Roberto Musci
Roberto Musci (March 27, 1956 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian music composer, performer, saxophonist, guitar player and video maker. From 1974 to 1985 he travelled around the world to study African, Indian, and Near & Far Eastern music, make field recordings and collect musical instruments. He combined non-European music, recorded "on field" and played with ethnic musical instruments, with contemporary music, with musical techniques derived from plunderphonics and musique concrète to create a personal musical language with which he tells stories and feelings related to his travels. He has recorded LPs and CDs for different European labels, including: Raw Material[1] Victò,[2] Lowlands, Gonzo Multimedia,[3] Leaves,[4] Island Records, Music from Memory, Soave[5] and Recommended Records). He composed and played music for films, videos commercial spots, dance, live soundtracks for silent movies, music for poems and theater. The LP "Water messages on desert sand" was Grammy-nominated in the UK in 1987.
Works
Soundtracks for videos and video installations
He has composed and played music for:
- Studio Azzurro
- Miguel Soares
- Filmmaker 2014[6]
Soundtracks for dance
He has composed and played music for:
Live soundtracks for silent movies
He performed live soundtracks for silent movies[11]
- 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, directed by Carl Boese and Paul Wegener
- Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola, directed by Marcel Perez and Luigi Maggi
- The Crowd, directed by King Vidor
- Belfagor directed by Henri Desfontaines
Music for Poems and Theatre
- Soundtrack for Piera Degli Esposti "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
- Stefano Canzio's video "Sua Intermittenza"
- Andrea Gropplero's movie Pidgin[12]
- Monica Castiglioni's movie Rita incontra una amica[13]
- Elisabetta Sgarbi Non chiederci la parola – Il Gran teatro montano del Sacro Monte di Varallo
Videomaker
He also made videos for :
University meetings and lessons
Lessons in Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen (Kostanz ,Germany), 3 videos for the exhibition: about Algerian music, about French-Algerian war and about my ethnologic and musical research.[24]
Radio Broadcasts
Since the 80's he broadcasts ethnic & experimental music from Italian National Radio Stations ( Rai )[25][26] and Radio Popolare[27][28]
Festivals
- At Time Zone Festival (Bari, Italy 1995[29]) he performed the live soundtracks of Silent Movie " Der Golem ", directed by Carl Boese and Paul Wegener
- At Palazzina Liberty (Milano, Italy )[30][31] from 1997 to 2002 "Senza Parole Festival" live soundtracks of Silent Movies with: Keith Tippett, Chris Cuttler, Jon Rose and Claudio Gabbiani
- At the 32nd Bourges International Festival[32][33] he performed the piece "Music for Labyrinths" for voice & electronics at Maison de la Culture ICEM Serie : Federation Italy 01/06/2002
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"(Multrimedia, UK,2016 )
- "Tower of silence " double LP ( Music From Memory, Netherlands 2016 )
- "The Loa of Music complete sessions " double LP ( Cinedelic - Soave Records, Italy 2017)
- "Urban & tribal portraits " reissue on LP ( Cinedelic - Soave Records, Italy 2018)
- "Water messages on desert sands" reissue on LP ( Goodfellas Records, Italy 2018)
- "A noise a sound" reissue on double LP ( Cinedelic - Soave Records, Italy 2018)
- "Chee Shimizu - MFM "( Music from Memory Japan 2018 )
- "Astolfo on the moon" cassette ( Wannamarchi.club - NKT Records, U.K. 2018)
- "Lion's drums" LP , Harold Boué - Abstraxion ( Biologicrecord, France 2019)
- "Justin Davey - We're Alright " ( U.S.A.,2019 )
- "Wannamarchi club Summer Expo 2019 - Jellyfish " ( U.K.,2019 )
- "Losing the orthodox path" reissue on LP ( Cinedelic - Soave Records, Italy 2020)
- "Wannamarchi club Summer Expo 2020 - Night Heart , Sand Waves " ( U.K.,2020 )
- "Melanesia" ( - Oxmose Records, France 2020 - 2021)
DVD
Musicians
He has played in studio and in live concerts with many Italian and European musicians, including:
- Giovanni Venosta[37]
- Claudio Gabbiani[38]
- Walter Prati[39]
- Giorgio Magnanensi,[40]
- Massimo Mariani[41]
- Roberto Zanisi[42]
- Tiziano Tononi[43][44]
- Daniele Cavallanti (Aktuala)[45]
- Moni Ovadia
- Sandro Cerino[46][47]
- Chris Cutler
- Jon Rose
- David Moss
- it:Steve Piccolo
- Elliott Sharp
- Keith Tippett
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/)
- "Musica Presente " by Renzo Cresti (http://www.renzocresti.com/)
- "The New York time "(https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/11/arts/sounds-around-town-960689.html)
- "The New York time "(https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/dining/restaurant-music-playlists-ryuichi-sakamoto.html)
See also
References
- shttps://sites.google.com/view/robertomusci/music/digital
- http://www.victo.qc.ca
- 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/
- https://soave.bandcamp.com
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6-c2EHTtok
- https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de.
- http://www.lachoreographersanddancers.org/LAChoreographersAndDancers.org/index.html
- http://www.lachoreographersanddancers.org/LAChoreographersAndDancers.org/index.html
- https://vimeo.com/showcase/sanpedroartsfest
- http://jazzosphere.pagesperso-orange.fr/musci.htm
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHPrr-3CQeg
- https://vimeo.com/18118979
- 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
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHqMk_lKn-w&list=FLrrz1Dj8_RK0tVcN6N2AFqw&feature=mh_lolz
- https://vimeo.com/48196541
- https://www.zeppelin-university.com/
- 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.alessandroamaducci.net/node/32
- http://www.elisabettasgarbi.it/film/nonchiederci/non-chiederci-la-parola---il-gran-teatro-montano-del-sacro-monte-di-varallo.aspx
- https://www.studioazzurro.com
- 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