GRANATO

Francesco Bianco, Alessandro Cicala

--> composer, performer, sound artist.

Interested in the new and unconventional digital sound production techniques as well in the design and self-constructive research of instruments and their relationship with the technological medium.

mattia.parisse@gmail.com

Le radici di Numa Project penetrano ciò che di più istintivo risiede nell'uomo: il movimento, fisico o spirituale. Il movimento è ritmo: succedersi ordinato nel tempo di elementi colti dalla percezione che lasciano traccia nella memoria; oppure, più semplicemente, pulsazione cardiaca, passeggiata, ciclo fra giorno e notte. Il ritmo è vita. Numa project è uno studio sul primordiale, un inno alla necessità di ascoltare sia il proprio corpo che il proprio spirito e fare in modo che entrambi possano trarre giovamento dal ritmo e dal movimento. Il fine fondamentale di Numa è quello di immergere gli ascoltatori in un'esperienza sonora attiva, una creazione live “improvvisata”. In Numa si mescolano diversi generi, dall'elettronica sperimentale a quella da club.
Dopo "Studio sul Primordiale" e "Un risveglio invernale", ultimi spettacoli dal vivo, Numa continua a cercare un modo per approfondire la sintonia con chi ha di fronte, il pubblico. Insieme ad una ricerca timbrica poco ortodossa, la sua indagine si concentra ora su aspetti come: la ripetitività e la variazione, la gestione dell'informazione musicale, il controllo della forma musicale nella creazione dal vivo, l'espressività degli strumenti elettronici. 

Nu-ma è un progetto nato per approfondire gli aspetti legati alla creazione musicale dal vivo. In esso vengono quindi indagate le possibilità di praticare una performance live basata su pochi elementi preordinati, i quali, durante lo spettacolo, vengono elaborati senza l’ausilio di alcuna partitura.

Adriano Lanzi (Rome, 1972) is a guitarist, composer, improviser, electronic performer, and occasional bassist.
He worked for a long time (1996-2003), in the studio and on stage, with the Afro-jazz group of Senegalese griot Siriman ‘Pape’ Kanouté, perhaps the first and most rigorous popularizer of the kora and of Mandinka culture in Italy. With Kanouté, Lanzi performed live on Italian radio broadcasts (Rai Stereonotte, La Stanza della Musica) and took part in creating music for theatre productions (including Fedra by Yannis Ritsos, directed by Giuseppe Marini).
Lanzi and bassist Omar Sodano recorded an album as a duo, La Vita Perfetta (2004), for German record label Klangbad (directed by Faust keyboardist Hans-Joachim Irmler), and later founded the rock-jazz quartet El Topo, whose album Pigiama Psicoattivo (2008) was released by Belgian label Off.
He is currently active in the duo MU with the cellist Federica Vecchio (two albums to date: Of Strings and Bridges released by British label SLAM! in 2016, and Twelve More Scenes of MU for the Italian label Folderol, 2019), and in the duo Le Grand Lunaire, with oboist and thereminist Paolo Di Cioccio (eponimous album Le Grand Lunaire, Folderol 2022). 
Lanzi occasionally collaborates with Geoff Leigh (formerly of Henry Cow), a veteran of radical improvisation and British ‘rock in opposition’, with Italian singer-songwriter and folk-punk rocker Stefano Giaccone (ex Franti / Kina), American multi-instrumentalist Amy Denio, and other musicians of the Italian and international scene.
He has always been involved in performing live scores, with electronics or guitar, of the classics of silent cinema, which he presented for twenty years at the Cinema Azzurro Scipioni in Rome, as well as in Italian and European festivals (including Montepulciano; Cinematica Festival Ancona, Alterazioni Festival Milano, Schiphorst Avantgarde Festival, Hamburg; London). More recently he has been involved in the creation of soundtracks for documentaries.
The Calling (Aventino Music, digital release, 2021) is Lanzi’s first album for electric guitar – a Les Paul ‘augmented’ with effects and loops – with a distinctive post-minimalist flavour. It is a collection of dreamlike, expanded and sometimes unsettling soundscapes, hovering between shoegaze and psychedelia, post-rock and a sort of instrumental dream pop, echoing the lessons of Fripp, Frisell, Tortoise, Riley, Reich.
His latest endeavour, Weird Tapes (Aventino Music, digital release, 2022), in duo with Paolo Di Cioccio, is a musical tribute for electric guitar (Lanzi) and synth drones (Di Cioccio) to the wild poetic imagination of visionary writer H.P. Lovecraft.

Tommaso Settimi is an Italian composer and sound artist living in Graz, Austria.

www.tommasosettimi.com

contact: tommsett@gmail.com

Biography
e-cor ensemble is an electroacoustic music project founded in 2013, consisting of Mirjana Nardelli and Francesco Altilio. Their production is based on the cultivation and aesthetics of sound which, explored and investigated through various artistic forms, become the focus of the ensemble, the common element in all their works. The key element is represented by dialectic interaction and multimedia. Only through dialogue can the e-cor ensemble achieve and express investigation. The sound is to be understood as the element of union of all the art forms under consideration. Influenced by acousmatic art, their activity focuses on applied music, sound design, improvisation and video art. Improvisation is one of the more consolidated practices of the ensemble. In 2016, e-cor ensemble wrote and performed their first theatrical work, The Tell-Tale Heart”, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, for which they wrote the music, stage direction and lyrics.  With Luigi Ceccarelli they composed the music for the theatre play Inferno (winner of the 2017 “Premio Ubu” prize) for the theatre company “Teatro delle albe” and the Ravenna Festival. In 2019 they released their first album, Lipstick on a Pig on the label Folderol Records. The main themes of the album are multimedia, sharing and improvising. 
Their music was performed and played in: Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, NYCEMF in New York, Conservatory Santa Cecilia - Rome, Conservatory San Pietro a Majella - Naples, Conservatory O. Respighi - Latina, Conservatory G.B. Martini - Bologna, Conservatory L. Cherubini Florence, RomaEuropa Festival Digital Life - Rome, 14th SMC - Aalto University - Espoo (Finland), Forum Wallis Ars Electronica - Leuk (Switzerland), Acousmonium Istituto San Fedele - Milan, Tempo Reale - Florence, University of Greenwich -  London, University of the arts of Essen (Germany), MUSLAB-2016 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México- México City, ICMC 43rd The Daegu Art Factory, Daegu (Korea), Festival Exhibitronic, LABUT - Stimultania, Strasbourg, Festival Mixtur 2018 – Barcelona, MACRO - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, MAXXI Open Museum Open City 14 – Rome, – CRR de Paris, Musiques à Réactions Paris, Sapienza University - Maker Faire 2014 – Rome, Zebrastraat - Het Maandagavondcomplot - Gent (Belgium), Goethe Institute for Di_stanze 13 Palermo, Solvay Center with SME - Akademii Muzycznej Krakòw. 
 
Contact: 
e-mail: e-cor@outlook.com

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