Dissonanzen Musical Ensamble
Festival of Contemporary Music
Dissonanzen Ensamble will feature a live sound-track of the masterpiece of the silent films’ “Assunta Spina” known to the foreign public also as “Neapolitan Blood “, of which this year marks the centenary of the production.
It was, in fact produced well twenty years before the birth of Cinecittà, with shooting in the streets of Naples, offering impressive views of the city (Mergellina, Pal. Donn’Anna in Posillipo, Nisida etc. ) by a team of extraordinarily talented professionals led by Gustavo Serena, director and actor (Michele) but mainly by a bubbling Francesca Bertini diva of the silent film scene.
DISSONANZEN has chosen to articulate the show using three different mediums of communication: images, words, and music. This time, however, the dialogue is transformed into literature, as the beautiful original texts by Salvatore Di Giacomo come into play. As the movie unfolds, different scenes are highlighted by lyrics, groups of verses, sometimes simple fragments, chosen and recited by Enzo Solomone. The Ensemble takes over the sound interaction with the movie, supported by a wide use of pre-recorded samples of “Neapolitans sounds”; mainly fragments of ancient songs electronically processed that here come to full title in the game of improvisation.
“Dissonanzen” was created in 1993 to fill up a historical void in the landscape of concert seasons in Naples, with a view to promote a larger circulation of contemporary musical languages.
ENSAMBLE DISSONANZEN:
Marco Cappelli, guitar
Ciro Longobardi, piano and live electroincs
Tommaso Rossi, flutes
Marco Sannini, trumpet
Enzo Salomone, actor