SCHNITT
THEMA
DRAMA
TECHNOPHONIC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
ONU-J
4DKILLER
MINOX
SCHNITT
DRAMA
DRAMA is a media project which combines music, video and photography.
The first introduction of the project created by Marco Monfardini has been with the presentation of “ The Gramophone Selection “ at the 59° edition of the International Venice
Film Festival in the year 2000.
The Gramophone Selection is a performance focused on the fusion of music from the past and sounds from technologic origins.
The gramophone used live as a music instrument is integrated into a dj console. Scratchy records of “78 will be mixed with current records and digital audio files.
The Gramophone Selection is the audiovisual performance developed by Drama’s personal interest and research for the original sounds which stand for the period of the 19
th
century.
With his first gramophone acquisition, found on a flea market in Germany, he started to work on his live set with the idea to combine voices of historic memory as Salvador Dali,
Jean Cocteau, Antonin Artaud with the present minimal and voiceless sound of 20
th
century.
In many years of research on several flea markets, fairs and exhibitions in Europe Drama built up his collection of the “78 records for the gramophone.
The live set of the Gramophone Selection will be completed with it’s visual “Dramascope” realized by the animation of historic photos and abstract images.
A second processed and amplified version of The Gramophone Selection is presented in 2004 at the Festival Kulturama di Leuven in Belgium together with the updated visual
Dramascope 2.0. The performance is touring in several cities in Belgium and then followed by the tour in Italy.
Dramascope 3.0 reveals the study on emotions and suggestions caused through images coming from films and photos of the past in accordance with present sounds.The
performance is an interaction from music and video and presented in 2006 at the festival of electronic music “Electronism” in Barcelona.
In Dramascope 3.0 the sound assumes the function of a stimulator. Sound impulses give new live to old film and foto material in a sort of surreal somnambulism.
Dramascope 3.0 is represented in the years 2007 and 2008 in several theaters, clubs and cultural centers in Europe.
Marco Monfardini is presently preparing the new Dramascope 4.0. The central issue of this edition is the visual memory. Images enclosed in the human mind will be recalled
and stimulated through the sound.
A sort of virtual scanner of the memory interfaces with the numerical elaboration of the computer. Emotions, moments and instants will be decodified and interpreted in a
surreal association between sound and image.
ONU-J
2000 | 2002
TECHNOPHONIC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
1998 | 2007
4D KILLER
2000 | 2005
1983 | 2004
STEFANO RAFFAELLI | Pianoforte | Electronics
MARCO MONFARDINI | Electronics | Video
THEMA is the audio video project of Stefano Raffaelli and Marco Monfardini, an artistic collaboration born in 2010 deriving from the common interest between the interaction of
sound and video. The sound of THEMA is based on two fondamental components, the acoustic represented by the piano and the electronic focused on the research
between audible and inaudible sound.
The exchange of sound /image builds up the visual part of the project, video developing its proper form in the abstaction, fragments of images, forms and chromatics coexist in the
relation of light/sound in the eternal trial to overpass the screen.
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SCHNITT | discography
Marco Monfardini | Amelie Duchow
THEMA
Marco Monfardini | Stefano Raffaelli
SCHNITT
is
a
collaboration
between
the
experimental
musician
Amelie
Duchow
and
the
media
artist
Marco
Monfardini
evoked
from
the
common
interest
in
electronic
music
and
visual
art.
The
duo
works
at
the
intersection
between
music,
art
and
technology,
with
a
strong
focus
on
the
cohesiveness
linking
audio
and
video.
Custom-made,
innovative
software
and
electronic
devices
allow
SCHNITT
to
develop
complex
A/V
installations
and
site-specific
live
performances
adapted
to
various
exhibition
venues.
Their
use
of
abstract
media
elements,
combined with their respective perceptions toward technology, creates an equilibrium between their work’s form and concept.
In 2010 SCHNITT presents SYNCHROPATH an audio/video project focused on a synchronism as a method of composing, released on Sync | DVD and 12” LP.
With SYNCHROPATH, SCHNITT participates at several international festivals as the Elektra Festival, Open Source Festival and Robot Festival.
In
the
same
year
they
launch
the
platform
and
label
for
audio
visual
artists
Sync,
with
the
focus
to
enlarge
musical
experience
through
concepts
expressed
in
new
forms
of
video
and
sound.
SCHNITT
presents
the
audio
video
live
performance
MEMORY
CODE
a
project
focusing
on
the
visual
memory
in
museums
and
various
festivals
for
digital
art
throughout
Europe
and
in Asia, the album MEMORY CODE is released in 2019 on Sync.
In
2019
SCHNITT
presents
at
the
LEV
Festival
in
collaboration
with
Gianluca
Sibaldi
the
site
-
specific
audio
video
performance
SCANAUDIENCE
which
is
based
on
the
realtime
scanning of the audience.
2021
the
trio
performs
SCANAUDIENCE
at
the
Biennale
Némo
scanning
in
realtime
the
audience
of
the
Philharmonie
de
Paris.
SCANAUDIENCE
will
be
on
stage
at
this
years
Mutek
Montreal edition in August 2022.
SCHNITT will present the premier of their new audio/video project WHITE BALANCE at the LEV Matadero Madrid
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