Armeno Alberts
- Scrap Metal Metamorphosis
Today, metal waste is just about the most valuable waste you can think of, almost more precious than gold. In the recycling industry, metal waste is disassembled, selected, separated and melted down in all kinds of ways, in order to get a new life, for example as semi-finished products for the metal industry or as material for church bells.
Scrap Metal Metamorphosis focuses on sounds of crashing metal, such as the crushing of cars or the dumping of metal waste. Similar to the process of how real waste is recycled, the sound footage is deconstructed, cleaned and sorted resulting in elementary sound cells, ready to be recycled and reassembled into? Well, into what?
Yeah, into music maybe?!
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51°59’15,9” N 5°53’39,2” E | SEW De Helling, Arnheim, Netherlands
© Marian van der Noordt
© Marian van der Noordt
BIO
Armeno Alberts studied piano and composition at the Conservatory in Arnhem, electronic music at the Institute for Sonology in Utrecht and Les Atelier Upic in Paris.
Worked for many years as radio producer for VPRO Radio and at the moment works as staff member at Willem Twee studios in Den Bosch.
As a musician Armeno plays gamelan in Ensemble Gending. Besides, for almost 35 years Armeno creates acousmatic works, radiofonic works, sounddesign for VR film and soundscapes. He toured around the world performing on self-built musical instruments and sound sculptures. Armeno won several prices such as the “Prix Phonurgia Nova” and, as part an artistic film team, a “Gouden Kalf’ at the Netherlands Filmfestival.
Website: www.willem-twee.nl