Martha Agostini
Music For A Tennis Match
*50 copies limited edition* It's a known fact, that while in exile in Los Angeles Arnold Schoenberg spent most of his free time playing tennis in his garden with family and friends, finding solace under the Californian sun. A soundscape – truly cinema for the ears, not just sound objects arranged into a narrative, but a very strong narration in sound, masterfully attained by separating the layers in such a way that different moods are laid on top of each other, with their intrinsic references an…
It’s Just Us Starving in the Land of Plenty
Interlocking stories unfolding in a nonlinear way, about several characters connected by disorientation, desolation, isolation, mystification, starvation, alienation, hallucination, transformation and love. Or, a reflection on the human condition in the era of a globalization devoid of any cultural meaning. The first issue we have released – also known as “Casscomics #1” – which marked the beginning of our production (Aug. 2015), is the eponymous concept album in which are told – in quite a dysf…
When Apples Battle Gravity
When Apples Battle Gravity is a radio opera; a concept album about different characters discussing the failure of communication and being outsiders. It’s about consecutiveness of reactions and the attempt at creating empathy. The complex narrative thread, made of juxtaposed and superimposed excerpts of simultaneous conversations between various characters is interrupted by “songs”, which act as comments extempore. Concrete soundscapes and intimate ones lead the listener in and out of the mind of…