SEIBUTSU ART & MUSIC STUDIO by Angelo Sturiale: SKETCHES

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The essay "La música escondida", by the composer Angelo Sturiale, has been published in the collective book "La belleza múltiple" (Bellaterra Editions) coordinated by Professor Lluis X. Álvarez, from the University of Oviedo, and Luis Xavier López Farjeat, from the Universidad Panamericana de México. The volume is a highly eclectic exercise in which several voices have externalised very diverse approaches and points of view that, although they seem disjointed, allow us to confirm the breadth of the reflections on art and aesthetics. The reader will find essays that keep a great distance from each other and that project diverse concerns related to the abandonment of beauty and the importance of making it reborn, or with the variety of forms in which it can be understood according to the different forms of expression and to the diverse cultural environments. The essays collected here by Llus X. lvarez, Mirian Rodrguez, Luis Feás, Adriana Clavel, Miguel Alfonso Bouhaben, Angelo Sturiale, Cristina Morales, Rubén Figaredo, Thomas Heyd, Mariana Méndez-Gallardo, Shekoufeh Mohammadi, and Mara Molina demonstrate the breadth of interests in artistic theory, art history, and art philosophy. Despite the different visions offered by each of them, some common concerns can be seen: where art is going, where art is, how to understand aesthetics and beauty, how to understand art and artistic expressions from different cultures. http://www.ed-bellaterra.com/php/llibresInfo.php?idLlibre=1331

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This book provides a series of original piano exercises specifically designed for developing hand strength and endurance. This special training is based on an ergonomic view of the position of the hand on the keys. It is conceived as an alternative piano ‘workout’ and is designed for intermediate/advanced piano students, professional pianists, and keyboardists who wish to improve their technique in all musical genres. Ergonomic hand movement is anatomically focused on spontaneous and natural configurations of hand position and finger articulation on the keyboard, without reference to musical language or style. Though they are labelled numerically, the exercises are not necessarily in order of increasing difficulty. Thus, they may be practiced in any order, according to one's personal taste or specific goals. Tempo and dynamics have been intentionally omitted from all exercises. However, results are more effective when the exercises are practiced loudly and quickly, as they focus on building muscular strength and endurance of the hand and fingers, along with the wrist and forearm.

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Angelo Sturiale, with this "Catalogue of Love", entrusts to the word variegated entities of lacerations with a tormented narration that avoids any indulgence. One descends in volutes into a precipice covered with ramifications where the scrutiny of the mind opens (submits) to that of the heart. The result is a snappy piece of writing, uncontainable but symmetrical, that shatters like a crystal into sharp facets. The form takes on that of poetic prose, disseminated with burning disguises of melancholy. Perhaps Sturiale engraves, on his own body-diary, the notes of an unrepeatable (unstoppable) paradigm of love.

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"Tempeste di te" collects a selection of poems written over a decade by the Sicilian composer and visual artist Angelo Sturiale. From music to love, from drawings to everyday life, from travels and residences around the world to reflections on emotions and feelings, these poetic writings in the form of diaries using a lyrical and passionate language, shed light on the relationship between the author and his musical and visual production, but also between his existential restlessness and Sicily.

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These conversations, held in Monterrey (Mexico) in Spanish, have been recorded, translated, and arranged by Ornella Rota. As an ideal conclusion to these reflections, the last chapter, "Discoveries", proposes a dialogue between Vincenzo Parla and Angelo Sturiale. Therefore, this book constitutes the result of writing from one side of the ocean to the other, bringing together four characters, apparently so much different from each other, but in reality accompanied by the auspices of a world in which they can coexist, respecting each other and interacting with so many different cultures, approaches, and lifestyles, "perhaps profoundly different, but all absolutely worthy of equal consideration, as long as they are willing to respect human rights," comments Vincenzo Parma. Angelo Sturiale hopes for the conquest of pluralism even in the most private spheres, for example in the idea of the family, "which remains the most important reality of life and that everyone has the right to live it according to their own models, as long as there is no violence, for any reason whatsoever." Apart from his words, Angelo Sturiale is present in the book with his drawings: essential, enigmatic, cosmopolitan, unmistakable.