NOTE: For those who don't know how to play a business card disc, just place it in the
center of the disc tray of your CD player, close the tray door and wait for the player to find
the disc and read its information. Align the center hole of the card disc in the same place
as the center hole of a regular CD. Not recommended for multi-disc changers!
"Olyvetty is a project of audio/visual environment started in Berlin in 2006 by musician
Claudio Rocchetti and visual artist Riccardo Benassi.
Olyvetty is the displacement of a symbol, the overcoming of language on content and of
information on production. A systematic plumbing of noise dephts and of minimal-techno
dérives that reaches new visionary landscapes.
Claudio Rocchetti was born in Bolzano, Italy, but has been living in Berlin for some years.
He processes sounds by mixing turntablism's manipulatory techniques with concrete
music. He breaks down and deconstructs sounds and uses radios, recorders and
microphones to create an analogic process of sound generation. He is also part of 3/4
Had Been Eliminated and Hypnoflash. His music has been released on many labels,
including Die Schachtel, S'agita Recordings, Bar La Muerte, SmallVoices and Wallace
Records.
Riccardo Benassi was born in Cremona but he has long lived in Bologna and, more
recently, in Berlin. He has been working with sound experimentation for years and is a
young artist of great promise in Italian contemporary art. In his work objects become the
real protagonists and the audience is encouraged to interact, turning everyday noises
into symphonies. His multidisciplinary research is not restricted to sound
experimentation and spans over different expressions, such as videos and illustrations.
The two artists met in Berlin and decided to start their collaboration. What they have in
common is their actual research on sound, which means a direct interaction with the
objects and their surfaces through the use of different supports, both during production
and live processing.
Their debut release, entitled As All-encompassing As A Hole, was self-produced as a
de-luxe double 12" hand-engraved picture disc - also available as an extremely limited
'pop-up landscape' package of 17 copies - was soon followed by a 7" on Hundebiss
Records entitled Im Leeren. Once again their ground breaking assault of noise freakerie
was superbly packed in a d.i.y. gatefold pop-up black'n'white sleeve.
Nostalgya Canaglya is their latest micro-release coming in the form of a CD-R card.
Edited in Berlin during Summer 2008, it collects five short fragments culled from studio
improvisations. Olyvetty's digital wall of sound is going to keep all the noise freaks
happy: sometimes harsh and sometimes rhythmic, always loud and hypnotizing."
(AFE)
"Five and a half minutes of binary phlegm and broken funny bones by two Berlin-based
Italians, one of which is already known for being a real brat. Claudio Rocchetti has given
the likes of David Lee Roth and Harrison Ford a bad name in the past by applying their
respected identities to cinematic albums they'd never want to be associated with. This
time the hapless target is the speckled late-80s gem by Albano Carrisi, its central
namesake lyric here rendered with slowed-down and synthetic insanity towards the end
of this short-lived transaction on business-card CD-R.
Expectorated antibodies of harsh staccato glitter, plundered police-radio static and
frustrated boom-chick sibilance supplies the album's first half with a fickly meditative
and surprisingly humane palpation, its freckled, repetitive beats going into autistic
overload on a track that at 2 minutes and ten seconds, is contextually epic.
Olyvetty make every second count, the music's arithmetic precision echoed in the
accompanying notes where track lengths are timed right down to the millisecond. Things
aren't as minimally invasive and surgical as they could be, however, and the cyclical
micro-terrains start to feel a bit gymnastic after an albeit contracted while.
Looped percussive polka-snot trails on ad infinitum on the 25-second penultimate track,
and the immediate gratification of its liposuctioned procedure goes a bit pale after the
initial high. The clicked and licked punctuality of its harsh minimal-tech rhymes soon
feels a little carbon-copied, which is quite an achievement considering the whole
anaerobically brief work-out.
The introduction of the dubbed-out MC Stephen Hawking karaoke towards the conclusion
is cringingly incongruous, its horrific bass-baritone delivery superceding the
already-pathological din. It's an uninviting final impression to give, not that you'd want to
be friends with these guys anyway. And for this reason it's probably good that the whole
experience doesn't last too long." [E.R. Chatterton - Foxy Digitalis]
center of the disc tray of your CD player, close the tray door and wait for the player to find
the disc and read its information. Align the center hole of the card disc in the same place
as the center hole of a regular CD. Not recommended for multi-disc changers!
"Olyvetty is a project of audio/visual environment started in Berlin in 2006 by musician
Claudio Rocchetti and visual artist Riccardo Benassi.
Olyvetty is the displacement of a symbol, the overcoming of language on content and of
information on production. A systematic plumbing of noise dephts and of minimal-techno
dérives that reaches new visionary landscapes.
Claudio Rocchetti was born in Bolzano, Italy, but has been living in Berlin for some years.
He processes sounds by mixing turntablism's manipulatory techniques with concrete
music. He breaks down and deconstructs sounds and uses radios, recorders and
microphones to create an analogic process of sound generation. He is also part of 3/4
Had Been Eliminated and Hypnoflash. His music has been released on many labels,
including Die Schachtel, S'agita Recordings, Bar La Muerte, SmallVoices and Wallace
Records.
Riccardo Benassi was born in Cremona but he has long lived in Bologna and, more
recently, in Berlin. He has been working with sound experimentation for years and is a
young artist of great promise in Italian contemporary art. In his work objects become the
real protagonists and the audience is encouraged to interact, turning everyday noises
into symphonies. His multidisciplinary research is not restricted to sound
experimentation and spans over different expressions, such as videos and illustrations.
The two artists met in Berlin and decided to start their collaboration. What they have in
common is their actual research on sound, which means a direct interaction with the
objects and their surfaces through the use of different supports, both during production
and live processing.
Their debut release, entitled As All-encompassing As A Hole, was self-produced as a
de-luxe double 12" hand-engraved picture disc - also available as an extremely limited
'pop-up landscape' package of 17 copies - was soon followed by a 7" on Hundebiss
Records entitled Im Leeren. Once again their ground breaking assault of noise freakerie
was superbly packed in a d.i.y. gatefold pop-up black'n'white sleeve.
Nostalgya Canaglya is their latest micro-release coming in the form of a CD-R card.
Edited in Berlin during Summer 2008, it collects five short fragments culled from studio
improvisations. Olyvetty's digital wall of sound is going to keep all the noise freaks
happy: sometimes harsh and sometimes rhythmic, always loud and hypnotizing."
(AFE)
"Five and a half minutes of binary phlegm and broken funny bones by two Berlin-based
Italians, one of which is already known for being a real brat. Claudio Rocchetti has given
the likes of David Lee Roth and Harrison Ford a bad name in the past by applying their
respected identities to cinematic albums they'd never want to be associated with. This
time the hapless target is the speckled late-80s gem by Albano Carrisi, its central
namesake lyric here rendered with slowed-down and synthetic insanity towards the end
of this short-lived transaction on business-card CD-R.
Expectorated antibodies of harsh staccato glitter, plundered police-radio static and
frustrated boom-chick sibilance supplies the album's first half with a fickly meditative
and surprisingly humane palpation, its freckled, repetitive beats going into autistic
overload on a track that at 2 minutes and ten seconds, is contextually epic.
Olyvetty make every second count, the music's arithmetic precision echoed in the
accompanying notes where track lengths are timed right down to the millisecond. Things
aren't as minimally invasive and surgical as they could be, however, and the cyclical
micro-terrains start to feel a bit gymnastic after an albeit contracted while.
Looped percussive polka-snot trails on ad infinitum on the 25-second penultimate track,
and the immediate gratification of its liposuctioned procedure goes a bit pale after the
initial high. The clicked and licked punctuality of its harsh minimal-tech rhymes soon
feels a little carbon-copied, which is quite an achievement considering the whole
anaerobically brief work-out.
The introduction of the dubbed-out MC Stephen Hawking karaoke towards the conclusion
is cringingly incongruous, its horrific bass-baritone delivery superceding the
already-pathological din. It's an uninviting final impression to give, not that you'd want to
be friends with these guys anyway. And for this reason it's probably good that the whole
experience doesn't last too long." [E.R. Chatterton - Foxy Digitalis]
artist: OLYVETTY
title: Nostalgya Canaglya
label: AFE
country: Italy
format: business card CDR
title: Nostalgya Canaglya
label: AFE
country: Italy
format: business card CDR
