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111122 is conceived from the desire to celebrate the 11 years of activity of artistic research network Stochastic Resonance (SR), together with some of the artists who have contributed to its development over the years. And that it could thus stand as a witness to the network's work and dedication over the past 11 years and to celebrate its future projects.

The title refers to the date November 11th, 2022, which marks the exact 11th anniversary since the first event/release, 1111011 "Beginning Afterwards," which, on November 11th, 2011, enshrined the birth of the Stochastic Resonance project as a network of artists, engineers, graphic designers and creatives in various fields of research that could explore the interconnections between music, emerging technologies and human perception.

In line with SR's modus operandi, 111122 is proposed as a multimedia work, unfolding both digitally and physically, with a compilation of 19 previously unreleased tracks – published in 6 digital EPs and later merged into a single maxi-release – and a series of generative graphics employed for both the EP covers and promotional materials.

In the digital format the release was serialized into 6 digital EPs, released weekly for 6 consecutive weeks starting November 11. In the physical format, the audio tracks are engraved in a double music cassette, in a limited edition of 25 copies. The order of the tracks does not follow the temporal order in which they were released to more deeply mark the distinction between the two editions, and to provide a listening itinerary more in keeping with the cassette format.


## The Book

The 111122 album is paired to a book, divided in two themed-sections, which contains a selection of the graphic permutations generated for the project and a catalog of the projects and works developed by Stochastic Resonance over the years.

The first section presents the generative art project, curated by Scual, behind the creation of the graphics for 111122's EPs. The book contains a careful selection of the graphic permutations generated by the algorithm and a showcase of the research and development work, with technical breakdowns, analysis of variables and procedural rules, and complemented by a series of large-format images.

The second part of the book comprehensively reconstructs the work of the last 11 years of Stochastic Resonance with a catalog of the graphic designs created for all releases and events curated from 2011 to 2022

111122 Book is published in a limited edition of 50 copies, in an A5 (14.8x21) format with high quality print, 300gr paperback cover and sew binding.


111122

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Back of the download card for the unique bonus track of SR-020

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The front of the download card for the unique track of SR-020

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One of the 10 unique limited edition posters released with SR-020

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**It Turns Out You Don't Need All That Stuff You Insisted You Did** (**ITOYDNATSYIYD**), reflects on the need for the superfluous, in both a material and immaterial sense: of how strong a driving force it is in the (post) capitalist societal condition. The feeling of need forming and unraveling, often even before it is realized, has brought progress and decadence forward hand in hand.
         
Seeking to express this suspension, that never comes to fruition and never completely vanishes, dTHEd approach this release with an eminently analog production, as opposed to previous releases skewed toward HD electronica. To mark the difference with previous productions, dTHEd, for the first time, are openly semantic, presenting comprehensible titles, lyrics and fonts, all generated by artificial intelligences. The partially surreal messages work at the level of digital hyperstition, in line with dTHEd's quest toward the development of mysterious digital oracles.

ITOYDNATSYIYD is the first offspring of analog experiments aimed at immediacy and the development of new set-ups for freer and more improvised live performances. Recalling the ephemeral condition of need, yearned for and hardly satisfied, the work develops short pieces that lap up an approximate, skimmed song-form that fails to build up as such, never consolidating into moments of sustained duration, due to the very nature of the improvisation.

To bring the concept more alive, in collaboration with Scual, the release is been extended to comprise different media, spanning across music, social media communication, graphic design and interactive digital environments.

The first output in this direction was the creation of a limited series of 10 unique prints, generated by an algorithm that extracts its generative seed from an Eurostat waste database, each with an associated, unique, audio track download.
This 10 different and unique prints with their 10 different and unique bonus tracks make up an alternative meta-album that no one will ever be able to listen to completely.

The second output was expanding the De Chirichian topology, with an explorable interactive environment, developer by SCUAL, in which the user can navigate the environment with classic game-play controls (arrows or WASD + Mouse POV) and search for a number of easter eggs which, if all unlocked, will randomly launch the audio of one of the bonus tracks. 
This allows a glimpse of the unique bonus tracks even for those who could not purchase one of the 10 posters.

The third and final output was an aggressive viral campaign on social media around the hastag #itturnsout.

ITOYDNATSYIYD

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Ten tracks to explore a world where sound waves conquer emotional spaces, feelings, harmonic games, passages, expectations. Imok crosses his world of sounds and visions with simple musical features that refer to depths, which are now background and now govern the entire system of his music. In this flow, the piano insinuates melodies that bypass the rarefied atmospheres created by the electronics.

Nostalgia, the drifts, the anxieties go into the precipice of human affairs: as a sonar. Geometries of echoes to show the distances, waterfalls and torrents of notes to make this time beloved, similar as looking at a landscape: glimpses of valleys, woods, and then also underground passages, tunnels, road. This work by Imok seeks shores of meaning, being not scared by romantic tensions or landscape assonances that the composition creates.

But also distorted atmospheres, voices that seem to have a beyond respect to the music that surrounds them, swirls and encroachments, synthesizers and organs for a music that generates images, stories, visions. Traces that bring light to the memory: sudden shifts of flashes of light.

For sure in these tracks there is the idea of silence and a melancholy ending, ten movements to let us think of the after: the one that always repeats, when in the beginning the trace remains uncovered.

To Bls

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**All proceeds will be donated to the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, with the aim of supporting research on Covid-19**

_"Two or more integer numbers are said to be coprime, if and only if their only common denominator is ±1"_

In these extraordinary times, Stochastic Resonance felt the urge to satisfy two very stringent needs: that of mitigating the impact of the new general living conditions and social interactions through what we know as soothing tools, and that of investigating new methodologies and creative tools to virtualize real experiences, given the disruption that the pandemic has brought to the fruition of performances in social settings, such as musical concerts, theater plays, dance, installation performances, clubbing, etc…).

The first need, for many of us, substantially translated into the composition of music, a means to reflect and condense our moods. The results have been concentrated in 16 staggering sound/sonic pills, to mitigate the passage of time, raise a contribution to the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani and to continue cultivating the network of SR's multimedia artists in view of a future in which it will be possible to, once again, apply augmented reality functionalities in outdoor spaces.

The second is been addressed by starting an investigation and the developement of new methodologies and tools to virtualize performance experiences.

The Interi Coprimi 16 compilation therefore represents, so to speak, the zero step of a development path for those tool and environments, created around the artists of the SR roster who will/can be able to renew themselves in a potentially distorted world: that of the post-Covid-19. Given the great uncertainty about the future, the containers that SR will develop will be as dynamic and fluid as possible, so as to adapt to different potential scenarios.

The title of the compilation refers to Euler's function: since all the artists are now in lockdown, the interaction between them took place in a twisted and novel way, if compared to the past. Pending the development, by SR, of environments that can fill the current void or even "augment" the canonical interactive dynamics (pre-Covid19), the artists have worked in the absence of a common denominator, acting as coprime integers numbers.

We really hope this compilation will help soothing temporal fatigue symptoms  

Interi Coprimi 16

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In Notturno, Ynaktera and Kenta Kamiyama join forces for a delicate deep dive into the night and the different statuses it represents. The five tracks of the album are a tribute to Light and Darkness and the stories behind them, Ynaktera and Kenta Kamiyama have catched some and poured them, from the moment it starts “Tramonto” to the moment it finishes “Aurora”, the album represents a reflection, rest and slow down of life and then coming back to light. In this first duo album from Stochastic Resonance the two different electronic styles, noise glitch of Ynaktera and ambient oriental music of Kenta merge perfectly in a new combination of colors exactly like the Artwork of the album.

Tracks from 1 to 4 take origin from a live recording session of the two artists, during the residency of Kenta in Rome in January 2018, that happened in a late night when everybody was asleep and the two artists have the opportunity to freely move and blend their own styles in a unique composition. 
Afterwards the tracks have been re-edited and shaped to became a release. Track 5 represent the ideal closure of the album and is a tribute to the huge Italian romantic poet Giacomo Leopardi, in which in “Canto di un Pastore Errante dell’Asia” the poet addresses a struggling hymn to the moon which in the album is recomposed as a poem by all mankind.

An additional contribute to make this release unique is the “SR Shell” the packaging ideated, designed and engineered by Ynaktera, which represents an innovative step regarding CD packaging, being a mastercraft in digital 3D printing. Printed each piece at the time, with incredible small layers of 0.1 mm for a total amount of about 1500 layers, using special Ultramarine Blue PLA material and in a super slow speed requiring more than 24 hours for each piece to guarantee these level of details, this elaboration represents a new step of manufacturing using digital tools. All these to guarantee the exclusivity of every each copy for a collector limited edition CD. On top of that an envelope of antistatic bag to ensure even more elegance and protection to this precious Album.

Notturno is released in a limited edition of 50 copies. 

Notturno

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tochastic Resonance is pleased to present JURA the latest work by Marco Malasomma (composer, percussionist and electronic musician). The work is configured as a concept album that, taking its name from the island where George Orwell concluded the writing of the famous novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", draws parallels with it; revolving around two discursive threads: a reflection on modern society and a analysis of the role of the artist's place of residence, while in the act of artistic creation.

JURA, a remote Scottish island, in fact, represents for the artist an ideal escape place in which to find oneself, one's own humanity and one's critical thinking far from the pressures of society.
It's not an easy place, though, JURA. It is isolated, impervious, harsh, so much that at that time, the already precarious conditions of Orwell worsened up to Tuberculosis. But it is also the place where there is the opportunity to analyze and describe the world today with a lucid and detached look.

From this basis, Malasomma creates an association and continuous parallels between the Orwellian vision arising from remote place both in time and space, and the modern times; where the information is in a continuous present, distorted and simultaneously proposed in antithetical thesis and concepts, which are able to remove critical thinking and perception of oneself and the surrounding reality.

The music follows this vision: in fact, it varies from drone/ambient atmospheres, to tribal rhythms, arriving to tracks with a strong electronic matrix; where ambient sounds meet, acoustic pianos and tight rhythmics. In this way, the martial gait of the clapping hands, winking at the minimalism of Steve Reich, is contrasted with 'layers of memory' formed by echoes of voices and distant noises.

The record, produced by Stochastic Resonance in a limited edition of 300 copies edited by Italian-Argentine designer Jime Ghirlandi, is characterized by a clear electronic matrix, but in which the element of acoustic sound is strong, thanks also to the musical interventions by Salvatore Dante (didgeridoo), Giovanni Todisco (symphonic timpani) and Tita Tummillo (vocals).
The titles of the 8 tracks are in 'neolingua' (newspeak), a language used in the Orwell novel to inhibit the 'old mental habits' and make every form of thought impossible.  

Jura

SR016 Kenta Kamiyama's Signs of Rain cover art

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SR016 Kenta Kamiyama's Signs of Rain Compact Disc digipack

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The forest heading to the mountain. A deeply huge cave. Before I knew it, I was standing in such a place. The atmosphere and water echoes, the reverberation like the water gorges. I'm not sure if this is a dream or a reality, apparently I seem to have traveled so far. In this place where there is no sign of people, I feel like the intro of the theme song of the movie called Baghdad Cafe that I liked blown down, and the old memory revives a little. Until I came to this place, I should have had very personal troubles. Nonetheless, it became irrelevant anyhow. Wind breaks out. Proceed. Go further north. The album ’Side Effects’ by Kenta Kamiyama is such a journey to the space. I feel he is always trying to capture music as the sound that echoes to the place. Eisuke Tachikawa / NOSIGNER

Signs of Rain

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“Rivera”, by Curved Grooves, carried out between 2015 and 2016, focuses on a steady research on achieving different solutions to the clash between instrumental and electronic sounds: two worlds that appear to be distant as for composing, technical and prosodic approaches.
It’s from this concept that the choice of material develops, ranging from the employment of urban noises and environmental samples to rarefied vocal tones and guitars, trying to conciliate the electronic sounds with a more human and concrete dimension.
This research path brought a compositional form for which everything undertakes a gradual change. Therefore a development of the tracks led by inner, subtle, minimal variations which, little by little, overturn the initial bases in unexpected developments.

Rivera

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