2016 09 07
“[…] Romanelli holds his sounds in place and asks me to look closer. Each of the guitar drones sways like the branches of a tree, shifting slowly through different volume levels and harmonic profiles, veering back and forth over a central point. The movement is enough to gift the album a soft, respiratory warmth – reshaping gently in response to certain directives of the environment – yet doesn’t undermine the perception of Tabulatura as a selection of solid objects, designed to be admired for their sculptural handiwork rather than their navigation through time.” – Jack Chuter for ATTN:Magazine, on Tabulatura (Volume 1)
2016 06 15
“[…] There's a research at a writing level that let the listener apparently disoriented as this release sounds new while it sounds old and this is due to the intention to push the boundaries at the meaning level rather than on the novelty one. It shows a path for further developments and it's worth an attentive listen.” – Andrea Piran for Chain D.L.K., on Tabulatura (Volume 1)
2016 05 31
“[…] the near stasis of the music works very well as it retains a beautiful warm glow ... This is an excellent release.” – Frans de Waard for Vital Weekly, on Tabulatura (Volume 1)
2016 05 29
“[…] These are short fragments of foreverness cut from the cloth of silence, effectively pervasive with just a pinch of silent grieving hidden in a couple of spots. Not always the consequences of randomness translate into chaos: by mixing this quiet invitation to reflection with the whisper of the outside wind amplified by the leaves, this writer managed to give a modicum of direction to an otherwise fairly inconclusive, sad-looking Sunday. ” – Massimo Ricci for Touching Extremes on Tabulatura (Volume 1)
2016 04 25
Emiliano Romanelli's second album, Tabulatura (Volume 1), is now available on cassette tape and digital download by Important Records / Cassauna and Terziruolo.
2016 04 24
“[…] Though little of Tabulatura may strike the outside ear as new, the inner will likely not have heard it so before–with indeterminacy’s agency laying the grain of the voice open for fuller listener occupation.” – Alan Lockett for Igloo Magazine on Tabulatura (Volume 1)
2016 04 10
“[…] the calm and floating atmosphere easily fills the room they are played in.”
– Peter van Cooten for Ambientblog, on Tabulatura (Volume 1).
2016 04 03
“[…] the beautiful craftsmanship of these seven pieces – and the way they are structured, so simply and elegantly, so as to allow that craftsmanship to shine – makes Tabulatura a joy to listen to.” – Nathan Thomas for Fluid Radio, on Tabulatura (Volume 1).
2016 03 24
“[…] Un très très bel album, à conseiller à tout amateur d’ambient minimale.”
– Fabrice Allard for Ether Real, on 333 Loops (Volume 1).
2015 10 16
The guitar composition Tabulatura (Volume 1) will be released in April 2016 on cassette tape and digital download by Important Records / Cassauna (US).
2015 07 23
An excerpt of the 2012 video work, #778CAD (Video), it is available via Vimeo.
2015 05 20
Romanelli has returned to work on his 2008 guitar composition, Tabulatura.
2015 03 15
The sound work 333 Loops (2011) will be presented in two live performances: the first one at The Lift, Milano (Italy), on Friday 17th April 2015, 9:30 PM; curated by Attila Faravelli for The Lift Series. – The second one at Ex Piaggio, Cesena (Italy), on Saturday 18th April 2015, 9:00 PM; curated by Enrico Malatesta for Zeus Alba.
2014 10 06
The sound work 333 Loops (2011) will be presented in a quadraphonic live performance at Raum, Bologna (Italy), on Thursday 20th November 2014, 10:00 PM. Curated by Elena Biserna and Luciano Maggiore for Sant'Andrea degli Amplificatori; supported by Xing.
2014 09 09
“[…] an immersive, persuasive and spiritual work that is easy to dive into.”
– Aurelio Cianciotta for Neural, on 333 Loops (Volume 1).
2014 08 27
“[…] Emiliano Romanelli's work is similarly an exploration through perception, and like Newman's painting 333 Loops requires an active engagement on behalf of the audience. Many works make demands, but works of subtly are merely open to use, take it or leave it. It's all too easy to casually encounter a work of art and presume to know it. It's another thing to slow down and give it the time to reveal itself.” – Joseph Sannicandro for A Closer Listen, on 333 Loops (Volume 1).
2014 08 23
“[…] Despite being so hot-wired, generative music never sounded less artificial. It is a sublime ambience more absorbed than heard, the sound of all of us dissolving into our yearned-for innate amity.” – Stephen Fruitman for Avant Music News, on 333 Loops (Volume 1).
2014 07 03
“[…] Et c'est ce lien fort entre l'architecture et le son qui fait que l'on se laisse facilement envouter par ce disque. Car même s'il est proche d'un album d'ambient chiant, il y a quand même quelque chose de beaucoup plus fort et de beaucoup plus pertinent, quelque chose d'imperceptible qui réside dans ce lien fort qui unit un son et l'espace dans lequel il vit. Emiliano Romanelli utilise ainsi des techniques de compositions aussi bien que des samples simples, mais avec une finesse et une sensibilité à la matière sonore qui permettent de se laisser vraiment absorber par ce qui se passe, par toute la vie sonore et architecturale qu'il nous présente.” – Julien Héraud for dMute, on 333 Loops (Volume 1).
2014 06 11
“[…] I couldn't hear any evidence of a generative system in play – the rules of the game, so to speak, were not immediately audible, nor did I feel that the music's aim was to make them so. Rather, this is the sound of an experienced master of ambient music at work: refined and well developed, meditative and enveloping, the piece nonetheless sounds fresh, inventive, even surprising. Those who have accuse ambient music of having run out of new ideas would do well to give 333 Loops a listen.” – Nathan Thomas for Fluid Radio, on 333 Loops (Volume 1).
2014 06 05
“[…] A pulse is occasionally felt, though more a kind of rotational recursion, like a musicized Calder mobile. A kind of glassine dream mesmerism emerges, as Romanelli holds back on sending in the ambient clouds in favor of a more thinly diffused vaporousness, sustaining a more lowercase minimalism of means redolent of earlier Tu m' work (cf. Monochromes Vol. 1). There's something strangely eerie about it, a feeling further cemented by a Picabia quote, ‘the future is a monotonous instrument’, whose sinister resonance tells of possible dystopian traces beneath a deceptively serene skin.” – Alan Lockett for Igloo Magazine, on 333 Loops (Volume 1).
2014 06 01
“[…] It's like the flow of water filmed in slow motion, a chaos of intricacy rendered elegant, generating life through surges of deliberate, unforeseeable movements. There is no root from which the sound originates, and 333 Loops levitates above all notions of ‘correct’ orientation and fixed beginnings.” – Jack Chuter for ATTN:Magazine, on 333 Loops (Volume 1).
2014 05 03
“[…] Un documento de cómo el sonido creado a partir de fragmentos del mismo produce una obra de arte superior desde un sistema autónomo. Con este trabajo Emiliano Romanelli desarrolla una música en desplazamiento permanente y donde es posible apreciar la desintegración del ruido en medio de las fisuras de su melodía infinita. 333 Loops (Volume 1), un campo de búsqueda aural en la luz de tonalidades espectrales.” – Patricio Badaracco for Hawái., on 333 Loops (Volume 1).
2014 05 01
An hour-long radio show about 333 Loops (Volume 1), and Ankersmit's Figueroa Terrace, will be broadcast tonight at 11:00 PM (UTC+1) on Radio Študent Ljubljana, Slovenia. Curated by Luka Zagoričnik.
2014 04 29
The composition 000148 of 110889 will be broadcast tonight at 12:00 AM (UTC+1) on Battiti, Radio3 RAI, Italian public broadcasting company. Curated by Nicola Catalano.
2014 04 28
“[…] tranquil and open sound fluids able to take perception into sublime fields, submerging the ears into an atmosphere that you don't get to remember because it remains floating in a place between the silent ghosts of the past and ‘the monotonous sound of the future’. An endless listening.” – Miguel Isaza for Infinite Grain, on 333 Loops (Volume 1).
2014 04 18
“[…] once in a while, I'm just as immediately captivated, as is the case here. I'm pretty certain it has something to do with perceived depth of field which, in this instance, is interesting as the layers seem to be composed of elements without very high degrees of contrast (no rough rumblings under smooth surfaces, for example) but instead there seem to be multiple strands that are constricted into a reasonably narrow spectrum. Yet it works.” – Brian Olewnick for Just Outside, on 333 Loops (Volume 1).
2014 04 14
Emiliano Romanelli's debut album 333 Loops (Volume 1) has been released today by Terziruolo (Italy), CD and letterpress print, distributed by Senufo Editions.
2014 04 12
333 Loops (Volume 1) will be broadcast tonight at 10:00 PM (09:00 PM GMT/UTC) on :zoviet*france:'s weekly net radio show, A Duck in a Tree.
2014 04 04
The unpublished composition 000117 of 110889 has been included by sound artist Richard Chartier in his mix for Farmacia901.
2014 04 01
“[…] Not forcing it upon the listener, but rather filing up spaces. It's surely excellent music and I enjoyed it” – Frans de Waard for Vital Weekly, on 333 Loops (Volume 1).
2014 02 26
“333 Loops (Volume 1) is the first chapter of a CD/DL live series, which documents the sound events generated by the homonymous modular system, designed in 2011 by the Italian musician Emiliano Romanelli. The system is composed by an archive of 333 pre-recorded sound loops, produced between 2008 and 2011 by a sound synthesis software played in different acoustic environments, and documented mainly with internal microphones of several digital and analog portable recorders. Subsequently, by a custom software (2 loop players, 2 EQs, 4 delays, 1 digital room reverb, 4 LFOs), the loops are used as modules in a random process of juxtapositions (A//B) and multiplications (333²), able to generate live 110889 sound events to be diffused in the room via a multichannel sound system. 333 Loops as a possible field of investigation, lasting between 110889 seconds and 110889 years. The Volume 1 is the stereo documentation of the quadraphonic live performance at the medieval cloister of Ex Convento dei Cappuccini, Colli del Tronto, Italy as part of Within 01 festival, on Friday 13th September 2013, 10:45 PM. This album also represents Romanelli's live and discographic debut, after over 13 years with the multimedia duo Tu m' (1998–2011).” Release date: April 14, 2014 – Pre-Order at www.terziruolo.com.
2013 10 29
Romanelli's debut album, titled 333 Loops (Volume 1), will be released on limited edition CD and DL in Spring 2014 by Terziruolo (Italy).
2013 10 22
Song For Blu (2013) – A monaural live recording for a blue loop and computer with custom software; dedicated to Sinatti's family.
2013 08 22
The sound work 333 Loops (2011) will be premiered live in a quadraphonic diffusion at Within, Ex Convento dei Cappuccini (of XV century), in Colli del Tronto (Ascoli Piceno, Italy), on Friday 13th September 2013, 10:00 PM; with Fabio Perletta and Giuseppe Ielasi. “Within is a concert consisting of three performers, each of them playing within a space made up of four speakers, audience and sound. By designing an immersive and specific environment, the event aims to create an intense moment dedicated to the act of listening itself. A space within space, where artists can explore their own notion of sonic and architectural space, movement and perception. A unique chance for experiencing sound and sharing the practice of listening in a given location, space and time, in order to create invisible connections between humans.” Curated by Fabio Perletta; produced by Pierluigi Scarpantonio and Jacopo Villa; sound engineered by Alessandro Romano.
2013 05 01
Emiliano Romanelli is working on his first solo album in 15 years of collaborative activity, it will be titled 333 Loops (Vol.1).
2012 10 01
“The first edition of Terziruolo is introduced by the Italian graphic designer Emiliano Romanelli with the work: #778CAD (Postcard) dedicated to the memory of color and its space/time perception through serial reproduction. The work is a hexadecimal color code which represents the average tone of 333 RGB sampling done on the same number of photographs. Those shots were taken from a windowed sky view in a home in Città Sant'Angelo (Abruzzo, Italy); taken during daylight hours between 1991 (year the window was built) and 2011. #778CAD (Postcard) as a possible and personal interpretation of the classical turistic postcard.” Available at www.terziruolo.com.
2012 04 16
Terziruolo – A space for sound and visual documents.
2012 03 21
It is officially online www.emilianoromanelli.com.
2012 01 01
Tu m' (1998–2011).