Andrea Centazzo

Andrea Centazzo (born 1948) is an Italian-born American composer, percussionist, multimedia artist and record label founder.[1]

Andrea Centazzo
Centazzo performing in 2006
Background information
Born1948
Udine, Italy
GenresJazz, avant-garde jazz, free jazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, author, educator
InstrumentsPercussion
Years active1970s–present
LabelsIctus
Websitewww.andreacentazzo.com

Music career

Centazzo was born in Udine, Italy. In the 1970s he played percussion in avant-garde jazz with John Zorn, Steve Lacy, and Don Cherry,[2] and became "a leading figure in the European avant-garde".[3]

After 1986 he turned to video making and composed operas, film soundtracks and orchestral compositions.[4] Since 1992, he has lived and worked in Los Angeles and has become a naturalized American citizen. He has also performed and recorded with Albert Mangelsdorff, Alvin Curran, Anthony Coleman, Evan Parker, Fred Frith, Gianluigi Trovesi, Henry Kaiser, Sylvano Bussotti, Teo Jöergesmann, Tom Cora, and Toshinori Kondo. He has conducted his own compositions with the American Youth Symphony, the L.A. Contemporary Orchestra, the Mitteleuropa Orchestra, and many ensembles. He has directed and staged his own opera compositions as well as theatrical plays by other U.S. authors.

Centazzo has also created multimedia projects that fuse acoustic instruments, electronic instruments, and video.[2] His multimedia projects include Mandala, Eternal Traveler, Einstein's Cosmic Messengers, and R-Evolution. In more recent live performances he has given solo multimedia concerts, accompanying his own videos.[4]

Centazzo has recorded over 60 LP's and CD's, and has composed 350 musical works of diverse types, in addition to writing eight musicology books.[5] In 2012 the Library of the University of Bologna opened the "Fondo Andrea Centazzo" with a collection of his works and documents.[6]

Instrumental innovations

During his earlier career Centazzo developed a number of percussion instruments, including the icebell, a bowl-shaped instrument made from a bronze alloy.[7] In his 1980 work Indian Tapes he introduced the ogororo, lokole, tampang, tubophone and square bell, based on Native American instruments.[8]

ICTUS

The ICTUS record label was founded in 1976 by Centazzo and his wife, Carla Lugli. Its first release was Clangs by Centazzo and Steve Lacy. Subsequent albums also featured Andrew Cyrille and Lol Coxhill, among others. The label was wound up after eight years owing to financial difficulties, [9] but was revived in 1995[10] and again in 2006. [11]

Compositions

Major compositions by Centazzo include the multimedia opera Tina (1996),[12] The Soul in the Mist (2006),[13] Moon in Winter (2011),[14] The Heart of Wax (2012),[15] and the multimedia project Tides of Gravity (2016). This last was produced in association with LIGO, NASA and Caltech to mark the first detection of gravitational waves.[16]

Music albums
Year Title Collaborators
2016Duets 7 (1977)Evan Parker
2015October Wind Vol. 2Steve Lacy, Kent Carter
2015October Wind Vol. 1Steve Lacy, Kent Carter
2013The Complete Recording Vol. 3 - RitualsLaDonna Smith, Davey Williams
2013LatecomersAnthony Coleman, Steve Swell, Giancarlo Schiaffini
2013Stolen MomentMarilyn Crispell
2013Derek Bailey Tribute BandChris Cochran, Marco Cappelli, Anders Nilsson
2012In A Rainy DayRoberto Ottaviano
2012BridgesAkira Sakata, Kiyoto Fujiwara
2012Lost In JuneSteve Lacy, Kent Carter
2012The Complete Recording Vol. 2 - Halcyon DaysLaDonna Smith, Davey Williams
2012Seven Giant Waves
2012Ictus World Music Collection
2012Mandala
2011Einstein's Cosmic Messengers Live
2011September ImpressionsJanel Leppin, Mike Sebastian, T.A. Zook
2011Escape From 2012Don Preston
2011Live In Concert At The Kennedy Center Washington DC
2011Deep Space Adventure
2011SnowplowElliott Sharp
2011Moon In WinterDave Ballou, Daniel Barbiero, Nobu Stowe, Achille Succi
2009Guitars
2008West Coast Trio
2007Double - The Complete Recording 1976 - 2007Guido Mazzon
2007The WarriorsToshinori Kondo, Eugene Chadbourne
2007Los Angeles Tapes
2007The German HorseEugene Chadbourne
2007After The SilenceGiancarlo Cardini
2007Eternal Traveler
2007Voyagers
2007The Soul In The MistPerry Robinson, Nobu Stowe
2007Eternal Traveler
2006Moot & LidLol Coxhill, Giancarlo Schiaffini
2006Double 1Guido Mazzon
2006With Love's Light Wings
2006Henceforward
2006Double 2Guido Mazzon
2006A New Shock!!Gianluigi Trovesi
2006Fragments 2
2006Fragments 1
2006Koans: Volume OnePierre Favre
2006Mandala
2006The Heart Of Wax
2006World Percussion Christmas
2006The Shadow And The Silence
2006Chamber Music
2006Koans: Volume ThreeDavid Moss, Steve Hubback, Jeffrey Daniel Jensen, Pere Oliver Jørgens, Brake Drum Percussion
2006Midnight All Day
2006Departed Angels
2006South
2006Koans: Volume TwoDavid Moss, Alex Cline
2006Sacred Shadows
2006Darkly AgainLol Coxhill, Franz Koglmann
2006Speed The Plow
2006Infinity SquaredHenry Kaiser
2006Thirty Years From Monday
2006In Real Time
2006DarklyLol Coxhill, Franz Koglmann
2006The Recollection
2006Early Music 1972-1973
2006TaoSteve Lacy
2006Spaces
2006Songs And Thoughts
2006Early Music 1970-1975
2001Piano Music
2001Il Cuore Di Cera
2000SituationsLol Coxhill, Franz Koglmann, Giancarlo Schiaffini
1998Real Time TwoAlvin Curran, Evan Parker
1997The Secret Of Joy
1996Highlights From Tina
1996USA Concerts WestJohn Carter, Vinny Golia, Greg Goodman
1994A Bosnian Requiem
1994Film Soundtrack - N. 3
1993Sea
1993Sea Land People Seasons
1993Seasons
1993Land
1993People
1992Living Pictures
1991Theatres
1990Cetacea - L'Odissea Dei Suoni Perduti
1989Il presente prossimo venturo
1989Visions
1989Omaggio A Pier Paolo Pasolini
1987Jacques E Il Suo PadroneMilan Kundera
1985Tiare
1985L'Altro LatoCarlo Actis Dato, Furio Chirico, Luigi Venegoni
1984Shock!!Gianluigi Trovesi
1983Cjant - Concerto Per Piccola Orchestra
1982Solo De La Passion Selon SadeSylvano Bussotti
1981Percussion InterchangesDavid Moss, Alex Cline, Creative Music Studio
1980Indian Tapes
1979Environment For SextetJohn Zorn, Eugene Chadbourne, Tom Cora, Toshinori Kondo, Polly Bradfield
1979ProtocolHenry Kaiser, Toshinori Kondo
1979The BayRova Saxophone Quartet
1979VelocitiesLaDonna Smith, Davey Williams
1979MootLol Coxhill, Giancarlo Schiaffini
1978Dec 29 1978 UdineEugene Chadbourne
1978U.S.A. Concerts
1978Real TimeAlvin Curran, Evan Parker
1977DialoguesPierre Favre
1977Trio LiveSteve Lacy, Kent Carter
1977DropsDerek Bailey
1977RatsorockPaolo Bordini, Franco Feruglio
1976DuettiGuido Mazzon
1976ClangsSteve Lacy
1976FM Frequenze Modulate (Le Nuove Tendenze Della Musica Italiana)Mario Guarnera, Roberto Cacciapaglia, Guido Mazzon, Gaetano Liguori, Luigi Grechi
1976Freedom Out ! Gunter Hampel, Frederic Rabold, Bruno Tommaso, Martin Bues, Thomas Keyserling
1976Solos 6/5/76
1975Fragmentos
1974Ictus

Source:[1]

Filmography

Books
  • Andrea Centazzo (1979). Guida agli strumenti a percussione: storia e uso. Il formichiere.
  • Andrea Centazzo (1982). Strumenti per fare musica. Gammalibri.
  • Andrea Centazzo (1982). La batteria: stili, protagonisti e tecniche. F. Muzzio. ISBN 978-88-7021-198-6.
  • Andrea Centazzo (1995). Smart drumming: metodo per batteria. Nuovo Carisch. ISBN 978-88-7207-143-4.</ref>

References
  1. "ArtistInfo". music.metason.net.
  2. Harris, Craig. "Andrea Centazzo | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  3. Coda. J. Norris. 2001. p. 30.
  4. "Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre Presents Back in Circulation At West Hollywood Library". Broadway World. August 31, 2017.
  5. Andrea Centazzo: Biography, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
  6. "Fondo e archivio Centazzo" Archived 2019-07-01 at the Wayback Machine, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna.
  7. Guido Facchin (2000). Le percussioni. EDT srl. p. 36. ISBN 978-88-7063-251-4.
  8. Gramophone. 60. General Gramophone Publications Limited. 1982. p. 263.
  9. "Andrea Centazzo Interview", by Klemen Breznikar, It's Psychedelic, Baby (blog of Klemen Breznikar), March 13, 2012.
  10. Todd S. Jenkins (2004). Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-313-33313-2.
  11. "ICTUS Records Nights @ The Stone (NYC) April 1-14", by Michael Ricci, All About Jazz, March 21, 2012.
  12. Letizia Argenteri (2003). Tina Modotti: Between Art and Revolution. Yale University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-300-09853-2.
  13. "Andrea Centazzo, Perry Robinson, Nobu Stowe: The Soul in the Mist". All About Jazz.
  14. "Andrea Centazzo: Moon in Winter". All About Jazz. October 17, 2011.
  15. "Andrea Centazzo, The Heart of Wax". classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.co.uk.
  16. Andrea Centazzo nota biografica Archived 2019-07-01 at the Wayback Machine, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna.
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