 Artist BIO
Composer, author, guitarist and performer. He studied composition with Pietro Rigacci and he was the assistant of Alvin Curran in "Crystal Psalms" and "Tufo Muto". Between 1983 and 1990 he performed in several European countries with the chamber music group "Trio Chitarristico Lucchese". In 1997 he started a collaboration with the Italian coreographer Roberto Castello. Between 1998 and 1999, he lived in Berlin as guest of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program). In the year 2000 he has been guest of the Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf with a Stipend of the Ministerium of Brandeburg. In the year 2002 he has been invited in Worpswede with a stipend of the Ministerium of the Niedersachsen and he has won the Karl-Sczuka-Preis (SWR, Baden-Baden) with his work IL TEMPO CAMBIA.
His repertoire ranges from performance, radio-art, dance theatre to chamber music, orchestral scores and songs.
Landscape, memory, life cycles, voices of people, languages; these are some of the main themes developed in Giannotti's work.
His compositions have been performed in: Festival Internazionale Teatro d'Arte (Narni 1989), G.A.M.O. (Florence 1989), Stichting Logos (Gent 1991 and 1999),"Macrophon '91 and '94" (Wroclaw), "Wings of Sound" (Helsinki 1993), "Sounding Islands" (Faroer Islands 1995), "Musica per le Stelle" (Costa degli Etruschi 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2000), "Strade Contemporanee" (Lucca 1997), "Neue Italienische Musikszene" (Berlin 1998), Ballhaus Naunynstrasse (Berlin 1999), Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf (Wiepersdorf 2000), Museum of Fine Arts (Philadelphia, 2000), Children's Future (Yokohama, 2001), ISCM World Music Days (Hong Kong 2002), Donaueschinger Musiktage (2002), Maerz Musik Festival (2003), Voix Nouvelles (2003), Teatro dell'Orologio (Roma 2004), Videominuto 2004 e 2006 (Prato), New York Film And Video Festival 2005, ISCM Festival (Stuttgart, 2006), festival Archipel (Geneve 2007), Urban Nomads (Taipei 2007) etc.
Since 2001 he has held training courses on ...
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July - August 2007
IL DUCA DELLE PRUGNE
Varietà del piacere
The new performance of ALDES/Roberto Castello, music by Stefano Giannotti |
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VIDEO SYNOPSYS
Walbrzych is a Polish town, a former mining site active until the 90s, which has begun to decline due to the closing up of the mines and the consequent firing of hundreds of workers.
CZARNA MADONNA is a sort of sound-visual journey in the streets and in the interiors of this town, a maze of lanes and palaces black of soot, eroded by time and stillness, theatre of ghosts (the inhabitants) wandering aimlessly. Grey alleys and timeless courtyards, faces showing signs of poorness and alcohol, a stadium – once the boast of the town – transformed into ruins and a race-course for Sunday car raids.
On the opposite side, in the main church, an army of priests in uniform celebrate the catholic mass in pomp of colours, the colours of power. They celebrate the Black Madonna (Czarna Madonna), on the rhythm of the homonym song, a popular Polish hymn, re-arranged as a pop song and interpreted by one of the priests in a surrealistic tv-recital atmosphere.
The soundtrack, entirely based on the original audio, alternates voices and natural sounds to complex electroacoustic elaborations. Since the spoken parts are not essential for the understanding of the film, subtitles have been avoided; therefore the characters’ voices have been treated as music parts. |
CREDITS
Directed by: Stefano Giannotti
Screenplay by: Stefano Giannotti
Photography by: Stefano Giannotti
Camera: Stefano Giannotti
Edited by: Stefano Giannotti
Music by: Stefano Giannotti
Cast:
Mariola Krajczewska
Mieczeslaw Krajczewscy
Pawel Szerlowski
Zofia Krajczewska
Prodution: Stefano Giannotti
Master: DVD
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