Corgiat – Story of a Lamb [Hedonic Reversal]

Giovanni Corgiat makes his debut in the extended format and releases his first album under the Catalan label Hedonic Reversal. This Italian artist is a sound perfectionist and a dedicated composer who constantly explores new musical forms due to his diverse training. He graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, completed his studies in Electronic Music Production at the SAE Institute in Milan, and obtained a degree in Electroacoustic Music Composition from the Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi” in Turin. His dissertation focused on the development of morphing systems and the integration of musical elements.

Antropo-Amorfo is his first album, but it is also an audiovisual project developed with Riccardo Franco-Loiri, aka Akasha, a promising Italian visual artist, member of the prestigious High School of Music and member of the consolidated High Files collective that Akasha co-founded in 2018. The result is a fine speculation on the perception of sound and its relation to human nature, combined with an innovative and creative investigation into digital abstract art. Antropo-Amorfo has already been presented as A/V performance at events such as Paratissima Festival (Ita), Apolide Festival (Ita) and Blues Rauschen (Ger).

ANTROPO-AMORFO A/V project was born by the fortuitous encounter between Giovanni Corgiat Mecio aka Corgiat and Riccardo Franco-Loiri, aka Akasha. The Live Show was conceived by mixing abstraction with concrete forms through extreme manipulation of data and signals in order to seek the point of contact between the ephemeral and the tangible world.

All tracks have been composed using analog synths and processors, real instruments. Raw and free recordings of voice (Claudio lo Russo, Luana Monisteri, Giulia Impache), percussions (Davide Broggini), saxophone (Angelo Rodio), double bass and cello (Piero Poli) have been stretched, morphed and filter to create an interpenetration between physical, analog and digital world. The result is a bpm-less continuous flow of gestures that follow one another spontaneously.

Corgiat at the audio with Ableton live, controller and analog gear communicates with Akasha’s Touchdesigner instances through MAX/MSP patches and OSC in real time, creating an endless A/V flow that hypnotises the audience while sparking new existential questions around human essence.

Release date: July 6^th, 2023.