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1. lixt live (preview)
About New Album
You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. Video of the live performance can be watched here for free.
Live in berlin – lixt
[sh[i]e[l]d] is an audio visual live coding performance focused on information, noise and video feedback. A way to address the power and misuse of the mass media industry which delivers tons of speculative information to the public causing an endemic socio political vulnerability. This project uses the homepage of well-known newspapers as an arena for debate, creativity and play, neutralizing its imposing aesthetics. The live coding manipulation of the web page through the browser console is blended with the drony environment resulting in a noisy, glitched performance. This work was the central point of lixt’s presence in 2024 and it was performed in Barcelona, Berlin, Bologna, Carrara, Pisa and Spezia. This album is the live recording of Berlin’s presentation, during the CtrlReturn festival, realized in the historical hackspace c-base.
lixt
lixt is an online and offline presence that represents Rafael Bresciani’s research paththrough the use of live coding as a medium for artistic expression. Brazilian musician, sound designer and former journalist with a master’s degree in Net Art and Digital Culture and now a PhD candidate in Technological Humanism at the Accademia di Belle Arti di SantaGiulia di Brescia (IT), his practice and research focus on the boundaries of media, communication, technology, and sound as part of a transdisciplinary practice.
Bresciani’s work addresses themes such as data infrastructure and ethics, post-internet structures of power and mass media industry, searching for a radical approach to technology as a way of understanding the micro-realities ignored by the era of post-truth and machine automatism. In this context, lixt is the practical side of this broader research, an experimental playground created to expose and explore the contemporary crisis of language. Based in Italy and engaged in dialogue with both science and art, Bresciani has participated in exhibitions and performances at venues such as Phonos (Barcelona), C-Base (Berlin), MEET (Milan), and others in Strasbourg, Yekaterinburg, Rome, Bologna, Genoa, Brescia, Pisa, and São Paulo (Brazil).
Credits
Published by Elektramusic Berlin – Paul Clouvel
All rights reserved 2025 © lixt (Rafael Bresciani)
2025 ℗ Elektramusic Berlin – Paul Clouvel
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ThrenoScope.new(8, 'dev', "Gb");
~drones.createDrone(\formant, 48, amp: 0, length: 360, name:\xii);
~xii.amp_(0.05, 60);
~drones.createDrone(\cub, tonic: 1, harmonics:1, length: 360, amp:0, env: 0.5, name:\bass);
~bass.amp_(0.4, 10);
~xii.amp_(0, 120);
~drones.createChord(\eliane, tonic:2, harmonics:2, env:15, amp:0, chord: \minor6, name:
\m6);
~m6.amp_(0.01, 30);
~m6.harmonics_(5, 30);
~bass.amp_(0, 30);
~m6.speed = 30;
~drones.createSatellites(\klank, tonic:3, chord:\minor6, harmonics:3, num:40, spread:7,
amp:0, env: 0.5, name:\sat1);
~sat1.amp_(0.01, 30);
~sat1.env = [0.02, 1, 15];
~sat1.set(\out, ~harmInBus)
~mixer.set(\grainAmp, 0, \looperAmp, 0, \harmAmp, 0.5, \echoAmp, 0, \reverbAmp, 0.6,
\mixAmp, 4);
~sat1.speed = -20;
~drones.createDrone(\noise, tonic: 3, amp: 0, harmonics: 4, length: 360, env: 0.5, name:
\nz);
~m6.tonic_(9, 120);
~m6.amp_(0.2, 120);
m.control(0, 19, 0);
~sat1.amp_(0.0, 30);
~nz.amp = 0.4;
~m6.amp = 0;
~xii.amp = 0.05;
~bass.amp = 0.2;
m.control(0, 19, 100);
m.control(0,20, 100);
~nz.amp = 0;
~m6.amp = 0.2;
~xii.amp = 0;
~bass.amp = 0;
m.control(0, 19, 100);
m.control(0, 20, 0);
~m6.tonic_(4, 120);
m.control(0, 19, 0);
~nz.amp_(0, 0);
~m6.amp_(0.3, 6);
~sat1.amp_(0, 30);
~m2.amp_(0, 12);
~nz.amp_(0, 0);
~m6.amp_(0.5, 0);
~sat1.amp_(0.2, 0);
~sat1.num = 12;
~drones.createChord(\eliane, tonic:2, harmonics:4, env:5, amp:0, note: "F", chord: \minor6,
name: \m2);
~m2.harmonics_(6, 60);
~sat1.tonic_(1, 120);
amp_(0.3, 60);
~drones.killAll;