JesterN Music

JesterN Music

By JesterNMusic
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JesterN Music episodes

  • DPHN
    Handrecording @DoubleRoom Trieste 27 April 2023
    Tristan Honsinger - Cello
    Clarissa Durizzotto - Clarinet
    Paolo Pascolo - Flutes
    Alberto Novello - Modular Synthesizer
    Picture by Erin McKinney
    13 min
  • Celestial Harmonies
    In a world that quickly forgets the past, I went back in time to the era of analog technologies to scavenge and resurrect what's been left behind. They call it "Media Archaeology": brushing off the dust from old tools from a civilization that hastily jumped into the digital world and left behind forgotten ghosts. These tools have strong personalities: they show a unique fluidity compared to their digital successors. In Celestial Harmonies I have hacked a Vectrex, a game console from the 80s, to bring it back to life as a hybrid zombie: half analog, half digital. I chose it for its vibrant beam and I hacked it so that I could draw shapes with sound. I tell a story about space geometries and harmonic ratios with Light and Sound perfectly synchronized in a simple but powerful synesthetic discourse.
    Video link:
    https://vimeo.com/240737144
    15 min

About JesterN Music

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Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN’s practice uses found or decontextualized analogue devices to investigate the connections between light and sound in the form of contemplative installations and performances. He repurposes and modifies tools from our analogue past: oscilloscopes, early game consoles, analogue video mixers, and lasers. He is attracted to their intrinsic limitations and strong ‘personalities’: fluid beam movement, vivid colors, infinite resolution, absence of frame rate, and line aesthetics. By using these forgotten devices, he exposes the public to the aesthetic differences between the ubiquitous digital projections and the natural vibrance of analogue beams, engaging them to reflect on the sociopolitical impact of technology in a retrospective on technologisation: what ‘old’ means, and what value the ‘new’ really adds.