Written by Alessandra | 12 December 2012

2012 for me was not the year of the "crisis" but the year of the game, the lightness, of the unusual harmonies, the "background noise" of silence ....it has been the year of my love for John Cage .

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Written by Alessandra | 02 June 2012

I am back from my concert in Maputo. Playing in Africa has a special meaning for me, because Africa is the land of color, the purity of nature, but also of incomprehensible contradictions, the zeroing of identity. 48 hours (this has been the duration of my stay in the Mozambican capital) are far too few to be able to understand anything, but enough to give birth to the desire to explore the mysteries of this continent, much larger than it appears on maps.

My concert was held as two years ago, in the Teatro Avenida, a rather dilapidated room, with a few rats that peep out from time to time, but still cozy and comfortable.

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Written by Alessandra | 23 January 2012

To be interested in Satie one must be disinterested to begin with, accept that a sound is a sound and a man is a man, give up illusions about ideas of order, expressions of sentiment, and all the rest of our inherited aesthetic claptrap. It is not a question of Satie's relevance. He's indispensable. 
(John Cage)

I've always loved Satie: for his lightness and depth, for his extravagance made of genuine gestures and thoughts, for his seriousness always expressed with humor, for his provocations never closed in themselves. It's not easy being like this, it risks being too often misunderstood. But let's come to my last experience: Vexations. This is a short theme on bass, interspersed with two attunements at all obvious. Satie makes it clear:

" this motif has to be played for oneself 840 times in a row. It must be well prepared beforehand, and in total silence, with a series of immobilities."
Do you understand?

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Written by Alessandra | 11 December 2011

... a volte le parole non servono...

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