Andrea Centazzo

Andrea Centazzo (born 1948) is an Italian-born American composer, percussionist, multimedia artist and record label founder. Centazzo was born in Udine, Italy. In the 1970s he played percussion in avant-garde jazz with John Zorn, Steve Lacy, and Don Cherry, and became "a leading figure in the European avant-garde". After 1986 he turned to video making and composed operas, film soundtracks and orchestral compositions. Since 1992, he has lived and worked in Los Angeles and has become a naturalized American citizen. He has also performed and recorded with Albert Mangelsdorff, Alvin Curran, Anthony Coleman, Evan Parker, Fred Frith, Gianluigi Trovesi, Henry Kaiser, Sylvano Bussotti, Theo Jörgensmann, Tom Cora, and Toshinori Kondo. He has conducted his own compositions with the American Youth Symphony, the L.A. Contemporary Orchestra, the Mitteleuropa Orchestra, and many ensembles. He has directed and staged his own opera compositions as well as theatrical plays by other U.S. authors. Centazzo has also created multimedia projects that fuse acoustic instruments, electronic instruments, and video. His multimedia projects include Mandala, Eternal Traveler, Einstein's Cosmic Messengers, and R-Evolution. In more recent live performances he has given solo multimedia concerts, accompanying his own videos. Centazzo has recorded over 60 LP's and CD's, and has composed 350 musical works of diverse types, in addition to writing eight musicology books. In 2012 the Library of the University of Bologna opened the "Fondo Andrea Centazzo" with a collection of his works and documents. During his earlier career Centazzo developed a number of percussion instruments, including the icebell, a bowl-shaped instrument made from a bronze alloy. In his 1980 work Indian Tapes he introduced the ogororo, lokole, tampang, tubophone and square bell, based on Native American instruments. The ICTUS record label was founded in 1976 by Centazzo and his wife, Carla Lugli. Its first release was Clangs by Centazzo and Steve Lacy. Subsequent albums also featured Andrew Cyrille and Lol Coxhill, among others. The label was wound up after eight years owing to financial difficulties, but was revived in 1995 and again in 2006. Major compositions by Centazzo include the multimedia opera Tina (1996), The Soul in the Mist (2006), Moon in Winter (2011), The Heart of Wax (2012), and the multimedia project Tides of Gravity (2016). This last was produced in association with LIGO, NASA and Caltech to mark the first detection of gravitational waves. Source: 1986 Romance 1992 Obiettivo indiscreto 1995 Shadow of a Kiss (TV movie) 1995 Star Struck 1999 I Karaoke (short) 2001 The Circle (short) 2009 La Corsa (short) 2009 Mei Mei (short) 2009 Toto Forever (short) 2010 Desire Street 2013 Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal 2015 Floating Melon 2016 Advent (film) Andrea Centazzo (1979). Guida agli strumenti a percussione: storia e uso. Il formichiere. Andrea Centazzo (1982). Strumenti per fare musica. Gammalibri. Andrea Centazzo (1982). La batteria: stili, protagonisti e tecniche. F. Muzzio. ISBN 978-88-7021-198-6. Andrea Centazzo (1995). Smart drumming: metodo per batteria. Nuovo Carisch. ISBN 978-88-7207-143-4. "ArtistInfo". music.metason.net. Harris, Craig. "Andrea Centazzo | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 24 November 2016. Coda. J. Norris. 2001. p. 30. "Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre Presents Back in Circulation At West Hollywood Library". Broadway World. August 31, 2017. Andrea Centazzo: Biography, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. "Fondo e archivio Centazzo" Archived 2019-07-01 at the Wayback Machine, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna. Guido Facchin (2000). Le percussioni. EDT srl. p. 36. ISBN 978-88-7063-251-4. Gramophone. Vol. 60. General Gramophone Publications Limited. 1982. p. 263. Breznikar, Klemen (May 13, 2012). "Andrea Centazzo interview". It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine. Archived from the original on August 14, 2017. Retrieved December 24, 2020. Todd S. Jenkins (2004). Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-313-33313-2. "ICTUS Records Nights @ The Stone (NYC) April 1-14", by Michael Ricci, All About Jazz, March 21, 2012. Letizia Argenteri (2003). Tina Modotti: Between Art and Revolution. Yale University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-300-09853-2. "Andrea Centazzo, Perry Robinson, Nobu Stowe: The Soul in the Mist". All About Jazz. 17 August 2007. "Andrea Centazzo: Moon in Winter". All About Jazz. October 17, 2011. "Andrea Centazzo, The Heart of Wax". classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.co.uk. 20 March 2012. Andrea Centazzo nota biografica Archived 2019-07-01 at the Wayback Machine, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna. Official Andrea Centazzo website IMDb listing Paiste Gongs Ictus Movies - YouTube Allmusic