Soffio ipostatico from Éliane Radigue by Nicola Fumo Frattegiani

Nicola Fumo Frattegiani is an electroacoustic and audio-visual composer living in Perugia, Italy. His works have been presented at various national and international festivals.
Author and performer, his research deals with electroacoustic music, sound for images, video, art exhibitions and compositions for theatrical performances.
He is a Subject Expert in "Electroacoustic" and “Computer Music” at the Conservatory of Music of Perugia. He held the chair of Electroacoustic Music Composition at the Conservatory of Music of Messina.
He is currently professor of Sound design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata

“Soffio ipostatico” is an acousmatic composition made exclusively of accordion samples. The acoustic material has not been manipulated, filters and virtual environments have not been applied. The sound is just the result of montage techniques.
The structure is built on superimposed audio strips which move slowly within the acoustic spectrum and occupy all the available space of this during the course of the composition. The temporal elongations allow for the investigation of the textural qualities and the micro-variations to the detriment of the dynamic.
In the extreme frequency zones the sound is enriched with the noise and concrete components generated by the mechanical efforts of the instrument pushed to their limits.
The title takes the first part of the term accordion, φῦσα, which means «blow/bellow» (in Italian Soffio) and the adjective hypostatic, which refers to the philosophical concept of hypostasis indicating that which benefits from its own texture beyond the phenomenal flux, that is the subsistent being, the nature from which qualities flow without exogenous alterations or interventions

https://www.nicolafumofrattegiani.com

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