Reviews | By Frans de Waard / VITAL WEEKLY
Listen! MadeRadioArt Anthology | Sergio Armaroli & Steve Piccolo
There is some text accompanying the release by Aramaroli and Piccolo, but no information about the composers. The words we get, however, leave much to guess, or something I don’t understand. I refer the reader to the website for judgment. Let’s assume this has something to do with radio, radio art, or radio play; at least, if we look at the title of the album. As far as I can see, it’s not a collaborative work, with the first disc credited to Armaroli and the second to Piccolo; the first has 21 tracks, and the other 30. Short pieces of electronic sounds, spoken word (in French, Italian, and English, or with no discernible words), sampled sounds (many of them) from unknown sources, and the relationship between all of this eludes me. […]
OSTN | PIETRO GROSSI (Sergio Armaroli)
A lot more text comes in the booklet of the CD by Pietro Grossi, but dark blue on a black background doesn’t enhance readability. Luckily, the text is also on the website. [wiki] „Pietro Grossi (15 April 1917, in Venice – 21 February 2002, in Florence) was an Italian composer, pioneer of computer music, visual artist and hacker ahead of his time. He began experimenting with electronic techniques in Italy in the early sixties“, and in 1967 he created his first piece of computer music. In the 1980s „Grossi started to develop visual elaborations created on a personal computer with programs provided with „self-decision making“ and that works out the concept of HomeArt (1986), by way of the personal computer, raises the artistic aspirations and potential latent in each one of us to the highest level of autonomous decision making conceivable today, and the idea of personal artistic expression: „a piece is not only a work (of art), but also one of the many ‚works‘ one can freely transform: everything is temporary, everything can change at any time, ideas are not personal anymore, they are open to every solution, everybody could use them“ […]