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[microsound] Amy Knoles/Claudio Parodi
Amy Knoles computer assisted live electronics, percussion controllers, linear/interactive video
Claudio Parodi feedback (self-modified electronics)
available from April the 23rd to May the 3rd
program
1st set: Amy Knoles in
- 2 x 10 x 10 x 10 +1 (Amy Knoles)
- Men in the Cities (Amy Knoles)
- Imobiles Re-mix (Amy Knoles)
- Fear of Heights/Lying to Birds 2001-present (Amy Knoles, music; Richard Hines, video)
- Tricomatic (Clay Chaplin)
2nd set:
- Amy Knoles/Claudio Parodi impro
Amy Knoles is a solo artist who tours globaly performing computer assisted live electronic music with percussion controllers and linear/interactive video. Her work
has been described as being of "frightening beauty, fascinating, complex" -N.P.R. A "Los Angeles' new music Luminary, infinitely variable, infinitely fascinating" -
Los Angeles Times. Amy is the recipient of the Durfee Grant 2003, "UNESCO International Prize for the Performing Arts-2000", the 1999-2000 "Indiviual Artist
Fellowship" Award from C.O.L.A. , the 2001 Lester Horton Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Original Music for Dance", and she was the 1996 ASCAP
Foundation " Composer-in-Residence at the Music Center of Los Angeles", and is currently creating a sound environment for the J. Paul Getty Museum .
She is the Exe. Dir. of the California E.A.R. Unit and also works with the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Ensemble Modern of Frankfurt, Squint, the
Paul Dresher Ensemble, Basso Bongo, Frank Zappa, Flea, Morton Subotnick, others.
Amy has recorded nearly 30 CD's of new music and is proud to announce the release of her solo recordings "Men in the Cities" and 2 x 10 x 10 x 10 + 1", on the
Echograph Label.
Claudio Parodi has a classical training and played jazz. He joined the improvisers' scene after meeting Barre Phillips. Since some years he plays cheap electronics alongside his piano. He organized contemporary art exhibition Intersezioni. He played and recorded with Barre Phillips, Serge Pesce, Patrick Vaillant, Migueù Montanaro, Alain Joule, Edoardo Ricci, Eugenio Sanna, Guylaine Renaud, dancer Laura Banfi, Steve Piccolo, Nino Locatelli, Filippo Monico, Bilux, Roy Paci, DJ Jimmy, DJ Squamo, painter and bass and drums player Patrizia Oliva, Giuseppe Ielasi, Cathy Heyden, Jake Kaluna, Roberto Laria, Echo Logico, Roberto Agosta, Mira Calix, poet Marino Ramingo Giusti, Bruno Dorella, Stefania Pedretti, Eleonora Papapietro, Saitoh Tetsu, Bruno Gussoni, Alberto Belli, poet Serge Pey, Riccardo Molpurgo, Paolo Porfiri, Martin O'Loughlin, Marco Cinque, poet Lance Henson, Knarf, Pop, Saalschutz, Suonatori di Sogni, Ron Anderson, Carla Bozulich, Leyna Papach, djwjm, Anna Troisi, Nels Cline, Lullo Mosso, poet Enzo Minarelli, Maramao, Lello Colombo, Claudia Cancellotti, Anna Zecca, Pierpaolo Cimino, Le Quan Ninh, Martine Altenburger, dancer Valerie Metivier, La Fanfare de la Touffe, Ababacar (Abdou) M'Becke, Federick Colombie, Dudu Kouate. He played in Prauxparodie, musical poetry duo with former Voci Atroci Luca Albrecht Praussello. Among his projects, Half Clouds, improvisation duo with wonderful virtuoso Michel Doneda on soprano sax; Duopoly, improvisation duo with Jon Dobie (founder and tour manager of B-Shops for the Poor and Sonicphonics; he runs the No Wave label) on guitar and sax. He intensely played with Alessandro Buzzi (drums, electronics) as a duo, in La Protezione - with Luigi Valenziano (dubmaster, CD player, tapes) - and in Burzi Snack Bar - with Riccardo Kalb (electric bass, electronics); the duo played in Arrivano le Streghe!, street theatre piece by Teatro del Piccione. He is the author of the music for the videos Malegantus (directed by Alberto Ghiara) and Frammenti Sonori (directed by Francesco Bianchi and Claudio Rossi), second prize in 1998 at VIII videodance international festival Il Coreografo Elettronico and mentioned at the second edition of Genova Film Festival. He played in Manoeuvre Directe with Michel Doneda, Ly Thanh Tien (dance, poetry, trumpet, diapoems) and Maki (guitar, tapes). He played in Sun Circle Moon, a project led by Jacopo Andreini (sax, drums, bass) and Harlan Lyman (drums). He played in a multi-media project with Mirella Carbone (diapositives). He organized Seminario sulla Libera Improvvisazione Saitoh Tetsu & Michel Doneda, with partial financial help from Centro della Creatività Comune di Genova. He plays in Taliban project by poet Alberto Masala, playing with Fabiola Ledda, Maurizio Carbone, Riccardo Pittau. He played in Macchina Disorganizzata n° 6 (a project by Cane Capovolto) playing with Massimo Bressan, Luca Pagani, Simone Perna. His new project is de Manincor/Rispoli/Parodi, improvisation trio with actresses Anna de Manincor and Anna Rispoli on voice. He resulted among the most accomplished musicians on piano (Improvisation Special Mention) and among the accomplished musicians on feedback (electronics) at 2002 Ibla Grand Prize. Under the name rabbia he runs an activity of recordings releasing and events organisation. He played in Animates with Pascale Moret-Astier (improvised dance), Ly Thanh Tien and Roland Ossart (mélisson). He played in Isola (conversation), a project by Carlo Natoli (concept for video and audio, live electronics) for Fabrica Musica, with Gaetano Santoro (tenor and baritone sax). The performance Rifl-Esso (Francesco Calandrino, computer visuals; Luca Pagani, computer visuals; Claudio Parodi, cheap electronics) was selected for the Selected Artist exhibition at Chiangmai First New Media Art Festival http://iceca.chiangmai.ac.th/events (Thailand), performed online at CMU Faculty of Architecture and twice at CMU Art Museum and performed live at PEAM '03 Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting www.artificialia.com/peam2003/ The Cdrom of the performance was presented at The Performance Open during Performance Art Festival + Archives (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) www.performance-art.org He plays piano and feedback in a trio with Mat Pogo (vocals, megaphone) and s.drò (electric guitar, objects). He played tarogato (Turkish clarinet) in the performance senza smàni (a pag. 777 di teleVideo) with Francesco Calandrino (performance coordinator, alto sax, acoustic guitar, electric bass) and Luca Pagani (acoustic guitar, electric bass). His records Loneliness and 11'39"+5'00"=20'00" were broadcast at le placard #6 last 72 hrs http://placard95.dokidoki.fr/placardgaiteprog.html
Discography: OvO: Assassine (Bar la Muerte 2001)
Loneliness (collector's item CDr)
11'39"+5'00"=20'00" (CDr rabbia)
Loneliness on Frammenti, sonorità in-tagli. (CDr + artbook Musica Moderna Records)
Enzo Minarelli/Luca Pagani/Claudio Parodi: Musicamimica Musicamimica (ovvero far musica
con la mano nella lingua dell'antico Egitto) nuova versione (miniCDr rabbia)
contacts:
Claudio Parodi
Via Trieste 46/23
16043 Chiavari (GE)
Italia
tel. +39 0185307740
mobile +39 3290276077
e-mail: cla.parodi@xxxxxxxxx