from soundtrack CLITENNESTRA MILLENNIUM
by GIACOMO CUTICCHIO

Giacomo Cuticchio - CLITENNESTRA MILLENNIUM

Giacomo Cuticchio - DANZA MACABRA

Giacomo Cuticchio - GIARDINI DEL CAIRO

"Repercussio"
from the motion picture "Front Window"
a short film by Danilo Cataldo

Giacomo Cuticchio - REPERCUSSIO

La Suite è stata composta nel mesi di Marzo/Aprile 2016 per lo spettacolo di Opera dei Pupi e Musica
TRA I SENTIERI DEI VENTIMIGLIA
di Mimmo Cuticchio
drammaturg: Piero Longo
oprante e cuntista: Mimmo Cuticchio
aiutante di prima quinta: Giacomo Cuticchio
aitanti di seconda quinta: Tiziana Cuticchio, Tania Giordano
aiutante di palcoscenico: Rosalia Riccobono
musiche: Giacomo Cuticchio
Alfia Bakieva: primo violino
Marco Badami: secondo violino
Francesco Biscari: violoncello
Alessandro Blanco: chitarra
Sergio Calì: percussioni
Nicola Mogavero: flauto, sax soprano e baritono
Marco Reoletti: terzo violino e cornetto
Picci Ferrari: Soprano
Scene: Tania Giordano
Costumi: Pina Patti Cuticchio e Tania Giordano
Il pupo Giovanni Ventimiglia è stato costruito da Mimmo Cuticchio con la collaborazione di Emanuele Salamanca per l’armatura, Nino Cuticchio per l’ossatura, Pietro Sasso per la testa, Tania Giordano per il costume. Scene, pupi, costumi ed altri elementi della scenotecnica sono stati realizzati presso il Laboratorio dell’Associazione Figli d’Arte Cuticchio in Via Bara all’Olivella, 40

prima esecuzione assoluta Sabato 16 Aprile 2016 ore 18,00 Castelbuono (Palermo) Chiesa del Ss. Crocifisso

Giacomo Cuticchio - MARCETTA REGINALE

Giacomo Cuticchio was born in Palermo, in 1982. He is a composer, a pianist and has his roots in one of the strongest and liveliest Sicilian theatrical traditions.
Son and grandson of puppet masters, his artistic training took place among chivalric dreams, lost and adventurously recovered minds, battles and reigning kings, passions and morality. It also resides firmly within a frame of extreme rigidity and attention to details that is so characteristic of the theatrical activity of his family.
Little Giacomo's inclination to music found very fertile ground in the sounds of the barrel-piano in the puppet theatre. This instrument traditionally accompanies the events of the Paladins of France, and the extraordinary and precious vocal gymnastics peculiar to the "Opra" and the "Cunto".
By chance, Giacomo discovered Philip Glass' music at a very young age, and this, coupled with his lasting attraction to early music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, showed him the way forward. They constituted ideal foundations for his research into the roots of music, along the same lines as his father Mimmo’s previous innovations on the basis of the Opra.
Going beyond solely linguistic rules in music, Giacomo Cuticchio searches for immediacy of emotion, looking for the most suitable forms in structural, archetypal plots: Giacomo's music comes directly from the heart of the mechanisms that rule the working of the forms.
So much attention to the ultimate principles linked to the birth of the music brings with it an interest for the sound, in its own right and in relationship to human existence, constantly fed by live improvisation on a musical instrument.
There is no doubt that Giacomo Cuticchio's extraordinary intuition for sound has been influenced by the practice of cunto. Giacomo’s father Mimmo, pupil of the master-puppet and cuntista Peppino Celano, is one of its last true heirs. As in the cunto where the word becomes sung by the rhythmic distortion of the breath, setting free its musical soul, Giacomo's music creates the same natural sounds and brings them alive.
Here we can find the origin of the young Cuticchio's love for minimalism, this last "ism" whose attention to sound isn't superficial, as some narrow-minded critics, hostile to new categories and inventiveness, would make us believe.
This is the thread that ties together the tradition Giacomo Cuticchio is heir to, and musical modernity, harmonizing the breath and the word, the sound and the composition, transporting and soothing the mind through the sound of an ancient barrel piano.
According to the rhythm of a human existence that is still possible.