Julia Kent (cello + pedals) + Barbara De Dominicis (voice + live electronics) + Davide Lonardi (video installation)

Live/Impro performance/project in progress for cello, electronics,voice & visuals

www.soonapres.com/PARALLEL_41.pdf.zip

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Parallel-° 41is a small journey that we decided to embark on after a series of musical events experienced  together that go under the name of Intermittenze.(youtube.com/watch?v=eYzwNQKQKl8)
We aim  to realize some sessions of "spontaneous" recordings (audio/video) influenced by the environment in which they happen (Recording sessions can be "open" to a public but not necessarily and/or  can be followed or preceded by a live performance--in the vicinity of the chosen-place (but not necessarily....) We decided and tried to play completely free, an improvisation without any set parameters or compositional ideas but the unique influence of  the places that host us. We use  cello, pedals, voice, images, casuality, laptop, field recordings,found sound and a few toys.
We have been and still are looking for unique locations with an inner acoustic potential in order to let our music interact with the environmental sounds... A magic room; a cave, a valley, a path between the mountains, a room with a view, a factory, a meadow, an arcade, a museum, a room of  dolls, a secret or forbidden place, the attic of the grandfather, a farmhouse, a church (pref. deconsecrated!), a farm, a shed by the sea, a mule track, a dismantled factory, a barge.. A "room" where we can spend some hours or a few days, have the chance to recordOur sonic adventure started at Val da Pozzo. A beautiful farmhouse-artists in residenceplaced in the Piedmont  valleys. This first "session"  happened at the end of September 2009.
The second "Parallel 41" session  happened at the end of october. We were in  an abandoned tunnel in the near of Bolzano, located in the mountainssurrounding beautiful Alto Adige Valleys........

Julia Kent was born in Vancouver, Canada, studied cello at Indiana University, Bloomington, and lives in New York. In 2007 she released a solo record, Delay, inspired by touring and the disjunctions of travel, incorporating multitracked cello, omnichord, and field recordings from airports around the world. As a solo artist, she has performed at the Donau Festival in Austria, the LEM festival in Barcelona, and at venues throughout Europe and the U.S. Lucid Culture described a recent New York appearance as: "riveting and frequently cinematic...moving from trippy, echoey and atmospheric to stark and haunting". She is now working on a new solo record of multitracked and effected cello inspired by the intersection between organic and technological processes, and between human beings and the natural environment.

www.juliakent.com 

SOON APRES (alias for Barbara De Dominicis) likes to record natural or urban sounds and merge them in her music both altering them or simply usingthem as they are. Her projects include Cabaret Noir (with Pasquale Bardaro). The Body, exposed, Poe-Si (with Mirko Signorile and "99 Posse" dub master Marco Messina). Kuul-Ma, an audio-visual project in collaboration with the media artist Davide Lonardi. In 2008 she wrote and produced the songs of her album Anti-Gone: based on a narrative theme of greek mythology. In the same years she met the canadian cello player Julia Kent; together they brought into existence Par4llel 41: a musical/visual/improvisatory project. Her growing interest in Sound Portraiture, led her to work on a A tale of two cities  - an audio-collage documenting Naples and New York. In 2011 with a dozen of other artists,she gave life to Exquisite-What! a collective web/project based on the idea of the surrealist's practice called Exquisite Cadaver. At the moment she is working on a new solo album under the moniker Soon Apres - an assemblage of drones and field recordings, electronics, voices and string instruments.

www.soonapres.com

Davide Lonardi. Artist, writer and director. As a film maker he has produced four documentaries focused on italian contemporarary artists : Claudio Ambrosini (Big Bang Music, 2004) Fabrizio Plessi, (the opera to video, 2004), Rabarama (2005), Luigi Del Sal (The Route fantastic, 2005). He works in the field of dynamic and interactive installations based on projects of contamination of multimedia elements using materials of everyday life and nature. He has collaborated with several musicians (RachelZ, Jerry Marotta, Chris Boulet) and satellite channels (3channel, Alice, Marcopolo). In 2009, he realizes a music video for the single of Barbara De Dominicis "Disremembering Echo" now on air on major national networks.

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