Dronica #57 - Dronica Meets Eraldo Bernocchi
Nicola Serra, founder of East London's experimental music festival Dronica, presents new and archival material.
In this episode, Dronica meets Eraldo Bernocchi for our first guest mix of the year.
Eraldo Bernocchi is an Italian composer, arranger, producer and guitarist with a solid reputation as an all round sonic sculptor. Starting his career in the late 70’s, Eraldo co-founded the conceptual audio project SIGILLUM S, a highly acclaimed international cult act.
In the 90’s, together with his wife, the visual artist Petulia Mattioli, Eraldo established Verba Corrige Productions, which became the base for a raft of notable audio visual projects and cooperations.
A relentless sound explorer, Eraldo Bernocchi has collaborated with numerous artists including Mick Harris, Bill Laswell (official), Nils Petter Molvaer, Harold Budd, Russell Mills, Toshinori Kondo, Raiz, Almamegretta, Spectre, Sensational, DJ Disk, Professor Shebab, Thomas Fehlmann, Zu, DJ Olive, Markus Stockhausen, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Robin Guthrie, Colin Edwin and Balazs Pandi, among many others.
In addition to regular work scoring music for adverts and other multimedia projects, Eraldo has composed film music for Academy Award winner Gabriele Salvatores and produced numerous art installations with Petulia Mattioli, as well as other artists including Russell Mills and Harold Budd.
Uniquely, Eraldo is also known for being invited to play and organise several special events for H.H. The Dalai Lama in Italy.
In 2008, together with music lover Giacomo Bruzzo, Eraldo founded RareNoise Records, a new London based label, which aims to showcase a wide range of cutting edge music. The label has since become an important conduit championing several forward thinking and original artists, as well as releasing a number of Eraldo’s own recordings, including with Tony Wakeford, Colin Edwin, Ted Parsons just to name a few.
In may 2018, the long awaited Cy Twombly documentary film soundtrack album he composed, was presented at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art NYC. After that, many other great collaborations and releases followed, such as the duo with electronic music wonder Nadia Struiwigh or the duo with Gareth Davis among others. Eraldo recently released an amazing new solo work as SIMM on the excellent Ohm Resistance.
Eraldo presents a selection of music and speech (in the following order) by Gaudi, Nadia Struiwigh, Mark Stewart & Nadia Struiwigh, Nils Petter Molvaer, Nils Petter Molvaer, Paolo Bandera, Nils Petter Molvaer, Nadia Struiwigh, Alex Patterson, Leon Switch, Hoshiko Yamane, Paolo Bandera & Jo Quail, Christopher Chaplin, Colin Edwin, Jo Quail, Midori Hirano.
Tracklist
Simm - Gqom Squbulo
Nun Gun - The Supermen (Feat Mark Stewart)
Ovo - Mondo
Sshe Retina Stimulans - Risonanza Primitiva Concettuale
Sigillum S - Exploded Wombs Through Artificial Wormholes
Midori Hirano - Collapsing Planet (Feat Atsuko Atano)
Simm - Too Late to Dream (Feat Flowdan)
Ocosi - HAL2
Kelly Dean - It’s up to You
Mark Stewart - Tba
Sigillum S - Demonology
Simm - Cracks
Scorn - Something That Was
Tomas Nordark - Spirit
Sigillum S - Deep Void Plantations
Gaudi - Opus 12
Submerged vs Undrig - Controlled Release
The Orb- Say Cheese (Gaudi Remix)
Tomas Nordark - Dreaming
Leon Switch - Into the Deep
Simm - Boxed
Naresh Ran - Stalker
Eraldo Bernocchi - Out in the Blue
Hoshiko Yamane Makoto Sakamoto - Domecast
Nils Petter Molvaer - Angels Ahead (Bill Laswell Remix)
Vilify - Reaching Ra
Sigillum S - 37 Degrees of Self Immolation
Eraldo Bernocchi/Kk Null - Superradiance 1
Ovo - Harmonia Macrocosmica
Ocosi - Ep
Simm - Mangled
Midori Hirano - Void
Leon Switch - Drop 04
Submerged - Death Spiral
Simm - The Sound Guide (Feat Flowdan)
Blockdata - Siren
Christopher Chaplin - Shet
Jo Quail - Lucie Solstice Lullaby
Eraldo Bernocchi Hoshiko Yamane - Endure