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Nicola Frangione was born in Forenza (PZ), Italy, in 1953. He has been living and working in Monza since 1972, as an interdisciplinary artist experimenting with several techniques: visual arts, publishing graphic arts, music and sound poetry, video and theatre production, visual poetry and mail art. As well as being concerned with visual poetry, he is among the main mail artists in Italy. For about 20 years he has been playing a role in developing and spreading this art in Italy, carrying out projects and organizing itinerant exhibitions and workshops. He has published and produced several art books: the poetry magazine “Armadio e Officina” (since 1975); the book “Osservazioni critiche sulla funzione del nervo ottico nella semiotica dell’arte” (1977); the book “The relativity of language as the enigma of art” (1979); “Zen and Art” and “Snapshot” (1980); “Madame et Theatre” (1987). From 1987 to 1995 he directed the publication of the cultural dynamics magazine “Harta” and managed the multimedia art centre, “Osaon”, Milan, in tandem with Luigi Bianco. Since 1996 he has been co-ordinating “edizioni Harta Performing”, concerning Italian performing arts. Research on music and sound poetry has resulted in several records and CDs: “Mail Music” (LP, 1983); “Italic Environments” (LP, 1985, edizioni Armadio Officina); “Radio Art” (CD, 1997); “Rapporti orali e trasversalità sonore” (CD, 1999). Some of his sound works have been broadcast by national radio stations in: Holland, Sweden, Spain, the USA, Canada, Japan and Italy (RAI uno and RAI tre). Some of his works as video producer were broadcast within TV shows and programmes between 1985 and 1995: “Film Maker’, Milan; “U-TAPE”, Ferrara video centre; “Tokyo Video Festival”; “Stockholm Art Video Festival”; “CMU”, Madrid; “Arnhem Festival”, Holland; “Tele +3”, Italy etc. He relies on his performances and theatre to take part in numerous international shows and festivals. Some of his latest itinerant works include: “Percorsi attraverso percorsi”, “Italic Environments”, “Allitterazioni Sonore”, “Rapporti orali e trasversalità sonore”. 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 production also include music for documentaries, ballets and theatre spectacles. His work is based on modes, mean tone, pitagorean scales and complex polyrhythmics: he is deeply involved in ethnomusicology, the elements of which are revisited and employed in his musical language. In the 80′s, togheter whith Walter Maioli and Gabin Dabiré, he founds the group Futuro Antico, a cross beetwin electronic and etno shamanic music. In 1985 he founded, together with Mario Canali, the audio-visual art group Correnti Magnetiche 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 whith 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 world-wide (see curriculum). From 86 he work with Doubling Riders a musical group with Francesco Paladino and Pierluigi Andreoni . They play in festivals like Time Zone in Bari. He works also in world music project with the libic singer Ahmed Fakrun. He works also with Pietro Pirelli and his Ensamble de la Roue, with Corrado Colliard (Tbn.), Mauro Gino (perc.) and Maurizio Barbetti (Vla.). Piermario Ciani is one of the founders of Trax label along with Vittore Baroni and Massimo Giacon. Vincenzo Zitello – composer, harpist, and concert artist – starts studying music at a very early age, playing the transverse flute and the viola. The first person to spread and pioneer of the Celtic harp in Italy, from 1976, he dedicates himself to his musical studies, taking part in Breton cultural and musical seminars held at the “Ti Kendalc’h” with Dominig Bouchaud and Mariannig Larc’hantec. Naif orchestra was the musical outlet for Bigazzi brothers (Arlo and Giampiero) from Florence. They had founded the independent label Materiali Sonori. Giovanni Fontana was born in Frosinone (Latium), Italy. He has been dealing for 35 years with multicode languages, intermedia techniques and synaestesiae. Interested in the relationships between arts, he carries on his exploration crossing many bounds and activating contaminations, starting from “phono-visual” poetical matrices. In this way he attaines a new conception of the text: an integrated text, a politext, a multi-po(i)etic hypertext, a cross ultratext, introducing the dynamic texture taking place beyond the written pages, in a time-space dimension. His visual compositions, thus, present themselves as real scores, as pre-texts through which to attain a performance dimension, in which his “sound poems” can be situated, particularly appreciated in the context of the international artistic experimentation. Excellent modern classical, music concret and experimental album. Italic Environments was released on vinyl by Armadio Officina Audio Editions (LP 002) in 1985.

Tracks:

1. Riccardo Sinigaglia & Mario De Leo – Risveglio Terra
2. Piermario Ciani – Trax 160784
3. Arpa Celtica Vincenzo Zitello – Nembo Verso Nord
4. Naif Orchestra – Just Can’t Stop (Luxury In Stadium)
5. Franco Ballabeni – Bassa Marea
6. Giovanni Fontana – Horror Vacui (Orgy)

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