A voyage through many always changing improvised soundscapes, where the two wanderers find fragments of iranian musical tradition and transliterate them with electronics in a dreamlike context.
The original meaning of sounds, words, gestures, instruments dissolves into new mysterious names of a resounding unknown language.
East/West tradition/technology acoustic/electroacoustic composition/improvisation are the borders of the map we follow.
Riccardo Castagnola (1988) Sound Designer, Composer, Live Electroniker. He studied Electronics Music and Composition at Conservatorio G.B. Martini (Bologna, IT), Hochschule für Künste Bremen (GER) and improved himself through workshops with international composers and sound artists such as Denis Smalley, Bernard Parmegiani, Salvatore Sciarrino, Albert Mayr, François Bayle. His works and activities spreads among acousmatic and instrumental composition, free improvisation with live electronics, sound direction, sound design for film and multimedia interactive installation, analysis of electroacoustic music. All shown in international festivals (GER, UK, FR, BR, IT). He cooperates with Tempo Reale (Florence) for event planning and live electronics music performance. He cooperates with different groups like Ensemble “zero Crediti”, PRIME Recorder Ensemble, KURZSCHLUSS elektroakustisches Ensemble, NAKISA DUO, LEITMOTIV DUO, TR Idee Lab, Concrete Bologna Elettroacustica. He's copy editor of MusicaElettronica.it, an Italian blog about experimental music and arts.
Amirabbas Mohammadi (1985) Composer, violinist and Improviser. He studied violin in Tehran and worked 10 years as a violin teacher & orchestra conductor. Since 2010 he has been focusing on instrumental and electroacoustic composition at Conservatorio G.B. Martini (Bologna, IT). He performs intensively as composer and violinist with different instrumental groups and Festivals such as "Fajr Music Festival"“FestivalAngelicA”, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra dell’Università di Bologna “Collegium Musicum”, Ensemble “zero Crediti”, Pinacoteca Nazionale delle Belle Arti e nel Museo della Musica, “Suoni entro le mura ”a Vignola, "The Schönberg Experience", "Suona Francese", Tempo Reale (Florence) and many others.
Open air Sound Lab – 30.5.2014 (Firenze, IT)
Interazioni 2013 – 25.5.13 (Rimini, IT)
Contacts Riccardo Castagnola riccardo.castagnola@gmail.com + 49 159 01093174 + 39 348 1535587 skype: riccardo.castagnola soundcloud.com/nakisaduo riccardocastagnola.weebly.com/nakisa-duo