Roberto Musci

Roberto Musci (born March 27, 1956 in Milan, Italy) is a music composer, performer, saxophonist and guitar player.

Musci studied saxophone and guitar. From 1974 to 1985 he travelled around the world to study African, Indian, and Near & Far Eastern music, to make field recordings and collect musical instruments. He recorded LPs and CDs for different European labels (including Raw Materials, Victò,^[1] Lowlands^[2] and Island Records), Recommended Record,^[3]^[4] with musical techniques derived from " Plunderphonics"^[5]^[6] and Concrete Music.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Soundtracks for videos and video installations

He composed and played music for :

Studio Azzurro^[10]
Miguel Soares^[11]^[12]
Filmaker 2014^[13]^[14]

He composed and played music for commercial spots

Levi's
Nike
Bulgari
IBM
United Way^[15]

Soundtracks for dance

He composed and played music for Dance Companies :

Tanzfabrik ( Berlin),^[16]^[17]
Los Angeles Choreographer &dancers^[18]

Live soundtracks for silent movies

He performed live soundtracks for silent movies ^[19]

"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",^[20] directed by Carl Boese and Paul Wegener^[21]
"Saturnino Farandolà", directed by Marcel Perez and Luigi Maggi
"The Crowd", directed by King Vidor
" Belfagor " directed by Henri Desfontaines^[22]^[23]

Music for poems and theatre

Soundtrack for Piera degli Esposti ^[24]^[25] " 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" ^[26]^[27]
Stefano Canzio's video "Sua Intermittenza" ^[28]
Andrea Gropplero's movie "Pidgin" ^[29]
Monica Castiglioni's movie "Rita incontra una amica" ^[30]
Elisabetta Sgarbi "Non chiederci la parola – Il Gran teatro montano del Sacro Monte di Varallo".^[31]

Videomaker

He also made videos for :

Walter Prati ^[32] & Giancarlo Schiaffini
Lilliana Bancolini ( As time goes by )^[33]
Morgan ^[34]^[35]
Massimo Cavallaro ^[36]
Arnold Marinissen ^[37] Dutch percussionist(with Massimo Mariani)
Raw Material Label : " Alchemy",^[38]"Tribute to Zugakousaku ",^[39]

 "Thales ' dream",^[40] "Chronophotography".^[41]

Radio broadcasts

From 80' he broadcast ethnic & experimental music from Italian National Radio Stations ( Rai )^[42]^[43] and Radio Popolare^[44]^[45]

Festivals

At the 32nd Bourges International Festival ^[46]^[47] he performed the piece "Music for Labyrinths" for voice & electronics at Maison de la Culture ICEM Serie : Federation Italy 01/06/2002
At Time Zone Festival (Bari, Italy 1995 ^[48]) he performed the live sountracks of Silent Movie " Der Golem ", directed by Carl Boese and Paul Wegener
At Palazzina Liberty (Milano, Italy )^[49]^[50] from 1997 to 2002 "Senza Parole Festival" live sountracks of Silent Movies with : Keith Tippett, Chris Cuttler, Jon Rose and Claudio Gabbiani

Musicians

He has played in studio and in live concerts with many Italian and European musicians, including:

Giovanni Venosta ^[51]
Claudio Gabbiani ^[52]
Walter Prati ^[53]
Giorgio Magnanensi,^[54]
Massimo Mariani ^[55]
Roberto Zanisi^[56]
Tiziano Tononi ^[57]^[58]
Daniele Cavallanti (Aktuala)^[59]
Moni Ovadia
Sandro Cerino ^[60]^[61]
Chris Cutler
Jon Rose
David Moss
Steve Piccolo,^[62]^[63]
Elliott Sharp
Keith Tippett.

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)
"Vampyr and other stories" (Recommended Records, 2015)
""Third Ear Band v Roberto Musci : Mosaic , a tribute to Third Ear Band " (Gonzo Multrimedia , UK , 2016 )

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)

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