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10x80 LA CITTA' SONORA (The City Of Sounds - 1997/98)

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For a large ensemble

ear
Armonie Urbane (Fragment 1 - mp3 - 956K)
ear Armonie Urbane (Fragment 2 - mp3 - 1,2MB)
ear Megaphono (Fragment - mp3 - 1MB)

The city. Meeting place, escape and refuge. City as centre, division and the whole world. City as counterpoint of infinite social spaces. There is no "crescendo", but continuity and suspension, a stream of information, the idea of a simple, primitive listening without asking why. Opening ourselves to the urban harmony, to the sound-map which originates from the stratification of events inside the community. City as addition and subtraction. As a concert. A feast. Senza titolo (Parte I) (0'41"). A person walking in a street is whistling an old Polish melody. Armonie urbane (29'12"). A score for a mixed orchestra formed by a rock ensemble, a jazz group, classic instruments, voices, church bells. A piece inspired by the metropolis. The project, commissioned by "Il Teatro del Giglio" of Lucca for the 1st of may 1997, has been successively re-elaborated in studio. "Armonie Urbane" is a project in which everybody can play: professionals, students, "non-musicians", without any age limitation, mixing into the same context, blues, rap, trash, counterpoint, improvisation, radio-art. Megaphono (11'50"). A big empty square with columns and flights of steps, as in De Chirico's pictures or in Greenaway's scenographies. A lonely passerby seems to be running away. A strange unusual machine is moving slowly towards the middle of the space, disturbing the peace with a constant flow of noise, loops of sound garbage, electroacoustic informations. "Megaphono" is the composer's personal visionary interpretation of the environment in which we are living today, an amplification of the world through the sounds of a broken record, a "Fellinian" trombone playing simple and grotesque melodies, violent loops of fragments, guitars avoiding heavy-metal riffs, small and big loudspeakers everywhere. All these materials are organized into a sort of big "Concertato", a middle way among Russolo, Cage and Purcell. Conceived as a radio piece, as well as a live performance, "Megaphono" seems to lose itself into the "web" of DJ programs, radio waves, jingles, signals from Senza titolo (Parte II) (3'30"). The old Polish melody is sung by a non-professional female singer, and re-orchestrated  for four celloes. Faraffa´ (5'54"). A jazz piece in the style of the Sixties.

Concept and music: Stefano Giannotti
Performed by: Ensemble IL TEATRO DEL FARO, VAGA ORCHESTRA, SAXOPHONIA:
Linda Matteucci, Linda Di Martella Orsi: flutes
Michelangelo Rinaldi: oboe
Giancarlo Rizzardi, Ilenia Dinucci, Ombretta Pacini, Giorgio Fabbri, Simone Stefani, Andrea Sodini, Emilio Cervelli, Massimo Cecchi, Daniele Simonetti, Pierpaolo Iacopi: saxophones
Davide Guidi: trombone
Marco Fagioli: bass tuba
Lara Vecoli: cello
Pierluigi Papeschi, Laura Galli, Renato Ceccherelli, Fabiano Guidotti, Mirko Federighi: electric guitars
Stefano Giannotti: electric guitar, piano, accordion, harmonium, harmonica, voice, conductor
Marco "Trash" Sabattini: electric guitar, blues-man
Federico Resenauer: keyboards, rap-singing
Daniele Gargini: bass guitar
Alessandro Matteucci: drums
Miroslaw Rajkowski: phonemas
Gabriela Lukomska, Giulia Rivieri, Franco Russo: voices
Leo Moll: tape loops
Marco Banti: Sound engineer
Produced by Stefano Giannotti, VAGA ORCHESTRA, Leo Moll, SFB Hörspiel Abteilung, Martin Nimbach, Tullio Angelini 

Dur: 51'07" 

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