Valerio Tricoli

"Metaprogramming From Within The Eye Of The Storm" CD.

one track, 34'44''.

Additional sound carriers: Stefano Pilia, Claudio Rocchetti, Giuseppe Scopelliti and Mathias Forge.

cd design: Franz Rugi
pictures: Alessandro Tricoli

Listen (excerpt)

"Metaprogramming From Within The Eye Of The Storm" is an electro-acustic piece by italian composer and member of 3/4HadBeenEliminated Valerio Tricoli, following his debut cd "Did They? Did I?" (Bowindo 2003).
_Das Nicht-zuhause-sein_Laboriosa ad entrandum_a passage a point_DarK Globe tuning to the carrier wave_(a sKull/a cellar]_My pinK May_Fictitious Recollection Devices_(a corridoor)_Remembered nothing more for a long while_Laboriosus exitus domus_Hic labor ille domus et inextricabilis error_Sorting through deeply ingrained personality constructs and behaviors without an emotional response_Carrier of what?_ Déjà Connu_A cellar a sKull a passage a point_Self.Metaprogramming_Data Storm_Remembered nothing else for a long while_ The eye of the storm_ The chrono-synclastic Infundibulum_Pin-K Hole_I remembered nothing more for a long while_Verwindung_

Reviews:

"Valerio Tricoli is at the centre of a resurgent Italian interest in the possibilities of electroacoustic sound design and radical improvisation. His first solo composition "did They? Did I?" is a monument of neo-concrete, and his work with 3/4HadBeenEliminated combines sonic manipulation with avant rock dynamics to powerful effect.
"Metaprogramming...", a single, 35 minute drift, has an aleatory feel to it, but is in fact anartfully assembled audio environment.
A cryptic, two-sided square of card sits inside the jewel case. There's a grainy image, the details hard to make out. Sickly light seeps into the frame from a distant window, but it doesn't penetrate far-we're left with a shadowy space, nameless obstructions strung across it, and, at the centre, a dense smudge which could be someone's head. Listening to "Metaprogramming..." is like exploring this room and it's nameless random contents. There are passages of almost total silence-sporadic, distant rustles, the faintest of evanescent chimes-and then sudden, almost industrial incursions, the aural equivalent of scraping your shins on a lurking chunk of rusty metal.
Later in the piece, Tricoli introduces hovering, processed drones, arcane buzzes and shrieks gather in the upper register and the sense of simulated space is opened and shut with disorientating speed, the painstakingly constructed soundstage collapsing in on the listener. Tricoli summons a string of shockwaves from his minimal resources, and by the time it reaches its indeterminate conclusion, "Metaprogramming..." has attained a brooding intensity which borders on the psychedelic."
Chris Sharp (The Wire 271 August 2006)