03SIDIAN

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ANIMALS 2020

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Peripheral Nervous System 2019

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In the Planet of Shiva 2018


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new idm 2020 album releases ANIMALS

03SIDIAN artistic alias for Michele Uccheddu, Percussionist, electronic music composer, record producer. Since 1990 he studies percussion, specialising in Latin and Afro Cuban music. In 2014 he participated in the Venice Biennale as a percussionist in the electro-acoustic orchestra GEO by Roberto Doati, collaborated with EPM (European Music Project) by Juergen Groezinger. Previous collaborations together with Anna Clementi, Mario Frezzato, Enrico Gabrielli, Sebastiano de Gennaro, Guillermo Galindo, Khavn De La Cruz among others.


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Biologically we are animals, to be precise mammals. Adaptive mutations in the evolutionary cycle, derived from genetic changes in response to changes in the conditions and environment. The evolution of the Human genus that over time has taken over all the species present on Earth.

A spiritual album, soft, at the same time powerful and euphoric, in which natural sounds mixed with other electronics are used. The processes used by the sound artist derive from improvisations on acoustic instruments such as African percussion and drums, natural instruments such as pine fir trunks, branches, ice and stones found and recorded in the woods of Northern Finland. The compositional idea is inspired by biological life and its evolutionary and adaptive processes. The structure of the tracks begins with the recording of the sound material. Then a semi- automatic reworking takes place by the machine, programmed with probabilistic steps and quantisation, thanks to which the recorded portions are chosen randomly.Thereafter the recorded portions are further processed, thus giving life to music with sounds that depend exclusively on the starting sounds, that is, they react and model themselves thanks to the surrounding sound environment. Followed by this process is a clear characteristic and personality of the tracks.

Eleven shamanic rites, prayers in connection with the spirits of nature that protect life in all its forms. Eleven incarnations of the spirits made by the Finnish artist Jenni Österlund with whom 03SIDIAN collaborates for the creation of the artwork and visual representation of the music. The incarnations, in shape of masks, will be disclosed after the album’s publication.

“ANIMALS is dedicated to the spirits of Nature and its inhabitants, animals, plants, bacteria, viruses, fungi, eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, the whole biological chemical cycle that distinguishes planet earth.”


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Peripheral Nervous System

Pubblicato il 30/04/2019, il disco è inquadrabile nei generi Electronic, Experimental, IDM e Post-Club, nasce dall’esigenza di esplorare nuove forme compositive e tecniche di produzione, in relazione al movimento artistico che lo circonda dando spazio alle influenze che caratterizzano il suo stile. Entra ed esce dentro i sistemi musicali, quasi a delineare l’inadeguatezza delle varie definizioni, gioca sull’aspettativa, la disarticolazione dell’idea di arte musicale e di linguaggio.

Si muove nell’ambito della Sound Art, incuriosito e influenzato dalle arti generative, e dai processi di percezione del suono. l’album “Peripheral Nervous System” è il prodotto di una lunga indagine sul ritmo e il suono, filtrato e rielaborato da sistemi generativi e probabilistici. L’intento finale è quello di potersi esprimere più efficacemente e creare una musica viva e organica attingendo dal paesaggio sonoro naturale e tecnologico/umano. Nelle sue performance live, è possibile perdersi e ritrovarsi in nuovi mondi, nuovi soundscapes, dando spesso il via a discussioni di carattere filosofico musicale. Comunica e attinge dalle arti visive e performative, cerca punti di contatto con la pittura in particolare le tecniche di preparazione del colore. Nel suo disco, è forte la presenza del contrasto uomo-macchina, dal quale si può prendere spunto per aprire il dialogo profondo sul rapporto tra uomo e i sistemi in cui è immerso e nel quale si esprime.

Con il brano “Modern Mantra” inizia una nuova collaborazione importante con l’artista L;ç°°ç.

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Le tracce del disco saranno riprodotte visivamente nelle tele della pittrice perfomativa Jenni Österlund di origine Finlandese.

Il processo creativo parte dallo studio e l’analisi della musica presentata nel disco di 03SIDIAN, secondo la propria visione la pittrice riordina gli elementi coinvolti nelle varie tracce sonore, e dopo la prima stesura in forma compositiva proporzionale, scaturisce l’opera nuova. Da qui l’opera sarà risuonata da vari artisti e riutilizzata per la creazione di altro materiale sonoro. Questo sistema è il via per uno scambio artistico generativo, basato sulla comunicazione percettiva.


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 In the Planet of Shiva

He composed In the Planet of Shiva during The Master Art and Culture of the Stage in Novia Academy Finland. The idea behind this musical project was to avoid using reference tracks.

He composed following the path of his musical memory, taking roots from the Trip-Hop and Underground scene of ’90s like Massive Attack, Portishead, Dj Shadow, Dj Sasha, and Death in Vegas; but also contemporary music, like John Cage, Stockhausen, and Ryoji Ikeda among the various. he want to give to the listener something new, coming out from a creative process and not by fix models. he collaborated with the most promising musicians of Novia School Academy in Jakobstad: Victor Nyblom (drum), Emilia Lindblom (electric bass), and Jonathan Bäckström (double bass). The mix is made in the prestigious studies of SUGARHOUSE PUBLISHING (Finland) under the supervision of Janne Hyöty.