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Giovanni De Donà - Rehearsal for a world tour from Milan to MoMa PS1 (2006) 05:29
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Chris Mitchell - Interpretation I 04:01
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Alessandro Adriani / Giovanni De Donà - Interpretation II 05:43
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Alien Delon (Ilya Dmitriev) - Interpretation III 04:04
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Nasty Boy (Nicola Penna) - Interpretation IV 04:50
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Abyssy (Andrea Salomoni) - Interpretation V 04:57
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Chris Mitchell - Interpetation VI (not on vinyl) 02:19
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Together with Photons (2005), released as KOO002, Lightwaves completes the investigation of the electro archetype, documenting the Neosurrationalist* bridge between art and science, that began with a dialogue in a Kreuzberg bar involving Giovanni De Donà, Paololuca Barbieri of Alterazioni Video, and physics researcher Markus Gühr, now professor and lead of the Experimental Quantum Physics group at Potsdam University in Berlin.
The dissemination given by the current interpretations made by various artists, reveal the possibility of radical vibrant electro made without synthesizers, in spite of Kraftwerk's tradition. To play directly with neonlights instead of singing them, and to amplify even the invisible infrared of a remote control without fearing a T.V.O.D -television overdose-, it meant entering definitively into the new normality of the bruit, the rauschen, the shum, the záyīn, the new “Arte dei rumori” of the electromagnetic noise of the new millennium, revealing both the inaudible of light frequencies and also the invisible through its raw sound and potential for irreverent, chromatically-limited pulsations.
The first pocket-sized Chinese solar panels are turned into photomicrophones, and with an inexpensive set-up made of different light bulbs, neon, remote controls, LEDs, and a dimmer, we experienced the zeitgeist by closing a cycle that involved popular culture and contemporary art. Lightwaves was on tour for some years from No Art Gallery and Mediateca Santa Teresa in Milan to MoMa PS1 and Location One in New York, MoCa and Duolun Museum in Shanghai, Ikra club in Moscow, then in other locations as Kunstlerhaus in Stuttgart, Link in Bologna, Flowers in Catania, Acusmatiq 2.0 in Ancona, Mayr 3 in Milano again, and Breakout music festival featuring Steve Piccolo in Genova in 2009.

By contacting koo@kooeditions.art you can get a free folder of Lightwaves stems, then play with these sounds, becoming part of the artwork and the XXI century avant-garde.

*alt-modern sub specie referred to Gaston Bachelard's “Surrationalism” of 1936

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released June 28, 2023

Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann in NYC
Design and layout by Pasquale Ascione


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Contemporary Art Documentary meets electronic music culture.

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