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The Verge of Ruin is a research in sound and poetry that started in December 2015 by Stefano de Ponti and Shari DeLorian.
The image evoked by Moniker suggests a risky and stimulating position in which the duo from Milan is looking at and responding to the world.
A view that lives in the present and at the same time is strongly connected with several guides and experiences out of the past.
Constantly looking for new vanishing points and responding to creative oppressions which are caused by contemporary collapses of media.
The framework referred to is the one drawn by concrete music and acousmatic art of the XIX century, in particular with references to Cage, Nono, Schaeffer, Xenakis and Scelsi to reach electroacoustic and avant garde electronic-alike shores.
The approach in composition is highly free and deprived from dogmatisms: from radical experi- mentation to sound research and sound production, meant as rough matter to be modelled and equipped with a sense. A pre-de ned conceptual development through graphic scores and the writing and organization of materials coming from other artistic languages, like visual arts and literature.
The accumulation of practices and the registration of sounds, the meeting between studio and eld recordings, from cutting-up to sampling, the use of classic instruments (strings, horns, chords and drums), voices, additive electronic devices and granular and modal synthesis softwares: all these elements give birth to a style that dissociates itself from standard classi cations and labeling. The collaboration with other artists and musicians is crucial. The need for dialogue and exchange among different people and and therefore languages are vital.