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Angelo Conto & Igor Sciavolino

NoLogic is a recent experiment started after february 2008 in Torino, Italia.

This work uses digital processor on laptop to interact with acoustic piano.

Angelo Conto is a piano player.

In our works he improvises on keybord in traditional way or on strings inside piano or using several objects in several materials (plastic, wood, metal, glass) to generate alternative sounds. Sometimes he can play a toypiano inside the piano.

Igor Sciavolino built a personal plug-ins multiprocessor set-up on his laptop.

He reacts to piano improvisations modifing its sound in real time or he plays excerpts (for instance parts from Contrappunto dialettico alla mente by Luigi Nono) filtering it in real time and, at the same time, going on filtering the piano, too.

At the end, we try to stimulate one to each other by 3 elements:

acoustic instruments (piano, piano strings and toypiano);

real time processing acoustic instruments;

prerecorded music.

Every material was created or elaborated in real time under improvisation logic.

Our effort was in any moment to be free to play anything, but at the same time to built a convincing composition.

www.myspace.com/nologicduo

www.myspace.com/angeloconto

www.myspace.com/igorsciavolino