Among the fly ashes and flame’s fulcrum, the origin and destination's nuances are lost into shade's shaping. Meaningless are the relationships between indoor and outdoor world. A plural noise faces the expanse of embers.

Tra le ceneri volanti e il fulcro della fiamma, l’origine e la destinazione si riflettono smarrite nell’evolversi della sfumatura. Insignificanti i rapporti tra mondo interno ed esterno. Un suono plurale si affaccia sulla distesa di braci.

Focolai - Carlo Elia Praderio

Ensemble Suono Giallo performed Dimou's "impetuous flow: in flux" at the first concert of the 1st International ilSuono Academy for Young Composers 2016 in Cittá di Castello, Italy on July 23, 2016. 

Andrea Biagini, alto flute
Michele Bianchini, alto saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion
Simone Nocchi, piano

Program Notes:
"Impetuous flow: in flux" is a piece that is written for and heartily dedicated to the members of the Ensemble Suono Giallo. The structural framework of the piece is derived from an older project and my goal is to revitalize the sonic material of the saxophone and explore its sonic implications - the various sonic and acoustic properties along with the exploration and orchestrated realization of breathy sounds, noisy entities - and any possible extensions of its preconceived microtonal material. This piece reflects my personal exploration with regard to the coexistence and/or interrelationship among pitch and noisy entities. Sonic plasticity and microtonality become the actual tools leading to a comprehensive realization of sliding micro and macro-gestures as long as idiomatic instrumental glissandi, articulated my different instrumental combinations. 

https://soundcloud.com/stylianos-dimou

DIMOU, Stylianos - impetuous flow: in flux (2016)

Ensemble Suono Giallo performed Lin's "corpo a corpo" at the first concert of the 1st International ilSuono Academy for Young Composers 2016 in Cittá di Castello, Italy on July 23, 2016.

Michele Bianchini, tenor saxophone
Laura Mancini, frame drum + bass drum
Simone Nocchi, piano

Andrea Biagini, conductor

Program Notes:
We are certainly aware that our body is capable of making sound through the direct contact with another object; for example, blowing air into the saxophone or the use of hands with the piano and drums. But, what is the sound of our body? Can the subtle vibration of our body and the internal rhythm of breathing and heart beat be transmitted into these external objects? And, in return, can our body resonate with the sound and the vibration that we create? In this case, the frame drum acts as an amplifier of our body, with various mallets and objects acting as the extension of our fingers. The three instruments become a single body, and through various resonances, the three musicians unite as the resonating bodies of these vibrations.

https://soundcloud.com/wei-chieh-lin

LIN, Wei-Chieh - corpo a corpo (2016)

Ensemble Suono Giallo performed Ralli's "All Alone (among the others)II" at the second concert of the 1st International ilSuono Academy for Young Composers 2016 in Cittá di Castello, Italy on July 24, 2016. 

Andrea Biagini, flute
Michele Bianchini, saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion
Simone Nocchi, piano

Program Notes:
How does an ensemble piece “work”? Which is the role of a musician as part of an ensemble and which as a soloist? Who is the protagonist and who is accompanying? 
The conception was to compose an ensemble piece with small or bigger solo moments for each one of the four instruments, during which the musician is “exposed” - playing all alone, unprotected from the group.

The concentration is changing and keeps moving from instrument to instrument, forming different groups every time until it reaches a tutti (a zenith), where all the musicians meet, “gaining” an equal role.
This moment exists only to disappear again shortly after, leading to saxophone coda towards the end.

https://www.reverbnation.com/eleniralli

RALLI, Eleni - All Alone (among the others)II (2016)

Ensemble Suono Giallo performed Collin's "Mayday" at the second concert of the 1st International ilSuono Academy for Young Composers 2016 in Cittá di Castello, Italy on July 24, 2016.

Andrea Biagini, flute
Michele Bianchini, saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion

Program Notes:
A man in a whale discovers a typemachine. He tries to write a SOS.
It doesn't work. 
He is hungry. He finds a fish inside a piece of plastique but it is inedible. He makes some music with this fish.  
Let's call the whales.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0DxZycU-z4

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COLLIN, Léo - Mayday (2016)

Ensemble Suono Giallo performed Martin's "(α - Al2O3) Sappheiros" at the second concert of the 1st International ilSuono Academy for Young Composers 2016 in Cittá di Castello, Italy on July 24, 2016.

Andrea Biagini, flute
Michele Bianchini, saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion
Simone Nocchi, piano

Program Notes:
Guerrero Matrix vii/xii
CTBS
AEAI
NTIO
IUNN
 
The structure for (α-Al2O3) Sappheiros derives its inspiration from the lattice pattern found in sapphires.
 
Musically charting a density, g/cm3 3.98 the composition extends intricate patterns defined by the illusive 'blue stone’ to create a sonic tapestry of shimmering light caught inside its chambers.

MARTIN, Reagan - (α - Al2O3) Sappheiros (2016)

Ensemble Suono Giallo performed Milia's "Sighs" at the second concert of the 1st International ilSuono Academy for Young Composers 2016 in Cittá di Castello, Italy on July 24, 2016.

Andrea Biagini, flute
Michele Bianchini, saxophone
Simone Nocchi, piano

Program Notes:
Written in 2016, Sighs for alto flute, soprano saxophone and piano, evokes the sounds of our breathing that manifest an altered emotional state. Joy, fear, excitement, anxiety, surprise, strain ... The breath and the blow are not only the source of the sound, but are also the first revelation of our state of mind, before the language. The flute presents a series of sounds characterized by the "noise" of the air through different emissions and embouchures. Sounds to which the saxophone and the piano as well, make echo in their own way. In this piece I do not use the "breath" in a theatrical way, dramatizing the altered breathing. I am seeking a balance and a porosity between sounds related to human expressiveness (body and language) and abstract sound’s structures that may arise as a response. Actually, saxophone does not use the same types of hissing emissions as the flute, and the piano can not imitate him at all. What they can do is to transform the blow into other structures. The breath and the sound have in common the temporal elasticity and the cyclical nature, the possibility of suddenly being interrupted blocked and produced again with different emission’s velocity. They can also assume various articulations. This snorting, hissing and whistling is also used as a spark for the ephemeral “songs” evoking a spontaneous vocality.

https://soundcloud.com/user218325485

MILIA, Alessandro - Sighs (2016)

ensemble Suono Giallo performed "Illusoire" at the opening concert of the 2017 edition of ilSUONO at the Scuola di Musica Giacomo Puccini in Città di Castello, Italy on July 15, 2017.
Andrea Biagini, bass flute
Michele Bianchini, baritone saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion
Simone Nocchi, piano
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Program Notes: 
A magician waves a hand in front of his audience, doing a conjuring trick with his other hand. The work, written between May and October 2010, seeks to create illusions by disguising some actions and surprising the audience with their outcome, or by drawing attention to red herrings that mislead and dazzle.

Nicolas's Websites: 
http://www.nicolastzortzis.org
https://soundcloud.com/nicolastzortzis

TZORTZIS, Nicolas: Illusoire - for bass fl, bar sax, perc, pno (2011)

Premiered in the context of the 2nd International ilSuono Academy for Young Composers 2017, which took place in July 2017 in Città di Castello, Italy.
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ensemble Suono Giallo
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Michele Bianchini, tenor saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion

Conducted by Angus Lee.

Program Notes:
碎瞳。L'œil brisé. Broken Eye.

https://soundcloud.com/yiqing-zhu-555632457

ZHU, Yiqing: L'Oeil Brisé - for tenor sax, perc, and elec (2017)

Premiered in the context of the 2nd International ilSuono Academy for Young Composers 2017, which took place in July 2017 in Città di Castello, Italy.
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ensemble Suono Giallo
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Michele Bianchini, tenor saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion
Simone Nocchi, piano

Conducted by Angus Lee.

Program Notes: 
Written between Mars and May 2017, Uccello di cristallo is a trio piece dedicated to the Suono Giallo Ensemble. The title refers to a landmark of the Italian giallo film genre: Dario Argento's l'uccello dalle piume di cristallo. My intention was to musically interpret the dramaturgy of the film, but also keep the giallo identity by including some « barocco » elements, which is the main reason behind the use of jazz language and very expressionistic gestures as the predominant material.

https://soundcloud.com/fsakagian

SAKAGIAN, Filippos: Uccello di Cristallo - for tenor sax, perc, pno (2017)

Isolated strands of reflection is an exploration of the space surrounding distinct sound events, of withheld expressivity and of simultaneous, contradicting directions.

ensemble Suono Giallo
Michele Bianchini, soprano saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion
Simone Nocchi, piano

Premiered at the 2nd ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week 2017 on Sunday, July 23, 2017 in Città di Castello, Italy.

https://soundcloud.com/frej-wedlund

WEDLUND, Frej: Isolated strands of reflection - for soprano saxophone, percussion, piano (2017)

PAPATRECHAS, Theocharis: doomed to its paralysed eternity - for fl, tenor sax, perc, pno (2015)

LONGO, Paolo: Bleu-Jeaune-Bleu for fl, sax, perc, piano (2016)

Tomoya Yokokawa: Dampin' Dumper (2018)
for percussion and piano

World Premiere
Video: https://youtu.be/NbSP0ZmAXUU 

Ensemble Suono Giallo
Laura Mancini, percussion
Simone Nocchi, piano
www.ensemblesuonogiallo.net
ensemblesuonogiallo@gmail.com

3rd ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week
July 22, 2018
Teatro Comunale degli Illuminati
Città di Castello, Italy
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Program Notes:
My interest in this piece was on how I treat rhythms. Sometimes the rhythms of 2 instruments are complementary, so to say as one line. But mostly they are poly-rhythmic like 2, 3, or even 4 layers. I really like to listen to the complex of rhythmic combination and for example Scriabin’s music gave me influence. In his piano pieces, there are so many complicated rhythmic combinations or treatment of making different pulsation from the real time signature. I actually don’t know how I perceive these rhythmic layers, but I’m very curious to listen to it.

YOKOKAWA, Tomoya: Dampin' Dumper | for percussion and piano (2018)

StudioXX-onTime [Part1] (2018)
for solo flute

World Premiere
Video: youtu.be/fsVpcb5kK7s

Ensemble Suono Giallo
Andrea Biagini, flute
Michele Bianchini, saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion
Simone Nocchi, piano
www.ensemblesuonogiallo.net
ensemblesuonogiallo@gmail.com

3rd ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week
July 22, 2018
Teatro Comunale degli Illuminati
Città di Castello, Italy
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ilsuono.academy@gmail.com

Program Notes:
Studio XX - onTime (part 1)- for flute solo. The term "set" indicates a grouping of any type of elements, mathematical, logical or conceptual, deeply defined and determined, identified by means of a characteristic common to the elements that belong to it. A notion, which is assumed to be primitive and intuitive. Primitive, as introduced as a not derivable from more elementary concepts and intuitive, because introduced as a generalization of the notion of finite set. From this definition, we start to try to tackle one of the problems inherent in the trasformation process of continuous temporal models, in the relative discrete counterparts that belong to the traditional system of metric / duration subdivisions. An investigation that starts from the analysis of the laws that regulate the behavior, up to the awareness of a completeness such that, we should consider the existence of a further group of duration elements that are part of it: the metric / duration imaginary units. Literally, we talk about "values" that until now could be marked only as an approximation of a near or totally undefined value: two extremes totally incompatible with the idea of "value" in itself that, in a field of absolute discretization it is imperative, "must" represent every determination of which a variable is susceptible, independently or not: to represent as much as faithfully possible the magnitude of duration it expresses. A risky theoretical deductive logical process that tries to extricate itself among the articulations of a concrete structure designed ad hoc for work Studio XX, to better understand the sense of the elements whose existence is theorized.

MAINOLFI, Pasquale: StudioXX-onTime [Part1] | for solo flute (2018)

Didem Coskunseven: In Nuce (2018)
for flute, saxophone, percussion, and piano

World Premiere
Video: https://youtu.be/vCkrKzuX8u8

Ensemble Suono Giallo
Andrea Biagini, flute
Michele Bianchini, saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion
Simone Nocchi, piano
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ensemblesuonogiallo@gmail.com

3rd ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week
July 22, 2018
Teatro Comunale degli Illuminati
Città di Castello, Italy
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Program Notes:
In Nuce, which means ‘in a nut’ in Latin, explores certain situations of ‘being at its beginnings’, ‘just developing’ and reveals energetic potentiality of these musical situations throughout the piece.

COSKUNSEVEN, Didem: In Nuce | for flute, sax, percussion, piano (2018)

Carolina Cerezo Dávila: Luz en las paredes de casas viejas, en junio (2018)
for flute, saxophone, double-bass, and piano

World Premiere
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg5p6Kod4yI

Ensemble Suono Giallo
Andrea Biagini, flute
Michele Bianchini, saxophone
Giacomo Piermatti, double-bass
Simone Nocchi, piano
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ensemblesuonogiallo@gmail.com

3rd ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week
July 22, 2018
Teatro Comunale degli Illuminati
Città di Castello, Italy
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ilsuono.academy@gmail.com

Program Notes:
The title of the piece comes from a poem by Adam Zagajewski, and could be literally translated as: ‘Light in old houses walls, in June’. It appears as part of a traveler’s natural observation -for example during a walk- and makes reference to what, despite being amazing, seems not to surprise us because it is part of our everyday life. The piece pretends to achieve a richness of sound typical of first summer light and, at the same time, a formal unpredictability typical of a walk without a fixed destination.

CEREZO DÀVILA, Carolina: Luz en las paredes de casas viejas, en junio (2018)

Claudia Jane Scroccaro: Affirming the Consequent (2018)
for flute, saxophone, percussion, piano, double-bass

World Premiere
Video: https://youtu.be/5rqgMvzKJv0

Ensemble Suono Giallo
Andrea Biagini, flute
Michele Bianchini, saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion
Simone Nocchi, piano
Giacomo Piermatti, double-bass
www.ensemblesuonogiallo.net
ensemblesuonogiallo@gmail.com

3rd ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week
July 22, 2018
Teatro Comunale degli Illuminati
Città di Castello, Italy
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ilsuono.academy@gmail.com

Program Notes:
“Affirming the Consequent” is a new work composed for the Ensemble Suono Giallo, for 2018 edition of the International Il Suono Music Academy. It holds a deep connection with another work I have been composing at the same time, “Gradual Abruptness”, based on texts by Amelia Rosselli. Both pieces share deep reflections upon the relationship between words and music, or more generally, between the communicative nature of linguistics and the one of “organized sounds”, following Edgard Varèse’s definition of music.
In the structure of philosophical logic, “Affirming the Consequent” is usually referred to as a formal fallacy, an invalid pattern of reasoning because of a flaw in its line of thought, where the argument itself could have true premises, but still have false conclusions. In this sense, in a formal fallacy the deduction goes wrong and no longer follows the conventional rules of a logical process. Since this type of fallacy is connected more to the form, rather than to the content, the argumentation hides behind non-truths or under different meanings of a same word.
All this translated into music becomes a world of highly demanding rhythmical structures, where pre-determined structures allow an intricate counterpoint between the parts. It is a world or solitary statements, where the synchronic events reveal the casual nature of communication. These “tuttisolo” sections lead to more intimate dimensions, where duets and monologues project towards shared but yet ‘unspoken’ spaces. This formal structure is held together by a underground force, struggling to expand and stretch the parameters in time and space, against its compressed form of being.

SCROCCARO, Claudia: Affirming the Consequent | for fl, sax, perc, pno, bass (2018)

Giuseppe Silvi: Grazie. Luci e Rabbia. Spazio. (2018)
for bass flute, baritone saxophone, double-bass, and electronics

World Premiere
Video: https://youtu.be/yO_yErYkuhc

Ensemble Suono Giallo
Andrea Biagini, flute
Michele Bianchini, saxophone
Giacomo Piermatti, double-bass
www.ensemblesuonogiallo.net
ensemblesuonogiallo@gmail.com

3rd ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week
July 21, 2018
Teatro Comunale degli Illuminati
Città di Castello, Italy
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Program Notes:
not the architectural one. Acoustical. Sensible, of the vibrating matter. Of any sound essence. Shape. Where every parameter is a character, its independence ceases. Sound. It exists only in its complete complexity. Each is external. Each is lived or imagination. It fills and empties with emotion, in the unexpected time of a lifetime.

SILVI, Giuseppe: Grazie. Luci e rabbia. Spazio. | for bass fl, bar sax, bass, and electronics (2018)

Eren Gumrukcuoglu: Lattice Scattering
for flute, piano, and tape

World Premiere

Ensemble Suono Giallo
World Premiere

Ensemble Suono Giallo
Andrea Biagini, flute
Michele Bianchini, saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion
Simone Nocchi, piano
www.ensemblesuonogiallo.net
ensemblesuonogiallo@gmail.com

3rd ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week
July 21, 2018
Teatro Comunale degli Illuminati
Città di Castello, Italy
www.ilsuonoacademy.com
ilsuono.academy@gmail.com

Program Notes:
Atoms, or smaller particles, are naturally lined up in a crystal formation (lattice). Lightwaves are sent towards this lattice to find out how the light bounces off and scatters. By analyzing the patterns and shapes this scattering creates, one can learn about the geometry of the lattice, and thereby the structure of the matter in question. This is a procedure which is frequently done when engineers want to test a new material for an industrial design. If the wavelength of the light is larger than the space between the lattice points, there will be no interaction and the light wave will just pass through (silence). However, if the wavelength is just right, there will be reactionary oscillations, which will create "phonon scattering" (sound).

GUMRUKCUOGLU, Eren: Lattice Scattering | for flute, piano, and tape (2018)

ensemble Suono Giallo:
Andrea Biagini, flute
Michele Bianchini, saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion
Simone Nocchi, piano

The ensemble came to being in Città di Castello in 2015 at the 100th anniversary of the birth of the painter Alberto Burri. The group promotes contemporary music through new commissions, concerts, and insightful initiatives.

Since 2016, ensemble Suono Giallo is being featured as the ensemble-in-residence at the International ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week, a summer forum which takes place annually in Città di Castello, Italy.

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