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Angelo Petronella

After studies on percussion and piano, he followed the course of Electronic Music at the Academy of Perugia and, in Milan, got a diploma in Computer Music. His musical activity has had as constants creating sounds and experimenting their relationship in compositional practice. He has made installations, interactive or not, with attention to the way the audience can experience them and the relationship of sounds with space. His compositions, which usually he played with a multi-channel system and different speakers (a personal acusmonium), in recent years are designed also to be installed.

After studies on percussion and piano, he followed the course of Electronic Music at the Academy of Perugia and, in Milan, got a diploma in Computer Music. His musical activity has had as constants creating sounds and experimenting their relationship in compositional practice. He has made installations, interactive or not, with attention to the way the audience can experience them and the relationship of sounds with space. His compositions, which usually he played with a multi-channel system and different speakers (a personal acusmonium), in recent years are designed also to be installed.

Habitat
Nothing short of a revelation, the Italian composer Angelo Petronella reemerges after nearly a decade and a half of silence with “Habitat”, a stunning 5CD career spanning box set of works composed between 1981 and 2022. Comprising 27 tracks at the borders of radical musique concrète and electroacustic invention, guided by deft and subtle hand over the decades into total, immersive sound environments - each informing what has been heard and yet to be heard - its totality places Petronella in the …
Rimandi e Scoperte
Long awaited new album by the enigmatic composer Angelo Petronella, in a superb piece of electroacoustic microsound, intertwining scrupulous minimalism, environmental recordings, and an intense drone nebula.  The liner notes to Rimandi E Scoperte are esoteric to say the least, with statements like "In my place there is an arch, both an entrance and a barrier, both a passage and a wall" which clarify little in terms of how this music was made or what processes are involved. That's probably the wa…
Insiememusicadiversa
** CD Box. The white industrial cardboard box includes an audio CD, a 12-page booklet, five folded posters with graphical scores, plus “Roulette”, a clock-like gadget originally used as the score of the aleatory composition with the same title.** Insieme Musica Diversa, which can be translated in different ways (as diverse music toghether, or different collective music ecc.) truly is a source of endless enchantment. Merging elements of DIY electronica, psychedelia, noise, progressive and free-fo…
Insiemeusicadiversa
Formed in mid-70's in Umbria, this experimental group only released a self-produced album in 1979, after some performances in art galleries and theatres. Their musical style is improvised avantgarde, with every kind of instruments and percussion and use of wordless vocal parts. This rare album only released in a few hundred copies and it's nearly impossible to get
Sintesi da un diario
Angelo Petronella is an avowed devotee of acousmatics, a musique concrete practice that encourages as much disassociation as possible between the sound on record and the source it was taken from. And though many of Sintesi da un diario's sounds are culled from such well-worn locales as children's playgrounds, country landscapes, and factory floors, repeated exposure reveals a composer intent on draining any familiarity in the pursuit of a total removal of all convention. Birdsong is pulled taut,…
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