pittura.................musica.................illuminazione...............architettura................parole perse........... |
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(fingerpainting with sound) | |||||||
- "Hey what's that stuff all over your head?" - Curb Your God, from "Songs That Will Never Win A Grammy" |
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Sometime in the late 90's, i became interested in adapting il lessico to music. Computer music technology was now affordable and i was able to create things and hear them back instantly without the need for other musicians to read from a score. |
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So how does il lessico apply to music? Since both music and ART are often talked about in reference to design elements (texture, line, form, etc...) the notes themselves have very little to do with it. It's the overall character and sound of the music, the atitude, |
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the primeTime sublime: a suburb of contemporary society located somewhere between the heart and the mind. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
From around 2001 to 2008, i composed, recorded and produced 3 CD's with the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra (New Music that doesn't fit anywhere). The music received radio airplay in over 60 countries around the world, mostly in Europe and the U.S. on public, university and community radio stations, and in Italy and England on the national stations, RAI and the BBC. The music was also licensed to production companies that produced programs on cable TV in the U.S. on stations such as MTV, VH1, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, A & E, The Biography Channel and some others i don't remember. Usually only snippets of the music were used here and there: under a scene with dialogue or as transition music between scenes. This was somewhat lucrative, comparatively speaking, and i still receive royalties occasionally (well… trickles of dollars one month, nothing the next - they mysteriously appear in my checking account and i don't know from where). |
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This is an arrangement of "Caravan" by Duke Ellington. The actual melody doesn't come in until towards the end, but all the music is based off of it. Caravan | |||||||||||||||||||||
So it's really about integrating extremes, the result being a 'sonic salad of diverse music styles and surreal associations', as one music critic put it. |
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The CDs: |
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CD artwork (click to enlarge/scroll): | ||||||||||||||||||||||
You can hear excerpts here. Here are 2 more piano improvisations:
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