Integral by Fabio Perletta + Asmus Tietchens

“Integral” marks the second collaboration between German electronic music pioneer Asmus Tietchens and sound artist Fabio Perletta. The album follows 2017's “Deflections”, released by German label aufabwegen.

Recorded by Fabio Perletta and Asmus Tietchens, respectively at Tokonoma Studio, Roseto degli Abruzzi, and Audiplex Studio E, Hamburg, between October 2022 and August 2023. Artwork by Fabio Perletta. Mastered by Okko Bekker.

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ASMUS TIETCHENS (b.1947, Hamburg, Germany)

1965 / First experiments with tape machines and electronic sound generators (rhythm machines, sine tone generators) and with concrete sounds.

1971 / Starts working with the Minimoog. Complex results through the use of 8-channel tape devices.

1975 / Marks the decision to compose and realize electro-acoustic music for a living.

1980 / First LP-release “Nachtstücke” in France, produced by Peter Baumann (Tangerine Dream).

1982 / Discovery of stylistic affinity to Industrial Music. LP “Formen letzter Hausmusik” (1984) is released on the british label “United Dairies”. Through 1989 numerous LP releases on labels of the international Industrial scene such as Esplendor Geometrico, Hamster Records, Multimood, A-Mission a.o., presenting works with prepared piano, water sounds and various other concrete materials.

1985 / Experiments with the Fairlight CMI.

1986 / First travels to Brazil to present his work in the form of lecture-concert upon invitation by the Goethe Institute.

1989–2009 / Teaches sound design, communication design and sound research at the Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW).

1991 / Second concert journey to South America invited by the Goethe Institute, this time going to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

Since 1991 / Various CD releases on international labels such as Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, Selektion, Mille Plateaux and more. Collaborations with other composers of the so-called noise scene like Merzbow, Achim Wollscheid, Thomas Köner, Vidna Obmana and more.

2003 / Awarded the “Karl-Sczuka-Preis für Akustische Kunst” by Südwestrundfunk (SWR).

2006 / Again awarded the “Karl-Sczuka-Preis für Akustische Kunst” by Südwestrundfunk (SWR). Until today more than 50 LP and CD releases and numerous public performances in Germany and abroad.

2010-2013 / Teaches sound design at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.

No studies, no academic education no scholarships just pure learning by doing = self-taught appropriation of creative skills and handling of analogue and digital studio technology. I am my own Tonmeister.

http://tietchens.de

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FABIO PERLETTA is a sound artist, professor and curator living and working in Italy. In his work, he explores the tensions and equilibriums that coexist between presence and space, silence and noise, focus and perception. He seeks to create expanded experiences in which he unveils the complexity, multiplicity, and transient nature of auditory realities, with a cross-language addressed to a shared subjectivity that often employs unconventional forms of participation. His research pivots on the ambiguity between the material and immaterial, fostering their entanglement and divergence within the same vocabulary.

His work encompasses recorded compositions, performances, site-specific installations, text scores, online projects and participative actions, appearing worldwide at festivals and art spaces like A×S Festival (Pasadena), Human Resources (Los Angeles), BlueProject Foundation (Barcelona), Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona), Pollinaria (Civitella Casanova), El MAMM (Medellín), Ultima Festival (Oslo), Ryosokuin Temple (Kyoto), Listude (Nara), Bonjour! (Kyoto), Komyoji (Tokyo), Ftarri (Tokyo), MoMA (Wakayama), Café OTO (London), Standards (Milan), TOdays Festival (Turin), roBOt Festival (Bologna), Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome), Mattatoio (Rome), among others.

Perletta’s solo and collaborative recordings are documented on Room40, LINE, Dragon’s Eye Recordings, Superpang, aufabwegen, Dinzu Artefacts, Granny Records and his own imprint 901 Editions. Founded in 2008, his label has since released more than 50 sound art and experimental music editions by established and emerging international artists.

He has participated in various artistic residencies including Aequusol MMXX (Civitella Casanova), EMS Elektronmusikstudion (Stockholm), Sonitus (Modena), VOLUME (Los Angeles), Aqua Matrix (Bagnoli Irpino) and mAtter (Japan).

In 2014, he co-founded Mote Studio in Berlin with artist Davide Luciani. The studio guides its research through the creation and direction of sound and spatial installations, audiovisual pieces and publication works. 

Since 2014, he has co-curated Lux, an artistic program dedicated to presenting visual artists working with sound, promoting solo and group exhibitions of artists like William Basinski and James Elaine, Thomas Koner, Arnold Dreyblatt, France Jobin and others.

He is currently a professor of sound design at ISIA University in Pescara, Italy.

https://fabioperletta.it

Tracklist

1.	Integral 1	5:14

2.	Integral 2	8:47

3.	Integral 3	5:12

4.	Integral 4	7:39

5.	Integral 5	4:18

6.	Integral 6	13:24

7.	Integral 7	5:12

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released December 20, 2023

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