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- What is your greatest joy in improvised music?
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What quality do you most admire in the musicians you perform with?
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Which historical musician/composer do you admire the most?
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If you could resurrect a musician to perform with, who would it be?
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What would you still like to achieve musically in your life?
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Are you interested in popular music and - if yes - what music/artist do you particularly like?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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Which of your albums are you most proud of?
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Once an album of yours is released, do you still listen to it? And how often?
- Which album (from any musician) have you listened to the most in your life?
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What are you listening to at the moment?
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What artist outside music inspires you?
To play with others in intensive-concentrated-listening and open-to-risk collectives. I particularly like everything from duos – sextets, but occasionally there had been some really enjoyable larger groups as well.
Generally speaking: the profound/convincing ability of deep listening, selflessness playing, joy of sharing, “jumping into cold water”.
Oh dear, there are more than one…: Anton Webern, Edgar Varèse, Iannis Xenakis, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane.
I would like to play with Fred Frith and Lori Freedman, playing with Lori is coming up soon.
Ha! Concerning me as an artist I wish to maintain a continuous healthy stream of creativity and an ongoing openness towards changes along the road.
Concerning contemporary improvised music I would like to see -in general- better recognition of the many merits of this music. Among other things, significantly improved performance opportunity in good venues such as acoustically suitable concert halls Philharmonic halls would contribute to this. I founded the ongoing “SoundScapes – Festival” 2016 to support the contemporary improvised music scene to achieve some of these aims.
My musical background includes a fair variety of popular, rock, blues and soul music for sure. I can still enjoy many of the artists from the Woodstock period, perhaps Jimmy Hendrix especially.
Well, I’m working on to learn more about keeping my body in good condition and my mind in good spirits.
Quintet Moderne - Wellsprings (2004)
Sestetto Internazionale - Due Mutabili (2023)
Milano Dialogues - Windows & Mirrors (2022)
Milano Dialogues - More Windows & Small Mirrors (2023)
Milano Dialogues - Flight Mode Live in Berlin (2024)
Yes, I listen every now and then but I can’t say it’s really regularly. My listening concentrates on new material under work in mixing etc. for the releases. This occupies a lot of time.
It's hard to pin down one particular because it’s related to different periods of my life.
Probably the album I’ve heard the most was “complete webern * boulez”.
Actually I don’t listen that much to albums, I prefer visiting live concerts.
The latest music I listened to has been Frank Gratkowski's Mature Hybrid Talking and Entrainment, Concerto for Violin and Symphony Orchestra's Auseil and Veli Kujala - Concerto for Vi.
Sources of inspiration outside music lay in abstract painting, contemporary photography, contemporary theatre.
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