Pruni — “Suoni”

Seven tracks, 32:48. Digital download + wound-up blackthorn branch in paper envelope. Released on March 31st, 2020.

Sounds made by Mirko Maddaleno and Lorenzo Maffucci. Violin played by Alessia Castellano.

pruni.bandcamp.com | prunisuoni@protonmail.com

Statement:

How far should a rough sound wander to acquire a clear shape?

“Pruni” is a word for something like “blackthorn”.

We have been crafting this music as slowly as possible. We took the longest way because the circumstances we bumped into were too much fun for us to turn away.

These sound pieces are the remainders of a two-year process of improvising, recording, overdubbing, filtering, and then cutting almost everything out.

What’s left is a mild proof that something happened.

The consequence, to our own ears first and foremost, has always sounded like a beginning every single time we met to tinker with our material.

As seasons followed one another, we became acquainted to the resounding frequencies of our rooms and to the unintentional sounds that kept crawling into the recordings.

This is «music of contingency» to a certain extent: something that, while relying on our participation as performers, lives and grows beyond our control.

From there on, it is sound that keeps achieving its own disposition to witness something that must have happened, but has simply been forgotten.

We acknowledge this music as a challenge for a listener, and since we feel so much relaxed, we leave to the listener itself the most relevant bit of the arrangement of the sounds.

This is about desire more than fulfillment. One wouldn’t find “their thing” in this music: actually, they may find something else.

Also, it would be difficult to understand where these events are happening, since contradictory announcements keep pouring.

We drew some obligatory inspiration among some ideas by Alvin Lucier and John Cage, but that’s about it with respect to theory and guidance.

The coolest fact is that we didn’t learn a single thing from any of this.