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Casa Ac​ú​stica fragments from an improvisation diary

by Ajítẹnà Marco Scarassatti

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Between the years of 2014 and 2016 I maintained a regular routine of daily improvisations using objects, conventional musical instruments, as well as instruments invented by myself. This daily gesture coincided with the desire to register these improvisations in the form of a diary.

During this time, approximately 100 hours of improvisation were recorded, which reveal aspects of this daily gesture, in the form of ‘snapshots’: listening to the environment, choosing the instruments, microphone positioning within the context of improvisational performance.

The spontaneous visits and meetings of fellow musicians were also an integral part of the recordings; and an important characteristic of the diaries is that they reflect the daily occurrences and events that happened in parallel, such as the improvisation on the day of Ornette Coleman’s death.

If most of the recordings are like Polaroid shots of what the improvisation was at the time, in others the improvisations served as material for the composition/decomposition of a particular moment.

Initially I sent a selection of 18 tracks to Henrique Iwao, who proposed the selection and made the final cut, which gave rise to ‘Acoustic House / fragments of a diary of improvisation’.

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released April 1, 2017

Mastered by Henrique Iwao in @Nll
Photography by Marcelo Kraiser
Graphic design by Carlos Santos
Production by Ernesto Rodrigues
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Ajítẹnà Marco Scarassatti MG, Brazil

Artista sonoro, improvisador e compositor, desenvolve pesquisa e construção de esculturas, instalações e emblemas sonoros. Professor da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG e autor do livro Walter Smetak, o alquimista dos sons, editora Perspectiva/SESC, publicado em 2008 ... more

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