49.00 PLN

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Nr kat.: STR33668
Label  : Stradivarius

Stefano Scodanibbio - My New Address Ian Pace (piano), Magnus Andersson (guitar), Mario Caroli (flute), Elena Casoli, Jürgen Ruck (guitars), Francesco D'Orazio (violin), Rohan de Saram (cello) In nearly a quarter of a century of playing contemporary works for double-bass, I have spent the time when I wasn't performing wearing the other face of a musician, that of a composer. Composition fro me was never about writing something every day and doing it as though it were just a job. Quite the contrary because, like Debord, I've always seen it as though I were distilling a wide range of experiences down to their very essence. I wrote the pieces on the present recording quite literally – pencil, paper and that sort of rubber that Arnold Schoenberg used to consider composer's most important tool. I was never bothered about having to make my mark as a composer or make a living from being one, as I can support myself through my other profession as a bass player. And this going bakc and forth between instrument and music paper, this constant swapping of the roles of composer and performer was not simply the approach I used to write this music but actually the decisive element in it. In what I did I had support from a variety of sources. Baroque instrumental music in Italy, improvisation in some of its many forms, my experiences with composers whose material I had played, studied and worked with (Scelsi, Sciarrino, Xenakis, Bussotti, Ferneyhough, Lachenmann, Riley, Stockhausen). On the one hand my relationship with my work is highly physical, indeed manual, and on the other it goes off into uncharted realms of the imagination. Because only the new can make sense of a work and of working. And looking to the new is, to me, the condition for doinganything. With all the risks, dangers and chance that going off the beaten track involves. Everything in my work happens very freely, with a sens of adventure and little regard for customs. Basically, music to me is the ability to imagine other possible worlds, looking around, absorbing, going inward and never stopping experimentation. [from Stradivarius notes]