Description

Babau is the pantropical project of Artetetra founders Matteo Pennesi and Luigi Monteanni in which a fascination with exotica, world music 2.0 and field recordings meets the compositional and improvisational techniques of computer music. Their latest work, the album Stock Fantasy Zone, was recently released on Discrepant and they have been nominated SHAPE artists 2023. The duo has participated in various Italian and non-Italian festivals such as Fusion, Club to Club, Nextones, Outernational Days, Camp Cosmic and Saturnalia.

Flatland Explorations is an ever-growing collection of completely improvised attempts at mapping the surface and irregular shapes of BABAU’s sonic flatland by means of sonic manipulations and digital sorceries. Joining live recordings with studio material and field recordings, the duo crafts its unique sound made of granular illusions, midi extravaganza, wind instruments’ acrobacies, and vocal calembours. The results have been remarkably described as ‘the sound of a continent moving, ethnicities, animals, plants and mineral included’.

Out of the stack, the flatland has no boundaries.