Article from "Unione Sarda" (28th of July 2009)

N emo propheta in patria? Troppo facile, ma per Raimondo Gaviano che chiama i suoi lavori con citazioni latine ("Ab Imo Pectore", "Audiebantur Gemitus Vulneratorum", "Silentium Aureum est", "Gutta Cavat Lapidem", DavisibiliaDinvisibilia", "Frangar, non Flectar") è un incipit che ci può stare. Cagliaritano di stanza in Ungheria, dove lavora insegnando lingua e cultura italiana e con in tasca una laurea in archeologia, Raimondo Gaviano è un musicista autodidatta che raccoglie nella vecchia Mitteleuropa diversi consensi, incide dischi, fa performance dal vivo con altri artisti. Tanto che diverse testate di settore e webzine musicali hanno recensito i suoi lavori. Dopo aver seguito lezioni di pianoforte si è specializzato in nuove tecnologie: laptop, mute-synths, electronics vari gli strumenti. Del resto, per il tipo di musica che propone (un ambient concettuale molto minimale, "noisy" e dark) fatta di loops, glitch digitali, droni ed effetti elettronici queste sono le armi adatte.
Svart1, questo il nome d'arte con il quale firma le composizioni, è figlio della youtube/facebook/ myspace generation, quei luoghi virtuali dove ci si presenta, si propone la propria arte, si creano contatti inserendo sia brani che video scaricabili dalla rete (nel suo caso basta andare su www.myspace.com/svart1). Tra le passioni: Antonin Artaud, Federico Fellini e Francesco Petrarca per la poetica e i simboli, i Lustmord, Raison d'Etre, Desiderii Marginiis e gli storici Popol Vuh per la musica e un certo gusto per le immagini spiazzanti. Meglio fotogrammi degli interni di un asettico laboratorio di sperimentazioni che di un paesaggio marino, per capirci. Nonostante sia a Cagliari per concedersi "un meritato riposo ad anno scolastico concluso", Raimondo Gaviano/Svart1 ha sonorizzato dal vivo un video dell'artista Paola Porcedda giorni fa ad Iglesias in occasione del "Gsotto", un evento organizzato dall'Arci locale. Elettronica e arti visive, sperimentazione e musica d'ambiente come teorizzata da Brian Eno e superata nelle infinite possibilità espressive di tecnologie digitali, atmosfere oscure e magmatiche: questo il mondo il Svart1, cagliaritano d'Ungheria e artista, sebbene di nicchia, transnazionale. Con un grazie al WEB oltre che alla propria passione.
Giuseppe Cadeddu.

About Svart1 live for Hyperborea Festival (23th May 2009) at Gyar Club, Budapest.

A Svart1 a minket körülvevo láthatatlan, de zsigerien tapasztalható és érezheto világ tökéletes megjelenítoje. A dark ambient mufaj talán a legalkalmasabb arra, hogy hangokkal ábrázoljon jelenségeket, érzelmeket, állapotokat, és a Svart1 esetében mindez a minket körülvevo, de mára oly kevéssé átélt természet megidézésével, a kimozdító hangulatokkal, az elsivárosodás fázisainak ábrázolásával jelent egyet. Lehet, hogy nem egyszeru szembenézni mindezzel, de a Svart1 éppen arra törekszik, hogy a keletkezo feszültség kreatív legyen: olyan, amibol az ember erot merít. Lassú, lágy ütemek egyszerre hallhatók gyorsabbakkal, feszesebbekkel, hogy a melankólia bizarr dinamikáját mindenki megtapasztalhassa.

Comment for "Daina" from "Ab imo Pectore" Svart1 (2008) September 2008.

"Daina" is poetic and often melancholic, sometimes compared to the blues for that reason.
"Daina" are often played with a slow, free rhythm melody against a fast accompaniment pattern in fixed tempo, giving an overall feeling of rhythmic tension.

Rewiev "Frangar non Flectar" Svart1(2008) from Enrico Fiore (throop,pa. u.s.a.) September 2008.

A pleasantly disturbing atmosphere, some would consider this to be difficult music and that may be true since it does require your full attention, this soundscape is one of organic dark ambience with otherworldly and unconfined sounds, substances and voice flowing moving about freely, pleasantly disturbing atmospheres, these are the sounds of a dystopian world, a painting of the human condition, consider it well.

"Silentium aureum est" Rewiev from earlab Karol, 31.8.2008

This album has a solid concept behind it, explained by the title; "Silentium aureum est" is a Latin term to indicate "a mental structure in which all layers are inclined in the same direction".
These tracks could be interpreted as these different layers which match up in the monocline fold composed with different simple elements, at last, are a totality of abstract substance.
Music floats as a "unicum" and simply shifts, track after track, into various basic components: dark melody, echo-deep silences, found sounds and pure sine waves.

Anonymus web comment for "Frangar, non Flectar" 13.06.2008.

Melanchionic and sad atmospheres,
presents well your ability to isolate and focus
upon chosen elements in a natural atmosphere then create something almost otherworldly.
Is very much this-worldly at the same time
a hyperfocused awareness of a moment in time, a feeling atmosphere.
A little gift for Artaud.

Comments for 21.03.2008

The minimal, mimetic, unsual noises of the nature, and the animal world digitally used are the last release of Svart1 (Raimondo Gaviano).
Unmistakable sounds, least atmospheres, sonorous landscapes that pass among thousand colors.
The border of the pleasures of small beings that gained "on live" from Svart1 strange meetings become between thousand suspects and a royal demand of comparison.

'DavVisibiliaaAdInvisibilia' from Startling Moniker - (U.S.A.) 30.05.2007

Initially starts as more of an idm-style recording, albeit with lovely Eno influences.
A little less than halfway through, a number of pleasantly unexpected sounds are utilized to fine effect-- wolves, foreign languages, footsteps, etc..
All in all, a solid work with crisp production throughout, and enough "reach" that I would assume the next work continues and improves upon these ideas.

Critique 'DavVisibiliaaAdInvisibilia' Lisa Cervi -videoartist- (Milan) 14.07.2007

Raimondo Gaviano (SVART1) conducts us in an invisible world that slowly, disclosing yourself, it appears to our eyes.
Sharp sounds that seek peace as a mute cry.
Melancholy silences in which to look for if same.
Noises in foundation to remember the world in which we live, the reality that prevents at times that the dream takes life…
Shades in which to him.
Lights in which to find a brief breath
The world of Svart1, screeches with all of this that we recognize, it doesn't reenter in categories but only in what you can be defined: lived personal.
Its music filters the world and the surrounding space, it races in the time…
Acute sounds that burn as it climbs,
sweets known you whisper that they speak as waves of the sea…