CHORISTER
Inspired by Anton Chekhov's short story Choristers, this electronic sound piece explores themes of isolation, memory, and the fragility of human connection. The composition takes fragments—sounds and narratives—and distorts them through repeated manipulation, blurring the line between the familiar and the alien. Drawing from Chekhov's subtle exploration of human emotion, the piece progressively transforms its sonic materials, from delicate, almost ethereal textures to more fractured, unsettling distortions. As the piece unfolds, layers of reverberating echoes and fragmented rhythms evoke a sense of time folding in on itself, much like the imagined character's own disjointed life. At its core, this work is a meditation on loss and repetition, where each iteration subtly shifts the meaning and impact of its original source, leaving behind a hauntingly beautiful trail of memory and sound.
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Alternative #Experimental #Downtempo
Single 2024
CODAS
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Electronic #Alternative #Experimental
Album 2024
SIMULTANEOUS PARTICIPATION
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Electronic #Alternative #Experimental
Single 2024
oPE TITE GYAS
"Opetitegyas" is the third and final sound piece in a trilogy inspired by Ingmar Bergman's 1963 film, The Silence. In The Silence, Bergman masterfully explores themes of existential alienation, repressed desires, and the failure of human communication through the fractured inner lives of two sisters, Ester and Anna, trapped in a foreign, speechless world.
This sound piece delves into the fragmented psyches of the female characters by crafting a sonic representation of their inner turmoil and strained relationship, weaving together a chaotic tapestry of their voices.
The composition begins in a state of stillness, evoking the suffocating quiet of the film’s desolate, unnamed city. Gradually, disjointed voices emerge—sharp, intimate whispers interspersed with anguished outbursts. These fragmented sounds represent the emotional residue of the sisters’ repressed thoughts and unspoken words, dissolving into echoes of fear, frustration, and unfulfilled desires.
As the piece evolves, the cacophony intensifies, mirroring the characters' psychological unraveling. Voices overlap, clash, and distort, capturing the film's claustrophobic tension. The listener is drawn into a space where words have lost their meaning and silence becomes suffocating—a space ruled by internal chaos, where communication is futile.
By abstracting and layering these vocal elements into a chaotic soundscape, Opetitegyas pays homage to Bergman’s stark depiction of isolation, evoking the unsettling emotional core of The Silence through sound rather than dialogue.
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Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Alternative #Experimental #Downtempo
Single 2024
FORAY
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Electronic #Alternative #Experimental
Single 2024
CHREIA
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Alternative #Experimental #Downtempo
Single 2024
IMPATIENCE AND INDOLENCE
Conceived as a sonic interpretation of Kafka’s Zürau Aphorisms, which symbolize the world's existential vulnerabilities, this new album contemplates the paradoxes of our existence and the delicate balance that envelops it.
Through an array of modern ambient overtones threaded through oceanic symphonies and vast washes of overdriven sounds, 'Impatience and Indolence' attempts to capture the essence of humanity's relationship with what is lacking and the ability to make such understanding fully conscious, savouring both the anxiety and the serene beauty that coexist within it.
“Aphorisms have to be played like pieces of music. In this case, the point seems to be that there’s a way to know whether or not you are on the true path, whatever that is supposed to be or wherever it’s supposed to be leading you. If the pathway feels shaky, it’s the right one.”
_F. Kafka
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Electronic #Alternative #Experimental
Album 2024
NEVER PENNED
In this album I sketched seven transitional vignettes without being neither certain nor resolved. Existing in the space between imaginative propositions and a call to action, this new album is an assembling of provocations, proposals and potential ways of listening. NEVER PENNED bold and often bonkers sounds demand close listening but defy logic through glitching beats, sputtering rhythms, metallic textures and deep tribal grooves - they evoke the oscillation between work and draft, effort and accomplishment. Percussions in varying tempos and the use of electronic noise surges, a dub bass line, and background noises are all obliterated by numerous delays, starts, stops and re-starts to emphasise the unpredictable nature of these tracks.
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Alternative #Experimental #Downtempo
LP 2024
SOTOPORTEGO
Featuring two lengthy pieces recorded over a month, ‘Sotoportego’ offers a few telescopic sections of walks and pauses under Venice’ Porticos, meshed into one another. Documented between S.Marc’s Square and Campo San Barnaba, the album presents various piano pieces that are usually played outside cafes in the summer alongside the voices of waiters, tourists, and improvised opera singers elated by the Venetian atmosphere, as well as mundane conversations that take place in the area. When one characteristic sequence encounters by chance a slight sound, this one colors that one.
On the other hand, when an event sequence encounters another one, they perturb each other, for their good or for their evil. Such is life. ‘Sotoportego’ is based on principles of random variations that create encounters and superimpositions of cycles that combine themselves by natural succession. It is an example of my fascination with observing daily life and finding poetry in the everyday in an unaltered and vivid documentation of Venetian aliveness.
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Alternative #Experimental #Spoken Words #Ambient
LP 2023
DEQUIUDES
Dequiudes is the second instalment inspired by Bergman's movie The Silence. This new piece centres on miscommunication on multiple levels and deals with the difficulty of creating meaning or perhaps finding or determining meanings through language. The previous piece, Tystnaden, obliterated all the dialogues in the movie, exploring the void and empty spaces of human communication. In contrast, Dequiudes offers more freedom of invention by delving into the idea of arbitrary vocalization. The text, following Bergman's constructed language adopted in the movie, is created by repeating the words phonetically, thereby adding a further layer of possible misinterpretation. The conversations become deformed and exposed to many formal rules, originating a shifting dialogue that has the confused and illogical appearance of life. With the gaining of expressive language/sounds as a support, we are left to grapple with the mystery that is reality. What remains to us, in the end, is only our own voice.
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Alternative #Experimental #Spoken Words
EP 2023
WHEN SYMBOLS FAIL
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Electronic #Alternative #Experimental
EP 2023
AM
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Alternative #Experimental
LP 2023
INTERLUDE
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Electronic #Alternative #Experimental
EP 2023
TYSTNADEN
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Alternative #Experimental
LP 2023
Tystnaden
Tystnaden is a sound piece which takes the movie The Silence by Ingmar Bergman as its starting point. The film centres on a miscommunication on multiple levels and deals with the difficulty of creating meanings or perhaps finding or determining meanings. In the mind of Bergman, God is silent as his previous film established, because there is no god in reality.
Tystnaden obliterates all the dialogues in the movie leaving only the fluctuating and unrecognisable noises and the human murmurs, sighs, snivels, loud chewing, shouts and hard swallowing, suggesting a regression to a state of arbitrary vocalisation. These sounds offer us little freedom of invention, yet they became deformed and exposed to many formal rules originating a shifting dialogue that has the confused and illogic appearance of life. With the loss of expressive language (a support), we are left to make do with the mystery that is reality. What remains to us, in the end, is only our own voice.
Caught between hopes and doubts Tystnaden carefully balances questions and paradoxes such as: If metaphysical questions are hopeless why do we keep asking them? Is God a clue to the travel and travails of truth rather than the truth of assertion?
VOLITION
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Electronic #Alternative #Experimental
EP 2022
CREDERE DI VEDERE
Artist: Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#Classical #Alternative #Experimental
EP 2022
ELIA
Concept and Composition – Christian Patracchini
Bass Clarinet, Soprano Sax and Sopranino Sax – Tom Scott
Formats: Digital Download - Vinyl
#Alternative #jazz
Album 2021
Inspired by the Italian artist Alessandro Greggio ‘Elia’ (1968-2005), this new collaboration between myself and saxophonist Tom Scott is intended to be a nod to Elia's spontaneous and witty attitude to life, as well as a mark of respect to the vibrant and profound side of his artistic oeuvre.
In particular, the album is influenced by an anecdote told to me by Elia who not having prepared anything for his final degree art show, showed-up in front of the examiners with a small wooden gate that he had found in a hallway nearby - or so the story goes. He recounted that he left the gate untouched and presented it as his final work in the form of a story.
From this perspective, I composed the arrangement for the music by connecting the letters E, L, I, A on some of the short stories written by him in the 90s. The resulting graphic drawings were over - imposed onto a score, which was consequently interpreted by Tom Scott in one take, without having previously read it.
The result is a combination of unforeseen shifts, unpredicted repetitions and surprising longer meditative segments. The tracks presented in this album are the undefiled result of a single studio session that can be described as a way of mapping and intertwining the emotional flows of Elia’ way of being, his constant instinctual gesture and chance approach attitude to make work.
IT IS SO (IF YOU THINK SO) Exploitation of Concept I
Concept and Voice – Christian Patracchini
Format: Digital Download
#SpokenWords
EP 2022