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니콜라 라티 (Nicola Ratti)는 건축학적 감각과 아날로그 기반 전자음향을 결합해, 리듬을 구조적 사건으로 조직하는 밀라노 출신의 사운드 아티스트이다. 그의 작업은 반복과 미묘한 변주를 통해 최소한의 요소로 복잡한 리듬 앙상블을 만들어낸다.

대표작 'Pressure Loss'는 8개의 LFO와 필터만을 사용해 극도로 제한된 수단으로 완성된 리듬 실험이다. 각 트랙은 개별성을 유지하면서도 유기적인 하나의 흐름처럼 작동하며, 단순한 음향 구조가 거대한 공간 감각으로 확장된다. 라티는 이를 통해 리듬을 사운드 디자인이 아닌, 공간을 생성하는 동적 시스템으로 이해한다.

그의 리듬은 예측 가능한 격자 위에 놓이지 않는다. 오히려 최소한의 진동에서 발생하는 미세한 시간차와 긴장 속에 청취자의 감각을 이끄는 비격자적 구조를 설계한다. 그에게 있어 리듬은 청각의 구성물이 아니라, 시간 위에 서서히 드러나는 ‘공간적 사건’이다.

Nicola Ratti is a Milan-based sound artist who merges architectural sensibilities with analog electronic sound, organizing rhythm as a form of structural event. Through repetition and subtle variation, his work creates complex rhythmic ensembles from the sparsest of elements.

His acclaimed album 'Pressure Loss' is a rhythmic experiment built with only eight LFOs and a set of filters—an exploration of extreme limitation. Each track maintains its individuality while contributing to an organic, continuous flow, expanding simple sonic structures into a vast sense of spatial presence. For Ratti, rhythm is not merely an aspect of sound design but a dynamic system that generates space itself.

His rhythms do not unfold over predictable grids. Instead, he constructs non-gridded structures that draw the listener’s senses into the micro-tensions and temporal displacements that arise from minimal vibrations. For Ratti, rhythm is not a composition for the ear, but a “spatial event” that slowly emerges across time.

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