Keep your hands off - 2009
video animation and soundtrack
This multimedia work pays homage to the Russian Avant-garde artists from last century. Twelve paintings were selected from a private collection and a virtual exhibition of them has been realised in form of an animation with soundtrack. Many diverse Russian influences stimulated the works conception, from russian composers to historical and political speeches as well as graphic and design elements from the period in question. The soundtrack often follows the visual elements of the paintings, being a collage of material from different sources juxtaposed with original material. All assembled and edited in a unique manner producing a twelve-minute vision of those paintings.
Triangles - 2009
installation for 9 double basses
The double bass loops already experimented in Eyes never stop ever choreography, In a rush, and St.Kilda Invasion formed the main material for this piece of work, conceived to be performed by nine double bassists, one live electronics musician and one light technician in a public space. Triangles are present in the spatial setting of players, speakers, lights as well as inside the composition in form of rhythms, melodies, structures and visual elements. The whole work is dedicated to Pythagoras.
S.Dessanay - Triangles. 2009
(excerpt)
In a rush - 2008
10 seconds electronic short
A call for composers from Swedish composer Johann Eriksson led to the realisation of this ten seconds short which was selected and then included in the Volume 2 of the Monolog X compilation available online at www.myspace.com/monologx.
Music source is an overdubbed recording of eight double basses played by the composer which was then manipulated and edited.
S.Dessanay - In a rush. 2008
Walking and running - 2008
music for 'Eyes never stop ever' choreography
This track is an excerpt from the soundtrack composed for Carla Onni's choreography, premiered at The Place School of Dance in London on the 16th and 17th of June 2008. The dance piece was also performed at the Resolution! dance season in February 2009, featuring the composer on double bass and Tychonas Michailidis on live electronics.
Walking & running consists of a crescendo of manipulated and overdubbed double bass loops that leads the dancers from a calm walking to a frenetic running.
S.Dessanay - Walking and
running. 2008
Cortronico Senza Titolo - 2004
improvised soundtrack
This short improvisation is part of the Auden project (see performer page). Sardinian artist Tonino Casula selected the track to be the soundtrack of one of his numerous computer graphic videos named Cortronici. The quartet is composed by Sebastiano Meloni on piano, Valeria Martini on vocals, Sebastiano Dessanay on double bass and Leonardo Casula on drums.