upsammy & Valentina Magaletti - Seismo
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Seismo brings together upsammy and Valentina Magaletti for a debut collaboration that thrives on friction and fine detail. Initially commissioned by Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to accompany an exhibition from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the project began with the duo recording improvised percussive sounds while moving through the museum’s rooms, letting architecture and ambience shape rhythm and texture.
Those raw materials became the foundation for a set of electroacoustic pieces that evolved further through live performance. Working largely with mallet instruments, percussion and digital processing, upsammy and Magaletti deliberately blur their roles, setting acoustic gesture against synthetic manipulation. The result is a constantly shifting balance between harmony and disruption, control and chance, intimacy and unease.
Both artists bring established concerns into the collaboration. upsammy’s practice often centres on close listening and environmental detail, while Magaletti’s work consistently questions the language and assumptions of percussion. On Seismo, these approaches lock together seamlessly, producing a suite that feels exploratory without losing focus.
Tense, spatial and textural, the album feeds on contrast: brittle microsounds against resonant strikes, rhythmic clarity interrupted by grain and glitch. Seismo sounds like two distinct perspectives meeting to imagine a third space, shaped by curiosity, experimentation and quietly defiant queer energy.
Those raw materials became the foundation for a set of electroacoustic pieces that evolved further through live performance. Working largely with mallet instruments, percussion and digital processing, upsammy and Magaletti deliberately blur their roles, setting acoustic gesture against synthetic manipulation. The result is a constantly shifting balance between harmony and disruption, control and chance, intimacy and unease.
Both artists bring established concerns into the collaboration. upsammy’s practice often centres on close listening and environmental detail, while Magaletti’s work consistently questions the language and assumptions of percussion. On Seismo, these approaches lock together seamlessly, producing a suite that feels exploratory without losing focus.
Tense, spatial and textural, the album feeds on contrast: brittle microsounds against resonant strikes, rhythmic clarity interrupted by grain and glitch. Seismo sounds like two distinct perspectives meeting to imagine a third space, shaped by curiosity, experimentation and quietly defiant queer energy.
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