is part of the etymology of the word "Aesthetic", indicative of the branch of philosophy applied to art. (…) Voice-matter-nature. Electronics-sound-technique. Language-text-concept. / Here are the three territories where Aisthànomai (a term emblematic of perception and knowledge) unfolds and is realised and on which and in which my law of cognitive non-conditioning are placed and situated: as an expressive goal deliberately pursued."

CONTENTS AND TRACKLIST:

1. INTRO

2. MATERIA (MATTER)

3. ENTR’ACTE

4. ECHO

5. DIX ANS, VINGT ANS

6. NUIT SUR LES CHAMPS ÉLYSÉES (TAKE 1)

7. NUIT SUR LES CHAMPS ÉLYSÉES (TAKE 2)

8. SGUARDO (TAKE 1) (GLANCE)

9. SGUARDO (TAKE 2)

10. FALLACITÀ (TAKE 1) (FALLACIOUSNESS)

11. FALLACITÀ (TAKE 2)