Antonio Mainenti in studio in Naples (Italy), Right: live concert solo in Viseu (Portugal)
Antonio Mainenti in his is my house in Viseu (Portugal)Kamal Sabran and Antonio Mainenti, musician and artist from italy has collaborate on sound making recently. Their richness in traditional sound instruments that belong to their own culture background making the sound so much interesting. Both artist improvised and experiment rather then thinking of creating a music but so much on sonic exploration. Kamal Sabran use instruments like Gendang silat(malay traditional drum, Gamelan (malay trad xylophone), Bamboo Flute, Serunai (malay Tard Horn), chinese cymbals, violin, accordion, tabla and also from electronic instrument part such as synth and sampling. Antonio Mainenti contribute with a lovely track from guitar, voice, sound sampling, hand-made cello with bow, Sicilian Jew's
harp and field recording.
Both artist record and edit sound in their own home studio and exchange sound file on line for final mixing.
Listen to the music:http://www.reverbnation.com/kamalsabransuperfriends
or check out to the player (top right)in this blog
*Antonio Mainenti (b. 1978, Sicily, Italy) is a singer, musician, composer and instrument builder. His first sound experiences, when he’s five years old, are made with a red and black Phonola tape recorder: he records sounds of environment, unusual bawls, rattles and improvisations. The tapes have gone lost. He’s ten years old when he starts studying guitar and music theory. During his teen years he begins his first musical experiences in rock, folk and improvised music.
At the age of 18 years old he moves to Rome, where he studies musical history, ethnomusicology, singing, composition, improvisation, harmony, guitar and musical theory in general. Additionally he participates in the first anthology of Italian popular singing curated by Silvano Spadaccino.
Following the roman period, he returns to Sicily, where he collaborates with several jazz and contemporary ensembles, continues his researches in ethnomusicology and dedicates to idiosyncratic reinterpretation of old Sicilian songs. Also he starts to be interested in the research of social and political Italian folk songs. He participates in several radical music projects along with musicians coming form the free jazz world. Since 2001 he is involved in importing and distribution of professional and popular instruments from all over the world, building a remarkable experience in non-western music and instruments. In 2006 one of his songs was included in the first anthology of Sicilian folk music.
He works in soundtracks and composition, collaborates in a video production and in 2003 starts to be involved in teaching projects, developing a personal approach to the construction of sound objects and musical instruments. He directs workshops in schools and universities, where is able to explore the areas of sound objects, body and environment sounds. Gradually he moves away from music in “strictu sensu” towards an approach of “total sound”.
For the improvement of his theoretical background, he researches Luigi Russolo’s “rumori”, John Cage’s silence, the musique concrète of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, Antonin Artaud’s creativity, Schoenberg’s teachings in harmony and the musical critique of Theodor Adorno.
Link:
http://www.mainenti.net
http://www.binauralmedia.org
http://arte.noblogs.org
