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Epicycle 37:35
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Epicycle was composed from a short single voice recording. This recording was then processed in a very raw and direct way, using three filters: pitch, reverb and distorsion. The combinatory of these transformations end up by taking the form of a bumpy and noisy sonic journey, full of disruptions.

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Alfredo Costa Monteiro: voice, computer

Recorded, composed and mixed in Barcelona in may 2007
Cover: Alfredo Costa Monteiro
Thanks: Mireille Batby, Ferran Fages, Pau Torres, Ben Owen

Originally released by Etude Records.

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released January 1, 2008

Epicycle was composed from a short single voice recording. This recording was then processed using solely three filters: pitch, reverb and distorsion. The combinatory of these transformations ended up by taking the form of a bumpy and noisy sonic journey, full of disruptions.


Alfredo Costa Monteiro is a Barcelona based artist who works across the spectrum from sound art to visual art after moving out of a sculpture/mixed media background. If that suggests a certain restlessness, his discography bears that out: Paper Music (2001) was generated entirely from paper-sourced sounds, while Rumeur (2004) was also a solo accordion work. Epicycle is an exercise in voice processing, produced entirely using Monteiro´ voice, filtered and reshaped by software. Not that you can really tell: Monteiro renders it into crackles, buzz, gales of static, and even at one point a bass rumble that threatens to erupt into Merzbow-style power electronics. Only the faintest traces implying a human larynx are detectable. Epicycle has a proise and organisation which you could call sculptural as much as musical or tonal, but it feels dogged by a certain flatness, an interest in form above all else, that makes for an overly pro-faced atmosphere.
Sam Davies, The Wire

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Alfredo Costa Monteiro Barcelona, Spain

Alfredo Costa Monteiro is a sound artist, composer, multiinstrumentalist and sound poet who works in the field of experimental music. His work is regulated by conceptual restrictions and a special care of textures.
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