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Chthonian music - 02/03/2010 -

K11 - Chthonian music

Sound Installation inside a Roman Cistern hosted within the Archeological Parc of San Vincenzino, that will be held on 20-21 March in occasion of the feast of Isis.

The Installation is based on an 8 separate channels system: IMEASY (Integrated Modular Expandable Audio Spatialisation System) which running a composition I’ve realized with sound sources from artists coming from different scenes: from Contemporary art up to Black metal scene.

The mentioned artists ahead are: Massimo Bartolini – Christina Kubish – Francisco Lopez – Philippe Petit – Seth Cluett – Burial Hex – Francesco Brasini – Luciano Maggiore – L’Acephale – Y.E.R.M.O. -- Andrea Marutti – Aderlating – Nordvargr – Utarm – Deadwood.

This composition will be publish as a cd by the label Radical Matters

K11 – Metaphonic Portrait 1230 A.D. CD Out Soon - 10/02/2010 -

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Finally some news from Actual Noise. The new CD by K11, aka Pietro Riparbelli, will be released very shortly. K11 is the nom de plume of the Italian sound artist Pietro Riparbelli. On his last release as K11, 2009’s “Voices From Thelema” (Aurora Borealis Records) Riparbelli visited the ruins of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema Abbey in Cefalu, Sicily, where he entered and proceeded to record and document signals and sounds coming through short-wave radio receivers. An instrumental trans-communication ritual, acting as a conduit for whatever spirits remain in the Abbey.

Continuing with his interest in cathedrals, with the new K11 release “Metaphonic Portrait 1230 A.D.”, Riparbelli entered Assisi Cathedral in the Umbria region of Italy, not far from Riparelli’s hometown of Tuscany; the 1230 A.D. in the album’s title referring to the date of completion of the original cathedral. Audio was recorded in the cathedral’s lower basilica, the oldest area where the actual relics of St. Francis Of Assisi are kept.

Again utilizing short-wave radios as his primary “instrument” Riparbelli has captured a haunting array of cavernous sounds, displaced signals and found ambience. With the addition of some voice and organ elements, Metaphonic Portrait 1230 A.D. sounds not unlike the recordings of experimentalists Philip Jeck and William Basinski under the influenced of Crowleyean Magick and Sacred Geometry. A psychedelic meditation from some medieval crypt captured out of time in the present.

The numbers used in the songtitles are chosen with purpose, all related to the Gematria, the ancient system that assigns numbers to words and how they relate to each other. A video shot inside the cathedral by Riparbelli is included on the disc to give the listener a visual picture of the aging structure. As in all K11’s work, the themes of magick, religion, numerology and esotericism are present throughout this reverent document of aural mysticism.

1 Florence Industrial festival - 01/02/2010 -

2010 new releases - 02/01/2010 -

K11 2010 releases:

ALBUM:

"The Haunting Triptych" Philippe Petit/K11 - cd_Boring Machines Records

"Waiting for the darkness"- K11 - cd-r_ Afe Records

"Sortie" - K11 - cd-r_Sturmundrugs Records

“Metaphonic portrait – 1230d.c.” – K11 - cd_ ActualNoise/20Buckspin Records

AA/VV:

K11 in: Antibothis book/cd Anthologies – cd - Thisco Records

K11 in: AA/VV – cd-r – Last hope sounds productions

K11 in: “Klang Suoni contemporanei – cd

k11_liveset@Pisa - 06/12/2009 -

Live set k11 @Elettronica alla spina.
Conferenza: Cambiare musica Influenze delle applicazioni tecnologiche nella musica e nell'editoria musicale.
coordina l'incontro Vittore Baroni (Rumore)
intervengono: Valerio Mattioli (Blow up/XL) Nicola Catalano (Radio Rai Tre) Sandro Gronchi (Radical Matters) Pietro Riparbelli (K11) Massimo Bianchini (New Grass)

Kaula@Magazzino d'Arte Moderna_Roma - 20/11/2009 -

Kaula:(Pietro Riparbelli/K11 and Rosy: from death metal band Profanal) new Black Metal project: Live set at Magazzino D'Arte Moderna_ Roma
via dei Prefetti 17.
Monday 14 December h:19:00

www.myspace.com/kaula_

K11_group exhibitions@Kurant Art Gallery_Norway - 19/11/2009 -

“Phobia” is due to be released on the Misantrof AntiLabel later this year, and will be available for free download in keeping with Misantrof’s policies. The "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Key To The World" exhibition, can be seen at theKurant Art Gallery, Søndre Tollbodgate 17, 9008 Tromsø, Norway, from Friday 13 November, and will run for 2 weeks. Negotiations are currently under way to take the exhibition to other galleries throughout Europe.

Artists taking part as follows:

Sandro Gronchi (Italy)

Pietro Riparbelli (Italy)

Milovan Novakovic (Montenegro)

Karen Nikgol (Norway/Iran)

Daniel Vrangsinn (Norway)

Espen Lomsdalen (Norway)

Karl Edvin Endresen (Norway)

Sindre Foss Skancke (Norway)

VRANGSINN DEBUTS NEW PROJECT AT ART GALLERY EXHIBITION

DANIEL VRANGSINN, bass player with Norwegian Black Metal legends CARPATHIAN FOREST, producer, and founder of the Misantrof AntiLabel, will debut his new album “Phobia” at the "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Key To The World", art exhibition that will open at the Kurant Art Gallery, in Tromsø, Norway, on Friday 13 November. The exhibition features eight national and international artists from satanic/occult/black metal backgrounds, whose art deals with the darker aspects of life, and who are consequently often perceived as “extreme”. The exhibition will comprise traditional mediums such as paintings and sculptures, alongside pieces of video art, into which category VRANGSINN’S “Phobia” fits, as each song on the album can either be listened to as a straightforward music track, or watched as a video.

black overture_2008_signal festival - 11/11/2009 -

Pietro Riparbelli@Nuit Blanche_Nanterre/Paris - 25/09/2009 -

À partir de 21h une soirée performative, visuelle, sonore, musicale, multimedia, sportive, plastique, militante… se déroule jusqu'à tard dans la nuit. Avec : le réalisateur Mamo Gionti, le VJ Laurent Carlier, la plasticienne Anne-Marie Cornu, des jeunes adeptes de sports extrêmes dont Malik et Charles membres du groupe Yamakasi, le saxophoniste Edoardo Marraffa, l'artiste sonore Pietro Riparbelli, etc...

Pietro Riparbelli K11/Blind Cave Salamander - 21/09/2009 -

Pietro Riparbelli / K11 Interview - 04/08/2009 -

New interview: Pietro Riparbelli / K 11 by Simon Collins in London
I have a new interview online at Heathen Harvest, with Italian sound artist Pietro Riparbelli, a.k.a. K 11, who discusses among other things the recording of his Voices From Thelema album in the ruins of Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema in Sicily. This is the third of five interviews recorded during the Equinox Festival in London in June. Coming up: Clay Ruby / Burial Hex, and Kinit Her.

The direct link to the interview is here:

http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20090730192013516

k11_sound installation+live_Torino - 12/07/2009 -

Nietzsche Fabrik_ Ti con Zero_ Torino
Giovedi 23 ore 21.00

www.nietzschefabrik.com

Nietzsche fabrik - To (ti con zero) - 23/07/2009 - Short

Alessandro Sabena | MySpace Video

signals from the unseen

events associated

Sound Installation+live@NietzscheFabrik-Torino

GIOVEDÌ 23 LUGLIO 2009 T0 (TI CON ZERO) evento performativo di arti sonore NietzscheFabrik via Nietzsche 171 Torino

K11@Equinoxfestival_13-06-2009_London - 01/07/2009 -

Live at Conway Hall 25 Red Lion Square_London
guest Tele.s.therion.
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Ogni Atto sia un Atto d'Amore e d'Adorazione.
Ogni Atto sia il Diventare di un Dio.
Ogni Atto sia una Risorsa di Gloria radiante.

Lineup_Equinoxfestival_London - 25/04/2009 -

The Equinox Festival exists to provide a cross cultural platform for the exhibition of creative and innovative approaches to spiritual discovery.

By presenting, producing and commissioning an annual art and media festival focused on theoretical and practical approaches to new forms of spiritual self expression.

http://www.equinoxfestival.org

Voices from Thelema - cd Aurora Borealis Records - 09/01/2009 -

K 11 "Voices From Thelema" Deluxe CD, enhanced with a Qucktime movie, housed in a digi pack with glued in 32 page full colour booklet, is out now.

'Voices from Thelema' is an instrumental trans-communication action with short wave radio receivers realized inside Thelema Abbey in Cefalù, October 14, 2007. The ruined building stands derelict and on the verge of collapse, though still holds many secrets and has been a focus for much counter cultural activity since its foundation by Aleister Crowley in 1920 as a religious centre and commune where he could instruct disciples in his emerging Thelemic religion and systems of \magick in a rural atmosphere, far from the overpowering prevailing morality of England.

Activities included meditation and ritual magick, as well as the sensationalised drug taking and sex magick. The wall of many of the rooms were painted with fantastic murals by Crowley himself, depicting many of the elementals and demons encountered in his magickal exercises, and the remains of many of these adorn the accompanying booklet. After being ejected from Italy following scandal and outcry over the goings on at the Abbey, the walls were whitewashed and destroyed. Filmmaker Kenneth Anger, himself a devotee of Crowley, later uncovered and filmed some of its murals in his film 'Thelema Abbey' (1955), now considered lost, and the Abbey has been a place of pilgrimage for many ever since. K 11 now revisits this site and seeks to uncover the genius loci, the very essence of the building itself, to reach out into the ether and construct meaning and reality from that which is beyond our grasp. The three tracks are the result of this work and, each bearing titles of Thelemic significance, can be said to hold the essence of all that remains at Cefalu, like the background radiation that tells of the Big Bang.

London - 2009

www.aurora-b.com

audio: 01.mp3

external audio: excerpt

Carl Michael von Hausswolff - workshop - 18/12/2008 -

Workshop

27 nov > 2 dic ’08 / Raum – Xing, Bologna Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SE) – Organizing sound con Marika Anyfantis / Sandro Crisafi / Luciano Maggiore / Pietro Riparbelli / Stefano Pilia / Lorenzo Senni

Eventi

Sab 29 novembre ’08 / h 22:00 / Raum –Xing, Bologna Carl Michael von Hausswolff - Circulating over square waters – Live concert

Mar 2 dicembre ’08 / h 21:30 / Raum-Xing, Bologna Marika Anyfanti / Sandro Crisafi / Luciano Maggiore / Pietro Riparbelli / Stefano Pilia / Lorenzo Senni - Organizing sound a cura di Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Live at: D'AMELIO TERRAS, New York - 10/10/2008 -

D'AMELIO TERRAS contemporary art gallery, 525 W 22nd St New York, NY 10011
Performance on Saturday October 4: Pietro Riparbelli will play percussions and sound sources from Charles Ives's Piano Sonata No. 2. during the exhibition opening by Massimo Bartolini: Concert room with voices
October 4 – November 1, 2008

Manifesta 7, Collaboration with Nico Vascellari - 12/08/2008 -

Project by Nico Vascellari
Music for "Hymn" (audio-video installation).
Sounds: Stephen O'Malley, Prurient, Burial ex, Pietro Riparbelli/K11, Silvester Anfang, Black dice, Gang gang dance, Dead raven choir, Stefano Pilia.

DROSOULITES_AD'A Imola - 28/06/2008 -

Sound performance and sound installation with short wave radio receivers and with two runic sound sculptures (Soundshape_2-3_Ansuz_Thorisaz) used as audio speakers of the event.

from catalogue: ad'a area d'azione

Waiting for the darkness - 02/06/2008 -

Instrumental Transcommunication Action n°4
Waiting for the darkness, in collaboration with Influx.

audio: extract from cd 1 - track 2.mp3

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