E.2 – TRASH–CAN STUDY (2025) – 1′28″
Commissioned for a trans-disciplinary performance event involving acousmatic pieces, photographs and art films.
Composition: Como, 02–05 Apr 2025; completed 05 Apr 2025
Form/structure: single-movement
Medium: fixed media (acousmatic); stereo (2 channels)
Sound sources: TRASH-CAN (PERCUSSION); WATERFALLS (FIELD RECORDINGS)
Premiere: 12 Apr 2025, Mare Culturale Urbano, Milan; fixed-media playback
Publications:
– Casaccia, Alexandre. Trash-can Study (E.2). Fixed-media recording. Self-published, 11 Nov 2025. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17581486; also uploaded on YouTube (14 Apr 2025).
License: © 2025 Alexandre Casaccia. Released under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PROGRAM NOTE
This short acousmatic étude was conceived as a purely formal experiment intended to feature a deliberately un-elevated object—namely, a bathroom trash-can—while attempting a displacement of its semantic associations through a constrained writing exercise. The resulting “trash-can percussion” is treated along the lines of contrapuntal imitative writing—evoking the procedures of sacred music— thus forcing new meaning onto it.
The piece invites listeners to re-contextualize sound-objects and challenge traditional layers of meaning.