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_review on The Wire - 24/07/2010 -

K11/Pietro Riparbelli & Philippe Petit

“The haunting triptych”

Boring Machines Records (BM 020)



_K11@TAGOFEST - 02/07/2010 -

SABATO 3 LUGLIO
16.30 Kobayashi (Corasong)
17.00 The Crazy Crazy World of Mr.Rubik (Locomotiv Records)
17.40 The Great Northern X (In the bottle)
18.20 /////// ///// (Presto?!)
19.00 Aspec(t) (Viande)
19.40 Fuh (Smartz / Canalese Noise / Escape from Today )
20.20 Zeno Gabaglio (Pulver und Asche)
21.00 Rella the Woodcutter (Subcasotto/Ca' Blasè)
21.40 Nicola Ratti/Attila Faravelli (Boring Machines)
22.20 Luminance Ratio (Fratto9 Under the Sky)
23.00 Zu (Ipecac)
23.40 Pietro Riparbelli/K11 (Afe Records)
24.20 Ronin (Ghost Records)
01.00 Paolo Spaccamonti (Bosco Rec)



_K11/Influx@Cronosfera Festival_Turin - 15/05/2010 -

Audio-visual performance at Cronosfera Festival of international video & live media. Turin Audio-Video project based on the former asylum of Volterra.

the former asylum of Volterra



K11 new releases - 2010 - 02/05/2010 -

K11/Pietro Riparbelli & Philippe Petit

“The haunting triptych”

Boring Machines Records (BM 020) Dron'electroacoustic Dark-ambient soundtrack FOR FANS OF Nurse With Wound - Lynch - Brian Eno - Lustmord




ANTIBOTHIS - Occultural Anthology 3 Book anthology + cd compilation. 135 PAGES, IN ENGLISH

Antibothis cd compilation includes:

The Master Musicians of Joujouka, Lydia Lunch with Philippe Petit, Checkpoint 303, Kal Cahoone, Gintas K, Orbit Service, Anla Courtis, Stpo, Jabe Radion Newton and Adi Newton / T.A.G.C., Zeitkratzer, Pietro Riparbelli/K11, Gjoll.

Published by Associação Chili com Carne and Thisco THISCOvery CChanel collection First edition, May 2010



K11 new release on Afe Records - 30/04/2010 -

"Waiting For the Darkness" is the documentation of an action of instrumental transcommunication performed in a forest in 2007. It consists of a video, recorded during the last hours of the day and of five audio tracks composed with short wave radio signals recorded during the action itself.

This work wishes to investigate the dimension of fear and continues the research of Pietro Riparbelli about Instrumental Transcommunication started off with the first action performed within the Abbey of Thelema and documented on the "Voices From Thelema" CD.

"Waiting For the Darkness" was born as an audio-video installation which has been hosted by "PX Piombino Experimenta 04" international sound art festival in collaboration with Influx. This installation consisted of a video screening happening in a dark room where sixty short wave radio receivers were installed. Each receiver was tuned on a different frequency creating a constantly shifting and chaotic dimension leading to the pure perception of the audio/video representing the instrumental transcommunication action."



K11–Metaphonic Portrait 1230 A.D. now available - 23/04/2010 -

20buckspin/ActualNoise www.20buckspin.com (U.S.) www.actualnoise.net


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.



K11 - New release on IDIOSYNCRATICS RECORDS - 08/04/2010 -

New release in the netlabel section: Pietro Riparbelli / K11 - Drosoulites. pietro riparbelli / K11_-_drosoulites (the_dew_men).mp3 FREE DOWNLOAD AND STREAM HERE! (www.idiosyncratics.net/netlabel.html)


About the track: Drosoulites has been recorded during a sound performance within the medieval fortress of Imola (Italy) during "Ad'a" Contemporary art festival in 2008. The only sound sources that has been utilized during the performance are short wave radio signals from radio receivers.

instruments



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 Kubisch – Francisco Lopez – Philippe Petit – Seth Cluett – Burial Hex – Francesco Brasini – Luciano Maggiore – L’Acephale – Y.E.R.M.O. -- Andrea Marutti – Gianluca Becuzzi - Aderlating – Nordvargr – Utarm – Deadwood. This composition will be publish as a cd by the label Radical Matters


 



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 - Contemporary Art Gallery_ Roma via dei Prefetti 17. Monday 14 December h:19:00 during the exhibition opening by Massimo Bartolini www.myspace.com/kaula7


 

ART IN AMERICA – international review

MASSIMO BARTOLINI

Magazzino d’arte moderna ROME

This show by the 48-year-old Massimo Bartolini featured two sound installations—each containing a movement-sensitive photocell that activated a sound emission—and a series of three paintings. Two musical performances were staged on the opening night, one of which generated a new version of the 2006 installation Ouverture per Pietro. Starting with the explosion of a lightbulb, the experimental musician PIETRO RIPARBELLI improvised for 20 minutes using a sampler, a computer and short-wave radio receivers as the death-metal singer Rosy Ninivaggi read verses from the sacred Hindu Avadhuta Gita. The result sounded like a mix of La Monte Young, Steve Reich and other American minimalist music. Remaining in the gallery afterward were the empty electrical socket in a transparent wall-mounted box littered with fragments of the shattered lightbulb, the closely facing microphone (now unplugged) that had recorded the explosion, and a constantly reiterated soundtrack of the first 2 minutes and 38 seconds of the performance.



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.



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. /93 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




 
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pietro Riparbelli is a philosopher, composer and sound-multimedia artist based in Livorno (Tuscany). His compositions have been published by Radical Matters Ed/Label (IT), Aurora Borealis (UK), Actual Noise/20buckspin (US), Afe Records (IT), Boring Machines (IT). He is working in Italy with the Enrico Fornello Contemporary Art Gallery. Riparbelli’s performances and installations have been presented at D’Amelio Terras contemporary art gallery (NY), Equinox Festival (London), Nuit Blanche (Paris), Magazzino d’arte moderna (Rome), Palazzo delle Papesse (Siena), Flora (Florence), Fundació Tàpies (Barcelona), Base progetti per l’arte (Florence). He works with performances, sound installations and recorded works and in the last three years has been collaborating through selected projects with Massimo Bartolini, Nico Vascellari, Philippe Petit, Fabrizio Modenese Palumbo, Influx, Francisco Lopez, L’Acephale, Christina Kubisch, Seth Cluett, Burial Hex, Yannick Franck and others. He is a curator/executive producer of the independent music label Radical Matters - Editions Label with the new series “Metasound” to investigate the dimension between music and contemporary art.


Artist Statement


My work arises from the study of the Phenomenology of perception with particular reference to the dichotomy between Visible/Invisible strictly connected with the studies about the concept of sound landscape. I usually compose works in relation to the environment or to experimental practices of collaborating with other artists (for instance “Chthonian Music” has been composed with sound sources by Francisco Lopez, Christina Kubisch, Massimo Bartolini, Seth Cluett, Y.E.R.M.O., Francesco Brasini, Luciano Maggiore, Gianluca Becuzzi, Andrea Marutti, Philippe Petit, Deadwood, Burial Hex, Aderlating, Utarm, Nordvargr, L'Acephale) About the environmental works I usually make a deep investigation of particular places, making recordings like field recordings or recordings of signals from short wave radio receivers and VLF receivers, in order to compose conceptual works about the selected sites; together with a deep study about the history of the place on which I’m working on. This is the case of works like “ Metaphonic Portrait – 1230 A.D.” that has been composed with sound sources from the Assisi Basilica in Italy or “Voices from Thelema” that has been recorded within Thelema Abbey in Cefalù utilizing short wave radio receivers. In some of my works I also play organ voice, drum and other instruments, but I never use digital sound sources. I’m interested in reconfiguring the sound panorama through its transcendental aspects to create a dimension that is not only sound but mainly a total perceptive dimension that bring ourselves to find out a new kind of perception.


PT-R and K 11 are two parallel projects. 

PT-R is a project dealing with the way to create sound landscapes making the use of environmental sounds (field recordings). In this project I use only sounds coming from the environment. 

K 11 is a project that deals with the world of radio signals, the trans-communication and other invisible phenomena, to create a dimension where the only sound sources are signals from shortwave radio receivers. In this project I use only sounds coming from the atmosphere and from invisible places.