Andro Giunio comprehends and approaches music as temporal art form which he uses to explore nuances of time, space and memory. To create in this context means to structure and organize different fields of noise, melody and dissonance. The process of composing a musical piece becomes an experiment in determining a map and establishing basic navigation, whereat sensibility and orientation have precedence over specific sound. Applying techniques of superimposition of sound sequences, creating loops and bysubtle transformations of fluid parts, experimental approach in this case is attempt to reach deeper layers that constitute essence of all musical instruments, effects that are used, as well as medium that is used to record and document that process, which in turn becomes instrument itself.
Electric guitar is often a primary source of sound, but in process of composition and performance certain effects, for example various samples and existing recordings of ambience (interior and exterior) equally participate in forming a structure. Simpleand fixed compositions are often supplemented with temporary improvisations, and as a result music that is created is defined by tendency of sound sequences to remain in perpetual condition of creation and dissolution, positioning themselves between memory and moment, simultaneous processes of imagination and listening.
In attempt to produce such an impression, effects that multiply the reflection of the sound are used, designating the concurrency of past and present (reverb) as well as overloading the reproductive capacity of instruments used, emphasizing physical materiality and presence of the sound (distortions).
Open studio will be used as a personal residential programme for research and development of some older as well as of some more recent musical ideas and concepts. One of the primary tasks is experimenting with and recording on audio tapes. Noises, irregularities, distortions and other lo-fi characteristics of such magnetic tape emphasize the relation between music and its surroundings, making the recordingphysicallypresent in time and space. In the act of manipulation of prerecorded materialsduring the creation of original musical compositions, technology becomes materialized memory.
Exact dates when Open studio is going to be open for visitors prior to final exhibition will be announced soon. Final exhibition will be held on 17th March 2018, at 20h PM.
AndroGiunio is a visual communications designer, assistant professor at the Department of Media Design at the University North in Koprivnica and experimental musician. In 2008.he started working as a freelance graphic designer, and is working independently or in collaboration with colleagues exclusively in the field of art and culture. Since 2012.he is active as music performer. He played individually at „New Sound Platform“: Sinelinea (2012., 2013., 2016.) at Zagreb’s Dance Center and gallery Greta, as well as popular clubs such as Močvara, Kino Grič, KSET, Medika. In 2017.he finished a piece „Composition for Unadjusted Guitar“ for a programme „Picture made of Sound“, broadcasted at Croatian Radio Third Channel. In his musical practice Giunio refers to tradition of western avangard and minimalist music, as well as alternative contemporary genres such as drone, electronic music, noise rock, krautrock, shoegaze and black metal.
Open studio is supported by the Ministry of culture of Republic of Croatia and City of Zagreb.
GMK program is supported by Kultura Nova Foundation.
