1-15/04/2013 Residencies and giving workshops at the first Trasformatorio in Montealbano Elicona, Sicily. I also created my first solar energy installation: Rosa Dei Venti and some entirely solar-powered motion-tracking experiments with Federica Dauri and Anthony Rijekoff:
22-31/03/2013 Residency at STEIM, on how to apply Marije Baalman's SenseStage microcontroller boards for electronic performances in the nature
22/02/2013 I've been invited to perform "Fragmentation" at the Birmingham Network Festival, UK
18/02/2013 I'm invited to play at the improvisation night at the OORSPRONG SERIES, Amsterdam
New 2012-13 "hBar CD release Tour Nl and Be", with Paolo Pascolo, first dates:
26/01/2013 "hBar" at PIP, Den Haag, Bordello a Parigi night
31/01/2013 "hBar" at Poortgebouw, Rotterdam
01/02/2013 "hBar" at the pick up club, Amsterdam
02/12/2013 "hBar" at Wolfart, Rotterdam
03/02/2013 "hBar" at villa kabila, Den Haag
05/02/2013 "hBar" at Radio Ucon
07/02/2013 "hBar" at Logos Foundation, Gent
New 2012-13 "hBar CD release Tour It and Slo", with Paolo Pascolo, first dates:
12/12/2012 "hBar" inside the prestigious PIXXEL festival for contemporary audio-visual art, Gorizia, Italy
14/12/2012 "hBar" at NAVEL Cividale (UD), Italy
15/12/2012 "hBar" at Centro Teatrale di Ricerca Venezia, Italy
19/12/2012 "hBar" at Kobo Shop Udine, Italy
20/12/2012 "hBar" at Pekarna Maribor, Slovenia
7/12/2012 "What's Left", choreography by Liat Waysbort with my music at Melkweg , Amsterdam
6/12/2012 "What's Left", choreography by Liat Waysbort with my music at Melkweg , Amsterdam
1/12/2012 "What's Left", choreography by Liat Waysbort with my music at De Gouvernestraat , Den Haag
30/11/2012 "What's Left", choreography by Liat Waysbort with my music at De Gouvernestraat , Den Haag
29/11/2012 "What's Left", choreography by Liat Waysbort with my music at De Gouvernestraat , Den Haag
10/11/2012 The return of "How Much is Enough?" @Villa Kabila, Den Haag
03/11/2012 "Falene: music for nocturnal butterflies" inside the REWIRE festival @Studio Loos, Den Haag
02/11/2012 "Falene: music for nocturnal butterflies" inside the REWIRE festival @Studio Loos, Den Haag
12/9/2012 "Puls", choreography by Marie Goeminne with my music at the Verkade Fabriek, Den Bosch
11/9/2012 Premiere of "Puls" choreography by Marie Goeminne with my music for Melweg
11/07/2012 Premiere of "Seeking (of) Felix" by Liat Waysbort at The Theater School, Amsterdam
21/06/2012 full presentation of "Fragmentation" at the Institute of Sonology, at the Royal Conservatory, Den Haag for my Master end exam. It's gonna be memorable!!!
30/5/12 "Falene: music for nocturnal butterflies" @Korzo, Den Haag, together with pictures by Erin McKinney
22, 23 and 24 /05/2012 USA premiere of "Fragmentation" at the NIME conference 2012, New Interfaces for Musical Expression.
11 and 12 /05/2012 premieres at Dansmaaker, Amsterdam of "Vague" created together with Ola Maciejewska and Bogumir, in which i also have a solo performance.
04/05/2012 "Fragmentation" performed at the Toolkit festival, Venice with me as solo performer !!!
13/04/2012 "Clinamen" presented at the Third Biennale of Koper, Slovenia.
06/04/2012 "Falene" performed twice in the same night @21.40 and 22.30, for the Apes Container event ``Test'' at the Nuthuis, Den Haag.
29/03/2012 "Fragmentation" presentation at Wonderwerp, Studio Loos, Constant Rebecqueplein, Den Haag with Honza Svasek (butoh) and Emmanuel Elias Flores (visuals).
02/02/2012 "Fragmentation" presentation at Sonology concert, the Royal Conservatory, Den Haag with Honza Svasek (butoh) and Emmanuel Elias Flores (visuals).
19/01/2012 "Falene" inside the Ilektronica Project @Rookapje, Rotterdam
Review of my composition "Clinamen", on la Jornada
1/11/2011 "Falene" @La Miroiterie, Paris
27/8/2011 "Falene: Music for Nocturnal Butterflies" premiere @Dobia Arte Eventi, Italy
7/7/2011 "Le Retour des Oiseaux" @Topolo Festival, Italy
21/6/2011 My piece "Clinamen", composed with Juan Sebastian Lach Lau during my residence at the CMMAS, played at the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag.
1/6/2011 My piece "Clinamen", played at 20.30 in the Sala Ninos Cantores, Conservatorio de las Rosas, Morelia, Mexico
My piece "Generative Factory" released in the wonrderful "Dobialabel" compilation. Support support and support !
19/5/2011 - My composition "The Staircase" performed during the "Full moon concert" series @ WMDC, Rotterdam by E. Battistutta (laptop) and Miguel H. Garcia (stones and bowls).
Series of Dutch concerts of "hbar" with Paolo Pascolo:
5/5/2011 Museum of the Bohemian, Amsterdam
12/5/2011 Cafe De Vinger, Den Haag
14/5/2011 Kulter, Amsterdam
19/5/2011 Loos, Den Haag
22/5/2011 Poortgebouw, Rotterdam
25/5/2011 Steindor's Jam, Den Haag
28/5/2011 b32, Maastricht
5/6/2011 Villa Ockenburgh, Den Haag
14 and 15 April 2011 - Premiere of the trans-disciplinary show "Shamadi-Le Furie & Sotto La Radice", by F. Bonelli and B. Mazzotti @"Melkweg" , Amseterdam, the music will feature my new composition "The Staircase", performed by E. Battistutta (laptop) and Miguel H. Garcia (stones and bowls).
Series of Mexican concerts of "Clinamen":
8/4 CMMAS, Morelia
9/4 Las Roasas Conservatory, Morelia
16/4 MUAC, Coyacan
22/4 Fonoteca National, Coyacan
23/4 Habitacion del Ruido, Mexico City D.F.
16 January 2011 - My new piece "Natural Forces" (water, stones and fire) for Dado @ "Kulter" with Elisa Battistutta on Laptop and me on percussions, a video can be found here
8 January 2011 - At Dobialab Electrosalon live concert with Paolo Pascolo on flute.
My recent article: "Musical Scene Analysis: Applying the laws of stream segregation to music" got published by the CCMAS journal, you can find it in my "Papers" page
2/12/2010, "Le Retour des Oiseaux" (quadraphonic version) for EPHEMERES @ "Studio LOOS", De Constant Rebequeplein 20, The Hague.
17/11/2010, for the BUTCH MORRIS FESTIVAL Live Electronics with Gabriel Paiuk (prepared piano) @ Koninglijke Conservatorium, The Hague.
7/11/2010 "h bar" live electronics with Paolo Pascolo (flute) @ Rroma Aeter Teater, Neukoelln, Berlin.
6/11/2010 "h bar" live electronics with Paolo Pascolo (flute) @ Rroma Aeter Teater, Neukoelln, Berlin.
5/11/2010 "h bar" live electronics with Paolo Pascolo (flute) @ Koncrete, Neukoelln, Berlin.
July 2010 - "Le Retour des Oiseaux", live @ Il Fiume e Le Stelle, Parco Della Cona, Italy.
20 June 2010 - "Le Retour des Oiseaux", live @ teatre De l'orgresse, Paris.
17 -18 -19 June 2010 - My video "Glandula Pinealis" screened at "Strofe dipinte di jazz 2010", Romans d'Isonzo (GO), Italy.
9 June 2010 - La Mama Moves Dance Festival 2010, @ LaMama, 4A East 4th Street, New York. An adapted version of my piece "Toy Drops" was played at New York, accompanying the dance performance "Shamadi".
Choreography by Benedetta Mazzotti, Danced by: Benedetta Mazzotti, Eleonora Cantarini, Giovanna Rovedo;Music by: Alberto Novello, Federico Bonelli and Benedetta;
Dramaturgy and Texts by Federico Bonelli.
The premiere of the show has been streamed by rossobastardo.tv and is visible here and Shamadi starts at 1.05 up in the recording.
May 2010 - In the framework of "Dag In De Branding" with a whole day program dedicated to the famous composer Alvin Lucier
i'm assisting Alvin Lucier and Nicolas Collins in the realisation of the brainwave piece, "Music for Solo Peformer" which will be presented 29 May 2010 @ Korzo.
14 - 19 March 2010 - Shooting of a short movie by Federico Bonelli/Cinemasolubile in which i play San Sebastian.
Director of photography Victor Nieuwenhuis assisted by Tarek. Photo courtesy of Cinemasolubile.
13-15 FEBRUARY 2010 - L.U.V. Apes Container at the AAAGallery. Exposition of works and performances by our collective and friends,
In this occasion i expose "The Shop of The Wizard of Love", a first piece on Modified Audio Material. I'm planning to continue adding some more in the future.
14 FEBRUARY 2010 - How Much Is Enough? Love edition.
22 JANUARY 2010 - Le Retour des Oiseaux at Navel, Cividale.
14 JANUARY 2010 - At Dobialab i will present "Le Retour des Oiseaux", performance for flicorno (Flavio Zanuttini) and Live Electronics (me), about 30 minutes. inspired and dedicated to O.Messiaen.
2 DECEMBER 2009 at 20.30, in the Academiegebouw, Domplein 29, Utrecht, i will perform as bass-player/live electronics + theater for the Gran Serata Marinetti, a tribute to futurism by Federico Bonelli.
6 NOVEMBER 2009 at 19.30h i will perform a soundtrack i composed for Walter Ruttmann's silent classic Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a Great City) 1927, 65 Min, at the Goethe-Institut Amsterdam Herengracht 470, Entrance fee: 5 euro. Check: www.videoinferno.nl for info.
I'm proud to comunicate that ''How much is enough?'' has been selected as one of the best productions of the Biennale of Skopije 2009. As a consequence, we were offered two artistic residencies: in Arnhem (NL) and in Beijing (China) as price of the ResArtis award.
19 and 20 JUNE 2009, at the festival "STROFE DIPINTE DI JAZZ", in Romans d'Isonzo (Italy), will be presented a shortened video of INtrusioni. Just for who's around....
"How much is enough?", a culinary show about excesses of modern life, by me and M. Eugenia Demeglio (ME(g)) has been selected for the Biennale of Joung artists in Skopje september/2009, we're working on that!!! The performers: Valeria Cosi, Mario Camacho, Giulia Cicerale, Thanos Polymeneas, ME(g) and me.
Working on two projects with Ola Maciejewska (choreographer/dancer): one is her piece called "Wordless Witness" (in which i'm a performer) in the second i work as creator with Ola and Giacomo Sponzilli (architect) for DansAteliers, Rotterdam.
SINCE JANUARY 2009 - In preparation: Perse-Phone', performance for voice (the amazing Elisa Martinuzzi) and Live Electronics (me).
21 JUNE 2008 - At WORM (Rotterdam), the night of the artists from Rotterdam, performance of the HeartBreakers : with Friso de Wijk (drums), Thanos Polymeneas Liondiris (double bass) and me (live electronics and glockenspiel).
18 APRIL 2008 - With Thanos Polymeneas Liondiris and with choreographer M.Eugenia Demeglio, on 18th april at NAI, i performed "INtrusioni": An improvvisation of music, video and movement on the mutual interaction of cities and citizens.
23/30 MARCH 2008 - Together with Thanos Polymeneas Liondiris i created the music for the performance of the choreographer Liat Waysbort called "Memory happens now". The event took place at the Nederlands Architectuurinstituut in Rotterdam for the Happening festival on the 23rd and 30th marc.
2006 - Together with Pirro Davide we created "Respirazione in
Equilibrio", a study on how nature delicately breaths and violently collapses around us.
