On the 26th of June, in occasion of the Mostra d'Arte Contemporanea Ritmi nel Verde 2010, a 3D-EST installation made by an X-spat player and eight Alto speakers has welcomed the visitors of the wondeful Villa Sansoni in Livorno. A&G Soluzioni Digitali, in collaboration with the Centro Sociale Luciano Virgili, Associazione Culturale Studio Etra and the Comune di Livorno - Circoscrizione 5, has presented four 3D soundscape compositions in 3D-EST re-mixed accordingly to the outdoor ambient characteristics. "Running", by Luigi Agostini, inspired by the sculpture artwork "Vai" by Paolo Filippi (you can admire it in the pictures beside this text) a 3D soundscape composition created just ... (more)

Rome, 21st of April 2010. The "Scenography Professional Days" have been held in Rome at the Casa dell'Architettura (Architecture House), a former aquarium and now the Headquarters of the Order of Architects of Rome. The IFSArts team has chosen to organise such a key event in the historical building now occupied by Roman architects. The former Aquarium is a fine example of public architecture, inaugurated in 1887 and situated in the heart of Rome’s historic centre, a short stroll from Termini mainline station. Formerly used as a cinema and as a storage facility for Rome’s Opera House, it was recently restored by the City Council and entrusted to the Order of Architects to use as their base. The restoration work unearthed in its grounds archeological finds from ancient Rome dating from the 4th century B.C. (more)

Tokyo, 1-31 of January 2010. After the French Embassy relocation, the former buildings are holding a huge art event called "No Man's Land" (the place doesn't belong to France any longer but doesn't belong to Japan again yet either !). The event is bringing together 70 artists from Japan and France and will last until january 31st, the buildings will be destroyed in february ! The works, most of which were created on the premises invade all the spaces both inside and outside of the remaining buildings : offices, corridors, library, staircases, basement, gardens, etc. The visitors can see all the fields of creation such as visual arts, design, sculpture, architecture, photography, graffiti, stencil art, live performances, conceptual installations, video, land art, music, etc. The opening evening was a huge success with more than 2000 people between 6 and 10 pm. "Kare-San-Sui Surrounding" is creating three sound installation space in there, and they are using X-spat boX with 8 speakers is for a installation at the central garden. (more)

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Fixed 3D-EST installation with 24 speakers at low aestetich impact and high quality of reproduction controlled by three X-spat boX2 DSP hardware for the research and composition on spatialization, 3D soundscape, soundscape composition and interactive sound landscape.

Santarcangelo di Romagna, 3-12th of July 2009. Tempi Tecnici Società Cooperativa sound designers have used their X-spat boX at the International Festival "del teatro in Piazza", click on the picture at right to download a report in pdf (italian language) with pictures and comments. Roberto Nigro from Tempi Tecnici said: "A big square, five towers distanced, the sound clean and present. Alberto's work on audio is close to the perfection as always, you never feel the need to add anything and that has been my only problem programming the X-spat. I make X-spat to receive through ADAT input 5 sources: 1-bass; 2- Arto's guitar; 3-keyboards; 4- trumpet; 5- drum. The sounds positions in space at the start is fixed or with minor variations; I love to mix, to bond the sounds, you don't feel any alteration but a fantastic thoroughness sensation. Alberto like it and Marco throws again asking me to rotate Arto's guitar sound: it works! There is a magic moment while all is moving, Marco helps me with the potentiometers of the MIDI controller, we assigned them to the X-Y-Z data of each audio sources. X-spat process all and sends via ADAT five channels to the Yamaha PM5D mono/return. Well done!". (more)

Livorno, 13th of February 2009. A&G is happy to announce the start of an artistic and cultural collaboration with the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali "Pietro Mascagni" from Livorno. This is will take place withhin the "Rassegna di musica del '900 e contemporanea SUONI INAUDITI", for a new listening consciousness... (more)