Il Mare di Dirac is made up of 7 movements:

1 – 00’00’’ - 03’24’’ ➤ Particelle di Majorana
2 – 03’24’’ - 04’54’’ ➤ Il mare di Dirac
3 – 04’54’’ - 13’24’’ ➤ (Calcite, Onyx, Hawaii, Tabacco (380V)*
4 – 13’24’’ - 16’06’’ ➤ Simmetria
5 – 16’06’’ - 18’33’’ ➤ Lise Meitner
6 – 18’33’’ - 21’28’’ ➤ Positroni, elettroni e annichilazione
7 – 21’28’’ - 24’54’’ ➤ Integrale sui cammini

In an era of widespread use of instruments intended for the production of electronic music, L’impero della Luce (the Empire of Light) has chosen to concentrate its research on the original matter of this discipline: electric current.

Il Mare di Dirac (The Dirac sea) was created thanks to the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction, by organizing the recorded sounds of the electromagnetic fields of everyday devices, industrial machinery and installations by authors part of the history of contemporary art.

This record is a flow of chosen sounds, captured and organized in space and time with the desire to keep their original nature and appearance as unaltered as possible, avoiding the abuse and the imposition of artificial sound effects.

The desire is to retrace the enthusiasm aroused by the first inventions capable of giving voice to the light such as Alfred Graham's Electric Musical Tones (1895) - among the first to employ voltage control - or William Du Bois Duddell's Singing Arc ( 1899), a pioneer of the sound potential of a voltaic arch.

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🁢🁢 Johann Merrich 🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢
• Sources: portable TV, DVD player, lamp, clock radio, 7 power supplies, induction charger for electric toothbrush, modem, fan, radio.
• Devices: Velicon, DIY Elektrosluch (thanks to Jasna Velickovic and Federico Foglia).

🁢🁢 eeviac 🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢🁢
• Sources: 9 power supplies, CD player, 2 portable televisions, neon lamp, UV lamp, digital alarm clock, plasma lamp, Tesla coil, AAA charger.
• Devices: DIY Elektrosluch, Telephone pick-up, Cain's box (thanks to Tommaso Mantelli and Caino custom guitars).

*The third movement Calcite, Onyx, Hawaii, Tabacco (380V) was recorded through the use of two DIY Elektrosluch with the contribution of the Bonotto Foundation at the Bonotto textile company and the Bonotto Foundation.
• Sources: Nam June Paik, Robot: the Baseball Player (1989): screen, electrical connections, dvd player, screen power supply; Nam June Paik, Voyeur Mail Box (1993): screen; William Xerra, Homage to Jacopo da Ponte (2018): neon; Joe Jones, Mechanical Surmandal (1978), electric scooter, acoustic beats; Philip Corner, Performance at the Wool Mill (1995), screens; jacquard looms; Roj Quartz frames; coffee dispensing machines; electrical panel 380 volt; weaving room looms.

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This album is dedicated to Nikola Tesla and to all the forgotten brilliant women and men in physics.

“It has become increasingly evident in recent times, however, that nature works on a different plan. Her fundamental laws do not govern the world as it appears in our mental picture in any very direct way, but instead they control a substratum of which we cannot form a mental picture without introducing irrelevancies”

Paul Dirac (first edition’s preface in The Principles of
Quantum Mechanics, 1930)