Dual is a contemporary electronic music project that utilizes the technique of Field Recording.

Born in the late 2000s, by Cesare Bignotti and Giorgio Barroccu, Dual’s aim is to reshape sound exclusively through the technique of field recording to compose experimental electronic music without the use of commercial instruments.
Dual – Ca.Net_is (Making-of). The album was recorded and produced from 1 to 10 September 2019, at the artistic residence LXL, San Sperate – Sardinia, Italy.

Domusnovas _ Live

EVES Music © 2023

Dual is a project of contemporary fieldrecoding music. The live was recorded to 09 September 2019, at the Domusnovas. The live is sequel of the album Ca . Net_is, recorded and produced from 1 to 10 September 2019, at the artistic residence LXL, San Sperate – Sardinia, Italy.

Part of the tracklist is made up of unreleased tracks, performed exclusively live, alternating with some tracks present on the album Ca . Net_is. The theme of the album is focused on the creation of rural techno music, composed through environmental sounds, acoustic effects recorded in real environments, rhythmic percussions of wood and metal, and the use of sound stone sculptures by the Sardinian artist, Pinuccio Sciola.

The main elements that distinguish the concept are: the contrast between the real and virtual environment, past and future, the union of electronic music with tribalism in search of an otherworldly experience; these concepts have merged with the initiatory path of the Rave Culture, where physical and material abandonment takes place through a collective trance, to live a new experience.

Dual is a group made up of Cesare Bignotti aka Useless Idea and Giorgio Barroccu, since 2012 carries on a series of performative projects of sound installations on specific and extemporaneous themes on the subject of change; reality is re-configured through sound recording and manipulation, creating a new soundscape, composed of real information but reinterpreted in an abstract and dystopian way, through music. Each performance is documented and preserved through the publication of a record.

Released December 13, 2023. Domusnovas Live is was recorded by Dual in 2019 ® Published by EVES Music © 2023 — CAT EVES035. Mastered by Giorgio Barroccu at Brucia Studio. Executive Production, Tracklist Selection and Graphic Design by Cesare Bignotti, EVES © 2023.

Ca​.​Net_is

EVES Music © 2019

Dual is a project of contemporary field recoding music.
The album was recorded and produced from 1 to 10 September 2019,at the artistic residence LXL, San Sperate – Sardinia, Italy.

The theme of the album is focused on the creation of rural techno music, composed through environmental sounds, acoustic effects recorded in real environments, rhythmic percussions of wood and metal, and the use of sound stone sculptures by the Sardinian artist, Pinuccio Sciola.


The main elements that distinguish the concept are: the contrast between the real and virtual environment, past and future, the union of electronic music with tribalism in search of an otherworldly experience; these concepts have merged with the initiatory path of the Rave Culture, where physical and material abandonment takes place through a collective trance, to live a new experience.

Dual is a group made up of Cesare Bignotti aka Useless Idea and Giorgio Barroccu, since 2012 carries on a series of performative projects of sound installations on specific and extemporaneous themes on the subject of change; reality is re-configured through sound recording and manipulation, creating a new soundscape, composed of real information but reinterpreted in an abstract and dystopian way, through music. Each performance is documented and preserved through the publication of a record. 

Released July 1, 2022. Ca.Net_is is written, produced and recorded by Dual from 2019 to 2021 ® Published by EVES Music © 2022— CAT EVES032.

Edited by Dual at EVES Music Studio. Mastered by Giorgio Barroccu at Brucia Studio. Executive Production, Tracklist Selection and Graphic Design by Cesare Bignotti, EVES © 2019.

Moonwater EP

EVES Music © 2017
Moonwater is the outcome of various compositional experiences from early 2012, prior to the debut album “Musil Live”, where the result was a sound that was equally close to Industrial and Concrete music.
 
 
This path partly maintains the concept of soundscape, through the revisiting of field recordings, but unlike the industrial denotation of the previous record, the theme here is the environment, old tapes recoding sessions of natural ambiences. The rhythm is made up of insects sounds or the noise of a falling stone in a pond, voice samples, taken from old documentaries on VHS, and random noises of radio and TV frequencies.
 
Released March 27, 2017. CAT EVES017, Label: EVES Music. Moonwater is produced, mixed and recorded by Dual in Winter 2012 . 2013 . Dual are Bignotti Cesare and Giorgio Barroccu. Mixed and edited by Cesare Bignotti at Acid Hologram Studio. Executive Producer, Cesare Bignotti. Additional Mastering by Leonardo Barbadoro. Photo and Design by Cesare Bignotti.

Musil Live

EVES Music © 2014

Musil Live is the first official release by Dual, a duo of Italian field recorder electronic music producers. This EP is a live recording of their performance that took place in Brescia’s “Museo Del Lavoro” in 2012.

As the museum’s artists in residence, Dual sampled the industrial machines and manipulated the recordings for three days to produce this four-track album. The industrial machines’ metallic percussions and creaking sounds create a cold and industrial atmosphere, which lead into deep harmonies and melodies.
 
Released November 20, 2012. Published By EVES, March 2014.
All tracks composed and produced by Dual.
Executive Producer, and Art Direction by Bignotti Cesare. Additional Mastering by Leonardo Barbadoro. Photo Art by Cesare Bignotti & Giorgio Barroccu. Graphic Design by Cesare Bignotti / EVES © 2014.