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This site has been created in order to make my scores public and freely available for downloading, in compliance with international copyright laws (with the sole exception of those already published). You will also find videos and audio files as well as texts that I have written or selected for my works. I will keep you posted on the various updates: a work-in-progress that I hope will never end...

A composer writing nowadays can not ignore that most of the sounds animating our life are produced sintetically. My music is a reflection on the musical suggestions that surround us and a recall through the production of unknown sounds by traditional instruments, in constant search of abnormal emissions of sounds, touching an enchanting alea. "Ecological" music with a human touch therefore, gambling on unpredictability of every live musical performance, trying to force the acoustic instruments to find new sounds in order to express adequately our present. Perfect to reach this goal, obviously,  is the large family of percussions, magical protagonist of most part of my compositions: instruments that can offer unpredictable halos and resonances.
I kept separate the catalog of STAGE MUSIC from that of COMPOSITIONS because it has been a joyful parallel adventure, looking for a higher communicability and at the service of the theatrical Plays. In this production, however, I have also been trying to add the salt of contemporaneity, never doing "historical fake": a kind of laboratory in which I tried to experiment my research attempts in homeopathic doses. I am deeply convinced that the present must reveal itself through works that express our new, changing life by a language updated and appropriate to our times. As T.S. Eliot wrote in Tradition and the individual talent (1920): "art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same".

NEWS
Micromusic1 and Micromusic2
2024/5/31
Today at 12:00 in Sala Maderna of the  Conservatory of Music "Benedetto Marcello" of Venezia Micromusic1 and Micromusic2 will be performed during the Percussions' Day, Music Workshop involving percussion students from Veneto and Friuli.
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
2024/2/4
Fpr the first time I inserted a composition in IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library. Micromusic1 for vibraphone,  
written after listening to Prometeo by Luigi Nono produced by ASAC (Biennale) in S. Lorenzo Church, is my present for the 100th birthday of the great venetian composer.
Le case di Venezia
2023/5/31
In a short while the beds for tourists will surpass the beds for residents. Halved Venice will not survive. Le case di Venezia are 7 short poems inserted in the section WRITINGS.
Percussion Marathon
2023/3/25
Starting at 4.30 pm in Campo Pisani, a Percussion/Percussionists Marathon will take place in order to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the foundation of the first Italian Percussion Chair at the Conservatorio "Benedetto Marcello" of Venezia. At 5 pm in the Concert Hall my  Omaggio a Varèse  for 13 percusionists  (2023) will be performed in world premiére.
3 lightning-fast sound logos
1st of January 23
3 lightning-fast sound logos in the section STAGE MUSIC to inaugurate the New Year
Preface to the photographic book Fior da fiore: Sicilia, la mia terra by Maurizio Karra - Ed. Fotograf, Palermo 2022
13th of December 2022
I inserted in the section WRITINGS my preface to the photographic book on Sicily by Maurizio Karra: I would like everyone to have the chance to read this wonderful book. You can find more infos at  www.mauriziokarra.it 
 
Gianfranco de Bosio's spiritual testament
3rd of May 2022
Ten years after winning the Giacomo Matteotti Prize - VIII Edition 2012 by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers for the libretto of our "European" opera Chronos paràdoksos (2007-2010) Gianfranco de Bosio and I felt the need, in the last days of April 2022, while Europe is prey of the most dramatic crisis of the last years because of the war between Russia and Ukraine, to rewrite the ending of our work in order to relaunch the authentic message of the European culture, that has always aspired to represent the occasion to overcome the hates and the contrasts in order to create  bridges between distant and incompatible positions. The Epilogue (The Foundation of the Common Law) has been reviewed in the light of the latest events and the poem Belfast 21st of November by Mario Luzi has been substituted by an interweaving of lines by Russian and Ukrainian poets. They witness the essential community of values that are above any occasion of clash and violence. This poliphony of poetry enlarges the borders of Europe in order to host again both of the peoples in a community that for hundreds of years shares a cultural koinè that the neoclassical architectures of Saint Petersburg and Odessa speechless testify to the entire world. New Italian version ended on the 30th of April 2022 available in WRITINGS.

Gianfranco de Bosio left us suddendly on the evening of the 2nf of May 2022, entrusting us this spiritual testament, worthy of an entire life he spent at the service of the stage, of the music, of the reserch and of the civil and cultural commitment. Chronos paràdoksos is published in the open access Ca' Foscari University site in the original version  http://dspace.unive.it/handle/10579/1163
Documentary film IL MONDO DI RICCARDO Direction by Daniele Frison
Two previews of the Documentary film IL MONDO DI RICCARDO - Domenico Peretti Griva Magistrato e Fotografo, direction by Daniele Frison (2021), in which soundtrack six compositions of mine have been inserted:
- TORINO, Cinema Massimo, 18th of January 2022 at 9 p.m. 
- VENEZIA, Cinema Rossini, 1st of February 2022 at 7 p.m.
A special event organized by Magistrate Edmondo Buti Liberati:
- MILANO, Anteo Palazzo del Cinema, 18th of May 2022 at 7.30 pm
Available for some months on ITsART
https://www.itsart.tv/it/content/il-mondo-di-riccardo-2021/43049a7c-913b-4e6d-82d1-abb1879674b6?fbclid=IwAR12NQCLJA6mv_D-DtLj8l-JWxvwYxHxBmVDtr6aMR2d_TLVSLgjKEFn9Mo
Press Book in the STAGE MUSIC section
Online the open access audiobook IL MILIONE by Marco Polo

 

15th of September 2021
Audiobook realized in order to celebrate 1600 years since the foundation of Venice and 750 years since Marco Polo started his journey to Far East (August 1271), thanks to the audiofiles of the DVD produced in 2008, with the support of Regione del Veneto, by Teatro Fondamenta Nuove of Venice, under the aegis of the National Committee for Celebrations of the 750° Anniversary of Marco Polo' s birth.

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Audiobook IL MILIONE by Marco Polo
3rd of June 2021
Emanuele Luzzati, cheerful mate of many theatrical adventures and tutelary deity of my website, was born on the 3rd of June 1921. His wonderful drawings brightened the full reading in 4 episodes of Il Milione  by Marco Polo organized in 2006 by Fondamenta Nuove Theatre of Venice under the auspices of National Committee for Celebrations of the 750° anniversary of Marco Polo's birth and now they adorn, together with the LELE LUZZATI FOUNDATION 100 ANNI logo, the cover of the just released and soon available online audiobook (Section: STAGE MUSIC)
L'arco immaginifico
5th of May 2021
The violinist Gisella Curtolo www.gisellacurtolo.com to which Der Schützengel als Begleiter des Menschen (2004) is dedicated, realized, thanks to a shooting system connected to the tip of the bow by her invented, a kind of psychedelic version of it, titled L'arco immaginifico (2021). 
Tempe Hernandez visual design, Thomas Gasulla camera. Available in the section VIDEO
Le Bucoliche by Virgilio - 11° Festivaletteratura di Mantova, review by Francesco Erbani
12th of February 2021
I just inserted in the section STAGE MUSIC the review by Francesco Erbani published on the cultural pages of La Repubblica  (7th of September 2007). As written in the newspaper clasp, it was a very happy experience indeed: why not enjoying, during the last (we hope!) days of lockdown, the videos of the ten Eclogues starring the Actors of the School of Piccolo Teatro di Milano directed by Gianfranco de Bosio and the musicians of the "Lucio Campiani" Conservatory of Mantua? They narrate of a lost paradise and of the hope of palingenesis after the dreadful century of war that precedes the drafting of the Bucolics...
A digital Tree of Light by Fabrizio Plessi
24th of December 2020
Light is going to come back: this Christmas like never before the entire World is truly longing to it!
Video by Daniele Frison Music by Maria Gabriella Zen  (Kiki Dellisanti - percussions)
https://youtu.be/jETUy52Zq5A
Beethoven Anniversary, my tribute
16th December 1770 - 2020
In 2015 the videoartists Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine chose for SPIRITI, a project commissioned by Fondazione Prada (see in the section STAGE MUSIC) also some compositions of mine, together with music by Ludwig van Beethoven: what an undeserved honor!
www.fondazioneprada.org/spiriti-en/?lang=en 

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