morceau de bleu / barbara de dominicis, alessandro ciccarelli, cristian maddalena. 2025

𝑴𝑢𝑹π‘ͺ𝑬𝑨𝑼 𝑫𝑬 𝑩𝑳𝑬𝑼
𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝑫𝒆 π‘«π’π’Žπ’Šπ’π’Šπ’„π’Šπ’”, 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒐 π‘ͺπ’Šπ’„π’„π’‚π’“π’†π’π’π’Š, π‘ͺπ’“π’Šπ’”π’•π’Šπ’‚π’ 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒂
𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝑫𝒆 π‘«π’π’Žπ’Šπ’π’Šπ’„π’Šπ’”, voice, live electronics
𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒐 π‘ͺπ’Šπ’„π’„π’‚π’“π’†π’π’π’Š, trombone, live electronics
π‘ͺπ’“π’Šπ’”π’•π’Šπ’‚π’ 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒂, shamisen, live electronics

β€œπ˜šπ˜Άπ˜±π˜±π˜°π˜΄π˜¦ 𝘐 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘡𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘨π˜ͺ𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘒𝘺π˜ͺ𝘯𝘨 𝘡𝘩𝘒𝘡 𝘐 𝘩𝘒π˜₯ 𝘧𝘒𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯 π˜ͺ𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘸π˜ͺ𝘡𝘩 𝘒 𝘀𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳. 𝘚𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘡𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘒𝘬 𝘡𝘩π˜ͺ𝘴 𝘒𝘴 𝘡𝘩𝘰𝘢𝘨𝘩 π˜ͺ𝘡 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘒 𝘀𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴π˜ͺπ˜°π˜―β€
π˜”π˜’π˜¨π˜¨π˜ͺ𝘦 π˜•π˜¦π˜­π˜΄π˜°π˜―, π˜‰π˜­π˜Άπ˜¦π˜΅π˜΄

Suspended between concert form and installation performance, Morceau de bleu is a work in progress that arises from the collaboration of sound artists Barbara De Dominicis, Alessandro Ciccarelli, and Cristian Maddalena, in an open, ever-changing dialogue freely inspired by Maggie Nelson’s poetic horizon.

Bluets serves as the premise for a profound sonic investigation, anchored in a fragmented and multifaceted poetic language. It offers a perceptual experience that, like an ideal score, leads the audience to explore a liminal dimension of the self, shifting between active acoustic reception and surrender, between dreaming and waking.

Video recorded on January 26, 2025, at Francesco Ziello’s Stanze Sonore at Recherche.
Set design and lighting by Vittoria Faro, video footage by Francesco Ziello, audio and video editing by Alessandro Ciccarelli,
Barbara Ded, Cristian Maddalena

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Like many artists during the Covid period, HUM, the quintet of Cristiano Bocci (electronics); Alessandro Ciccarelli (trombone and electronics); Andrea Fabris (percussion and electronics); Giovanni Falascone (piano and electronics); and Alessandro Gambato (electric guitar and electronics); began collaborating remotely. The musicians are members of the BlueRing Electronics collective, which came together under the auspices of northern Italy’s BlueRing Improvisers Association in 2020. In October 2023 the five assembled in Milan for a residency that culminated in a live performance, the results of which are documented here on three tracks.

Frame, a graphic score by composer Giovanni Sparano, opens the album. The score is composed of various sections corresponding to parameters including timbre, textural density, pitch, and dynamics. HUM’s performance leaves plenty of open spaces for the voices of acoustic piano and metallic percussion to make themselves heard in between electronics-dense passages. The second performance is a collective improvisation that begins with a duet for muted trombone and piano and moves through sections for percussion, electronics, samples, and points beyond, ending with a reprise of acoustic piano. The final track is a realization of another graphic score, this time by composer Massimiliano Viel. The tone here is generally more somber and the sounds drawn out; as with the previous two performances, the group demonstrates a sophisticated sense of balancing open and closed sonic spaces.

https://avantmusicnews.com/2024/11/10/amn-reviews-hum-live-in-milano-elli-records-el57/

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AMN Reviews: HUM – Live in Milano [Elli Records EL57]

Like many artists during the Covid period, HUM, the quintet of Cristiano Bocci (electronics); Alessandro Ciccarelli (trombone and electronics); Andrea Fabris (percussion and electronics); Giovanni …