Metaphonic Portrait: 1230 A.D., by K11

Metaphonic Portrait: 1230 A.D.

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Continuing with his interest in cathedrals, with the new K11 release “Metaphonic Portrait 1230 A.D.”,
Riparbelli entered Assisi Cathedral in the Umbria region of Italy, not far from Riparelli’s hometown of
Tuscany; the 1230 A.D. in the album’s title referring to the date of completion of the original cathedral.
Audio was recorded in the cathedral’s lower basilica, the oldest area where the actual relics of St.
Francis Of Assisi are kept.
Again utilizing short-wave radios as his primary “instrument” Riparbelli has captured a haunting array of
cavernous sounds, displaced signals and found ambience. With the addition of some voice and organ
elements, Metaphonic Portrait 1230 A.D. sounds not unlike the recordings of experimentalists Philip Jeck
and William Basinski under the influenced of Crowleyean Magick and Sacred Geometry. A psychedelic
meditation from some medieval crypt captured out of time in the present.
The numbers used in the songtitles are chosen with purpose, all related to the Gematria, the ancient
system that assigns numbers to words and how they relate to each other. A video shot inside the
cathedral by Riparbelli is included on the disc to give the listener a visual picture of the aging structure.
As in all K11’s work, the themes of magick, religion, numerology and esotericism are present throughout
this reverent document of aural mysticism.

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released January 1, 2010

label: ActualNoise/20BuckSpin

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k11 Livorno, Italy

K11 is a project of Italian sound artist Pietro Riparbelli and lives within the world of radio signals, transcommunication and other invisible phenomena, to create a dimension where the main sound sources are signals from shortwave radio receivers.

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