released November 19, 2015
MAURIZIO OPALIO - "signs of the mountains"
ARTIST'S BOOK + Music DL
the musical piece – a solo instantaneous composition by Maurizio Opalio – contains loops of field recordings of paper and cardboard during the action of cutting, bending, creasing, tearing, gluing, taping, stapling, stamping, etc – every sound that characterizes the handcrafting of this series of art books
PRIVATE EDITION OF 99 EXEMPLARS.
Manufactured in Western Alps, November 2015
Words and images copyright © Maurizio Opalio / MCIAA
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REVIEWS:
“Very cool project by half of the prolific and overly talented Italian duo My Cat Is An Alien. This is a composirtion based on the book that contains it. The book has a sequence detailing acool abstract suite of visual art, and the music is a tape piece sourced from the sounds of the book being assembled. Stapling, folding, stamping, etc, are all worked into a percussive sluice of sound that is pretty damn captivating."
- Byron Coley / THE WIRE