On Friday 17 December Istanti Sonori returns to the Cantiere San Bernardo in Pisa
First set: solo- Stefano Agostini- flutes Duo: Stefano Agostini- flutes, Guy-Frank Pellerins soprano saxophones, tenor second set: trio Marco Carvelli- trombone, Sara Fontana- electric guitar, electronic, wrenches, Eugenio Sanna- amplified guitar, strips metallic, balloons, cellophane, quartet: Stefano Agostinistini-flutes, Dario Arrigh- electronics, Isolina Ravenda- voice ,, David Lucchesi- electric guitar, small electronics, objects, final ensemble with: Stefano Agostini, Isolina Ravenda, Dario Arrighi, Marco Carvelli , Sara Fontana, David Lucchesi, Guy- Frank Pellerin, Eugenio Sanna For information: www.cantieresanbernardo.com- This email address is protected from spambots. You need to enable JavaScript to view it.
For the third concert of the Istanti Sonori review and in collaboration with the Cantiere San Bernardo, in via Pietro Gori in Pisa, the flutist and flute specialist, Stefano Agostini, will open the doors of the first set with a solo. In the second part of the same first set, Stefano Agostini will interact in a duo with the French-Canadian fiatist Guy-Frank Pellerin, on soprano and tenor saxophones. Stefano Agostini, is a classical musician, being a teacher of flutes at the conservatory. He is also an active and tireless researcher of new forms of making music and has also landed in the practice of improvised music, through the inaccessible paths of contemporary classical music. In its sound approach, sound seeks, through a naked and raw freedom of expression, the spaces and times to be able to place, through a kaleidoscope, always changing and iridescent with new forms and sounds, with a refined and precious sound narration.
The saxophonist Guy-Frank Pellerin who will play with him in the first part of the first set, in his sound poetics, starts from the forces of nature: earth, sky, water, fire and finding in them a meeting point natural, through sound. In the second set and according to an outlook common to improvised music, which draws its nourishing tissue through the direct musical relationship with other musicians, the members of the Istanti Sonori association will give life to the following two formations: a trio with Marco Carvelli (trombone ), Sara Fontana (electric guitar, electronic, wrenches), Eugenio Sanna (amplified guitar, metal strips, balloons, cellophane, vocals); a quartet with Stefano Agostini (flutes), Isolina Ravenda (vocals), David Lucchesi (electric guitar, small electronics, objects, Dario Arrighi (electronics) and finally the final ensemble with: Stefano Agostini, Isolina Ravenda, David Lucchesi, Guy- Frank Pellerin, Eugenio Sanna, Sara Fontana, Dario Arrighi.Sefano Agostini (https://www.consli.it/it/287/753/flauto-stefano-agostini) graduated from the Boccherini Institute in Lucca, he specialized with Severino Gazzelloni at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena.He has played and carries out concert activities throughout Italy and abroad, participating in festivals and reviews such as the Venice Biennale, Aternative Lirique in Paris, the Grec Festival in Barcelona, the Italy Festival in Edinburgh, Gamo of Florence.
Interested in contemporary languages and improvisation, as well as in the interaction with other expressive languages such as dance above all, he took part in theatrical performances and dance companies, including the Micha Van Hoecke Ensemble. He was also a flute teacher at the Fiesole Music School and holds masterclasses almost everywhere in various musical institutions. Guy-Frank Pellerin (https://plustimbre.com ›artists) saxophonist of French-Canadian origin, he played in the ranks of the glorious Celestial Communication Orchestra of Alan Silva, playing with emblematic free-jazz musicians such as Bobby Few, Noel Mc Ghie, Frank Wright Eugenio Sanna (www.eugeniosanna.it necessariguitar.blogspot.com ›2016/01› eugenio-sa …) one of the founders of the CRIM (Center for Research on Musical Improvisation) of Pisa in the 80s , is a musician who has worked since this period, for the diffusion and the lo of improvised music, through live concerts, seminars, workshops, meetings, debates, writings and articles. He has played with most of the contemporary and non-contemporary musicians: Peter Kowald, Derek Bailey, Roger Turner, Edoardo Ricci, John Zorn.
Recently he deals with the artistic programming of the Istanti Sonori review, at the Cantiere San Bernardo in Pisa and is president of this association of the same name. Marco Carvelli, is a trombonist who loves to mix a properly instrumental sound, with energetic connotations and rich in chiaroscuro, with electro-acoustic elements. David Lucchesi (https://needleinthestrangeisnowablog.wordpress.com/…/metzeng), a young Tuscan musician and also a visual artist on electric guitar, small electronics, objects, with a fierce and now well-established sound, with a strong creative and playing attitude permanently in the electroacoustic ensemble Vip Cancro, whose group has released the cd Su himself (2019) for the Lisca Records label (https://www.liscarecords.com/) Isolina Ravenda singer and vocalist of French origin and educator, gifted of great vocal and expressive qualities, he has participated since the 1980s in improvisation groups with major musicians. Sara Fontana and Dario Arrighi (https://www.facebook.com/progettononame; https // projectononame.bandcamp.com /) are both part of the No Name Project, a project inspired by a fundamental love for sounds from which everyone human beings are surrounded. They recently recorded on bandcamp the album Mr Cartman (Progetto の Name + Duo Serpe) with the Duo Serpe (Paolo Acquaviva: trombone, Cristiano Bocci: live electronics, synths) and always on bandcamp, with the flutist Bruno Gussoni (火 – Electroacoustic Sushi by Progetto の Name + Bruno Gussoni) The Istanti Sonori review, now in its third year, organized by the Istanti Sonori association and in collaboration with the Cantiere San Bernardo di Pisa, has as its objective the dissemination and knowledge to listeners and musicians, of music as an art form, whose expression has continued over the centuries until today, being conveyed over time by all those expressive artists of all kinds, who have undertaken the commitment to speak the discourse, passing the baton and working around new materials, experimenting and exploring new territories, driven by an instinctive, fundamental, creative and unstoppable impulse. In three years of activity, the exhibition has presented before a large audience, enthusiastic, composer, attentive and competent, many musicians who have made improvisation a practice of art and daily life and providing “sound portraits” of those who practice it, in a fresco of what is happening in Italy and a little everywhere else in the world, about the current state of contemporary improvised music, its vitality and freshness, such as to be received both by adults looking for new sensations and stimuli, as well as from children, who, moved by curiosity and a totally creative and original amazement, explore the world of sounds with renewed wonder.
It goes without saying that music itself, through its various impulses and manifestations, constitutes a valid tool for communications and messages that induce its users and the audience of concert-goers to reflect and meditate on the questions that every fundamental human being is concerned with. poses, also in relation to his community of belonging and social status. However, there are big and illustrious precedents in the field of improvisation, which took place over the years, in the ancient, austere and magnificent church of San Bernardo in Pisa. It was once the seat of the foundation of the Cistercian nuns in Italy, in 1135 and today a place in charge of a dense and intense musical activity, cultural and research space. In the 80s, in fact, part of the reviews organized by the CRIM (Center for Research on Musical Improvisation) of Pisa and with the municipal administrations of those years in collaboration with associations and artists took place in this sacred space. In fact, historical musicians of the caliber of Raphael Donald Garrett, Leo Smith, Alvin Curran, Tamia and many others passed in advance and in advance for those times. It is very important to remember that the Cantiere San Bernardo has been for several years a major point of reference for the urban reality of the city of Pisa, being the promoter of both theatrical research events, presentation of books and new texts, in the field of publishing. , national events. international, of great cultural depth and social commitment. For information on the evening: www.cantieresanbernardo.com or: This email address is protected from spambots. You need to enable JavaScript to view it.