Some Music
rumpelfilter heavy industries
Rumpelfilter Heavy Industries (RHI) is a musical lego-brick and (now) part of the Monipodio! Project. It has no fixed shape, location, nor structure, but a clear processing scheme. It mainly works with pre-existent sound materials, found footage and collected interviews, placing things out of context and watching them mutate.
I started RHI as an evolution of the Mr.Ravenwing project in 2000, the llegacy of hip hop still lying heavy on my shoulders, producing mainly scores for ducumentary films and videos.
RHI was the drums&noise part of the If We Were Musicians We Would Have Done Some Paint Group (a great project I started with a friend of mine, Valerie Dulaey. Unfortunately we were able to finish just a couple of tracks, among those If We Got Famous We Wouldn’t Know Why is still one of the tracks I worked on, I like best).
Actually RHI is working with some guys from Monipodio on a musical project called Prosimian Dirty Dancing, which can best be described with a sentence Chris Ware once said in an interview: “there is a long history of depression in comics”.
Intro
An intro to my 1996-2006 - the complete waste of time CD
The Mr. Ravenwing era
Blackdoor
One of the first tracks I’ve ever made, done completely with samples in Acid 1.0.
Geraldine
I worked on the soundtrack for the film Cianci Gatti made by Blue Star Film, a film about an old mouth organ virtuoso from Bolzano. The concept for the soundtrack was to take his music and reinterpret it with electronic music elements.
For this track I took one of the songs he played for us and cut it into pieces and turned it into a new melody, while trying to preserve the feeling of his performance.
Notturno Cadenzato rmx
Another track from the Cianci Gatti soundtrack, this one is more some kind of a remix, made to underline the dark and melancholic athomosfere of one of the last scenes in the film, where the protagonist, late in the evening, is driven to his last concert.
The If We Were Musicians We Would Have Done Some Paint Group
If We Got Famous We Wouldn’t Know Why
With a friend and past love of mine, Valery, we wanted to have a band with a uselessly long and complicated name, so TIWWMWWHDSPG was born. We actually just did a couple of tracks, because the distance between Bolzano and France is just too big. Though this one is probably more the product of Valeries talent, it’s still one of the songs, among those I worked on, I like most.
We spent 2 weeks in my apartment to create this, my part is mainly: the lyrics, the drums and funny noises, and the mix… the melody and voice is more Valeries achievement. It sounds pretty acoustic, but actually it was done completely on my computer… except the voice, of course.
If We Got Famous We Wouldn’t Know Why (RMX)
I couldn’t withstand the idea to make a more electronic version of the song above.
Fickenficken
An improvised thing. Me on the keyboards and Valerie singing.
The Rumpelfilter Era
Die Schoene Heimat
One of the biggest project I’ve worked on was H€IMAT a documentary film about South Tyrol, Globalisation and how we sell our identity just to get a bit richer. This was the first project where I really composed some music myself, without relying on loops and samples. Dietmar, the director of the film wanted me to do something with a recording of an old deaf guy singing a song about South Tyrol. I was really inspired. Sepp, the guy who’s singing, once was a folk musicians, he traveled across the region, playing the accordion and singins about the “heimat”, the homeland. After an accident he went deaf, but that didn’t really stop him. You could meet him in Bolzano, playing air guitar on a broom and singing his songs to remind the people abut the heimat. I really liked this old man and his fight against fate and I wanted to underline this desperate fight with the music I composed.
Plastic Beauty
Another track from the H€IMAT Soundtrack.
Houseing
I wanted to see if I could make some kind of dance track. I never really finished it, though there is some groove in it and I still like it.
Playboyhase
I always liked to work on found footage and casual recording. This song was first recorded during a film shooting in Turin. Daniel and I were boring ourselves to death and started improvising some songs. I was doing the beat-box and Daniel was singing. Afterwards I edited this material on the computer adding some melody and effects on the voice.
Summer In The Park
While playing around on the keyboard I created this really simple melody… a melody that reminded me of the last days in summer, where you would go out to play with your friends knowing that fun was just about to end.
Morire Da Seppia
I did this thing with Armin and Matteo, some guys from Monipodio!, as a special track for our Monipodio! Christmas CD. Most of it is the product of improvisation… we just started recording and added layer upon layer of sounds and random bullshit.
This track brought us to create Prosimian Dirty Dancing.
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