About Silent Chaos

Silent Chaos [Marta NoOne: modular synthesizer, vocals, FX, mixing, mastering, video programming – Ugo Vantini: electronic and acoustic drums and percussions, loops, samplers, field recordings manipulation, graphics] is an experimental audiovisual project founded in Rome, Italy, in 2016. They moved to Scotland in 2018, searching for inspiration and new challenges.

Their music feeds on non-linear time, on conceptual and performing circularity, ancient and futuristic sounds advance in a spiral-shaped way. Their sound is structured but not predictable, in an impromptu composition based on channelling through improvisation. Past, present and future times merge in ancient sonorities and electronic twistings. They released their debut album “Micro” through Eclectic Productions in 2017 and they were featured in four international compilations; the second album “Osclltr 012” was released in 2018 through Berlin’s label Osclltr Records. Their third studio album “Macro”, has been released on Spring Equinox 2020 for the label WDGAF.

Silent Chaos did sonorizations for various art exhibitions, composed for experimental theatre and live radio performances, and performed, with their audiovisual projects, at the Italian contemporary art museum MAAM and in various other venues between Italy and UK. Currently based in the North East of Scotland, Silent Chaos presented their composition “Schizophrenia in Schizophonia” in a live performance at the SERG Sonic Realities International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018 in Aberdeen, and performed at the King’s College Chapel of The University of Aberdeen; they performed with the A/V site-specific work “Permutations”, at the Kirk of St Nicholas in Aberdeen, in Autumn 2018 for sonADA inTransit III; they performed at the Glasgow’s CCA for Cryptic Nights on March 2019 with the A/V project “Origins”; they’ve also performed “Origins” at Anatomy Rooms in Aberdeen for Listen Again Festival 2019, the fringe of Look Again Festival. “Origins” radio edit has been broadcast for Radiophrenia 2019. They performed for WAGON in the Japanese Garden of Duthie Park “The secret music of plants”, an electroacoustic performance which involves a plant connected to the modular synthesizer with biofeedback sensors, letting the plant generate music through the synthesizer. In October 2019 they performed “Origins” at Soundfestival in Aberdeen.

In October 2021 they participated with the composition “L’Oscuro Oceano dello Spazio Infinito“, originally commissioned by Soundfestival for the 2020 Festival, in the event SURROUNDSOUND: Sound Fountain at Marischal College, hosted by Soundfestival for British Art Show 9.

In Summer 2019 they were awarded the Alt-W Fund by New Media Scotland and Aberdeen Performing Arts, to produce a generative artwork for Aberdeen’s Music Hall giant LED screen. The exhibition has been postponed to 1 November 2021 because of the lockdown. With “Human AutomatArt” Silent Chaos fill the Music Hall with a bespoke network of different types of sensors, whose gathered data drive the digital painting visualised live on the screen.

Human AutomatArt is in Edinburgh from 9 to April the 24th 2022, 10am to 5pm, for the DataSphere exhibition, for Edinburgh Science Festival, at the National Museums of Scotland.

 

About Silent Chaos’ History

Marta NoOne is an Italian sound and visual artist, now based in the north-east of Scotland. Deeply interested in chaos and order interactions, human and machine connections, she’s engaged in an aesthetic-philosophical research that uses sounds and images to try to understand the current world. In this path she organized unconventional events of electronic music and contemporary art, as the electronic music festival “Electric Cirkus” in Rome, featuring more than 30 artists and an audience of more than 2000 people; she collaborated with several artists in live and theatrical performances, and produced original soundtracks for independent short films as “C-despair”.

She has a Sound Engineering diploma, an Ableton Live Producer diploma, and a Master’s in Sonic Arts obtained with her interactive audio-visual work “Aletheia”. She also works as a live and studio sound engineer.

Ugo Vantini is a musician, graphic artist and producer, born in Rome, Italy and based in Scotland, UK. He also worked in theatrical and cinematographic productions covering different roles such as sound engineer, assistant director, editor, cameraman. He always used his main instrument, the drums, to communicate his personal conception of musicality, through the use of atypical sonorities, phrasing and exploration of unusual expressive languages, that depict his sound visions.
He played since the beginning in musical groups, sometimes formed and produced by himself, that proposed music out-of-the-box, often with a strong connotation of improvisation, often collaborating with artists who shared his concepts of sound expressiveness and the use of complex polyrhythms. Recently the extended and integrated use of electronics, through the use of multiple pads, samples, field recordings, loops and effects, led him to use the drums in an even more organic way, expanding his stylistic style and enriching it with colours and sounds otherwise unreachable. He played in many music festivals, along with international artists, such as: Omaggio a Demetrio Stratos, Calcatronica, Risonanza, Progressivamente Rock Festival, Marechiaro Blues, Free Field Festival, Rock Progressive Festival Amnesty International, Electric Cirkus, Cryptic Nights, Listen Again Festival, fringe of Look Again Festival, and many more. He played with and produced bands such as Movie, Divae, VU Meters, Entropia and Entropia Techno Department. He played and collaborated with groups and artists such as Balletto Di Bronzo, Ezra Winston, Gary Green, Vittorio Nocenzi, Rodolfo Maltese, Twin Dragons, Nicola Alesini, EMusic and many others.

 

CONTACT

silentchaosproject [at] gmail [dot] com

RADIOPHRENIA

SILENT CHAOS – ORIGINS LIVE

24th May 2019  12:00 am – 12:30 am

programme/artist information

Origins” was specifically crafted for radio and it is supposed to be listened in a relaxing place, in darkness, so the listener can be easily taken to the worlds Silent Chaos are creating. The tense structured drones create an atmosphere where your sense of historical time is lost, leaving you suspended in a dark and dreamy world, and the far but pressing drums that sneak into that world bring you to ancient times, where the super humans archetypes still reign.

Silent Chaos (Marta Noone – Modular Synthesizer, Vocals, FX & Ugo Vantini – Electronic Drums and Percussions, Loops, Samplers), is a conceptual experimental music project founded in Rome in 2016, now based in the north-east of Scotland. Their music nourishes of non-linear time, of conceptual and performing circularity: ancient and futuristic sounds advance in a spiral-shaped way. Music is structured but not predictable, in an impromptu composition based on improvisation. Past, present and future times mash up in ancient sonorities and electronic twistings, filtered through the personal musical experiences. They have left behind every formality of instrument’s classic execution.

RADIOPHRENIA is a temporary art radio station – a two-week exploration into current trends in sound and transmission arts.