"What might have been and what has been
point to one end, which is always present"
(T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets)
"CTB, few hypotheses" is a collaborative project between AKA and several sound/video artists.
Its purpose is to unfold the sonic and visual possibilities that emerge when one piece of art is opened up, reset to its fundemental particles, its crackles being put together from scratch, in different times, spaces and contexts.
At the same time, the project is an attempt to overcome our natural tendency to read one specific meaning in the reality that surrounds us and it is also a treatment for trustfulness.
Several questions led to the project: what is the meaning behind an improvised track? Is a piece of art necessarily owned by the artist itself? Does any new meaning appear when it becomes an object to be seen - and reimagined - from different angles? What does putting together these different perspectives mean?
The improvised track "CTB" was released as a bonus track of our first album and from that time it has been remixed, reworked, reimagined by several musicians active in different music contexts.
The results, mastered by sound master Renato Grieco, were forced to co-exist together in this album and were given a visual substance by Lorenzo Picarazzi, from Red Lights Video (except the video for California Technical Bulletin, made by The B-Roll himself).
1. Luiz Vinoza - Come Tulipani Bianchi 00:53
2. blackHole unLTD. - Cipher Type Byte 03:30
3. Bienoise - Composite Triple Beat 08:10
4. Alessio Riccio - Cease to Breathe 08:12 video
5. The B-Roll - California Technical Bulletin 07:15 video
6. Giuseppe Pisano - Create This Book 07:16
7. Malstrom - Combat Trauma Bag 03:58 video
8. Lyn (HateLimbs) - Change the Business 03:54
9. Edoardo Bellucci - Color Temperature Blue 07:46
10. Manlio Maresca - Cut-Throat Bitch 04:46
11. Cristiano Bocci - Clear to Build 06:12 video
12. Delta Machina - Central Tape Bus 03:46 video
13. Perfect Cluster - Computerized Tomography Brain 06:36
14. Luca Sguera AKA - CTB 04:48
AKA is (and will always be)
Luca Sguera - piano
Francesco Panconesi - tenor sax
Alessandro Mazzieri - bass/electronics
Carmine Casciello - drums
