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Canedicoda

Country: Italy

Canedicoda is the name under which Giovanni Donadini, born in 1979 in Treviso and based in Milan, works across music, performance, design and fashion. Since 2003 his sound work has gone mainly under the name Ottaven, a solo project with releases on Second Sleep, Holiday Records and Le Dictateur, and he has played in groups including With Love, Lago Morto and Magic Towers.

Aliases: Ottaven
Estate
*Edition of 101* A tin can as time capsule. A season pressed into metal. Estate is the debut release from Akhet Edizioni: an assemblage of unreleased works contributed by the many artists who participated in Akhet's first year of site-specific progra…
For Lave
2010 release ** Edition of 98 copies in painted handmade sleeves. "Ottaven exists since 2003 and is the the audio project of Canedicoda (Giovanni Donadini), a multi-disciplinary artist who works in music, performance, fashion and design. He is also c…
Split
*  Edition of 50 * Jungle Gym Records presents JGT87, a brand new split cassette from legendary Italian experimentalist Ottaven and Los Angeles-based sound artist R. Pierre. A masterclass in sculptural minimalism and micro-industrial electronics, JGT…
Corpo Verde
Canedicoda is a multidisciplinary artist active in the performance, design, fashion and music fields under the alias of Ottaven.
Ehm
Xing presents the new LP Ehm by Canedicoda and Renato Grieco, seventh release of XONG collection - artist records.
The Pleasure of Loosing
*70 copies limited edition. 2023 stock* "I'm not sure if its the usual narrative when people speaks about Giovanni Donadini musical alter ego Ottaven, but at leats for me its important to mention his past which is tied to italian hardcore punk band c…
Oscar's House
*  Edition of 50 * Jungle Gym Records presents "Oscar's House", official label debut of legendary Italian experimentalist Ottaven. Here between ferns, sounds from the outside world leak through greenhouse windows, captured mid-air in perfect vignette…
Sequenze Per Raffigurazioni Mentali #5
**43 copies** Giovanni Donadini a.k.a. Ottaven is a versatile artist, illustrator, musician and fashion designer. Looking at his drawings, serigraphs, clothes, fanzines and records is easy to see how everything is extremely connected by a common thre…
End Line
Ottaven new LP issued in a tiny run of 100 copies only, a strong and puzzling mixture of tapes, electronics, varispeeding, and multiple exposures, carefully executed, with much precision and clarity. Flipping  between noisily bristling electronic fre…
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Musica per un giorno registrata in un mese
Spectacular edition! A silk-screened wooden box containing 24 tapes and a book (of art, texts and private photos collection from the artist), issued in a micro edition of 30 copies only. This composition of 24 hours recorded in one month, is a refle…
Live in Rome
Giovanni Donadini is a versatile artist, illustrator, musician, fashion designer Looking at his drawings, serigraphs, clothes, fanzines, his records.. is easy to see how everything is extremely connected by a common thread, a strict consistency an…
Running
Lovely single, by Ottaven/Canedicoda, not only a musician (ex With Love, bluid, ok no and billions of other projects, actually playing with nastro mortal, ww), Ottaven is well known as a fundamentalist silkscreener under the moniker of Canedicoda.
Aero Invisible Giants / Canedicoda At Le Dictateur
A droony ambient join venture between Le Dictateur and artist/musician/fashion designer Canedicoda, one side Lp released for the exhibition Aero Invisible Giants, Canedicoda at Le Dictateur, february 2011. Edition of 200, spectacular packaging with w…
Infinite Loops From Morocco
Giovanni Donadini are one of the most “young” prolific musician in italy today.. for over a decade he do lots of great things.. touring the entire europa, japan and usa, putting out tones of shirt, prints, zine, cloths and working 24h by day in is…