Roberto Musci

Roberto Musci (March 27, 1956 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian music composer, performer, saxophonist, guitar player and video maker. From 1974 to 1985 he travelled around the world to study African, Indian, and Near & Far Eastern music, make field recording and collect musical instruments. He combined non-European music, recorded "on field" and played with ethnic musical instruments, with contemporary music, with musical techniques derived from plunderphonics and musique concrète to create a personal musical language with which he tells stories and feelings related to his travels.
Biography.
1974 - 1982.
From 1974 to 1982 Roberto Musci traveled to the Middle East, Far East and Africa to study and record ethnic music. He attended traditional music courses: 1976 Cairo Conservatoire Egypt,1977 Gamelan musicin Yogyakarta (Indonesia),1980 Karnataka College of Percussion(India) and Madras Music Academy(India). During these trips he recorded music on field, collected ethnic music on cassette tape and non-European musical instruments. From 1976 to 1986 he broadcast ethnic music and electronic music and experimental music from Radio Popolare radio stations in Milan.
1982 - 1990.
1982 With Italian journalist Claudio Ricordi composed music for an installation on the city of Milan, presented at the XVI Triennale di Milano : " Cities, architecture, design, fashion, audiovisuals - third cycle".
Founded the record label "Raw Material" for which he released two LP record : 
1982-1983 "The Loa of music" solo recording by Roberto Musci where he combines ethnic music field recording with non-European musical instruments (strings, flutes, percussion) played live and western electronic musical instruments(synthesizer) and acoustic guitar. Inside Lp cover there were traditional Vever Voodoo paintings.
1984 “Olympic signals " by Italian pianist Giovanni Venosta where he combines Minimal music & Electronic music with a touch of ethnic music. Whit : Chiara Stasi,Sandro Cerino,Franchino Gabualdi,Ciaccio de Rossi.
1985 He played with Walter Prati for two multimedia shows :
video soundtrack " Plessi video-going " that introduced to the Rotonda della Besana in Milano the great anthological by Fabrizio Plessi. This was the first show of environmental multimedia in Italy).
"The Frog & the unicorn" the soundtrack of a video project for IBM by Studio Azzurro, at SMAU in Milano.
With Walter Prati he broadcast for RAI an "Interactive Japanese music course" with examples of Japanese traditional music and sending by radio digital data,containing the history of Japanese Music, descriptions of musical instruments and musical examples, to be uploaded to computers.
1986 with Walter Prati,Saverio Angiolini and Marco "Bill" Vecchi he founded the music recording studio "Fx Studio" in Milan.
With Giovanni Venosta he recorded the LP " Water message on desert sand " (Grammy Award nominated 1987) where they combined ethnic music, field recording with non-European musical instruments played live and western electronic musical instruments (synthesizer), acoustic guitar and electric guitar,for the London record label Recommended Records( U.K.). With: Marco "Bill" Vecchi,Valentino De Santi, Tiziano Tononi,Andrea Petrus,Sandro Cerino,Daniele Cavallanti,Franchino Gabualdi,Walter Prati. 
1987 with Giovanni Venosta he recorded "Urban and tribal portraits " the second LP for the London record label Recommended Records( U.K.) Whit: Paolino Dalla Porta,Marco "Bill" Vecchi,Andrea Petrus,Sandro Cerino.
With Giovanni Venosta he recorded "War song" a piece for RēR Quarterly Volume 2,number 3. The ReR Quarterly was an English "quarterly" sound-magazine comprising an LP record and a magazine by Recommended Records and November Books,and edited by English percussionist,lyricist and music theorist, Chris Cutler.
1988 with Christina Kubisch, Riccardo Sinigaglia,Pier Luigi Andreoni, Francesco Paladino and Raffaele Serra he recorded two tracks ("Azur noise" and "A Poetry of Broken Hearts" ) for Double LP "Doubling & silence ")released by Auf Dem Nil / Recommended Records Italia. The music was inspired by the works of surrealist painter Gustavo Foppiani [1925-1986].
1990 with Giovanni Venosta he composed the music for "Ass", a Levi's jeans spot for TV.
With Giovanni Venosta he composed the song "The first umbrella's angle variation" recorded on Cassette tape for Network 77,a South African Recording label MicroDot - Munem
Muso.
With Giovanni Venosta he composed some pieces for the soundtrack of "L'aria serena dell'ovest" a movie by Italian film director Silvio Soldini.
Recommended Records (U.K.) made the digital remaster of "Water messages on desert sands" and "Urban and tribal portraits" on CD as "Messages & Portraits"
1991 - 2000.
1991 With Giovanni Venosta he composed the music for "Urban and tribal dances" for the choreographer Louise Reichlin for "Los Angeles Choreographer and Dancers".
1992 with Giovanni Venosta he recorded on CD "A noise,a sound"for Recommended records (U.K.) where they combined ethnic music with non-European musical instruments played live and western electronic musical instruments and instruments.With: Marco "Bill" Vecchi, Luciano Margorani, Roberto Zanisi,Saverio Angiolini,Sandro Cerino,David Moss,Momi D'Averi,Ciaccio De Rossi,Olivia Bignardi.
With Giovanni Venosta and Massimo Mariani he composed the soundtrack for movie "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters directed by Italian director Alessandro Amaducci and published on DVD by Kaplan Edizioni.
1993 to 1996 he played with Walter Prati,Claudio Gabbiani,Matteo Pennese for the music and video event "Suoni ed immagini della memoria" for International Holocaust Remembrance Day of the Shoah (January 27).
1995 with Giovanni Venosta he composed the music for "Principle of moments:the art of Yves Klein" for the choreographer Dieter Heitkamp for 
"Dance Company Tanzfabrik" in Berlin, Germany.
With Giovanni Venosta he composed the music for "De Sade" a commercial movie for Bulgari's Jewels , directed by Marco Poma from the opera "Ornamenti" by Prospero Rasulo.
With Claudio Gabbiani he composed and played live soundtrack for "Intolleranze" by Italian film director Riccardo Rovescalli for the festival "Il Giardino della Musica" organised by MM&T at Palazzina Liberty Milano.
1996 Island records (U. K.) published "Woman in late" composed with Giovanni Venosta for "Quan go world voices",a compilation by Tom Schnabel with :Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Milton Nascimento, Mercedes Sosa and Salif Keita. 
With Claudio Gabbiani and Roberto Zanisi he composed the soundtrack for the movie "Il giallo della palla verde nella stanza rossa" by Italian film director Stefano Canzio Special Award Milano Film Festival II.
With Giovanni Venosta he composed the soundtrack for the movie " Pidgin" by Italian film director Andrea Gropplero.
On 1997 with Giovanni Venosta and Massimo Mariani recorded on CD "Loosing the orthodox path" for Le disque Victò (Canada) with the music for " Principle of moments : the art of Yves Klein " by the choreographer Dieter Heitkamp for " Dance company Tanzfabrik " in Berlin ,Germany. With: Sandro Cerino,Silvia Mandolini,Moni Ovadia,Roberto Zanisi,Ciaccio De Rossi,Cesare Picco,Liliana Bancolini, Laura Pone,Amelie Berson,Didier Aschour.
Lowlands records (Belgium) printed " Debris of a Loa " a digitally re-mastering my LP " The loa of music " (Raw Materials Records ,1983) plus " Umi - the sea " he played and composed with Claudio Gabbiani (a project for computer generated human voice inspired to Ukiyo-e , the " pictures of the floating world " by Japanese painting Utamaru . 
He played with Massimo Cavallaro for the recording of the cd "Giu' al Nord",soundtrack of for Italian comic actor's shows Antonio Albanese:"Giu' al nord " and "Uomo" , for Auditorium Records, Italy .
He recording the CD "Unintentional beauty" for Lowlands records Belgium, with "Visna Mahedi Ensamble : Claudio Gabbiani,Giorgio Magnanensi,Roberto Zanisi,Silvia Mandolini and Marco Ruggeri ". The CD is the recording of the live soundtrack of silent movie "" 1920,at "Time Zones music festival", Bari , Italy .
With Claudio Gabbiani and Massimo Cavallaro he played live soundtrack of "The Phamtom of the Opera" directed by Rupert Julian 1925,for the festival "Senza Parole " organised by MM&T at Arena in the Brescia Castle,Italy and at "Caserta Estate festival 98'" at Reggia di Caserta.
On 1998 Musci composed with Giovanni Venosta the music for the " Nike" spot for TV.
He played with Giovanni Venosta and Chris Cutler live soundtracks of the movie "Vampyr",by director Carl Theodor Dreyer , 1929 at festival "Senza Parole" organised by MM&T. The music was recorded by Recommended Records for cd "Vampyr and other stories".
On 1999 with Giovanni Venosta Musci composed the soundtrack for the movie "Rita incontra un amica" by Italian film director Monica Castiglioni.
With Claudio Gabbiani, Jon Rose and Chris Cutler he played live soundtracks of the movies 
"De brug" 1928 by Joris Ivens,"Manhatta" 1921 by Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand,"Regen" 1929 by Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken, in festival "Lo spazio e la città" organised by MM&T at "Palazzina Liberty" Milan : music recorded by Recommended Records for cd "Steelwater light".
With Claudio Gabbiani, Massimo Cavallaro,Piero Guerrera, he played live soundtrack for silent movie "Safety Last!" by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor with Harold Lloyd,for the festival "Ombre sonore" organised by MM&T at Garbagnate Milanese,Milano,Italy.
With Massimo Cavallaro he played soundtrack for live recited poems by Italian theatrical actress Piera degli Esposti.
With Claudio Gabbiani he composed the music for the "United Way" spot for TV .
2000 he played in the studio recordings of Claudio Gabbiani CD "Night nursing" for Auditorium records, Italy With:Chris Cutler,Jon Rose,Roberto Zorzi,Giorgio Magnanensi,Massimo Mariani, Kees Boekeand Silvia Mandolini.
With Claudio Gabbiani he played live soundtrack of "The crowd" by King Vidor 1928 for the festival "Senza Parole" organised by MM&T at "Palazzina Liberty",Milano,Italy .
With Claudio Gabbiani he played a live concert for "Attimi di storia in musica al Castello Sforzesco, Cortile delle Armi ",Milano , Italy.
2001 - 2011.
2001 Roberto Musci played with Keith Tippett and Claudio Gabbiani live concert at Palazzina Liberty "Music for labyrinths : Waters". 
He composed with Giovanni Venosta music for 3D animation "GT" by Miguel Soares.
2002 composed "Music for Labyrinths: Notre-Dame de Chartres" for voices and electronics,played at "Synthese 2002 - Imeb,32th Festival International des Musiques et Creations Electroniques, Bourges", France.
From 2002 to 2020 he composed music for Raw Material label "A tribute to Zugakousaku (Mamoru Kano) a Japanese Visual design and developer for Apple Inc. for Quartz Composer technology .
With Giovanni Venosta and Massimo Mariani he composed soundtrack for the movie "Non chiederci la parola" by Italian film director Elisabetta Sgarbi,presented at the 61st Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland.
He played with Claudio Gabbiani and Roberto Zorzi "Persistence of vision" , a live concert at Palazzina Liberty during "To Sting Festival" organised by MM&T.
On 2003 he composed music and made videos for "Sonora" organized by MM&T and Cemat: "La dolce vita : Vespa Sounds and images of the life in Italy in the 60'" Academy of Arts Berlin(Akademie der Kunste).Music by : Mario Garuti, Massimo Mariani,Matteo Pennese,Walter Prati, Nicola Sani.
With Massimo Mariani and Steve Duncan he played at "Dangerous Curents" an Art festival in Vancouver BC-Canada".The live concert was recording on CD "The day after the end of world party" by Auditorium records.
With Giovanni Venosta and Massimo Mariani he recorded, for Recommended (U.K.), "Art Bears Revisited and the Art Box", a remixes, reworking & new ways of listening Art Bears With: Jon Rose, Otomo Yoshihide, Chris Cutler, The Residents, Fred Frith, Christian Marclay, and Bob Drake.
From 2003 to 2008 made videos for the show "As time goes by" a live Soundtracks from 40'-70' Hollywood movies with : Liliana Bancolini,Giovanni Venosta,Massimo Mariani,Tito Mangialajo.
Since 2004 Roberto Musci has been developing the "Audio Painting" technique: Audiopainting uses an algorithm of "Qurtz Composer" which receives video data (colors and movements) which are recorded via the camera together with sounds (frequency and timbre) which are recorded with a microphone. delay, reverb, pitch and envelopes). Sounds modify video images (colors, speed, delay or overlapping or multiplication effects). All this creates a "Audiopainting" loop with music: it's like painting with music and creating music with images in real time.
2004 he made music and videos with "Audiopainting technique : Ghost stories "In your eyes" and "Ghosts" for Raw Material .The videos and the music was performed at live concert "Belfagor" by Henri Desfontaines 1927 with "Belfagor Orchestra": Elliott Sharp,Steve Piccolo,Gak Sato,Walter Prati,Matteo Pennese,Claudio Gabbiani,Massimo Falascone,Daniele Cavallanti,Matteo Saltalamacchia,Diego Ruvidotti,Massimo Mariani,Claudio Chianura,for the festival "Musichevolissimevolmente" organized by MM&T at Cinema/Teatro Gnomo Milano,Italy.
From 2005 to 2019 he made music and videos for "Audiopainting : Chronophotograpy" for Raw Materials. 
2005 with Walter Prati and Matteo Pennese live concert "Il moto dell'acqua " at "Casa della poesia" for "Milano Contemporanea" festival.
From 2006 to 2009 he made music and videos for "Audiopainting : Alchemy" for Raw Materials.
2006 live concert with Claudio gabbiani for "30° anniversario di Radio Popolare",Auditorium of Milano 
2007 Recommended Records U.S.A. made a compilation on " Various – Disk Red " a compilation with Faust, Sun Ra, Fred Frith, Art Bears and Musci & Venosta with the song "When A Dolphin Saves A Baby"
2009 he made music and videos for "Astolfo on the moon" for Raw Material. The soundtrack was published on audio cassette for NKT Records " Wannamarchi club" Summer Expo 2018 ( UK ). 
2010 made music and videos for "Audiopainting : Ghost train , a tribute to the Lumiere brothers"" for Raw Materials.
2011 he made music and videos for "Audiopainting : Thales' dream"" for Raw Material.
2012 - today.
2012 "Leaves" , a recording label from Lithuania, published "Shadow Player" and "Claudia, Wilhelm R. And Me " on the compilation "Maps and diagrams : when the rain comes".
2013 he remixed the recording of the live concert "Persistence of vison" for digital issue by Raw Material.
2014 with Giovanni Venosta he recorded a song for the compilation " Various–Italia Forza " Not on label– U.S.A.
With Giovanni Venosta he made the music for the spot for "Filamaker 2014".
2015 with Giovanni Venosta and Chris Cutler he recording on CD " Vampyr and other stories" for Recommended Records ( UK) : the live soundtrack of Dreyer's movie " Vampyr ",played live at the " Palazzina Liberty" Milan, in 1998.
With Antonio Murga he recorded some tracks for "Endogamic:Pandara Box 2 & friends",Cordoba, Spain.
2016 Roberto Musci recorded "Mosaic: a tribute to Third Ear Band" a CD for Gonzo Multimedia Records (U.K.) 2016.
He recorded for Music from Memory label (NL) an anthological double LP "Tower of silence".
2017 Cinedelic/Soave records label (It) reprint on double LPs "The Loa of music complete sessions" with music not included in the original 1983 single LP.
He recorded the soundtrack of fashion videos "Gestes & Gemmes" and "Soleil Levant" for L'Officiel the French fashion magazine, Paris (Fr).
2018 Cinedelic/Soave records label (It) reprint on LP "Urban & tribal portraits".
Low Company (UK) reissued on CD "Messages & portraits" digitally re-mastering of "Water messages on desert sands" and "Urban and tribal portraits".
Music from memory Japan released a compilation on double CD by Chee Shimizu with two his songs: "Tamatave"and "Nexus on the beach".
Technique records,edited by Goodfellas records, made the reissued on LP of "Water messages on desert sand" .
Recorded for "Wannamarchi club Summer Expo 2018" the song "Astolfo on the moon " ( U.K. ).
On 2019 Cinedelic/Soave records (It)reissued on double vinyl the cd "A noise,a sound " . 
He recorded some tracks for "Lion's drums" LP by Harold Boué - Abstraxion Marseille (Fr).
He recorded with Justin Davey the song "We're Alright, Los Angeles (U.S.A.).
He recorded for "Wannamarchi club Summer Expo 2019 the song "Jellyfish/Moment in gold" (U.K.).
On 2020 Cinedelic/Soave records (It) reissued on vinyl the cd "Loosing the orthodox path" .
He recorded for "Wannamarchi club Summer Expo 2020" two song "Night Heart" and "Sand Waves" (U.K.).
He played sountrack for movie "Zona autónoma intemporal" by photographer and director Tuane Eggers.
On 2021 recorded for Oxmose Record Label Paris, France LP " Melanesia" with Chamber Music and primitive music from Pacific Island.
He recorded music for Crypto Art project Non-fungible token "Metaphysic" by artist and photographer Giuseppe Lo Schiavo,published on Makerplace.