the improvisor

presents
Multi Media Premier

Sunday August 15th  4:00 p.m.
Children's Dance Foundation
 

            VISIONS

            
                      Andrea Centazzo

                              multi-media concert
                                              for
                      Solo Percussion, Digital Percussion
                                             and
                                      Video Images

Regarded as “one of the most influential composer/percussionist of the last 30 years”  
                                            (Modern Drummer – Michael Bettine – 6/04)  

Andrea Centazzo has performed in many of the most important festivals and concert seasons both in Europe and the USA as soloist, conductor and with other great artists. His career ranges from free improvisation with players like Don Cherry, John Zorn, Steve Lacy and many more to conducting his operas, symphonies and performing solo concerts in Europe and USA, as well in South America and Far East.

After an intense season of improvised music (1972-83) in 1984 Andrea made is debut as filmmaker with Tiara, a video film journey in his childhood. The video won all the video festival around the word and launched  a new chapter in Andrea Artistic adventure. After may videos and soundtrack, Andrea decided to blend all his artistic experiences in a new medium, the Multimedia solo concert.

Using acoustic & digital percussion, Andrea integrates the images that he shot and edited with his musical composition in a mix of endless possibilities.

Improvisation is great part of this new expressive process, creating every time a different setting for the images projected with a vast array of instruments.

All the sounds are triggered in real time. no pre-recorded parts are used in this kind of program.
 

1)    DISCOVERIES I. 

The concert opening is a piece from his latest multimedia Einstein’s Cosmic Messengers. It’s a solo percussion with sampled choir ending in a rhythmic improvisation on a tabla loop.              www.andreacentazzo.com/ecm 

Images of the space courtesy of NASA.

2)    ANCIENT RAIN.

The hypnotic Balinese atmospheres permeate this composition, starting with free gong playing and the sound of rain opens this composition conveying a sense of serenity. Yet this soon turns into a sort of hypnotic trance during the Balinese dances especially created and shot for this project. From the multimedia show MANDALA

3)    TIARE.

A minimal piece in 7/8 originally inserted in the award winning Centazzo movie Tiare.

4)    ANATOMY OF THE SKULL.

From the Multimedia concert Eternal Traveler inspired by Leonardo da Vinci. It’s a solo percussion based on Gregorian chanting and the beat of the human heart with all the anatomic Leonardo drawing. The fictional scenes showing Leonardo (?) doing his experiments were shot for this project.

5)    MEDITATING IN A KYOTO GARDEN.

Composed in Japan and part of the multimedia  show AQUA, this piece is a improvisation on gongs on some pre-composed flute and string sequences. Images shot in Kyoto and Vietnam.

6)    ANCIENT FUTURE.

This is a 11/8 compositions based on the overlapping of different rhythmic sequences from Mandala multimedia show. The video shows a sci-fi kind of city: actually the Torrance Exxon refinery and Downtown LA!
                  

7)    SACRED SPIRIT.

The last piece is an epic celebration of the native Indians culture perfect balance between man and nature also from Mandala multimedia concert. The video was shot in the Mojave Desert and in Madagascar. Indian photos by Edward Curtis.
           
            

More info at:

www. andreacentazzo.com - www.myspace.com/andreacentazzo - www.ictusrecords.com