my music

Moving Forward (VirTrav Series 2021​-​01)

he "VirTrav Series", of which "Moving Forward" is the first cycle, is a challenge from Buckminster to Buckminster on the theme of "speed": a composition a week lasting about one minute, composed and recorded in less than one hour on iPad, inspired by places and people in a kind of virtual musical journey.

These weekly compositions are organized in cycles of 12, each focusing on a "theme". First cycle, "Moving Forward", is centered on movement and its sonic perception. Compositions, one for each note, move on the circle of fourths starting from G min.

The concept of "speed", which inspires and shapes this work, comes from Italo Calvino's "Six Memos For The Next Millennium" (1988), whose intuitions are, according to Buckminster, very current and adaptable to music as well. The cycles of compositions such as “Moving Forward” can be looped, sound-reinforce everyday life. They never resolve and continue to move. Even the individual compositions are designed to be reiterated and maintain their own autonomy despite the reduced duration.

"VirTrav" is a constantly evolving project: every week a new composition is recorded and shared on Buckminster social channels in raw form, without revisions or editing (versions... more

credits

released June 2, 2021

Fabrizio Baracco: double bass, microphones, iTrack Studio, iPad, Auria Pro.

Home recorded in Ozzano Monferrato, january 9th to march 26th, 2021.

routes of the three

Three compositions made of three movements each, inspired by three places that have been part of my everyday life in the last year. Times in three, three instrumental voices that intersect and overlap, few other sounds added to enrich the compositions (some obtained with environmental recordings, some others performed with samples). Exclusively three takes for each instrument (double bass with bow and pizzicato double bass) to complete a "path of three" and simulate an anomalous collective improvisation, mirror of a society where everyone dialogues without listening in a frantic and not always reasonable flow". - Fabrizio Baracco, september 2019.

credits

released October 10, 2019

Fabrizio Baracco: double bass, stereo mic, laptop, Ableton Live.

Recorded in Ozzano Monferrato, april-august 2019.