Katatonic Silentio embarks on a tripped out crawl through “a mix of shadowy, ethereal and complex atmospheres,” a look of the sounds and textures she draws from for her newest album, Les Chemins De L’inconnu.
Mariachiara Troianiello is a noise artist, live performer, DJ and independent scientist, though she chooses the title ‘sonic carver’. The Milanese artist has established a particular noise practice through experiments with the type and function of radio, a subject she started to checkout as part of her undergraduate thesis and continues to checkout with residencies at EOS Radio and LYL Radio, as well as her continuous task Expanded Radio Research Unit, which she explains as an “independent radio art platform for ingenious works at the crossway of music, spoken word, efficiency and noise.” Her focus for Expanded Radio Research Unit differs hugely, from speculative soundtracks for David Cronenberg’s Crash, Videodrome and Naked Lunch, to a 40-year retrospective of Polish Experimental Radio from Studio Warsaw, to her own blends, which see her moving inbetween sonic abstraction and deadly accuracy intended directly at the club. Active as a DJ for over 15 years, Troianiello is simply as comfy winding inbetween musique concrète, spoken word and outsider music as she is techno, dub and drum & bass, showing an omnivorous cravings for noise that is simply as plainly showed in her own productions. Since 2018 she hasactually been launching jobs as Katatonic Silentio, finding kindred spirits at CyberspeakMusic, Bristol Normcore, Youth and, most justrecently, Ilian Tape.
Back in 2021 she launched Tabula Rasa, a six-track excavation of foreboding environments and ornately crafted bass, serving a heady mixture of razor-sharp noise style and blunt force pressure. The following year she followed up with an album appropriate, Les Chemins De L’inconnu, a return to the depths with a restored clearness and a more fragile method, balancing spacious, sub-aquatic low end with thick, natural textures and spooky soundscapes, explained by the label as “a psychedelic journey to wake up the warrior” and the kind of record that might out smoke even the likes Skee Mask and the Zenker Brothers. For her Fact Mix, which Troianiello explains as “a mix of shadowy, ethereal and detailed environments underpinned by damaged beats, rotating inbetween immediate and mild rhythms,” we’re revealed a peek of the kinds of sounds the artist draws from to transportation us to the world of Les Chemins De L’inconnu. Embarking on a tripped out crawl through heady haze and visceral sludge, Katatonic Silentio drags us through a hallucinogenic overload of ambient, dub and down priorto ultimately swimming up through erratic breaks and d&b, the paranoid scramble of Source Direct’s ‘Stonekiller’ serving as a dim beacon in the darkness, a rise of propulsion into the celestial avoid of nthng’s ‘1 2 Butterfly’.
You can discover Katatonic Silentio on Instagram, SoundCloud, Bandcamp and at her site.
Tracklist:
Alter Ego – ‘Telekinetik’
Marconi Union – ‘Stationary’
Interactive Music – ‘Dynamic Link’
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