Gianni Trovalusci

photo by Peter Langovits
 

The workshop entitled “LAP- Laboratorio Arte Performativa” conducted by flautist and performer Gianni Trovalusci will explore the relationship between the four elements - space, sign, sound and movement - through the stimulus of two works, graphic scores, by two great masters, Christian Wolff and Walter Branchi. The workshop is open to anyone wishing to draw close to the creative space between Improvisation / Instant Composition / Risk, to act in a context of deep inter-relationship between more than one discipline. In this direction, with the authors' agreement, the creative process originally intended for musicians, dancers, actors, performers and video artists is extended for an encounter-debate on several different expressive and artistic levels. It is precisely live contact with the unique production and performance processes that fall within the context of Risk - compositions in which specific conduct is indicated up front and which at the same time requires the performer to produce a series of performative choices to be played out in real time - that will prompt participants to experiment and to put themselves to the test.

Christian Wolff is the sole surviving author of the “New York School” group that also included Earle Brown, Morton Feldmann and John Cage. His piece “Edges” is a graphic score, with not specifically musical signs - indicated in a legend - on the blank space of the page, in which the performer enjoys a broad margin of freedom of interpretation, but with the attraction of exploring pathways - neither written nor indicated - that lead from one sign to the other, and from one area of space to the other.

Walter Branchi is a Roman composer, one of the founder members of the Nuova Consonanza Improvisation Group, whose piece "Looking South-West" will be performed. This is a graphic score in which the notes are inserted into geometrical figures arranged in a specific manner in space; visual by its very nature, the work lends itself very well to exploring spatial and musical content in the space/time relationship.

Working with active instant composition techniques and developing the relationship with the two stringent scores, the workshop will focus on a search for depth of expression and on recognition of one's own interior motivation as a unique factor that is found, that fuses, with others and grows in the dialectic between predefined modes of conduct and open and free performative decisions.

The aim of LAP - which expresses a gestatory idea with which anyone who develops creative processes is all too familiar - is to re-establish the central role of communication between performers who, in that place and at that time, come together to re-compose the work. Constituent and substantive concepts of creating art, such as research and experimentation, awareness and overcoming boundaries, the ethics of relationships, the development of empathy and of the relational context.

Gianni Trovalusci has worked with a vast number of artists, including Roscoe Mitchell, Hamid Drake, Ken Vandemark, Luigi Ceccarelli, Michele Rabbia, Peppe Servillo, Sonia Bergamasco, Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli, Fabrizio Ottaviucci, Elio Martusciello, Antonio Caggiano, Rodolfo Rossi, Evan Parker, John Tilbury, David Ryan, Virgilio Sieni, Roberto Bellatalla, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Silvia Schiavoni, Elio Pecora and Paolo Volponi. He has performed a large number of works by contemporary authors including Giorgio Battistelli, Hubert Howe, Michelangelo Lupone, Giorgio Nottoli, Walter Prati, Nicola Sani and Lidia Zielenska, with a special focus on random works by Franco Evangelisti, Sylvano Bussotti, Luigi Nono, Bruno Maderna, Alvin Curran, Domenico Guaccero, Marcello Panni, Alvin Curran, Roscoe Mitchell, Demetrio Stratos, John Cage, Earle Brown and Christian Wolff. He has performed as a soloist with such important conductors as Ilan Volkov, Marcello Panni, Luca Pfaff and Steed Cowart. He has recorded for, among others, Auditorium Edizioni, Rai Radio 3, Radio Vaticana, Radio Svizzera Italiana, BBC 3, Swedish National Radio and West Deutscher Rundfunk.