A video-musical project based on F. Pennisi drawings and compositions
Festival of Contemporary Music
Dissonanzen presents a true multimedia show that summarizes the many aspects of the artistic and poetic world of Pennisi.
In coordination with the video and graphic improvisations and choices of Andrea Pennisi, video-artist from Catania (nephew of F. Pennisi), it moves freely between musical score and improvisation, in a short-circuit of continuous interaction between the visual and the sound, also using the readings of some of Pennisi’s scripts by Enzo Solomone.
Francesco Pennisi, (1934-2000) moved to Rome from his native Sicily in his early twenties and received private lessons in composition by R. W. Mann. Simultaneously, he was interested in painting: a creative sphere he committed throughout his life and to which he gave, albeit in a private dimension, an importance which is anything but marginal with respect to its musical production.
To this twofold attitude refers the video-musical tribute that the Ensemble Dissonanzen conceived by correlating music and musical fragments of Francesco Pennisi with the graphic content of the collection of pictorial tables Derailment (1984), a work in which it is clearly manifested the imaginary vision of Francesco Pennisi.
Music by Francesco Pennisi, Sylvano Bussotti, Bruno Maderna
Lyrics by Francesco Pennisi e Sylvano Bussotti
“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.
Ensemble Dissonanzen:
Marco Cappelli, guitar
Shoko Nagai, piano
Tommaso Rossi, flutes
Marco Sannini, trumpet
The Rhythm Method:
Lavinia Pavlish (violin), Karen Kim (violin), Jocelin Pan (viola), Meaghan Burke (cello)
Enzo Salomone, actor
Andrea Pennisi, video art