Marta Salogni & Stefano Pilia - Phren Marta Salogni & Stefano Pilia

Phren, the first collaborative work by Marta Salogni and Stefano Pilia, emerges as a layered and articulated sound hymn-dialogue between Stefano's abstract guitar work and Marta's manipulation of tape machines. Conceived alongside the imagined space created by Sarah Mazzetti for the Opale series, a project by Maple Death Records and Canicola Edizioni, the album becomes a form-shifting composition where memory is continuously transformed through resonance, repetition, and reconfiguration.

Here, sound is not preserved as an object of the past, but treated as a living material: something capable of carrying traces, absorbing new meanings, and generating unfamiliar voices.

The album develops from a simple yet constantly shifting principle: a sound is set in motion and then passed through a series of interconnected systems where it is delayed, altered, and returned in another form. Stefano Pilia's guitar travels through a complex chain of modular processes, composed of different stages of preamplification and filtering, before entering a tape echo system that introduces further layers of repetition, resonance, and spatial displacement. These signals are then absorbed into Marta Salogni's Revox tape machines, where additional lines of delay, modulation, and environmental transformation reshape the material once again.

The resulting music is not a dialogue between two instruments, but a shared system—a living architecture in which a single signal moves simultaneously through parallel and serial pathways, gathering traces of each passage. Sound becomes a material in constant motion: a gesture becomes an echo, the echo becomes a new gesture, and the distinction between origin and reflection gradually begins to dissolve.