Since 1985, Eraldo Bernocchi, P.NG5361.B and Luca Di Giorgio (as well as a long list of friends and collaborators) have been working as SIGILLUM S an Italian post – industrial audio project of many different natures, where concepts have led the effort and employed sound as a tool for the exploration of the forbidden areas of the subconscious: the result has been a endless paradigm of alien electronic mutations, merging concrete noise research with acoustic transmigration, while visuals and many other forms of media have been also adopted, in order to achieve maximum interaction intensity.
Active since 1985, Sigillum S cannot be easily labelled, despite the fact that it is associated chiefly with the industrial aesthetics. The founders of the group, Paolo Bandera and Luca di Giorgio, set a very specific task for themselves right in the beginning – to use sound as a tool for exploration of hidden and denied spheres of the human subconscious. And so, with each subsequent release they have been broadening the range of means, genres and instruments without becoming attached to any specific sound but instead seeking new ones. The project’s compositions are endless electronic sound mutations in which pure noise coming from the avant-garde musique concrète background merges with acoustic transmigrations. The collection of instruments used by the musicians is impressive – from electronic samplers, all the way through ethnic instruments or guitar to short wave generators. Each subsequent record of the project takes the listener on farther musical journeys, where diverse aesthetics, such as noise, dub, ambient or ritualistic music, are used as means of expression of equal importance.
