SEIBUTSU ART & MUSIC STUDIO by Angelo Sturiale: AUDIO AND VIDEO DOCUMENTATION

AUDIO AND VIDEO DOCUMENTATION

Selected audio and video documentation of Angelo Sturiale's compositions and performances.
The majority of the following links are not related to professional audio or video recordings or productions. The only purpose of this material is to provide a general overview of the author's artistic research lines.

Due to precise and intentional aesthetic choices, Sturiale's music is not published in any form. Most of his music scores are written by means of new notation systems which involve the complexity of sound emission, the subjective body of the performer and his relationship with the living acoustic space, as well as the mysterious interaction with the unpredictable audience energy.

http://www.angelosturiale.com/p/interviste.html

SOUND PROJECTS from "The Sound of the Cities", in collaboration with film maker Carlo Lo Giudice

"Canzoniere": the brand-new book of poems and writings about music

Un vero e proprio itinerarium mentis è il libro di Angelo Sturiale, in cui i versi sono creature liquide, multiformi, indefinite, cangianti. Ne scaturisce una poetica caleidoscopica della meraviglia e della creazione «tra concetti e parole, tra musiche e suoni, tra segni e gesti e tra linee e colori», in cui la poesia «non gioca mai a nascondino», ma, originatasi da un tripudio di “simmetrie sonore” e “radici aeree”, sogna l’opera d’arte più “bella” e “vera”, senza infingimenti, vacui proclami e adulazioni di maniera, per cui «Questi poemi […] costituiscono ponti per le debolezze / dell'anima». Ed ecco aleggiare un “respiro di farfalla”, che si libra sopra le rovine della civiltà occidentale di cui la Sicilia è il triviale ritratto: «Andrò via dalle strade ingoiate dall'asfalto, dalle / feste rumorose, dai cani a sbraitare nelle notti rosa e nere / dei tramonti violentati da reati e omertà» verso una palingenesi che ha il nome di Oriente, antidoto efficace contro “specchi”, “centri”, “punti” ed “isterie”. Anche se l’unico rimpianto sarà il discidium con l’archetipo dell’idioma, la lingua madre, insostituibile per la sua carica irripetibile e tagliente di unicità sonore ed esistenziali. (Angelo Santangelo)

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«Una Finestra priva d’antropocentrismo, messa lì, pare guardare fuori, ma è questione di punti di vista. Già, perché, cos’è una finestra, quella finestra? È un confine, una separazione, o piuttosto un punto d’incontro? Se stai alla finestra, coi gomiti appoggiati al davanzale, stai dentro o stai fuori? A che panorama appartieni? La finestra è aggregante o estraniante? Ti avvolge o ti proietta? È un input o un output? Certamente è una metafora, l’arma per eccellenza del poeta. Certamente sfugge ai principi per cui è stata costruita, per diventare punto d’origine di escursioni indifferentemente rivolte all’esterno come all’interno del prospetto a cui è appoggiata. C’è un al di là della finestra, e un al di qua della finestra. E in mezzo c’è la finestra, non la si può ignorare. Fa da perfetta cornice ai voli pindarici, aulici, spericolati, fra i più diversi panorami, si tratti di planare fuori fra montagne di lava incandescente, affogato nella nebbia, vecchi quartieri, Messico e nuvole, Cina dorata, chiese che odorano d’incenso e muffa, o di volgere all’interno, fra viscere e ricordi, nella disperazione di non poter condividere quell’universo con nessuno. Tanto rumore, un gran brusio di fondo ma, nessuno! A parte la finestra». (Dalla Prefazione di Sal Costa)

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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.