The practice of improvisation is historically widespread in most musical languages from every era and region of the world. Despite its protean nature, the art of improvisation is often curtly confused with the instrumental virtuosity. Nothing could be more misleading! It is actually the most important compositional device. The real-time composition is the highest goal of improvisation, looking for a synthesis between gesture and will, between instinct and reason. What happens if a group of improvisers features two pianists? The piano portraits the coming point of all the European classical music culture. A music whose focus is writing and composing in "deferred time". The music for keyboard instruments, especially piano, is a huge and emblematic body of materials and experiences: from Bach to Ligeti, from Mozart to John Cage, from Bartok to George Crumb, and so on. Can a tradition so full of possibilities, so huge and important, be reset and restored to a minimum? Put in a short-circuit of "fake-pianos" (!), of betrayed tradition (!), in order to build an practice of "real time" composition? Inventing and speaking a language made up of monosyllables is perhaps a possible way. Small cells of instant invention are the cards of a quickly built castle, willing to share its powerful fragility and why not, to blow on them ... for the mere sake of chaos and his mysterious order.

Alfonso Santimone


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Tracks:

1. A CUP OF TAO (collective impro) --> Listen Mp3!
2. CONTINOOM (Alfonso Santimone) --> Listen Mp3!
3. 8888 SURGERY DEPT (collective impro)
4. ZHUANGZI E HUIZI (Giorgio Pacorig)
5. MUSICA RICERCATA - II, MESTO, RIGIDO E CERIMONIALE (György Ligeti)
6. ALIENS FROM MADURA (collective impro)
7. GOODBYE VENEZIA (Danilo Gallo)
8. METEO-RITE (collective impro)
9. APOPHIS (collective impro)
10. THE LAST MOUSE ON MARS (Giorgio Pacorig)
11. ALIENS FROM LOMBOK (collective impro)
12. HYPOSTASIS (collective impro)
13. SECHS KLEINE KLAVIERSTUCKE (Op.19) VI (Arnold Schönberg)
14. LIGETI METEOR (Ligeti / collective impro)
15. ALIENS FROM BALI (collective impro)
16. TAIJITU KUCHEN (collective impro)
17. ROUND TRIP (Ornette Coleman)



Personnel:

ALFONSO SANTIMONE piano (left)
GIORGIO PACORIG piano (right)
DANILO GALLO double bass, melodica
ALJOŠA JERIČ drums


Recorded at Urban Recording Studio of Casa Della Musica, Trieste, by FULVIO ZAFRET, January 2010.
Mixed at Greedy Little Sisters, Verona, by ENRICO TERRAGNOLI and DANILO GALLO
Mastered by MAX TRISOTTO, Padova


Cover by EMANUELA STANGANELLI