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There’s more to alchemy than its simply being a physical and chemical discipline: in fact it’s also about experiencing spiritual growth and development. Alchemists didn’t use to make any kind of distinction between the material dimension and the symbolic and philosophical dimension: by melting down matter they sought to understand consciousness.  Musicians of electronic sound have a right to declare themselves modern alchemists: through their chemical approach to sound, which is constantly molded, melted and modeled anew, they operate at a level of transformation of sound matter in order to reach new levels of perception. The alchemic process must also have influenced Walter Biondi and Giancarlo Bonfà, two creative characters who have decided to get together and bring about an avant-garde personal project following individual careers as composers, producers and sound engineers.  In 2012, making a mockery of the Maya prophecy, the duo became a single musical entity: under the name Synthetic Alchemy their creativity is channeled into a free and unpredictable universe of sound expressly given over to the world of cinema, TV and videogames.  Theirs is an inquiry where nothing is quite what it seems. An anxious undercurrent underlies even the most comforting of melodies. The menacing sound of a technocrat-dominated metropolis can dissolve into a multitude of reverberations that conjure up hazy images of limitless spaces. Obscure presences in the shape of dark, obsessive rhythms express the anxiety of the last survivor on the planet while a distant song informs him that he is no longer alone.  Synthetic Alchemy is all about, well, alchemy. An alchemy that has found a perfect balance of research, technology and the image-laden tale.  At once epic and melancholic, sweet and violent, this is music that speaks to the future without ever forgetting man.