LUCID, by Þóranna Björnsdóttir & Federico Placidi

LUCID

by Þóranna Björnsdóttir & Federico Placidi

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LUCID is as an artistic collaboration between Þóranna Björnsdóttir and Federico Placidi. Their friendship and collaboration started when they were both residents at the CCMIX (Centre de creation musicale Iannis Xenakis) in Paris in 2007. It has been developed and finalized in the domain of interactive electroacoustic performance and as a recording project. It has been released as a double vinyl album by Smekkleysa, (SM/Bad Taste) in Iceland.

Þóranna and Federico collected earthy sound material in Iceland; characterized by natural steam vents, tumbling lava rocks and boiling hissing clay. In Rome, they extracted and sculpted from this material and developed the piece musically; using hybrid analogue/digital tools that integrate into a single creative goal different fields of music production.

Human beings live in a collective shared hallucination. What we see, smell, taste, experience on a sensorial level is a representation of reality made by our brain interpreting external electrical stimuli. This is a necessary condition in order to allow human beings to exist and act in the physical realm. Lucid is a word which describes a state of consciousness beyond all this, an epiphany where, at once, the substance of reality it is finally revealed; the power and energy of nature in its raw untamed force and the spiritual energy field that bind everything, soul and matter, together. Lucid is then just a plain word and what matters the most is the connection we establish with its real meaning which cannot be further verbalized. Lucid means Real.

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released October 16, 2019

Concept by Þóranna Björnsdóttir and Federico Placidi
Vocals and Pianoforte performed by Þóranna Björnsdóttir
Federico Placidi: Serge Modular and Kyma patch design
Additional Synth programming for EMS Synthi AKS: Federico Placidi
Album produced by Þóranna Björnsdóttir and Federico Placidi
Recorded in Iceland and in Rome
Co-production Smekkleysa sm.ehf

Album mixed by Federico Placidi and Þóranna Björnsdóttir
Mastering Engineer: Giuseppe Ielasi

Graphic design
Sigrid Astrup @Astrup Productions

With the support of The Composer fund of The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service and STEF
℗ 2019 LUCID © 2019 LUCID

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LUCID Rome, Italy

Þóranna Björnsdóttir is a sound and visual artist based in Reykjavík Iceland; working with different medium, she realizes her work through film, performances and installations.
Federico Placidi is a composer and sound artist based in Rome, Italy. As double bass player, cellist, and sound synthesist, he plays in both concerts and improvisation sessions. ... more

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