Andrea Centazzo
Musical artist
Andrea Centazzo (born 1948) is an Italian-born American composer, percussionist, multimedia artist and record label founder.[ 1]
Music career
Centazzo was born in Udine, Italy. In the 1970s he played percussion in avant-garde jazz with John Zorn , Steve Lacy , and Don Cherry ,[ 2] and became "a leading figure in the European avant-garde".[ 3]
After 1986 he turned to video making and composed operas, film soundtracks and orchestral compositions.[ 4] Since 1992, he has lived and worked in Los Angeles and has become a naturalized American citizen. He has also performed and recorded with Albert Mangelsdorff , Alvin Curran , Anthony Coleman , Evan Parker , Fred Frith , Gianluigi Trovesi , Henry Kaiser , Sylvano Bussotti , Theo Jörgensmann , Tom Cora , and Toshinori Kondo . He has conducted his own compositions with the American Youth Symphony , the L.A. Contemporary Orchestra, the Mitteleuropa Orchestra, and many ensembles. He has directed and staged his own opera compositions as well as theatrical plays by other U.S. authors.
Centazzo has also created multimedia projects that fuse acoustic instruments, electronic instruments, and video.[ 2] His multimedia projects include Mandala , Eternal Traveler , Einstein's Cosmic Messengers , and R-Evolution . In more recent live performances he has given solo multimedia concerts, accompanying his own videos.[ 4]
Centazzo has recorded over 60 LP's and CD's, and has composed 350 musical works of diverse types, in addition to writing eight musicology books.[ 5] In 2012 the Library of the University of Bologna opened the "Fondo Andrea Centazzo" with a collection of his works and documents.[ 6]
Instrumental innovations
During his earlier career Centazzo developed a number of percussion instruments, including the icebell, a bowl-shaped instrument made from a bronze alloy.[ 7] In his 1980 work Indian Tapes he introduced the ogororo, lokole , tampang, tubophone and square bell, based on Native American instruments.[ 8]
ICTUS
The ICTUS record label was founded in 1976 by Centazzo and his wife, Carla Lugli. Its first release was Clangs by Centazzo and Steve Lacy . Subsequent albums also featured Andrew Cyrille and Lol Coxhill , among others. The label was wound up after eight years owing to financial difficulties,[ 9] but was revived in 1995[ 10] and again in 2006.
[ 11]
Compositions
Major compositions by Centazzo include the multimedia opera Tina (1996),[ 12] The Soul in the Mist (2006),[ 13] Moon in Winter (2011),[ 14] The Heart of Wax (2012),[ 15] and the multimedia project Tides of Gravity (2016). This last was produced in association with LIGO , NASA and Caltech to mark the first detection of gravitational waves .[ 16]
Music albums
Year
Title
Collaborators
2016
Duets 7 (1977)
Evan Parker
2015
October Wind Vol. 2
Steve Lacy , Kent Carter
2015
October Wind Vol. 1
Steve Lacy, Kent Carter
2013
The Complete Recording Vol. 3 - Rituals
LaDonna Smith , Davey Williams
2013
Latecomers
Anthony Coleman , Steve Swell , Giancarlo Schiaffini
2013
Stolen Moment
Marilyn Crispell
2013
Derek Bailey Tribute Band
Chris Cochran , Marco Cappelli, Anders Nilsson
2012
In A Rainy Day
Roberto Ottaviano
2012
Bridges
Akira Sakata , Kiyoto Fujiwara
2012
Lost In June
Steve Lacy, Kent Carter
2012
The Complete Recording Vol. 2 - Halcyon Days
LaDonna Smith, Davey Williams
2012
Seven Giant Waves
2012
Ictus World Music Collection
2012
Mandala
2011
Einstein's Cosmic Messengers Live
2011
September Impressions
Janel Leppin , Mike Sebastian , T.A. Zook
2011
Escape From 2012
Don Preston
2011
Live In Concert At The Kennedy Center Washington DC
2011
Deep Space Adventure
2011
Snowplow
Elliott Sharp
2011
Moon In Winter
Dave Ballou , Daniel Barbiero, Nobu Stowe, Achille Succi
2009
Guitars
2008
West Coast Trio
2007
Double - The Complete Recording 1976 - 2007
Guido Mazzon
2007
The Warriors
Toshinori Kondo , Eugene Chadbourne
2007
Los Angeles Tapes
2007
The German Horse
Eugene Chadbourne
2007
After The Silence
Giancarlo Cardini
2007
Eternal Traveler
2007
Voyagers
2007
The Soul In The Mist
Perry Robinson , Nobu Stowe
2007
Eternal Traveler
2006
Moot & Lid
Lol Coxhill , Giancarlo Schiaffini
2006
Double 1
Guido Mazzon
2006
With Love's Light Wings
2006
Henceforward
2006
Double 2
Guido Mazzon
2006
A New Shock!!
Gianluigi Trovesi
2006
Fragments 2
2006
Fragments 1
2006
Koans: Volume One
Pierre Favre
2006
Mandala
2006
The Heart Of Wax
2006
World Percussion Christmas
2006
The Shadow And The Silence
2006
Chamber Music
2006
Koans: Volume Three
David Moss , Steve Hubback, Jeffrey Daniel Jensen, Pere Oliver Jørgens, Brake Drum Percussion
2006
Midnight All Day
2006
Departed Angels
2006
South
2006
Koans: Volume Two
David Moss, Alex Cline
2006
Sacred Shadows
2006
Darkly Again
Lol Coxhill, Franz Koglmann
2006
Speed The Plow
2006
Infinity Squared
Henry Kaiser
2006
Thirty Years From Monday
2006
In Real Time
2006
Darkly
Lol Coxhill, Franz Koglmann
2006
The Recollection
2006
Early Music 1972-1973
2006
Tao
Steve Lacy
2006
Spaces
2006
Songs And Thoughts
2006
Early Music 1970-1975
2001
Piano Music
2001
Il Cuore Di Cera
2000
Situations
Lol Coxhill, Franz Koglmann, Giancarlo Schiaffini
1998
Real Time Two
Alvin Curran , Evan Parker
1997
The Secret Of Joy
1996
Highlights From Tina
1996
USA Concerts West
John Carter, Vinny Golia , Greg Goodman
1994
A Bosnian Requiem
1994
Film Soundtrack - N. 3
1993
Sea
1993
Sea Land People Seasons
1993
Seasons
1993
Land
1993
People
1992
Living Pictures
1991
Theatres
1990
Cetacea - L'Odissea Dei Suoni Perduti
1989
Il presente prossimo venturo
1989
Visions
1989
Omaggio A Pier Paolo Pasolini
1987
Jacques E Il Suo Padrone
Milan Kundera
1985
Tiare
1985
L'Altro Lato
Carlo Actis Dato , Furio Chirico, Luigi Venegoni
1984
Shock!!
Gianluigi Trovesi
1983
Cjant - Concerto Per Piccola Orchestra
1982
Solo De La Passion Selon Sade
Sylvano Bussotti
1981
Percussion Interchanges
David Moss, Alex Cline, Creative Music Studio
1980
Indian Tapes
1979
Environment For Sextet
John Zorn , Eugene Chadbourne, Tom Cora , Toshinori Kondo , Polly Bradfield
1979
Protocol
Henry Kaiser , Toshinori Kondo
1979
The Bay
Rova Saxophone Quartet
1979
Velocities
LaDonna Smith, Davey Williams
1979
Moot
Lol Coxhill, Giancarlo Schiaffini
1978
Dec 29 1978 Udine
Eugene Chadbourne
1978
U.S.A. Concerts
1978
Real Time
Alvin Curran, Evan Parker
1977
Dialogues
Pierre Favre
1977
Trio Live
Steve Lacy, Kent Carter
1977
Drops
Derek Bailey
1977
Ratsorock
Paolo Bordini, Franco Feruglio
1976
Duetti
Guido Mazzon
1976
Clangs
Steve Lacy
1976
FM Frequenze Modulate (Le Nuove Tendenze Della Musica Italiana)
Mario Guarnera, Roberto Cacciapaglia , Guido Mazzon, Gaetano Liguori, Luigi Grechi
1976
Freedom Out !
Gunter Hampel , Frederic Rabold, Bruno Tommaso , Martin Bues, Thomas Keyserling
1976
Solos 6/5/76
1975
Fragmentos
1974
Ictus
Source :[ 1]
Filmography
Books
References
^ a b "ArtistInfo" . music.metason.net .
^ a b Harris, Craig. "Andrea Centazzo | Biography & History" . AllMusic . Retrieved 24 November 2016 .
^ Coda . J. Norris. 2001. p. 30.
^ a b "Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre Presents Back in Circulation At West Hollywood Library" . Broadway World. August 31, 2017.
^ Andrea Centazzo: Biography , The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
^ "Fondo e archivio Centazzo" Archived 2019-07-01 at the Wayback Machine , ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna.
^ Guido Facchin (2000). Le percussioni . EDT srl. p. 36. ISBN 978-88-7063-251-4 .
^ Gramophone . Vol. 60. General Gramophone Publications Limited. 1982. p. 263.
^ Breznikar, Klemen (May 13, 2012). "Andrea Centazzo interview" . It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine . Archived from the original on August 14, 2017. Retrieved December 24, 2020 .
^ Todd S. Jenkins (2004). Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-313-33313-2 .
^ "ICTUS Records Nights @ The Stone (NYC) April 1-14" , by Michael Ricci, All About Jazz , March 21, 2012.
^ Letizia Argenteri (2003). Tina Modotti: Between Art and Revolution . Yale University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-300-09853-2 .
^ "Andrea Centazzo, Perry Robinson, Nobu Stowe: The Soul in the Mist" . All About Jazz . 17 August 2007.
^ "Andrea Centazzo: Moon in Winter" . All About Jazz . October 17, 2011.
^ "Andrea Centazzo, The Heart of Wax" . classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.co.uk . 20 March 2012.
^ Andrea Centazzo nota biografica Archived 2019-07-01 at the Wayback Machine , ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna.
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