Vibraphone Studies

Rebonds A – I. Xenakis (1989)(en vivo)Int. Allison Alonso

Elio Marchesini, percussion instruments
Divertimento Ensemble

May 2022
Sala Donatoni, Milan
Live concert recorded by T-Sound

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Synchrony and asynchrony, synchronicity and sound links: this is the reflection from which Gaia Aloisi's "Graduale" was conceived. Can the interpreter - through interaction with a simple surface - symbolically (and gradually) "generate" the sound, almost as if undulating with it without boundaries?

With a completely "physical" and sensorial exploration, the musician becomes the craftsman of a gradual expansion of the acoustic phenomenon, which is discovered, built and enriched in a symbiotic and a-symbiotic process.
In a real meditation based on contact and fusion, body and music become a single substance, in a continuous flow that generates new sound atmospheres and further synchronies.

Graduale | for one percussion player (2022)

Music for Percussion
for 7 percussion players spatialized around the audience

Performed by
Pedro Carneiro, Miquel Bernat, João Dias, Eduardo Cardinho, Marco Fernandes, Bruno Costa and Miguel Herrera

Commissioned by Arte no Tempo
Financed by Direcção Geral das Artes

Live @ Casa da Música (Porto, PT)

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/HNQABqk39_I?si=Gj6Uvaw2AavLUbpE

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https://joaocarlospinto.com/

Music for Percussion (2020) - 7 percussion players

Gaia Aloisi is a composer from Cagliari, Sardinia (IT). After undertaking her first musical studies in her home town, she devoted herself both to voice and composition obtaining a Bachelor of Arts at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva (HEM) and a Master of Advanced Studies in Contemporary Music Performance and Interpretation at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana. She then obtained her Master’s Degree in Composition at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Milan with Alessandro Solbiati and a High Specialisation Diploma at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Ivan Fedele. She is currently completing a Postgraduate Course with Clara Iannotta at the MDW – University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

As well as having been awarded in several international composition competitions, her original works have been commissioned and performed on the occasion of festivals and events and all around the world, including the Wettbewerb für zeitgenössische Musik in Zurich, LuganoMusica 2023 in Lugano, CEME 2022 by Meitar Ensemble in Tel Aviv, Festival Pontino di Musica in Sermoneta (IT), Mixtur Festival 2022 and Barcelona Modern Festival 2023 in Barcelona, Rondò Festival by Divertimento Ensemble in Milan, Festival SpazioMusica in Cagliari (IT), Migros Kulturprozent Music Competition (2020) in Zurich, Società del Quartetto di Milano, Festival 5 Giornate in Milan, Musikiin Aika in Viitasaari (FI), Festival Expresiones Contemporáneas in Morelia (MEX), Milano Piano City, Institut für zeitgenössische Musik (IzM) in Frankfurt, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Syntax Ensemble’s concert season in Milan and many others.

She has collaborated with various artists and ensembles of different nationalities, including Riot Ensemble, Mdi Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente, Divertimento Ensemble, Syntax Ensemble, AltreVoci Ensemble, Aulos Flute Ensemble, Spheres Ensemble, Ensemble Novecento of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Eccetera Saxophone Quartet, Amat Saxophone Quartet, Orchestra d’Archi Arrigoni, Marina Boselli, Lise Baudouin, Maria Grazia Bellocchio, Elio Marchesini, Nicolò Cafaro, Maria Eleonora Caminada, Marco Ignoti, Elisa Prosperi and many others. Her music has been lead by several conductors, and she has a solid collaboration with Pasquale Corrado. 

She has also received commissions from various institutions: in the 2023, her work “En corps, matière” for flute orchestra was commissioned by the Musik-Akademie in Basel and premiered in the prestigious Kulturkirche Paulus. In 2020, her work “Dialogues” for viola and cello was commissioned and premiered on the occasion of the École d'hiver internationale en médiation de la musique in Paris, in the concert hall of the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France. She has also collaborated with the Haute École de Musique in Geneva; since she is active in the research field, she was a research assistant at the latter institution in 2021.

She is currently working on an opera which will be premiered in 2024 at the Tete à Tete Opera Festival in London.

Her artistic creation ranges from the musical-theatrical field to pure sound creation, as well as the analysis of historical compositional techniques and musical means of the oral tradition.

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