Artist : Tu M'
Title : Monochromes Vol. 1
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 06/25/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 04
Label : Line
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 64:20 min
Size : 77,5 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Monochrome 1 14:35
02.Monochrome 2 12:49
03.Monochrome 3 07:06
04.Monochrome 4 29:50
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64:20 min
Monochromes Vol.1 is the new sound work by Italian multimedia duo TU M'. The Monochromes series is a
collection of modular audio and video compositions for electric chamber ensemble. Fragile atmospheric
colours made of sound, light, space. For more information on these works along with the accompanying
video excerpts can be viewed at tu-m.com/monochromes.
"A poet always has too many words in his vocabulary,
a painter too many colors on his palette,
a musician too many notes on his keyboard."
- Jean Cocteau
Monochrome # 01 14:34
Monochrome # 02 12:59
Monochrome # 03 07:05
Monochrome # 04 29:49
Music composed, arranged and performed by TU M'. Recorded live at Vico Santa Chiara Studio, Cittα
Sant'Angelo, Italy on the 11th June and 5th July 2008.
Rossano Polidoro: laptop, mixing board / Emiliano Romanelli: laptop, mixing board. Cover image: Still from
the video Monochrome # V06, 2008.
TU MÆ - Italian multimedia duo formed by Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli in 1998. Their works
include music, video and photography. They live and work in Cittα SantÆAngelo (Pescara, Italy). Through a
personal use of digital and analog instruments, the TU M' reveal a complex universe made up of present
and past, closeness and distance, where seeing and listening become a meditative contemplation.
During the years, their compositions, well received by the critics and the public, have been released for
labels including: Headz (Japan), Dekorder (Germany), FΣllt (UK), Cut (Swiss), ERS/Staalplaat (NL) and
Phthalo (USA). Together with various participations on Bip-Hop (France), Cr≤nica (Portugal), Mute (UK),
FatCat (UK), Innova (USA), Bottrop Boy (Germany), 12k/term (USA), Ache (Canada), CubicFabric (Japan)
and others.
They have worked in various fields together with numerous musicians and artists including: Steve Roden,
Simon Fisher Turner, Frank Metzger, Annja Krautgasser, Dan Warburton and others.
Their audio-visual works have been presented and exhibited in various museums and galleries including:
Castello di Rivoli (Torino, Italy), Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol, Uk), Macro (Roma, Italy), Stuk Art Centre
(Brussels, Belgium), Kunst Meran (Merano, Italy), Centro dÆArte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato, Italy),
Universitα degli Studi di Napoli (Napoli, Italy), Warehouse Contemporary Art (Teramo, Italy), Galleria Civica
dÆArte Contemporanea (Monfalcone, Italy), Civica Galleria DÆArte Moderna di Gallarate (Varese, Italy),
Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary (Trevi, Italy), Zelle Arte Contemporanea (Palermo, Italy), New Chinatown
Barbershop Gallery (Los Angeles, Usa), Pianissimo Gallery (Milano, Italy), T293 Gallery (Napoli, Italy),
Batofar (Paris, France), Purple Institute (Paris, France), Neon Gallery (Bologna, Italy). And in various
festivals including: ArezzoWave Festival (Arezzo, Italy), Dissonanze/Enzimi (Roma, Italy), Napoli Film
Festival (Napoli, Italy), Videominuto (Prato, Italy), Sintesi Festival (Napoli, Italy) and others.
In 2002 they set up and manage the net project - TU M'P3 Soundtracks For Images - a research on the
possible relationships between music and image in various cultural contexts, where over 180 musicians
and composers from every corner of the world were invited to produce an inedited soundtrack to a series
of digital polaroids made by the TU M' themselves. The archive contains over 200 freely downloadable
mp3s
In 2003 they set up the recording label - MR.MUTT Records - where they document the work of
international composers and ensembles which explore contemporaneity via the use of the laptop in various
musical contexts.
In 2003 they created the musical ensemble - STENO - together with the German artist and musician Frank
Metzger. In it they explore a personal world made up of second-hand music. They released their first work
½Second-Hand Furniture╗ with Mr.Mutt (Italy).
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