Musica Elettronica

With 850,000 volumes, 120,000 old books and a collection of 7,500 newspapers, the Municipal Library of the Archiginnasio of Bologna is a place steeped in history. It was here, in early 2021, that Paolo Fresu decided to celebrate his own history. For his 60th birthday, the Sardinian trumpet player gathered a handful of relatives for an exceptional concert, obviously without an audience. Together with bandoneonist Daniele di Bonaventura, pianist Dino Rubino, double bassist Marco Bardoscia and the Alborada Quartet, he wandered through various rooms in this magnificent library performing pieces in his own style. A colourful and hybrid jazz, European at heart and always strolling around.

In the course of a conference held at Darmstadt in 1957, Maderna spoke of his compositional experiences in the field of electronic music in the following terms: "My Introduction to electronic music totally upset my relationship with musical materials. (…) Whereas instrumental composition is preceded In most cases Py a linear development of thought (…), the fact that in electronic music one can try out directly various possible sound structures, and manipulate these ad infinitum to obtain new musical Images, and lastly, the fact that the composer can store away a vast amount of unfinished material, puts the composer in a completely novel position.
Bruno Maderna
All the pieces In this CD were restored and digitally remastered In the winter of 1993 in Milan by AGON - acustica informatica musica, using the original tapes preserved in the archives of the Studio di Fonologia of the RAI in Milan.

from the attached booklet