Riccardo Sinigaglia
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Born in Arona
in 1953, Riccardo Sinigaglia is an architect
as well as musician
. He teaches electronic music
at Milan Conservatory
where he studied during the seventies with Angelo Paccagnini.
He collaborates with the video center of the Faculty of Architecture, Milan University, where he lectures on the relationship between music and image.
His musical productions also include music for documentaries, ballet
s and theatre spectacles.
His work is based on modes, mean tone, pythagorean scales
and complex polyrhythmics: he is deeply involved in ethnomusicology, the elements of which are revisited and employed in his musical language.
In the 80s, together with Walter Maioli
and Gabin Dabiré
, he founded the group Futuro Antico
, a cross between electronic and ethno-shamanic music.
In 1985 he founded, together with Mario Canali
, the audio-visual art group Correnti Magnetiche (http://www.aec.at/en/archives/prix_archive/prix_projekt.asp?iProjectID=2409) beginning to work with digital system.
Correnti Magnetiche uses computerized systems in order to create audio-visual compositions, and produces videotapes, installations and live-electronics concerts. In concert play with Maurizio Dehò (violin), Gabin Dabiré (balafon and percussions), Tommaso Leddi (violin, horn) and the soprano Rossana Maggia when Mario Canali paint on a graphic tablet with a big screen fellowing the music.
Correnti Magnetiche works have won many prizes at international demonstrations of computer art in Austria
, Japan
, U.S.A., Italy
, Hungary
and Switzerland
, and they have been broadcast on TV and radio worldwide (see curriculum).
From 1986 he work with Doubling Riders a musical group with Pierluigi Andreoni.
They play in festivals like Time Zone in Bari
.
He also worked in world music project with the Libyan singer Ahmed Fakroun
.
He works with Pietro Pirelli and his Ensamble de la Roue, with Corrado Colliard (Tbn.), Mauro Gino (perc.) and Maurizio Barbetti (Vla.).
He have also an improvisation group: "The swimmers" with the Bulgaria
n artist Alzek Misheff and Maurizio Barbetti (viola) and Rocco Parisi (bass clarinet).
With this group he plays only coda piano in performances like at Venice biennale
.
Arona, Italy
Arona is a town and comune on Lake Maggiore, in the province of Novara . Its main economic activity is tourism, especially from Milan, France and Germany.-History:...
in 1953, Riccardo Sinigaglia is an architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
as well as musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
. He teaches electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
at Milan Conservatory
Milan Conservatory
The Milan Conservatory is a college of music which was established by a royal decree of 1807 in Milan, capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. It opened the following year with premises in the cloisters of the Baroque church of Santa Maria della Passione. There were initially 18 boarders,...
where he studied during the seventies with Angelo Paccagnini.
He collaborates with the video center of the Faculty of Architecture, Milan University, where he lectures on the relationship between music and image.
His musical productions also include music for documentaries, ballet
Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
s and theatre spectacles.
His work is based on modes, mean tone, pythagorean scales
Pythagorean tuning
Pythagorean tuning is a system of musical tuning in which the frequency relationships of all intervals are based on the ratio 3:2. This interval is chosen because it is one of the most consonant...
and complex polyrhythmics: he is deeply involved in ethnomusicology, the elements of which are revisited and employed in his musical language.
In the 80s, together with Walter Maioli
Walter Maioli
Walter Maioli is an Italian researcher, paleorganologist, poly-instrumentalist and composer.Specialized in experimental archaeology and music, in particular that of archaic civilization. He has been researching the music of antiquity and prehistory for more than 35 years...
and Gabin Dabiré
Gabin Dabiré
Gabin Dabiré is a singer, guitar player, and composer from Burkina Faso who is resident in Italy.Born in Bobo Dioulasso in the African state of Burkina Faso, Gabin Dabiré’s first experiences in music were taking lessons from and playing with the great masters of the traditional music of Burkina...
, he founded the group Futuro Antico
Futuro Antico (band)
Futuro Antico is a pioneering World Music group comprising Walter Maioli with Riccardo Sinigaglia and Gabin Dabiré...
, a cross between electronic and ethno-shamanic music.
In 1985 he founded, together with Mario Canali
Mario Canali
Mario Canali began his artistic career in 1975 as a painter. Shortly thereafter he turned his attention to electronic and digital art and is considered one of the pioneers of that art form.-Biography:...
, the audio-visual art group Correnti Magnetiche (http://www.aec.at/en/archives/prix_archive/prix_projekt.asp?iProjectID=2409) beginning to work with digital system.
Correnti Magnetiche uses computerized systems in order to create audio-visual compositions, and produces videotapes, installations and live-electronics concerts. In concert play with Maurizio Dehò (violin), Gabin Dabiré (balafon and percussions), Tommaso Leddi (violin, horn) and the soprano Rossana Maggia when Mario Canali paint on a graphic tablet with a big screen fellowing the music.
Correnti Magnetiche works have won many prizes at international demonstrations of computer art in Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, U.S.A., Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
and Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, and they have been broadcast on TV and radio worldwide (see curriculum).
From 1986 he work with Doubling Riders a musical group with Pierluigi Andreoni.
They play in festivals like Time Zone in Bari
Bari
Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...
.
He also worked in world music project with the Libyan singer Ahmed Fakroun
Ahmed Fakroun
Ahmed Fakroun is a singer and songwriter from Benghazi, Libya. He is a pioneer of modern Arabic World Music.John Storm Roberts, of Original Music, Allmusic, wrote that among rai singers, the pop-oriented Ahmed Fakroun stands out on two grounds. First, he is influenced by Euro-pop and French...
.
He works with Pietro Pirelli and his Ensamble de la Roue, with Corrado Colliard (Tbn.), Mauro Gino (perc.) and Maurizio Barbetti (Vla.).
He have also an improvisation group: "The swimmers" with the Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
n artist Alzek Misheff and Maurizio Barbetti (viola) and Rocco Parisi (bass clarinet).
With this group he plays only coda piano in performances like at Venice biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
.
Discography
- 1980 Futuro Antigo LP Son y luz (S. Paolo - Brasil)
- 1980 Futuro AnticoFuturo Antico (album)Futuro Antico is the self-titled recording made by Futuro Antico in 1980. It features a mixture of synthesized and ethnic music, highlighting the role intonation plays in music. This theme was featured in Tappo Volante the last Aktuala album, which featured the mixture of ethnic sounds and studio...
K7 www.soundcenter.it - 1985 Watertube Ringspiel K7 ADN (Milano)
- 1986 Riflessi LP ADN-Recommended Records Italia (Milano)[]
- 1987 Scorrevole 3 Fluttuazioni K7 Ladd-Frith Production (Eureka-CA-USA)
- 1987 The Doubling Riders 2LP ADN-Recommended Records Italia (Milano)
- 1989 Correnti Magnetiche LP ADN-Recommended Records Italia (Milano)
- 1989 The Doubling Riders "World" CD Supporti Fonografici (Milano)
- 1990 Futuro Antico LP (CGR) Schio (riedizione rimixata del disco del 1980)
- 1991 Correnti Magnetiche antologia VHS ADN Milano
- 1991 The Doubling Riders "Garama" CD Il museo immaginario (Piacenza)
- 1991 Concrete noises in "All Frontiers" CD Materiali Sonori (Valdarno)
- 1992 Evon in "Esorcismi e prove" CD Auditorium (Milano)
- 1992 Arm in "Studio ES" CD Edipan (Roma)
- 1998 Quicktime movies in "Marco Polo vol II" CD/CD ROM Materiali Sonori (Valdarno)
- 1999 Opal I° in "Music fof swimming across the Pacific" CD Alzek Misheff (Acqui Terme)
- 2001 "Proliferating truth of sentiment" The Swimmer Quintet CD Alga Marghen (Milano)
- 2002 Quert in "Musicas desde el abismo Vol.05" CD Margen Lugo (Spain)
- 2002 With Rossana Maggia "La Ballata della pulce" in compilation of independent electronic music magazine, issue 4 Nonexistence Moscow (Russia)
- 2005 Intonazioni ArchetipeIntonazioni Archetipe (album)Intonazioni Archetipe is the recording made by Futuro Antico in 2005 after a 25-year absence. It again features a mixture of synthesized and ethnic music, highlighting the role tuning systems plays in music .-Tracks:# Royal Cubit # African pink whale...
with Futuro Antico www.soundcenter.it
External links
- official site:Riccardo Sinigaglia
- Soundcenter page for Futuro Antico