Gioele Billi. Born in 1996 as the son of a vinyl collector, he was raised under the influence of many musical genres and different sonic enviroments, which eventually brought him to the study of music theory and instrumental practise. The piano was a good starting point, and the electric guitar showed him the possibilities that voltage could bring to a sonic evolution in his music; riding this wave he soon discovered the synthesizer and started exploring sound synthesis and production, which he put into practise at first joining the prog-rock band “Humana Cosa”, and then going solo and producing soundscapes for art exhibits in his home-town, Conegliano.
DILATATO IPNOTICO (con fratture)
Sound Composition: GIOELE BILLI
Dance Coreography: FABIO NOVEMBRINI
A composition realized for “Corpi Elettrici”, a special project with dance and electronic music by Gender Bender Festival and Conservatory of Music/School of Electronic Music, Bologna.
The composition aims to explore aspects which the worldwide communities had to deal with during the 2020 quarantine, such as time-dilatation, space-distortion and a deep uncertainty about reality. Basically, only two materials figure in the mix: vocal extracts taken from Monteverdi’s “Pur Ti Miro”, which are subsequently warped through an ambiguous parade, so that time loses its accountable value, leaving space to shifting shapes and drifting shadows; the other element is given by the drums, dropping anxiously in the second part of the composition, re-marking and accentuating some sort of contraction that permeates the created enviroment; these so-called contractions become more prominent throuhgout the second minute, until the composition itself comes to its final fractures: brief, enlarging windows of digital silence open in between of strict, rythmic cadences made of confused drum samples and surrogated vocals particles.