Vrihi by Lorenzo Brilli

Vrihi by Lorenzo Brilli

Vrihi, a Sanskrit word meaning "rice," is a sonic work that explores the expressive power of the human voice, conceived as a vessel of invisible memories and submerged narratives. In this piece, disparate voices are fragmented, manipulated, and reassembled into a complex acoustic tapestry, where subtle timbres and granular textures merge to generate unheard sonic forms.

Each track echoes the repetitive, ritual gestures of manual labor, powerfully evoking the physical and sonic memory of bodies forgotten by time. Through the use of archival recordings and dense auditory layering, an immersive soundscape takes shape—one in which rhythm is not only pulse but also matter, surface, and memory.

Vrihi is an act of deep listening, a poetic homage to the sound of labor and to the voice as a vehicle for invisible yet present stories, capable of transcending time and space.

Lorenzo Brilli, drummer and percussionist, explores the universe of drums and percussion through manipulated and sampled sounds, treating every sound-noise as a potential unit for sonic experimentation and investigation.

His practice often begins with a minimal gesture and moves along the boundaries between improvisation, sound art, and experimental electronic music, with a particular focus on the relationship between body, sound object, and performance space.

Trained as a jazz drummer, Lorenzo Brilli is mainly active in the jazz scene, working with musicians and collectives that value spontaneous interaction and the expressive depth of sound. In parallel, he develops projects dedicated to timbral research, collaborating with electroacoustic composers and artists in the experimental electronic music scene. Through this dual path, Brilli combines formal rigor and expressive freedom, building a personal sonic poetics in which acoustic gesture, electronic manipulation, and attention to the spatial dimension of sound coexist.

Credits

Music by: Lorenzo Brilli

Drums, percussions, production: Lorenzo Brilli

Mixed by: Ruggero Fornari

Mastered by: Edoardo Maria Bellucci at Diacronie Lab

Artwork by: Delia Occhiucci