BIO
Massimo Giuntoli. Composer, performer, urban designer, multimedia artist . Openly inspired by masters such as Frank Zappa, Aaron Copland and the so -called "school of Canterbury," Massimo Giuntoli has developed his own musical language characterized by an uninhibited fluctuation between academy and a very heterogeneous range of extremely refined languages . The use of electronic technologies is frequent, often reinvented out of the most diverse species . With Pianoformance , based on Disklavier piano features , he stages the relationship between man and machine through an unpredictable piano recital . Morfeo al Ninfeo , (1994 ) is an itinerant performance built in the caves and in the halls of a sixteenth -century nymphaeum , where water games - as the Wunderkammer spirit of the monument - are reinterpreted from a contemporary and technological point of view . Choreographic living chess games follow with ‘Torre del Bernabò ’ ……then the suite ‘Musici in complotto’, in which four performers (Ferdinando Faraò, Fabio Martini, Takumi Fukushima and Giuntoli himself) surround the audience in an old cloister . Furthermore ‘Freezy’, where dance theater and music join into an ensemble of statues, which traces an improbable as surreal history of Western sculpture. In 1995 Robert Wyatt , invited by Radio Popolare (Milan) to broadcast a cycle of programs regarding his musical preferences, includes in his selection the track "Frrr!!!" from Massimo Giuntoli's Giraffe album .In 2003 he founded WIZARP Urban Visions , focused on concept and design for permanent installations in public space and elements of urban design : water -sound - light architectures, dynamic sculptures and musical gardens . From 2010 , commissioned by Regione Valle d'Aosta , he has realized several different editions of a sons -et -lumières set on Roman Theatre of Aosta , seen by an audience of 30.000 people. In 2011 he took part in 'Neoludica', side event of the 54th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale , where he presented the interactive animations 'You can’t stop ' and 'Gun Faith', along with vector graphics artwork 'L'ego dell'artista '.he presented PIE GLUE! , a musical project developed on beat generation poems , along with percussionist Clara Zucchetti . During the same year he founded HOBO duo, a kind of «itinerant music chamber» with the jazz violinist Eloisa Manera and himself on harmonium . Seven years later HOBO’s CD «Edmund» was finally released . In 2014 he founded HARPSY DUET , with Swiss pianist and composer Esther Flückiger . An harpsychord duo aimed to explore new expressive forms for this instrument . With ODD SONGS project – a non -stop sequence of no - words -songs , nonsense lyrics and sound neologisms – he goes on in his research about the relationship between words and music . He cooperates both as pianist and composer with Altock Chamber Quartet founded by Emilio Galante … …as well as with Ferdinando Farao’s Artchipel Orchestra , thus performing along with beloved musicians like Chris Cutler , Keith & Julie Tippett , and Phil Miller . Piano Store , a composition for six pianos , was commissioned by Yamaha Music Europe, then performed for three days within Cremona Pianoforte exhibition . English writer Jonathan Coe asks him to arrange a selection of his own compositions , then performed at Collisioni Festival , with an ensemble involving Coe himself . From 2013 he creates ALTERAZIONI , a concert series dedicated to «innovative music», taking place within an ancient villa located in Lainate (Milan) . In 2016 he presents HOBO PLAYS ROBERT WYATT at Mantua Festivaletteratura , in co -operation with journalist Alessandro Achilli . In the same year Buch Records releases PIANO WARPS , a piano -solo CD album containing Giuntoli’s compositions . He founds U -GENE duo, with contemporary classical guitarist Silvia Cignoli . Both in public libraries and bookshops, he presents PIANO POETRY , a solo performance based on poems by Walt Whitman , Emily Dickinson , Gertrude Stein , aside from Giuntoli’s and other unpublished authors ’ poems . He creates VOX POPULI project , a workshop which gives birth to surreal vocal ensembles pretty accessible to everybody - In 2017 he is invited again by Mantua Festivaletteratura , where he presents Singing American Poetry , scheduled for three days at Palazzo Te, along with multi -instrumentalist Clara Zucchetti .F . I . T . – Found In Translation is a new solo -performance (soon a CD album) with voice, harmonium and keyboard , based on invented languages spoken by people living in the imaginary land of Molkaya . With ANY VOICE , Massimo Giuntoli is collecting "vocal identities" from every latitude of the Planet . The digital reworking of the vocal co -operations will give birth to a large multi -cultural virtual choir, the WORLD WIDE PEOPLE CHOIR . Its main characters will be the so -called "foreigners" living in Italy, representing the highest possible number of nationalities and origins . In 2019 he founds a new label, Molkaya Rec, who's first releasing is CD album "Edmund", by HOBO (with Eloisa Manera), after more than forty gigs with this acoustic duo. He starts the project PhotoScore: a collection in progress of musical videos which includes two different types: one based on sequences of photos and painting images, the other aimed to create virtual sons-et-lumières. He writes music for a new HOBO project - immediately live performing - conceived for "plugged" instruments: fivestrings electric violin and electric piano. During the Italian three months lockdown he writes and produces a monographic project based on a selection of Gertrude Stein's poems, from her book Tender Buttons. The related CD album has been released in co-operation with ADN Rec/ReR Italia. In September 2020 he is once again invited from Mantua's Festivaletteratura, where he presents Tender Buttons project, on an itinerant stage dedicated to poetry performing.
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