Il 19 dicembre 2007 all’Auditorium, Parco della Musica, at the Parco della Musica Auditorium (a co-production with the Fondazione Musica in Rome and the MultiMediaLaborFestival) the following concert will be held:

(complementary states of sound from the working classes)
Critical Concert

Luigi Cinque

On stage: musicians, writers, poets—all of the actors operating in diverse fragments of modern-day society. The stage is thus a container holding a concert-story that is inspired by the Pirandellesque play ‘six, and more, authors in search of a character’. It is a story in which working elements (its better-known rhythms and several important songs) are fused with an electronic structure and a very modern and contemporary instrumental grain.
Makina is a dance, but it is also a hip-hop and ‘industrial’ trip…or the Tarantella dance of the working class of the South.
Makina is jazz…ethno…videoimages…Makina is the poetic word put to the stage.
Makina is the suggestion of the fragments of the working class and its duplicity…Makina is a poetic opera. (L.C.)
Several of the artists and musicians that took part in the concert in Bologna will participate in the evening event, in addition to many others. By bringing their experiences and backgrounds to the stage, artists are able to more deeply investigate the relationship between music/work/society.
Vocals: Lucilla Galeazzi, Raiz, Badara Seck; Vibraphone: Andrea Biondi; Piano: Salvatore Bonafede; Clarinet, saxophone, live electronics: Luigi Cinque; Saxophone: Maurizio Giammarco; Tombone: Michael Gross; Piano and accordian: Antonello Salis; on the poetry set to the stage: Nanni Balestrini, Elisa Biagini, Aldo Nove e Lello Voce; video design edited by: Giacomo Verde; Lights and photography: Maurizio Viola; Sound: Eugenio Vatta. Special Guests: Alex Balanescu and Michael Gross.

During the events, the trailer for the documentary film, entitled Lavoro Liquido (2007) by Michele Cinque, will be shown.

Produced in collaboration with IMAIE, Lavoro liquido is a documentary inspired by the concert-event inspired by the working class, organized by Luigi Cinque and held at Link in Bologna in November 2006 during the ‘Multimedia Labor Festival’. The music—a fusion of jazz, rock, electronic, rap and popular music—suggests, comments on and articulates the times and rhythms of a journey into the world of the working classes. The fusion of music, poetry and video art, backstage scenes and the live concert comprise the main narrative vein of the film. The artists and the personnel of Link speak of ‘work’ and their experiences help viewers to reflect on the epochal changes brought about by technological progress and the new structure of working world.

MILLEUNA
E ALTRE PAROLE PER MUSICA
di Nanni BalestriniCurrently available in bookshops, Nanni Balestrini’s Milleuna E altre parole per musica will soon be presented to the public. Published by DeriveApprodi, this unique music-poetry publication features a vast array of artists, including Luigi Cinque.
The poetry section is accompanied by a CD, which sets the poems to music. This unique opera further solidifies the intimate bond between poetry and music.
It is collocated at the centre of a larger process called ‘The Savage Identity’ and to use Luigi Cinque’s words: the poetry and the CD are not two different profiles of the same face but they are instead inevitably inseparable—an all-accomplished opera made up of voiced poetry and contemporary music.
Within the vast artistic activity of Nanni Balestrini, his first fatal encounter was with the sound of the poetic word, which later led to numerous experiments and experiences with music. His writings have been the object of stage performances and recordings. Some of these experiences are featured in Milleuna, shedding light on the vast array of solutions that evidence the principle feature of Balestrini’s poetry: the pursuit of an expressive force based on the material value of words. It is an opera where the word’s union with music makes this expressive force all the more explicit and engaging. Here are some of the precious nodes of this new poetic-musical mosaic: Luigi Nono ‘Contropunto dialettico alla mente’; Demetrio Stratos ‘Le milleuna’; Valeria Magli ‘Paesaggio con giunchi attraversato dalla signorina Richmond’; Steve Lacy ‘Sommerbird’; Quatuor ‘Maniche Alba’; Esther Roth ‘Le poisson ardent’; Paolo Rossi ‘Tango dei furiosi’; Luigi Cinque ‘Elettra’; Peppe Servillo ‘Sandokan’; Mario Mazzoli ‘Istantanee’; Antonio Rezza ‘Basta cani’; Paolo Fresu ‘Frammenti del sasso appeso’; Third ‘I Cieli’.