Born in Rovigo in 1995, Luca Guidarini started to play classical guitar at the age of 7. He continues his studies in classical and jazz guitar at the Conservatorio “A. Buzzolla” in Adria, then contemporary electric guitar at the Civica Scuola di Musica “C. Abbado” in Milan. As a guitar player, he performed in the improvised music field, playing along with Andrea Centazzo, Massimo Manzi, Pasquale Mirra among others, in festivals like Eddie Lang Jazz Festival, Across the University Festival at the University of Padova, and inside the Triennale di Milano exhibition “100 Domande sul Vivere Contemporaneo”.
He studies Musicology at the University of Pavia, graduating with a thesis on Fausto Romitelli compositional techniques.
As a composer, Luca studies with Riccardo Nova and electroacoustic composition at the Conservatorio “G. Nicolini” in Piacenza, with Roberto Doati and Riccardo Dapelo. He partecipates at masterclasses and lessons with Helmut Lachenmann, Clara Iannotta, Giovanni Verrando. He was selected for the first CIMM (Centro di Informatica Musicale Multimediale) masterclass in 2019 at the Biennale di Venezia, and for the second “New Music Week” in 2020 in Rome.
He is a member of the ensemble Collettivo_21 as a performer of the electronics, composer and artistic director of Incó_ntemporanea Festival.
Luca Guidarini’s Musicological research focuses on music theory, compositional and improvisational techniques of composers and performers of the late XXth and XIXst Century. His research on Fausto Romitelli’s music was presented at GATM Music Theory conference in 2017, Timbre is a Many-Spledored Thing conference at McGill University in Montreal in 2018 and the Spectralism conference at IRCAM during the Manifeste Festival in 2019.
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from Noise à Noise 20.3-1,
released September 4, 2020
Riflessi. Pistoletto, commissioned by and dedicated to Antonio Magnatta, for two amplified car suspensions, feedback system on metal plates and live electronics, in three movements, is inspired by three theoretical writings by Michelangelo Pistoletto. The first movement, Divisione e Moltiplicazione dello Specchio, explores the performative gestures on the suspensions - one of which acts as a sensor for the feedback system, refracting its sound in the metal plates. The second movement is inspired by the concept of the Silhouette, Pistoletto's famous mirror images. The sound of the feedback is in fact filtered by a rhythmic "silhouette", in which the theme of the third movement of Brahms' Third Symphony is translated into time ratios, and whose pitches act on the Ring Modulator that further filters the feedback. The third movement, Presente, Struttura per Chiacchierare in Piedi, is inspired by Pistoletto's installation "Structure for chatting standing", in which a bar table is stylized. In this movement the formal qualities of Hellucination I - Drowningirl, from An Index of Metals by Fausto Romitelli, are stylized. The Farey series reports, used by Romitelli to control FM, here are used to control the time ratios generated by the plates, inserted in the same formal cycles of Hellucination I - Drowningirl.
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