Giulio Aldinucci: Shards Of Distant TimesGiulio Aldinucci | Shards Of Distant Times
ARTIST: Giulio Aldinucci
WEB: www.giulioaldinucci.com
WORK: Shards Of Distant Times
PLUS: CD, Pack CD, Vinilo
FORMAT: Digital
LABEL: Karlrecords
RELEASE: March, 2020
COUNTRY: Italy, Germany, Worldwide

Last March of this year (2020), Giulio Aldinucci launched his latest work called Shards Of Distant Times, which in argentinean spanish means would be “Lejanos Fragmentos del Tiempo” and the title does the work precise justice.

Giulio Aldinucci by Emiliya YanakievaGiulio Aldinucci | PH: Emiliya Yanakieva

Giulio was born in 1981, in Siena, Italy, and has been actively involved in electroacoustic music, experimental work and sound design for some years now. Researcher on the soundscape, his works carry a particular sonority, product of the interests mentioned above.

― I consider every work I do as a milestone on my artistic path, a snapshot of a period of my life, a point that could be completely isolated and, at the same time, it could be part of a single line of a drawing.

This is how this journey through this Fragmented Time proposed by Giulio begins. An album of 6 tracks +1 since the vinyl edition lacks the track “Kids Playing With Iron Slags (Beach Scene)”, bits and pieces of sounds of all sizes, concatenated in a track after another, self-conclusive but also sequential. If we are going to listen to this album in parts, ordered or unordered, we will have relative results as if we were listening to it in one go, we can even do the test of listening to it completely in random mode or completely in repeat mode. It’s a journey. A great journey through fragments of a state of mind set in this sound work.

― The composition process of this album is mostly based on radical processing of various audio material, mostly very short fragments that got expanded and completely transformed; for example, I turned many whispers into choir sounds.
― Right after starting compositing this album, I spoke with Karlrecords about the lp concept and I described it in a very synthetic way: Shards of Distant Times explores the liminal areas of the contemporary soundscape that are characterized by the presence of human voice coming from old and timeworn recordings. Like in the auditory pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon in which the mind hears indistinct voices in random noise where none exist, voices and music emerge from the everyday soundscape through the omnipresent internet connected devices, creating glitches between time and space.

The concept of Shards Of Distant Times is precise, playing with sounds that may be familiar by approximation, over time, is an album very rich in reverberance, in voices designed, synthesized, present and absent. It’s a piece that works the passage of time in specific spaces, designed in a control room that can only be the artist’s own head. As if it were a permanent sequential reflection.

― Every time I listen to a work after receiving the cd or vinyl from the label, I realized how changed I am; it’s like watching a photo.

If you like, you can listen to the podcast with the review in NOISE #08.