STILL​~​AEOLIAN (Sandro Mussida & Francesco Fabris)

The inaugural collaboration between lifelong friends, composer & cellist Sandro Mussida and interdisciplinary artist & producer Francesco Fabris, is unveiled in a 20 minute EP, crafted amidst the scenic backdrops of Iceland and Tuscany.

The EP presents in two distinct compositions the result of a process of cross collaboration that initially began with a residency of Tutto Questo Sentire collective, co-hosted by Fabris in Reykjavík in August of 2022 and culminated with a recording session in the hills of the mediaeval town of Lari a year later.

STILL~ continues the work of Mussida around contemplative listening in expanded-form pieces, exploring the propagation of sound in the open field. Immersed in the vast landscape of the Icelandic Highlands, nine juxtaposed synth waves, each of them oscillating with different speed and amplitude, were captured on-site through a unique reamping process during a windy week in the summer of 2022.
~AEOLIAN expands upon the journey of Fabris’ work with natural elements and data sonification procedures, using wind maps of that very summer week as a base for a graphic score that was then performed at the cello. The piece delves deep into the deconstruction of its namesake musical mode in response to the previous composition with the same nine-part layers.

The result of this exchange stems from a foundational core of blind trust and curiosity of one another’s personal approach to music, balanced and enriched by Fabris’ and Mussida’s touch on each other’s scores, somehow enhancing both works simultaneously.