releases :: The Wagon

Sun, 11/03/2007

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The Wagon is a 6 track album, composed by Fabio Battistetti/Eniac, between 2004 and 2006.
The carrying topic of The Wagon is the railway suggestion: traveling on a train is a temporary place, and a typical place to observe Eniac, the music for this project starting from this compositional point.

The Wagon is also a mixedmedia performance where the audio side meets the visual set (based on landscapes from the wagon's window).

The author has always had a passion for traveling by train, this passion became habit when he started traveling everyday along the railway Turin - Milan, during these trips he composed a couple of songs of the album (with a laptop), and he began to plan the mixedmedia version of this project, and he filmed the video: Packetfiltering.

Produced at home and on a train during 2004; recorded and edited between May 2005 and January 2006, by Fabio Battistetti. Instruments: laptop, pedal effect, field recordings.

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Rockit

Eniac - The Wagon
Astratto ed iterativo il lavoro di Eniac, nome d'arte di Fabio Battistetti, viene edito dalla stessa Chew-z che tempo addietro si fece notare per l'ottima compilation "First Aid Kit". Differente a causa della minor marcatura data alle partiture ritmiche rispetto alla scorsa opera a nome Eniac intitolata "Ice estate", questo "The wagon" continua sulla stessa rotta strumentale tracciata unendo suoni dal basso bitrate a field recordings mentre vengono curate più finemente sia le scelte timbriche che le costruzioni dei brani, sintomi questi di una maturità compositiva in costante evoluzione. Certi titoli lasciano possibili richiami al collettivo Gescom ("Mag24"), altri suggeriscono la provenienza dei campionamenti ("Ligneo"), il tutto come sottolineatura di un atteggiamento che fa dell'asepsi proprio contesto di esternazione. Sebbene infatti il lavoro sia di ottima fattura, la fruibilità non è immediata: il genere ha bisogno di tempo per venire apprezzato, mentre ai primi ascolti è facile scambiare queste opere per vecchi videogames su piattaforma Commodore 64, messi erroneamente nello stereo a cassette.

Simone Caronno

Rockerilla

Eniac è il nickname di Fabio Battistetti, metà del progetto Chew-Z “nato con l'intento di rendere possibile la diffusione di musiche alternative e di difficile distribuzione usando internet come vettore”. Il nome scelto è preso da un famoso romanzo di P.K.Dick, dove “chew-z” era una droga utilizzata dai coloni terrestri su Marte “per distrarsi dall'esistenza noiosamente invisibile”. “The Wagon” è un'opera sul tema dei viaggi in treno: due delle sei tracce da cui è formato sono state composte proprio mentre Fabio pendolava tra Torino e Milano.
Dal laptop di Eniac echi di Cabaret Voltaire si infrangono contro i finestrini per trasformarsi in racconti di desolanti paesaggi industriali proiettanti durante le esibizioni dal vivo.

Roberto Mandolini

Eniac

ENIAC is Fabio Battistetti.

Musician and sound designer.into advanced electronic music.

The musical project started in 1998 as lo-fi experimentation, as a research in the well-known (samples) with the purpose of trasforming (distorsions) and re-elaborate it, a technique that eniac describes as: “something new from something who isn’t”, it was a research in re-evaluating old ways of thinking and feeling, in favour of new concepts. The project has evolved to a more concrete and musical structure, and today is a constantly evolving set of electro music, from melodic glitch to the explosion of rhythms.

From 2007 he started the activity related to performing art with a collabotion of visual directors, dancers and sound designers. Some of these projects are:

Milano Film Festival (september 2007 - Milan)
Live Performers Meeting (september 2007 - Rome) with B-Light Project
Netaudio Berlin (october 2007 - Berlin)
Milano In Digitale (november 2007- Milan) with B-Light Project (winners)
Live! IXEM (december 2007- Palermo) with B-Light Project (winners)
Did Studio Festival (december 2007 - Milano) with B-Light Project (winners)
Homework Festival (may 2008 - Bologna)
Club To Club Festival (november 2008- Turin)
Nettare (december 2008 - Turin)
The Funiture: Flex Your Lab NIETZSCHE FABRIK (july 2009 - Turin)
Into The Wood: EVA / Play On Plaid (october 2009 - Turin)
Into The Wood: SMIR (December 2009 – July 2010 Mondovì - Italy)
Audiovisiva (May 2010 Milan – Italy)
Tacuma (December 2010 Turin – Italy)
Into The Wood: Inlandempire Project (December 2010 Milan – Italy)

B-Light Project is a a performance project (real time audio-video-dance processing), with Headvision / Roberto Zitolo (videomaker) and Nadessja (dance performer): that win in 2007 the Live! IXEM (Palermo) and Milano In Digitale (Milano) prizes.

Into The Wood is a sound design performance based on the use of wood as sound source; a project of re-discovering of the use of the wood.

In November 2006, he founded (with Daniele Pagliero): Chew-Z, a Netlabel that support musicians around electronics and experimental: On Chew-Z, he relaesed two full length album: The Wagon, Unknown Language

Eniac has been part of Piemonte Groove, a community that represent electronic musicians that came from north west of Italy (Piemonte).

Eniac is a single person and several tools: a computer most of the times, an old casio keyboard and an acoustic broken guitar sometimes...

Fabio Battistetti was born in Turin in April 1975, works on information technology, hosted independent music shows on Radio Flash and Radio Torino Popolare and writes about music and art on Zero11, Rumore, Exibrat. He’s also a dj into electro and other dancefloor stuff.

http://geniac.tumblr.com | http://soundcloud.com/eniac

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