Kurodama works with sampling and obsessive looping, feeding from field recordings, everyday objects, modular synths and circuit-bent devices. His sound is grainy and organic, with a clear focus on texture and a dark and unsettling undertone.
Terra Umida combines music, comics and world-building into a hybrid narrative-poetic work. The album is not a soundtrack. The comic is not an "inspired by". Both are sides of a multi-faceted coin, independent but intertwined, each giving insight into a larger world of thoughts, moods, people, places and events. A world which is still growing and evolving.
In the 80s, when I was a kid, we used to have this thing on TV called “intervallo”. It mostly consisted in slow, soothing music over photos of pictoresque Italian locations. I decided to reinterpret this concept – somehow turning it upside down – using pieces of music from my Kurodama project. This is mostly to create an outlet for my musical sketches and bits of footage that I record here and there. These videos will all be roughly 1min long, which is an interesting length for quick experiments and prevents me from getting lost in the minutiae that come with making longer tracks.
Released December 4, 2020
Intimate Spaces is a musical exploration of non-inhabitable architectural spaces and their sounds, performed and produced using a mixture of field recording, sampling and synthesis.
It is an album about the dark, cold and claustrophobic interior of a concrete bridge, the sounds from the street heard through a 5-storey cavaedium and the dripping noise of a pool leaking into the service room below it.
The sounds of the outside become the sounds of the inside, but not before having been radically changed and shaped into something new.
Ultimately, this is an album about inhabiting the sound of uninhabitable spaces.
Released by Purlieu Recordings, May May 17, 2021
A split 2-track album with Benjamin Mauch.
Ambient Nuggets is a collection of virtual 7" releases focusing on shorter, easily digestable ambient tracks.
Aired May 01, 2021 on The Neon Hospice
Three years ago we decided to move to the countryside. Over these three years, we moved three times, dwelling in three different houses, one of which we renovated and made what we currently call home.
I've never understood why people collect things. But to a certain degree, I probably do as well, but instead of physical objects, I prefer to collect sounds. Sometimes these sounds originate from nature Other times from humans and human artifacts like cars, household appliances and synthesizers.
This set is a diary of random moments, a collection of fragments, from these three years.
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A performance of a string quartet without musicians – the instruments play by themselves, responding to vibrations generated by means of synthesizers and little speakers. What might sound impossible was developed and realized by the collective ksvu from Bolzano. Periodic oscillations, impulses and sounds form the musical basis of the concert; together with projection mapping by akirasrebith.
Created for Transart Festival 2016
SEN|XOR a personal experience. In SEN|XOR your vital functions and your conscious and unconscious movements generate sounds and pictures.
You control kvsu~akirasrebirth’s instruments with your body, your feelings and your perception.
You are the audience, the interpreter, the composer and the instrument. Analogue and unpredictable.
SEN|XOR is an audio/video performance originally created in 2014 for the festival Transart. The electronic music duo kvsu and video artist akirasrebirth turned a small truck into an electronic music instrument, with which they toured South Tyrol playing 5-minute performances in which the spectator became part of the instrument itself.
Created for Transart Festival 2015
Complicated Love (LCRP – Octaeteris)
Fuoritema (LCRP – 20 Characters)
gorgar the greek (w. midcentury modular – LCRP Day + Night)
Acid Vapours in a Velvet Pouch (w. Knob Alchemist)
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Audio waveform code by Zack Scholl
