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Florence, Italy

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Project A/V
OTO+Virgilio Villoresi

Concept:

PASSO A1 is an audio-visual project born in 2004 from the encounter between Marco Puccini aka OTO's electronic music and the video of Virgilio Villoresi.
The live-performance is played on the contrast and intersection of the languages in field. The musical structure delineates a path made of expanded melodies or break to become unusaul explosion of noise/8 bit, meanwhile the visual images chase or anticipate every single event, following a narrative and psychotic path made of animations realized by the video-maker with the stop frame tecnique or using abstract figures that remind the Brakhage, Ken Jacobs or Maya Deren aesthetic.
PASSO A1 is, in synthesis, a short trip through a musical and aesthetic imaginary that deeply sinks the roots in the cultural contemporary schizophrenia, with a sense of unusual audio-visual recovery from the past.

Performance live_Selection:

2004/05 POLIETILENE festival, Teatro Studio_Scandicci/Fi (It)
2005 19? ELETTROWAVE Challenge_Arezzo (It)
2005 HARU Electronics Festival_Chiasso (Ch)
2005 WHAT's@next festival_Pistoia (It)
2006 UNO UNO PRIMA Festival_Parma (It)
2006 FLEXFEST_Genova (It)
2006 IXEM interactive experimental electronic music festival_Roma (It)
2006 LPM live performance meeting_Roma (It)
2006/07 HOMEWORK Festival_Bologna (It)
2005/06/07 MUV music and digital art festival_Firenze (It)

Biographies:

Marco Puccini
starts to approach music langauges after his long collaboration with the Theatre Company Krypton (one of the most vanguard and popular theatre company in Italy in the '80s) for which he realized sounds traks of the shows ("Iconoclast" in collaboration with Marco Messina from 99 Posse and "B" written by Giampaolo Spinato).
He collaborates with some of the most important performers of the internation scene like FrankoB e Stelarc.
He actually experiments its compose search on electronic sound and he collaborates actively for the sound design with the video productions of "The fake factory" (Milano/Firenze).

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Virgilio Villoresi
in 2001 begans to be interested in experimental cinema and realised some short clip, with traditional animations tecniques used as live project in his visual set.
He starts his visual artist path with real time editing and live media performance, partecipating to electronic music festivals (2005/06 TDK audiovisiva_Bologna, 2004/05/06 Netmage_Bologna).
In 2005 he creates the A/V project called OTO, in collaboration with Marco Puccini.
Realised video: "Frigidaire" with the stylist Vivì Ponti, a little masterpiece in animated collage that reminds to Harry Smith, Jan Lenica e Lawrence Jordan cinema (distribuited by the american Microcinema International)
Videoclip "Breathes the best", for the musician Populous (MORR records - in program on MTV Italia), relised in stop motion with the animated decoupage tecnique.
Last, but not least, work is "Real mess" for the Hot gossip band, traditional animation in collage-decoupage.

Filmographies:

2005 Obi One
2005 Birr
2006 Frigidaire
2006 Search and destroy white calligraphy
2006 Voices stomp flames for requiem times
2007 Breathes the best
2007 Real mess

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[ToNE WarS VoL.1] AA.VV. - with: CoBOL PoNgiDE,UniCOrn DreaM aTTacK,Go TO80,A sMIle FoR TimBuCTu,OTO+MEtuO and OtheR...|CLiCk ThE CovER To DOwNloaD|

[Let's Talk About Muertepop 2 - muerte009] AA.VV. - with: All AbOUt MaX, BacKgrOUnd RadiaTIon, (etre), GlaSS Harmonica, MelodiuM, NaKAo:::, OTO, ParADe Me, Queb, SilencE Is Sexy...|CLiCk ThE CovER To DOwNloaD|

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