Non suonavano insieme da una dozzina d'anni, Howard Riley e Keith Tippett. Tornano a farlo stasera a Londra, al Pizza Express di Soho, ospiti dello Steinway Festival. Dice Riley di questo progetto a quattro mani, esordito nel 1981: "We just sit down and, literally, improvise. It's not planned. We don't discuss it. It just happens. It's a sort of spiritual thing, almost. It's very free in the real sense of the word, and we always enjoy playing together. Keith is very open to musical ideas, that's important, in that situation where you're thrown back on your own resources. We have a vocabulary that happens to come from playing with each other, from listening hard and years of experience of playing with different people … and it does work very well. You've got to trust each other and just get down there and play. It's always worked when we start playing. There's always slight anxiety when playing, but not with me and Keith."

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Diamanda Galás è da domani a Bologna per la presentazione del film Schrei X - realizzato con il regista Davide Sepe attorno a uno dei suoi più importanti progetti degli ultimi anni, iniziato come lavoro radiofonico nel 1994 e via via proseguito con diversi sviluppi - e per la prima data in Europa del suo nuovo recital Death Will Come And Have Your Eyes.

Piercing, guttural screams of pain, crescendos of raw human sound, visceral primeval calls and episodes of silence form the extended aria of pain that is Schrei 27, a new film created by Diamanda Galás and Davide Pepe. Initially commissioned as a radio work in 1994 (and subsequently performed live), Schrei 27 presents the viewer with an unrelenting portrait of a body suffering torture within the restricted confines of a medical facility. Comprising several short chapters of a ‘confession’ induced by chemical and mechanical manipulation of the brain, administered by doctors, this original work features Diamanda Galás and Salvatore Bevilacqua as a person who is taken to a mental hospital after arrest for treason. Galás selected Italian filmmaker Davide Pepe five years ago to collaborate on this project that would take her original compositions for Schrei 27 as the basis for a film combining powerful visuals with additional and updated vocal and sound recording and mixing. ‘Sound remains the crucial element; the film takes us inside Diamanda’s voice, releasing feelings and emotions that have resulted in the development of visuals,’ says Pepe. ‘We wanted to translate this vision of fear and monstrous anxiety in a place where the contained have no rights, and where there is no escape.’ Galás adds, ‘As the incarcerated know, there is no correct answer to any question asked by an interrogator. The object of this kind of torture is complete demoralisation – and the erasure of all that the captive has ever known – including the fact that he was ever a human being.’

http://www.auditoriumanzoni.it/diamanda-galas
http://www.auditoriumanzoni.it/schrei-27-2010
http://diamandagalas.com/projects/schrei-27-2

E un sostegno finanziario chiede anche Laurent Goldstein per la realizzazione del suo film su Christian Vander e Magma To Life, Death and Beyond-The Music of Magma, in particolare per la documentazione dei concerti statunitensi attualmente in corso. Alcuni trailer sono su YT: http://tinyurl.com/gtxy8cb

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