Jumping electrons (an ode to electronic music)

At the core of electronic music is the dialogue between body and machine. The dance of electrons inside a light source determines the emission of a certain color. “Jumping electrons” develops in a cycle where the loop is the technical approach, and vital dynamism fights with an inevitable death of staticity. The loop to create the dialogue with the machine is simple: I create digital photo-collages leaving some empty spaces, then print on paper, draw on the empty spaces with graphite, scan the results to re-work on it digitally, and then print again and so on for three or four times.

At the core of electronic music is the dialogue between body and machine. The dance of electrons inside a light source determines the emission of a certain color. “Jumping electrons” develops in a cycle where the loop is the technical approach, and vital dynamism fights with an inevitable death of staticity. The loop to create the dialogue with the machine is simple: I create digital photo-collages leaving some empty spaces, then print on paper, draw on the empty spaces with graphite, scan the results to re-work on it digitally, and then print again and so on for three or four times.

Title

Jumping electrons (an ode to electronic music)

Location

Milan, Paris, Dakar

Year

2025

Credits

Image by Giovanni Armando Romano

Info

Drawings on printed digital photos or photo-collages, scanned and re-worked digitally

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