Bostjan Photo By Maria Nikolic
Also this year, Circolo Controtempo, a point of reference for jazz in Friuli Venezia Giulia and beyond, waiting to start its programming which includes festivals and events in various formats expected throughout the regional territory, joins theInternational Jazz DayThat Tuesday 30 April will see artists and enthusiasts mobilize all over the world to highlight the importance of jazz music in our society, but also to transform the streets and squares into a global stage of harmony and rhythm. And to increasingly underline the cross-border and borderless spirit with which it has operated for years, Controtempo has chosen to celebrate Jazz day with the Slovenian saxophonist Boštjan Simon, who will be at the Arci Gong in Gorizia on Tuesday at 9pm (free entry) and bringing the docu-film “Berchidda live”, trip to the famous festival created by Paolo Fresu, scheduled Thursday 2 May at 8.30 pm in the Gorizia cinema palace (iEntrance 5 euros, info: https://www.kinemax.it)
Boštjan Simonon sax and electronic effectswill bring his to the stage project “Fermented Reality”, in which he explores the fusion of acoustic and electronic sounds coming from the saxophone and the modular synthesizer. The percussive keys of the saxophone are amplified and processed by external effects, while the new experimental Octosens interactive module allows you to activate oscillators in the modular system. The interaction between these different possibilities creates an intriguing game, exploring the electroacoustic coupling and decoupling of heterogeneous sounds. And the cold object of the saxophone comes to life in a process of creative “fermentation”, similar to an anaerobic transformation capable of offering an incomparable musical experience.
“Berchidda live” – a journey into the “Time in Jazz” archive
(by Gianfranco Cabiddu, Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi, collects and processes more than 1,500 hours of archive materials shot over 25 years by Gianfranco Cabiddu and his crew in the various editions of “Time in Jazz”, the famous music festival created and directed by Paolo Fresu in his hometown, Berchidda, Sardinia. Mellara, Rossi and Cabiddu mix these largely unpublished film materials to compose an enthralling concert film lasting almost 40 years, a mix of music and places, emotions and memories. A unique cinematic and musical experience, a precious testimony.
