La filosofia è essenzialmente un’attività riflessiva. Richiede sempre una superficie su cui rimbalzare. In un vuoto culturale noi non esisteremmo. Dj Spooky in Cox, Franck, Hinant, Miller, Murphy, Paci Dalò, Quinz, Szepanski, “Millesuoni. Deleuze, Guattari e la musica elettronica” (Cronopio, 2006) pag.152 https://www.richard-pinhas.com/ Ho conosciuto Richard Pinhas in modo indiretto. Anni fa stavo approfondendo, per…
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Richard Pinhas, the Deleuze’s guitarist-philosopher ….on #neuguitars #blog
“Philosophy is essentially a reflective activity. It always requires a surface to bounce on. In a cultural void we would not exist.” DJ Spooky in Cox, Franck, Hinant, Miller, Murphy, Paci Dalò, Quinz, Szepanski, “Millesuoni, Deleuze, Guattari and Electronic Music” (Cronopio, 2006) p.152 https://www.richard-pinhas.com/ I knew Richard Pinhas indirectly. Years ago, I was deepening for…
Domenica 21 settembre 2014: incontro con Steve Reich nella Sala delle Colonne a Palazzo Giustinian, Venezia
Simpatico, gentile, disponibile. Steve Reich fa il suo ingresso nella Sala delle Colonne di Palazzo Giustinan a Venezia, sede amministrativa della prestigiosa Biennale di Venezia per un incontro informale con il pubblico. E’ la seconda volta che ho il piacere di incontrare Reich, la prima risale al 1998 dopo un suo concerto a Mestre con il suo Ensemble, concerto bellissimo…
Le chitarre di Steve Reich
L’arrivo alla Biennale di Musica di Venezia 2014 di Steve Reich per la consegna del Leone d’Oro alla carriera, giusto e meritato riconoscimento per la mole incredibile di lavoro svolto in oltre cinquant’anni di attività, mi ha stimolato il desiderio di scrivere qualcosa a riguardo dell’attenzione di Reich nei confronti della chitarra. Mi sono sempre…
Music by changes … does music play dice?
“As contemporary music goes on changing in the way I am changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds… I am talking and contemporary music is changing.” John Cage From John Cage’s I Ching compositions and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s 60s aleatoric experiments to John Zorn’s game pieces and Brian Eno’s…
I giardini e la musica di Toru Takemitsu
“I love gardens. They do not reject people. There one can walk freely, pause to view the entire garden, or gaze at a single tree. Plants, rocks and sand show changes, costant changes.” David Toop, Toru Takemitsu, half japanese, on The Wire october 1998 Il mio incontro con la musica di Takemitsu risale al…
Shut Up and Play your Guitar: Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (Baltimore, December 21 1940 – Los Angeles, 4 December 1993) was one of the most interesting american musicians, guitarist, composer from the last century. Rock’n’roll, blues, contemporary classical, jazz, doo-Woop, vaudeville, musique concrete: the alchemist Frank Zappa distilled in bizarre alembics everything its predecessor played and all the music that was around…
Robbie Basho: a guitar flying on Raga
Robbie Basho is a cult figure in the world of lovers of acoustic guitar and fingerpicking. Man discreet and quiet, little inclined to the notoriety and the theatricality of the musical world he has been a keen and intelligent investigator for solo guitar managing to create an ethno-spiritual music that assimilates white music, black music, Latin…
File under Futurism: moviment and manifesto, frequencies and judgments, avantgard and resolution, speed and dynamism,
Terms like Futurism and Futurist have got in these days a general meaning thta the common use applies equally to architecture, a furniture, to an object. A meta meaning widely used by marketing and by certain cultural environments, with strong identity and a modernity that has permitted it to exceed easily the twentieth century, to…
