LP (180 Gram)
Original Artwork by Giancarlo Toniutti
Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex.
d’or088
Date of Publication: 20 July 2025
Price: 120 euro
Giancarlo Toniutti lives in Udine from birth (1963). He started with music in 1977/78 with radical and experimental criteria regarding sound. At his very beginning often working with his friend Tiziano Dominighini (time and again under the moniker “airthrob in”), they animated a number of electroacoustic improvisations in Tiziano’s warehouse some of which has been lately documented in Counterchronology (Final Muzik, FME7, 2015). These music actions soon gave way to proper compositional works, thanks also to his studies at Venice Conservatory (electronic music course, 1982-1985) under Alvise Vidolin (who worked with Luigi Nono among others), and his personal interest in morphogenesis (cf. René Thom), generating and incorporating extended timbral and morphological investigations through the years, with the consequent publication of several of his music compositions internationally (see www.quasi-rn.org, or www.discogs.com/artist/83226-Giancarlo-Toniutti, for a list). This profound interest in morphogenesis led him to a strong material approach to sound sources and their acoustic generation, ranging from the apparently most resonantly inert sources as in *KO/USK- (1988-1995 for stones and pebbles from the world), to more traditionally distinctive instruments (both from Western and non- Western heritage), through a multitude of hand-made or discovered sonic objects, all of them considered in their structurally inherent ability to generate significant sonic phenomena, subsequently unfolded in electroacoustic entities.
Compositionally speaking this quality ostensibly emerged as a deep application of morphological and topological principles to the developmental paths of sound structures, both at the microstructural level, the generation of sound, and the macrostructural level, the generation of musical forms, as well as the mesostructural level, the most important one, the generation of inner continuous relations between layers.
In his considerable trajectory he has also collaborated with several composers, from Conrad Schnitzler to James Wyness, Siegmar Fricke, Andrew Chalk, Massimo Toniutti, Enrico Piva and others, and performed various quadraphonic concerts or displayed multilayered sound installations.
In recent years he enlarged his interest into specific contexts of microtonality and critical bands, as marked sonic phenomena, with connection to enlarged studies of monodies, multiphonics, and micropolyphonies—cf. the work Bàardum Guùmuse (for your red tongue) on Anomalous records 2024, for example, and also the previous one on Astres d’Or, disperse specie del mio sonno che mai ritornerà, 2023.
“These two new pieces follows where the previous works (d’Or072) left off. There’s a similar débrayage between layers, a comparable relation between structures and their developments.This time, the very materic approach to sources, where materials emerge in their multiphonic and homogeneous actions, hints to an inner movement which becomes form in the ears of listeners. Space remains at the core of the processes, but rather than crossing it, all sounds incorporate it as part of the formal generation. Space is embraced and embedded by every single sonic events, it moves with sounds not around it. Both pieces proceed from a common relational standpoint, and even inside their finite compass they unfold a huge array of microvariational timbral vitality. You can find that the very large collaboration among all the isolated kinetic points constitutes the layering technique, so much so that it becomes almost impossible to distinguish lines from points, from surfaces, from curves. And vice versa.“
Giancarlo Toniutti, June 22, 2025
Giancarlo Toniutti ~ argille
1. (harpunteater) 16’38”
2. (nebberteater) 15’38”
composed / recorded january-april 2025
studio work february-june 2025 (la stanza nera – Udine)
prepared aerophones and idiophones, environments
pigments, natural earths, oxides
© giancarlo toniutti, 2025
Artwork description: Gouache on paper by Giancarlo Toniutti
