Mater by Giovanni Dal Monte/La Jovenc

The work consists in the transcript of midi scores of Renaissance music (Da Palestrina, De Pres, Ockeghem, Taverner, Encina, Lemlin etc) through a process that, if it were painting, it would be silk-screen printing alike, kind of Warhol.
After having worked with samples of classical music in precedents works, Giovanni Dal Monte (La Jovenc) here lets the machines "rewrite" the scores in real time. In fact the reproduction is only entrusted to synthesizers.
Assigning the scores to the synths they rewrite in unusual and effective way the Renaissance harmonies in something new, and interchangeable endlessly, maintaining and transforming the emotional charge.
And a new aesthetics is expressed from the ancient scores.
Sometimes the old ballads appear to be minimal songs, the ancient mass becomes a mathematical algorithm, or landscapes of wars, of peace, and history speaks to us in a dreamlike and transcendent language.
Important in this work is the theoretical and practical organization of the tracks.
The artist has intervened playing the instruments but he has also tried to leave the machines to produce the result putting himself in the position of observer / listener (as far as possible).
Then he has retouched what the "halftone-screen" (the score) foresaw.
Besides, the process is repeatable in endless different forms, just as it happens for the press, and the intention is that who want to ask the scores can transform them then, according to their preferences.
The only track that doesn't follow this logic is "Heaven's grace", recorded years ago, the only track sung in this work. For this song there is a videoclip by cult director Bruce LaBruce.

Tracklist

1.	Capir Due	1:50

2.	Redfrd Tre	3:25

3.	Senfl	3:19

4.	Heaven's Grace	3:59

5.	DndHall	3:20

6.	Redfrd Uno	2:40

7.	Tavrnr	3:14

8.	Alfn	2:13

9.	Redfrd Due	3:09

10.	Encn Uno	2:29

11.	Palst Quattro	1:35

12.	Lmlin	1:35

13.	Palst Tre	1:45

Credits

released January 1, 2017

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