Alessandro Esseno

Alessandro Esseno 2009

Alessandro Esseno (Rome, June 27, 1969) is an Italian composer and pianist.

Esseno started studying piano with the stepbrother of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, then continued near the conservatory of S. Cecilia in Rome. He completed his studies with teachers including Boris Porena before taking a course in electronic music with the contemporary composer Domenico Guaccero.

In the 1980s he collaborated as a pianist and arranger with some of the most important Italian artists in the RCA, and in the United States with the rock group Toto. In 1990 he published his first albums, followed by an Italian tour, the publication of a single in 1992 and a European tour.

In 1995 he went on tour in Italy with the Milano Concerti and, after much preparation, in 2003 released a new album. In the same year he began composing with Rai Trade, for which he created a series of works about the RAI networks achieving success with "Russicum", "To die of politics" and "The holy alliance". In 2006 Esseno published his new album, "La terra non finisce all'orizzonte", which received rave reviews and multiple downloads in iTunes. In 2007 realizes, on the order of Interior Ministry, the original music of the show One night a Saturday night on the Saturday night carnage in fact, especially among young people. In 2008 composed the original music for Journey to the South, 5-point program of the RAI directed by Amedeo Ricucci, a remake of the transmission of the same name Sergio Zavoli. In 2009 creates original music for a film / documentary on the figure of the journalist Carlo Casalegno, killed in 1977 by Brigate Rosse. In August he was invited to the prestigious Ravello Festival next to names on the bill as Claudio Abbado and Chick Corea, where he presented a preview of the new piano solo album titled Pictures out around the world on October 6. In 2010 parallel to the "Pictures tour", creates original music for a film about the figure of the great psychiatrist Franco Basaglia as well as treat the music of a documentary on the dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

The method of composition hypno-ancestral

Since the late 90 ', takes a very personal form then renamed method hypno-ancestral, that will be used systematically by the composer throughout the decade 2000-2010. From the first experiments with a serial acoustic instruments like piano and strings, the method is encoded into a series of tables like numerology, (in the manner of the Pythagoreans), making use, inter alia, the calculation of biorhythms personnel, phases of the moon, as well as meditation techniques of Hatha Yoga type, or even states of semi-trance mediumship or channeling. The application of this method is based primarily on cells and atonal polyrhythmic a strongly hypnotic going to collide in a "serial" sounds with upper and lower bands in a kind of "magma" sound in continuous flow, can create a dream-like disorientation in the listener, as well as causing any kind of space-time consciousness. Far from being a mere intellectual end in itself, the method developed by Esseno vice versa inspiration is rooted in African tribal music of primitive peoples of the basin and the Middle East, putting this in the theories of quantum physics related to the perception of sounds and the passing of time. Compared with other methods such as the twelve-tone composition or counterpoint, which express nothing but themselves in relation to the musical material, the method goes further by binding inseparably to the concept of entropy, energy, understood as the vibration of sounds that can raise spiritually is he running, he who hears. Unlike genres such as New Age or other, often of pure entertainment, the Esseno's composition differ in thickness and cultural themes, always fell in the realities of our time.

Cover cd Alessandro Esseno "Pictures"

"Pictures" The record of the consecration to the general public

More like snow crystals that musical compositions, the songs of "Pictures" released in October of 2010, testify the maturity and professional composer and pianist Alessandro Esseno. Awarded as the previous album, with a considerable number of downloads as well as sales, the album is a unique work in the instrumental succeeding in difficult to combine the "universality" and "usability" of listening to all latitudes. An ascetic simplicity is the underground thread that ties all the songs except for the cover of the album "Hang On To A Dream" of American singer-songwriter Tim Hardin, and the bonus track "Piano Improvisations", a tribute to the virtuoso pianists Friedrich Gulda and Joe Sullivan. All other tracks are fractal, seashells, snowflakes precisely, forms evanescent hour hour sharp sound, but without reference to the usual piano, which seems never to have heard Esseno. In this sense, "Pictures" marks the passing of labeling as "minimalism" or "post-minimalism", to make room for musical forms free to expand in any direction. Not a novel, short stories instead of the piano where the notes tell us of a distant time where everything was pristine, although even with the presence of humans. Men and women differ from those of today, however, in the vision of a future as opposed to Esseno. A world with human beings at the center of life and not un-materialistic values, but the utopia of a place that was and maybe someday will be again. All this in the music of this record, where the keys of the piano take the listener by the hand to take him away to the place where dreams are born.

Discography

Albums

• Esseno (1990)
• Da mondi sconosciuti (1992)
• Tutta la rabbia del mondo (1994)
• In viaggio (2000)
• Immagini sonore (2001)
• Tracce di Cristo (2002)
• Immagini sonore 2 (2003)
• In questo momento (2003)
• Scomposizioni (2004)
• Piano solo (2004)
• Dimensioni (2004)
• Alessandro Esseno trio (2004)
• In questo momento (ristampa) (2005)
• Suonivisivi (2005)
• Voce fuori campo (2005)
• La terra non finisce all'orizzonte (2006)
• Una notte di un sabato sera (2007)
• Nea (2007)
• La mia libertà (2007)
• Amore e Psiche (2008)
• Decomposizioni (2008)
• Quando il tempo finirà (2009)
• Musica capovolta (2009)
• Stand-by (2010)
• Pictures (2010)

Works

• Lullaby for marimba, vibraphone, gloenkspiel and timpani (1985)
• Fractures for piano (1985)
• String Quartet No. 1 (1985)
• Alpha and Omega electronic music (1986)
• Pendulum electronic music (1986)
• Visions for orchestra (1986)
• Atmosphere zero for orchestra (1986)
• Poetics of tesseratto for organ (1987, revised 1997)
• Routes ipnogogici for 3 solo voices and 7 instruments (1987)
• Thypon for soprano and mezzo soprano soloist, chorus and orchestra (1987)
• Concerto for Cello (1987)
• Octet for 8 solo voices (1987)
• Metamorphoses daytime for orchestra (1988)
• Two Studies for Organ (1988, 1989)
• Aeon for harpsichord (1989)
• Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in A flat major (1990)
• Synapse for 12 solo strings (1990)
• String Quartet No. 2 (1990)
• Three Pieces for Wind Quintet (1990)
• Chamber Concerto for 10 instruments (1992)
• De-tonazioni for orchestra (1992)
• Double Concerto for flute, oboe contrabassoon and orchestra (1992)
• Timeless Clocks for 10 female voices (1993)
• Poetics of St. Francis for orchestra (1993–94)
• After the Deluge for piano, marimba and timpani (1994)
• Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in F sharp minor (1995)
• Studies for Piano Book One (1995)
• Concerto for piano and orchestra No.3 in C sharp minor (1996)
• Concerto for violin (1996)
• Studies for Piano,the second book (1997–98)
• Concerto for Bremen horn and chamber orchestra (1998–99, revised 2003)
• Studies for Piano Book Three (1998–2001)
• String Quartet No. 3 (1999)
• Patterns study on the whales sing for orchestra and 6 samplers (2000)
• Noises fund for two marimbas and tape (2001)
• Aspiration desperation for solo voice and tape (2002)
• Rings without sound for steel ring and prepared piano (2003)
• Perception ancestral for master magnetic and 4 samples (2004)
• Fons et origo for harp prepared and tape (2005)
• Waiting for two sopranos and chamber orchestra (2007)
• Curves for 4 synthesizers, two samplers and chamber orchestra (2008)
• Music for Ebe for Tibetan percussion and Master Magnetic (2010)

External links

• Official website
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