Roberto Musci
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Roberto Musci (born March 27, 1956 in Milan, Italy) is a music composer, performer, saxophonist and guitar player.
Musci studied saxophone and guitar. From 1974 to 1985 he travelled around the world to study African, Indian, and Near & Far Eastern music, to make field recordings and collect musical instruments. He recorded LPs and CDs for different European labels (including Raw Materials, Victò,[1] Lowlands,[2] Gonzo Multimedia,[3] Leaves [4] and Island Records), Recommended Record,[5][6] with musical techniques derived from " Plunderphonics"[7][8] and Concrete Music.[9][10][11]
Soundtracks for videos and video installations
He composed and played music for :
He composed and played music for commercial spots
Soundtracks for dance
He composed and played music for Dance Companies :
Live soundtracks for silent movies
He performed live soundtracks for silent movies [21]
- "Regen" directed by Joris Ivens
- " The Bridge (1928 film) " directed by Joris Ivens
- "The Phantom of the Opera", directed by Rupert Julian
- "Vampyr", directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
- "Manhatta", directed by Paul Strand
- "Safety Last!", directed by Fred C. Newmeyer with Harold Lloyd
- "Der Golem",[22] directed by Carl Boese and Paul Wegener[23]
- "Saturnino Farandolà", directed by Marcel Perez and Luigi Maggi
- "The Crowd", directed by King Vidor
- Belfagor " directed by Henri Desfontaines[24][25]
Music for poems and theatre
- Soundtrack for Piera degli Esposti [26][27] " La Natura" (With Massimo Cavallaro)
- Soundtrack for Theater shows of Antonio Albanese (With Massimo Cavallaro)
Soundtracks for movies
He made soundtracks for movies (with Giovanni Venosta) for :
- Silvio Soldini's movie "L'aria serena dell'Ovest"
- Alessandro Amaducci's movie "Spoonriver" [28][29]
- Stefano Canzio's video "Sua Intermittenza" [30]
- Andrea Gropplero's movie "Pidgin" [31]
- Monica Castiglioni's movie "Rita incontra una amica" [32]
- Elisabetta Sgarbi "Non chiederci la parola – Il Gran teatro montano del Sacro Monte di Varallo".[33]
Videomaker
He also made videos for :
- Walter Prati [34] & Giancarlo Schiaffini
- Lilliana Bancolini ( As time goes by )[35]
- Morgan [36][37]
- Massimo Cavallaro [38]
- Arnold Marinissen [39] Dutch percussionist(with Massimo Mariani)
- Raw Material Label : " Alchemy",[40]"Tribute to Zugakousaku ",[41] "Thales ' dream",[42] "Chronophotography".[43]
Radio broadcasts
From 80' he broadcast ethnic & experimental music from Italian National Radio Stations ( Rai )[44][45] and Radio Popolare[46][47]
Festivals
- At Time Zone Festival (Bari, Italy 1995 [48]) he performed the live sountracks of Silent Movie " Der Golem ", directed by Carl Boese and Paul Wegener
- At Palazzina Liberty (Milano, Italy )[49][50] from 1997 to 2002 "Senza Parole Festival" live sountracks of Silent Movies with : Keith Tippett, Chris Cuttler, Jon Rose and Claudio Gabbiani
- At the 32nd Bourges International Festival [51][52] he performed the piece "Music for Labyrinths" for voice & electronics at Maison de la Culture ICEM Serie : Federation Italy 01/06/2002
Musicians
He has played in studio and in live concerts with many Italian and European musicians, including:
- Giovanni Venosta [53]
- Claudio Gabbiani [54]
- Walter Prati [55]
- Giorgio Magnanensi,[56]
- Massimo Mariani [57]
- Roberto Zanisi[58]
- Tiziano Tononi [59][60]
- Daniele Cavallanti (Aktuala)[61]
- Moni Ovadia
- Sandro Cerino [62][63]
- Chris Cutler
- Jon Rose
- David Moss
- it:Steve Piccolo
- Elliott Sharp
- Keith Tippett
Discography
- "The Loa of Music" (Raw Material, 1983)
- "Olympic Signals" Giovanni Venosta (Raw Material, 1984)
- "Water Messages on desert sand" (with Giovanni Venosta) (Recommended Records, 1986)
- "Urban & tribal portraits" (with Giovanni Venosta) (Recommended Records, 1988)
- "Doublings & Silence" (Auf Dem Nil / Recommended Records Italy, 1988)
- "Munen Muso 1" ( Network 77 Sud Africa, 1990)
- "A noise, a sound" (Recommended Records, 1990)
- "Rer Quarterly vol 2" (Recommended Records, 1991)
- "Losing the orthodox path" (with Giovanni Venosta & Massimo Mariani) (Victò, 1993)
- "Debris of a loa" (with Claudio Gabbiani) (Lowlands Records, 1995)
- "Quang-go voice" (with Giovanni Venosta) (Island Records,UK, 1999)
- "Massimo Cavallaro's Giù al nord /Uomo" (music for Antonio Albanese theatrical pieces (RP, IT, 1999)
- "Steel water light" (with Chris Cutler, Jon Rose, Claudio Gabbiani) (Recommended Records,UK, 2001)
- "Claudio Gabbiani's Night nursing" (Auditorium Records,IT 2003)
- "Art Bears revisited" (with Giovanni Venosta & Massimo Mariani) (Recommended Records, 2004)
- "The day after the end of world party" (with Massimo Mariani and Steve Duncan) (Auditorium Records, IT, 2005)
- "Persistence of vision" (with Claudio Gabbiani and Roberto Zorzi) (Raw Material, IT, 2006-2007)
- "Hotel gadgets" (Raw Material, It, 2009)
- "Alchemy "(Raw Material, It, 2010)
- "Thales' dream" (Raw Material, It, 2011)
- "Maps and Diagrams – When The Rain Comes" (Leaves, Lithuania, 2012)
- "Chronophotography" (Raw Material, It, 2013)
- "Endogamic : Pandara Box 2 Antonio Murga & friends" (Endogamic, Spain 2015)
- "Vampyr and other stories" (Recommended Records, 2015)
- "Third Ear Band v Roberto Musci : Mosaic , a tribute to Third Ear Band " (Gonzo Multrimedia, UK, 2016 )
- "Tower of silence " double LP ( Music From Memory, Netherlands 2016 )
Press & books
- "Plunderphonics, Pataphysics & Pop Mechanics" by Andrew Jones (Safpublishing.co.uk)
- "Studio Azzurro" book and DVD by Studio Azzurro
- "Computer Music e Improvisação" by Jorge Lima Barreto (Artigos Meloteca 2009)
- "Music, Electronic Media, and Culture" by Simon Emmerson (The MIT Press)
- "Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World" by Bart Plantenga ( Routledge )
- "Solchi sperimentali Italia" by Antonello Cresti (Crac Edizioni)
- "Ghettoraga" by Luca Ferrari (http://ghettoraga.blogspot.it/)
References
- ↑ http://www.victo.qc.ca
- ↑ http://www.discogs.com/label/3795-Lowlands
- ↑ http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/product_details/15936/Third_Ear_Band-Mosaic_(with_Roberto_Musci).html
- ↑ http://leaves.lt/maps-and-diagrams-when-the-rain-comes-lvx001/
- ↑ Recommended Records
- ↑ http://www.rermegacorp.com/
- ↑ Plunderphonics
- ↑ http://www.plunderphonics.com/xhtml/xplunder.html
- ↑ Musique concrète
- ↑ Pierre Schaeffer
- ↑ http://www.soundmattersblog.com/musiqueconcrete1/
- ↑ http://www.studioazzurro.com
- ↑ pt:Miguel Soares
- ↑ http://migso.net/
- ↑ http://www.filmmakerfest.com/ChiSiamo
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6-c2EHTtok&feature=youtu.be
- ↑ http://www.unitedway.org
- ↑ de:Tanzfabrik Berlin
- ↑ http://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/
- ↑ http://www.lachoreographersanddancers.org/LAChoreographersAndDancers.org/index.html
- ↑ http://jazzosphere.pagesperso-orange.fr/musci.htm
- ↑ The Golem: How He Came into the World
- ↑ http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/filmnotes/fns05n1.html
- ↑ Henri Desfontaines
- ↑ http://www.cinefania.com/movie.php/55240/en
- ↑ Piera Degli Esposti
- ↑ http://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?a=4626
- ↑ it:Videoarte
- ↑ http://www.alessandroamaducci.net/
- ↑ http://www.stefanocanzio.it
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHPrr-3CQeg
- ↑ https://vimeo.com/18118979
- ↑ http://www.elisabettasgarbi.it/film/nonchiederci/non-chiederci-la-parola---il-gran-teatro-montano-del- sacro-monte-di-varallo.aspx
- ↑ http://www.walterprati.it
- ↑ http://www.amicidellamusicamilano.it/artisti/b/LILIANABANCOLINI.html
- ↑ it:Morgan (cantante)
- ↑ http://www.inartemorgan.it/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/cavallaromax
- ↑ http://www.arnoldmarinissen.com
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjkufEjOHcY
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvJ8hGON6OA&feature=youtu.be
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHqMk_lKn-w&list=FLrrz1Dj8_RK0tVcN6N2AFqw&feature=mh_lolz
- ↑ https://vimeo.com/48196541
- ↑ RAI
- ↑ http://www.rai.it/
- ↑ it:Radio Popolare
- ↑ http://www.radiopopolare.it/
- ↑ http://www.timezones.it
- ↑ it:Palazzina Liberty (Milano)
- ↑ http://www.milanotoday.it/eventi/location/palazzina-liberty/
- ↑ Printemps de Bourges
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140529212912/http://www.imeb.net/IMEB_v2/index.php
- ↑ http://www.giovannivenosta.it/index.html
- ↑ http://www.claudiogabbiani.com
- ↑ http://www.mmt.it
- ↑ http://www.banffcentre.ca/faculty/faculty-member/3123/giorgio-magnanensi
- ↑ http://www.massimomariani.eu
- ↑ http://www.papimoreno.com/zanisi.html
- ↑ de:Tiziano Tononi
- ↑ http://www.jazzineden.it/artista.asp?n=2&num=47&t=TizianoTononi
- ↑ http://www.jazzineden.it/artista.asp?n=2&num=46&t=DanieleCavallanti
- ↑ it:Sandro Cerino
- ↑ http://www.discogs.com/artist/539606-Sandro-Cerino
External links
- Official website
- Cemat
- http://robertomusci.tumblr.com/
- https://vimeo.com/robertomusci
- https://soundcloud.com/roberto-musci