Les Fleurs du Mal, Project-To

Project-To, for its personal audio and video experimentation, meets the literary dimension through the work of Charles Baudelaire, forerunner of the vision of our present world and of the distress of the contemporary human being. The duo made by Riccardo Mazza and Laura Pol elaborates a project where vocal elements look at unexplored sound horizons, inspired by the famous poetry from Les Fleurs du Mal, whose verses, in their explicit mix of high and low, sublime and vulgar, are a direct consequence of the opposition between spleen and idéal. Riccardo wanted to resume the traditional method of recording directly on the tape as they used to do in recording studios in the 80s and 90s, taking care of the execution manually until the perfect take is reached. Analog, modular synthesizers and vintage samplers were used along with the numerous 80s and 90s machines of the studio. Each sound has been meticulously processed using the many iconic processors featured at Experimental Studios. The voice is Laura Pol’s and has been algorithmically processed using a Kyma system specially programmed by Riccardo. Project-To stems in 2015 from an idea of Riccardo Mazza (composer, teacher for the Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale in Saluzzo, multimedia artist specialized in sound experimental research) and Laura Pol (photographer and video-maker, author of various work in artistic, cultural and museum fields). From 2016 until today, Project-TO released three albums and created many A/V, site specific and experimental projects, both for institutions (Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Art Site Fest, Distretto Cinema, Artissima, Paratissima and Torino Solidale…) and for clubs and international festivals, such as Seeyousound, Torino Film Festival, Share e Robot Festival. It’s an authorial project of electronic music and video art, which develops from the interaction of purely electronic elements with original compositions performed live together with visual elements also carried out in real time during the Live Set. An evolving project that transforms and explores the space around it. Genau Unlimited is a new sub-label from Genau Recordings, Turin based label already know for its several techno releases from 2017 to today. Genau Unlimited, on the other hand, was born, as the name implies, without limits and boundaries. Or rather, it is a label that intends to give space to all those electronic sounds that are defined as non-conventional or non-linear. No techno, house or deep-house therefore, but big space for ambient, experimental, broken sounds, wave or melodic and instrumental lines that usually dont find a place on dancefloors or in bags of most DJs.

Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal

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Image of Projects for prefaces for the 2nd edition of 'les Fleurs by Baudelaire, Charles Pierre (1821-67)

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, “Les Fleurs du Mal”, Illustrations by Hallman, Stockholm 1946. Books, Maps & Manuscripts - Books - Auctionet

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Fleurs du Mal - GODINE

L'Oeuvre Poètique de Charles Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire

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Excerpt from Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal. by Arc Publications - Issuu

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Charles Baudelaire, by Théophile Gautier.