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Antonio Della Marina: Sanje

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Antonio Della Marina: Sanje
Sound sculptor Antonio Della Marina is an electronic music composer whose work primarily resides in the realm of installation art, creating immersive multimedia experiences for museums and performance spaces. His creative focus lies in the intersection of psychoacoustics and spatial perception—how sound behaves within and transforms a given environment.

Sanje originated as part of the multimedia performance "nella notte, al cinema: The Dream," a collaboration with video artist Alessandra Zucchi, presented in July 2021. Della Marina later remixed the original soundscape, adapting it into this stand-alone recording. Yet despite its translation to an audio-only format, the piece retains a compelling sense of three-dimensionality, as if the sound continues to sculpt and reshape the space around the listener.

His sonic palette is built from the fusion of computer-generated sine waves and a modified alto saxophone. By altering both the fingering system and the mouthpiece, Della Marina enables a continuous sound flow, employing techniques akin to circular breathing. The result is a seamless, 36-minute hypnagogic drift that resides somewhere between ambient soundscape and meditative trance.

Sanje is not merely a piece of music—it is an environment, a slowly evolving architecture of tone and resonance that invites deep listening and dissolves the boundary between perception and dream.

Track Listing

Sanje I. 3 5 A; Sanje II. 3 13 B; Sanje III. 3 11 C; Sanje IV. 3 7 C; Sanje V. 3 5 G; Sanje VI. 3 11 B.

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Antonio Della Marina: alto saxophone, sine waves.    

Album information

Title: Sanje | Year Released: 2024 | Record Label: I Dischi Di Angelica

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