Field Studies is a series of concerts, workshops and audio releases focused on field recording and electronic music.
Field Studies explores the perceptual alterations activated by listening through audio recording/playback technology in open spaces, and the contamination of field recordings with minimal electronic and electro-acoustic sound interventions to create imaginary sound environments.
The series works on different formats in both creative and sharing process: live sets, oundwalks, sound objects, audio/video pieces to be listened with smartphones, listening exercises,
sound diaries; and it investigates limits and possibilities of technology, places and
situations.
Glauco Salvo is a musician and sound artist active in the independent and experimental scene in Italy. His research is focused on exploring new paths in folk, rock and experimental music, using string instruments, electronics and recording/playback devices.
The core of his research are the possibilities of perceptual alteration and of contamination of field recordings caused by artificial sounds, external agents turning the recordings r slightly unreal places, changing balance, color and tone.
He plays solo, in the alternative-folk band Comaneci, in duo with Giovanni Lami, and he curates music and sound design for contemporary dance. He worked with artists such as Marco Parente, Amycanbe, Setti, Enrico Malatesta, Alessandro Bosetti, Annamaria Ajmone, Cristina Kristal Rizzo.
Since 2016 he is part of MU with Enrico Malatesta and Giovanni Lami, association and collective promoting concerts, didactic activities and listening practices regarding non-conventional music, social, cultural and perceptual perspectives on sound.
🔈/🎧 Speaker/Headphones
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is a series of small audio/video works conceived to be viewed and listened to on
smartphones.
The series is focused on exploring the limitations of audio
reproduction through mobile devices to create a stratified listening experience.Â
Field recording and electronic
sound interventions will change, disappear or disclose to the listener alternating headphones with the
integrated speakers, depending on the audio specifications and sound quality of the device.
All the contents will be uploaded in the reel section of the Field Studies Instagram profile.
Cais das Pombas
Cais Das Pombas is the first of a series of site, time and weather specific pieces.
The piece was
inspired by and composed to interact with the sound activity of the river Tejo and the architecture of a
specific spot of Cais do Sodré (Lisboa), during the hours of high tide, and it presents itself as a kit
containing 3 portable speakers and an instruction sheet with basic movement/posture/listening proposals;
the piece can be listened individually or in small groups.
Workshops are organized as open activities, participants are invited to follow written instructions for simple listening exercises, focused on acoustic exploration of space, relationship between environmental sound and recorded sound, aural perception and imagination, listening and movement, listening through recording/playback technology. Workshops take place open air, using battery portable audio devices.
Live sets are multichannel sound diffusions of field recordings and electronic and electro- acoustic sound interventions, coexisting in a slightly unreal sound environment.
Sounds are played through a PA system and a set of small lo-fi speakers displaced in the
concert space, alternating immersive and localized listening, generating temporary sound
geographies, and a meditative and imaginative listening experience.
Glauco Salvo Field Studies Vol.7 (Cass, 2024)
Glauco Salvo Field Studies Vol.6 (Cass,
2023)
Glauco Salvo Field Studies Vol.5 (Cass, 2022)
Glauco Salvo Field Studies
Vol.4 (Cass, 2022)
Comaneci Anguille (Lp/Cd, Santeria/Tannen, Wallace, 2022)
Glauco
Salvo Field Studies Vol.3 (Cass, 2021)
Alessandro Bosetti Didone (Lp, Kohlhaas,
2021)
Glauco Salvo Field Studies Vol.2 (Cass, 2020)
Glauco Salvo Field Studies
Vol.1 (Cass, 2020)
Giovanni Lami/Glauco Salvo Ife (Cass, Dinzu Artefacts,
2019)
Setti Arto (Cd/Lp, La Barberia, Vaccino Dischi, 2018)
Comaneci Rob a Bank
(Lp/Cd, Tannen, 2018)
Glauco Salvo 5 Haiku (Lp, Kohlhaas, 2016)
Of Rivers And Trains
Of Rivers And Trains (Cass, 2013)
Comaneci Uh! (Lp/Cd, Madcap Collective, Fooltribe,
2012)
Amycanbe Mountain Whales (Lp/Cd, Open Productions, 2011)
Comaneci You A
Lie (Cd, Madcap Collective, Here I Stay, Fooltribe, 2009)
Giovanni Lami and Glauco Salvo started playing in duo in 2018, starting from the idea of merging their research on magnetic tape sound devices; cassette and reel to reel players, tape-loops and non conventional speaker systems are linked in a constant exchange, a circular stream where each musician can find a place for improvisation.
The process of migration of sounds between the dievices is transparent, resulting in an open machine, where minimal sound fragments move, overlap, transform, deteriorate and disappear in a constantly changing organic weave.
In 2019 they released Ife, for the Los Angeles tape label Dinzu Artefacts.
Collaboration between dancer and choreographer Annamaria Ajmone and musician and sound artist Glauco Salvo is focused on interaction between space, sound and movement, in an open format performance adaptable to theatre spaces and non-conventional places.
The characteristics of the space itself are the starting point for the performance, where dancer and musician use improvisation as the main tool to activate perception and imagination, and to turn the space into a temporary unreal place to inhabit with their practice.
The performance is realized with portable audio devices, it doesn't require electricity and can be adapted to any kind of space.