Nicola Sani: Tempestate & Other Works Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Alvise Vidolin & Marco Angius

• Nicola Sani (b. 1961):
• 1Sani: Seascapes IX (Münster)11:47
• 2Sani: Deux, le contraire de un12:38
• 3Sani: Light Red over Black11:31
• 4Sani: Gimme Scelsi08:18
• 5Sani: Tempestate14:38
• Total Runtime58:52

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The dramaturgy of the perception of the work in time and space, with a clearly evident attention to the instrumental emission. Sani does not come back. He does not sterilize art music in a smug, celibate stylistic game with the risk of marginalizing it, in the context of global reception, as an expression of a wealthy minority of the western white bourgeoisie. He outlines a possible contemporary humanism, in which the creative relationship with technology proves to be necessary and fertile, not submissive or idolatrous. It invites you to remember that, in the history of music, the highest moments came when the creators climbed the crest of the wave of the contemporary thought, confronting it, whether it expressed utopias or crisis, despair or hope. Finally, the compositions collected in this album invite you to rethink and remodel the listening spaces. This music crosses over, goes beyond mere confines. Composers, per-formers and institutions cannot escape this challenge again, as if it were not their problem. It is, and Tempus fugit.

Nicola Sani, tape
Alvise Vidolin, electronics
Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
Marco Angius, direction

Nicola Sani
was born 1961 in Ferrara (Italy). He was interested in music from an early age and had his first experiences in musical improvisation under the teaching of Mauro Cova in Rome. He later studied composition with Domenico Guaccero, Antonio Scarlato, Guido Baggani, and electronic music with Giorgio Nottoli. He also took courses with Karlheinz Stockhausen and David Keane.

He is author and performer of numerous compositions that combine electronics, digital and traditional instruments, and has performed at the most important festivals of contemporary and electronic music in Italy and abroad. He has had various commissions from WDR Cologne and RAI and from RAISAT for video works.

From 1986 to 1988 he was responsible for the music section of the "Festival Arte Elettronica" in Camerino, Italy. From 1984 to 1989 he was General Manager of the S.I.M., Societ Informatica Musicale, one of the most important Italian centres for the research and application of new technology to music.

Nicola Sani is now responsible for the sound-image and music programmes of RAISAT.

In 1990 Nicola Sani and Mario Sasso were awarded the Prix Ars Electronica "Golden Nica" for Computer Animation for their work "Footprint".

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