Roberto Musci
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Roberto Musci is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
) is a music composer, performer, saxophonist and guitar player.
Musci studied saxophone and guitar. From 1974 to 1985 he travelled around the world to study African, Indian, and Near & Far Eastern music, to make field recordings and collect musical instruments. He recorded LPs and CDs for different European labels (including Raw Materials, Recommended Records, Victò, Lowlands, and Island Records
Island Records
Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...
).
Musci composed and played music for videos (Studio Equatore, Miguel Soares), commercial spots (Levi's, Nike
Nike, Inc.
Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...
, Bulgari
Bulgari
Bulgari is an Italian jeweler and luxury goods retailer which has been owned by the French firm LVMH since October 2011. The trademark is usually written "BVLGARI" in the classical Latin alphabet , and is derived from the surname of the company's Greek founder, Sotirio Voulgaris...
, IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
, United Way), dance (Tanzfabrik Berlin, Los Angeles Choreographer & dancers), live soundtracks for silent movies (Regen
Rain (1929 film)
Rain is a 1929 Dutch short documentary film directed by Mannus Franken and Joris Ivens....
and The Bridge, both directed by Joris Ivens
Joris Ivens
Joris Ivens was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist.-Early life and career:...
; The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)
The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of the Gaston Leroux novel of the same title directed by Rupert Julian. The film featured Lon Chaney in the title role as the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force...
, directed by Rupert Julian
Rupert Julian
Rupert Julian was the first New Zealand cinema actor, director, writer and producer.Born Thomas Percival Hayes in Whangaroa, New Zealand, Son of John Daly Hayes and Eliza Harriet Hayes...
; Vampyr
Vampyr
Vampyr is a 1932 horror film directed by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. The film was written by Dreyer and Christen Jul based on elements from J. Sheridan Le Fanu's collection of supernatural stories In a Glass Darkly. Vampyr was funded by Nicolas de Gunzburg who starred in the film under...
, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Friedrich Wilhelm "F. W." Murnau was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a prominent figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s...
; Manhatta
Manhatta
Manhatta is a short documentary film directed by painter Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand.-Production background:Manhatta documents the look of early-20th-century Manhattan...
, directed by Paul Strand
Paul Strand
Paul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century...
; Safety Last!
Safety Last!
Safety Last! is a 1923 romantic comedy silent film starring Harold Lloyd. It includes one of the most famous images from the silent film era: Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic. The film was highly successful and critically...
, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
Fred C. Newmeyer
Fred C. Newmeyer was an American actor and film director. A native of Central City, Colorado, he is best known for directing a handful of films in the Our Gang series and for directing Harold Lloyd movies The Freshman and Girl Shy. Newmeyer also had an extensive directing and acting resume in...
with Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
; Der Golem, directed by Carl Boese and Paul Wegener
Paul Wegener
Paul Wegener was a German actor, writer and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema.-Stage and early film career:...
, Saturnino Farandolà, directed by Marcel Perez and Luigi Maggi; The Crowd
The Crowd
The Crowd is a 1928 American silent film directed by King Vidor. It is notable for its dramatization of the concerns and dangers of urbanization and modernity....
, directed by King Vidor
King Vidor
King Wallis Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades...
; and Belfagor, directed by Henri Desfontains), poems (with Massimo Cavallaro for Piera degli Esposti), and theater (with Massimo Cavallaro for Antonio Albanese
Antonio Albanese
Antonio Albanese is an Italian comedian, actor, director and writer.Born in Lombardy to Sicilian parents, he studied at the Civic Drama School in Milan, then opted to pursue an acting career. His first experiences as a comedian date back to 1992, when he made his debut at the Zelig Theatre in Milan...
).
He made soundtracks for movies (with Giovanni Venosta) for Silvio Soldini
Silvio Soldini
Silvio Soldini is an Italian film director.Soldini has received 11 awards in his career as of June 2007 and 14 nominations.-Filmography:*Drimage *Paesaggio con figure *Giulia in ottobre...
's movie L'aria serena dell'Ovest, Alessandro Amaducci's movie Spoonriver, Stefano Canzio's video Sua Intermittenza, Andrea Gropplero's movie Pidjin, Monica Castiglioni's movie Rita incontra una amica. He also made videos for Italian musicians (Walter Prati, Giancarlo Schiaffini
Giancarlo Schiaffini
Giancarlo Schiaffini is an Italian jazz trombonist and tubist most associated with avant-garde music, free improvisation and free jazz. A member of the Italian Instabile Orchestra, Schiaffini has worked with such artists as Mario Schiano, Lol Coxhill, Andrea Centazzo and also Thurston Moore of...
, Lilliana Bacolini, Morgan, Massimo Cavallaro) and for European musicians (with Massimo Mariani for percussionist Arnold Marinissen).
He broadcast ethnic music from radio stations Rai and Radio Popolare.
At the 32nd Bourges International Festival he performed the piece "Music for Labyrinths" for voice & electronics at Maison de la Culture ICEM Serie : Federation Italy 01/06/02.
He has played in studio and in live concerts with many Italian and European musicians, including Giovanni Venosta, Claudio Gabbiani, Walter Prati, Giorgio Magnanensi, Massimo Mariani, Roberto Zanisi, Tiziano Tononi, Daniele Cavallanti (Aktuala
Aktuala
Aktuala were a pioneering world music band from Italy, although their often categorised as progressive rock, psychedelic, or avant garde. The name comes from the Esperanto for "contemporary"...
), Moni Ovadia
Moni Ovadia
Moni Ovadia is an Italian actor, musician, singer and theatrical author. "Moni" is short for "Salomone" .-Career:Ovadia was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 1946 to a Jewish family who moved to Milan in Ovadia's early childhood...
,Sandro Cerino, Chris Cutler
Chris Cutler
Chris Cutler is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of a number of other bands, including Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu and Gong/Mothergong...
, Jon Rose
Jon Rose
Jon Rose is an Australian violinist born in the UK in 1951. Rose began playing violin at age 7 after winning a music scholarship to King's School in Rochester. For over 35 years, Rose has been at the sharp end of new, improvised, and experimental music and media...
, David Moss
David Moss (musician)
David Moss is an American composer, percussionist and self-taught vocalist, founder of the David Moss Dense Band; co-founder and artistic director of the Institute for Living Voice, Antwerp...
, Steve Piccolo, Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...
, and Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett is a British jazz pianist and composer.Tippett, the son of a local police officer, went to Greenway Boys Secondary Modern school in Southmead, Bristol. He formed his first jazz band called The KT7 whilst still at school and they performed numbers popular at the time by The Temperance...
.
Discography
- The Loa of Music (Raw Material, 1983)
- Water Messages on desert sand (with Giovanni Venosta) (Recommended Records, 1986)
- Urban & tribal portraits (with Giovanni Venosta) (Recommended Records, 1988)
- A noise, a sound (Recommended Records, 1990)
- Rer Quarterly vol 2 (Recommended Records, 1991)
- Losing the orthodox path (with Giovanni Venosta & Massimo Mariani) (Victò, 1993)
- Debris of a loa (with Claudio Gabbiani) (Lowlands Records, 1995)
- Quang-go voice (with Giovanni Venosta) (Island Records, 1999)
- Massimo Cavallaro's Giù al nord /Uomo (music for Antonio Albanese theatrical pieces (RP, 1999)
- Steel water light (with Chris Cutler, Jon Rose, Claudio Gabbiani) (Recommended Records, 2001)
- Claudio Gabbiani's Night nursing (Auditorium Records, 2003)
- Art Bears revisited (with Giovanni Venosta & Massimo Mariani) (Recommended Records, 2004)
- The day after the end of world party (with Massimo Mariani and Steve Duncan) (Auditorium Records, 2005)