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MK: How do you divide your process of work? How do you work during creation, editing and how do you confront live?

Fabio Volpi: Our project is founded on a strong dilation of sounds generated or taken from loops, from which we extract an infinitesimal part, reiterating it endlessly. This normally constitutes the main part of our work. All the successive sound levels, sinth and voices are superimposed for assonance or dissonance. We decided to mix sonorities coming from different “epochs” such as glitch with space sounds of the 70's supporting and strengthening one another. During a performance we try to keep together the analogical and digital features of sounds, using both software and sinth.

MK: Which musical or aesthetical influences guide your work? And in this process, how can be read your parallel experiences with con Ornament e Otolab? Fabio, you above all works with Otolab both as far as the collective's audio and video component are concerned, it's then you who cares about the aesthetic and live aspect of Echran?

Fabio Volpi: As far as Davide is concerned, his influences go from Deutsh Nepal , to Kirlian Camera, up to Tangerine Dream . My influences are on the basis Islamic music, both sacred and of entertainment. As far as rock-electro music is concerned, I would certainly say Suicide, Joy Division, Pan Sonic and Coil . As general influences of the both of us, I would say the first period of Current 93 and Trobbing Ghristle for their attitude. For the visuals, it's my fault. We decided to take some works of Tarkovskj, such as Stalker and Solaris and to reproduce them from a point of view stressing the errors, voluntary and not, due to the digital compression of the films. The vocal parts are acted by a blurred and disfigured character entering the videos, giving us the chance to eliminate during a live the figure of the singer -rock-performer, far from our way of being.