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Upcoming Performances & News
Spring Dates
April 14, OSU Weigal Hall, "Rhizome for Evelyn Glennie", with jan williams
May 2, The Flea theatre New York City, "Rajas for John Cage", with Larry Marotta, Robert Dick and Ryan Jewel
May 21, OSU Weigal Hall, "Italian Rajas", with New Music Collective and Tom Wells
June 17, OSU Urban Arts Space,"Body Trap",Music for acupuncture with Linda Chun
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Rocco at CCRMA
Interview with Rocco at SiCa
Visit the Gallery
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New Scores
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Melodia Score
Cello
Violin
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Upcoming Events & News for 2009 |
| Starting in January 2009 Di Pietro will be SICA (Stanford Institute for the Creative Arts) Composer in residence. He will undertake a variety of projects in a campus wide initiative including writing his orchestra piece "Finale.As artist in residence working across disciplines he will write a new piece for the "Wired Sound "ensemble with Chris Chafe,Pauline Oliveros and Chryssie Nanou. As a guest composer he will show his work to Jonathan Berger and Paul De Marinis,and write a new section of the on going cycle: "The Comedy of The Real" for Ge Wang and the Stanford Lap Top Orchestra at CCRMA (Center for Computing, Research, Music and Acoustics). He will also perform in a public concert and seminar of his work. |
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"Caravaggio"
Rocco Di Pietro will be performing a new work called "Caravaggio" for virtual cathedral organ and electronics.
Adrian Coburn - voice.
Kathy Supove's: "Music With A view"
New york at The Flea Theater
41 White Street
October 13th, 7:00 PM |
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| Rocco Di Pietro will be performing in New York City at the Roulette Experimental Inter-Media on Saturday, May 26, 2007. This program will feature Kathy Supove, Robert Dick, Larry Marotta, and David Reed. For more information in regards tickets, reservations and directions, please feel free to contact the following number, 212-219-8242. |
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Di Pietro to premier new composition in New York |
Rocco Di Pietro, instructor in Humanities, has composed a new piece for the internationally renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie. The work is called "Rhizome for Evelyn Glennie," and will be premiered at the State University of New York's Buffalo Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Anthony Miranda in 2007. |
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The composition requires the help of LA sound percussionist Stephen Smith, who is constructing an all-stone instrument to be connected to real-time live electronics. |
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Di Pietro says the idea for the piece came after his illness with gall stones gave him the idea that "every illness is a musical problem" (Novalis) so the metaphor of stones as drops of consciousness for Evelyn Glennie--someone who uses her other senses to hear--was fitting.
While still a student, Evelyn Glennie learned that she was going deaf. Rather than abandon her study of music, in which she had shown such talent, she instead turned her focus toward percussion instruments and developed her ability to feel the sound through her body. |
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- Di Pietro to
Teach at Stanford University (CCRMA) This Fall - "Three
way seminar with Chris Chafe, Pauline Oliveros and
Rocco Di Pietro.
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- Katrina Youth
Monograms
@ COMFEST
For hand bells, electronics, accordion and guitar.
With Hannah Corbin-handbells, David Reed sampler,
RDP-accordion, Larry Marotta-guitar.
Community Festival at Goodale Park in Columbus, Ohio
Sunday June 25th 5:30pm on the new Solar Stage
- New Works Of Rocco Di Pietro
@ Acme Art Co.
Sunday February 26, 2006 in
Columbus, Ohio
 
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- Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey
April 2, 2006
- Saturday April 29, 2006
Center for Computer Research in Music and
Acoustics
CCRMA at the Knoll, San Francisco, California
Three-day festival of music and scholarship.
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The
Freeyellow Rescue Project:
The
freeyellow rescue project has been completed. This project
was an effort to archive the contents of Rocco's old website
which was located at http://www.dipietroeditions.com/freeyellow/index.html.
You can view the archived contents at the link below...
Rocco
Di Pietro Freeyellow Archive |
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Coming Soon:
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Andrew
Lynch-Cover art |
Two new text writings/radio works
THE THIRD POSITION
and its companion piece now in progress
THE FOURTH POSITION
Part of the forth coming book MUSICIAN WITHOUT
NOTES
Two works dealing with the questioning of
alternate realities.
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2005 - 2006 Broadcasts:
Iain Edgewater Host:
Prisms Radio Show series 2, #74 ,
Bellevue/Seattle: January 15-16, 2006:
Rocco Di Pietro
"Mobile Phone Dreams B"
Something Else Radio:
www.stopgostop.com/somethingelse/playlists.htm
June 27, 2005
Other Voices Radio:
http://kunm.org/music/playlists/search.php
WREK Music Database:
http://opdesk.wrek.org/pub/now_playing.php?timestamp=1137801175
| Chamber Lost 2 For Christian Boltanski pt 4 |
Rocco Di Pietro |
Multiples / The Lost Project |
01-20-2006 03:48 |
Night |
Rocco Di Pietro Editions |
http://opdesk.wrek.org/pub/now_playing.php?timestamp=1122039754
| Chamber Lost 2 For Christian Boltanski pt 4 |
Rocco Di Pietro |
Multiples / The Lost Project |
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Rocco Di Pietro Editions |
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2004-05
Broadcasts:
Difficult
Listening - Australia
Sarah Combes and Bryce Moore
September 26 - Tears of Eros
October 10 - Dead Sleeping Soliders
November 7 - Prison Dirges
Art@Radio - Steve Bradley - New York, Amsterdam, Helsinki
January 26 - Dead Sleeping Soliders, Prison Dirges
Performances: Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey -
Spectrum Press, March 12, 05
Prison Dirges
WHFR.FM
"Making Waves"
Dearborn/Detroit radio broadcast
October 17, 04
Dead
Sleeping Soliders
Alternating currents WMSE-FM 91.7
Milwaukee
September 5 - Multiples
October 3 - the lost
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2003
Broadcasts:
Art@Radio
- Steve Bradley - New York
02/11 - Tarot Game Piece, Ipseity, Lost for Christian Boltanski
Sonic Stratosphere - Chris De Laurenti
June 7 - Anoxia
June 28 - Glass case of the Heart's fragility
June28 - Tears of Eros
August 23 - Ipseity
Performances: Dartmouth college
Electric Rainbow Festival
Eric Lyon
August 27th - Unknown Lost, Prison Dirges
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Dialogues
with Boulez
Available
from Scarecrow
Press |
Book
Description from Amazon.com:
Pierre
Boulez is arguably classical music's most important living
composer and conductor. His most famous compositions, the
widely-performed "Le marteau sans ma"tre, Pli
selon pli," and "Le visage nuptial", have
earned him the reputation as a musical provocateur, while
his current role as principle guest conductor of the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra has established him as patriarch and
elder statesman of today's classical music scene. In this
book of dialogues with author Rocco Di Pietro, Mr. Boulez
reveals delightful ideas and insights on composition and
imagination, listening and teaching, and muses on the nature
of youth, communication, and fame. Di Pietro's unusual writing
format allows the reader to more easily understand the complexities
of Boulez's thinking. A firm believer in accidents, he reveals
how his career took shape through a combination of coincidence
and talent. Essential for recent Boulez converts and long
time devotees alike.
BUY from
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The
Third Position
My Dinner with Afasia
Musician
Without Notes
In The Weeds Of Dialectics |
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The
Normal Exception:
Life Stories,Reflections and Dreams from Prison
coming
soon from IUniverse.com
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a monograph by Rocco Di Pietro
on
Carlo Ginzburg's "The Cheese and the Worms"
Menocchio
was a simple family man, a miller by trade. But he was also
a voracious reader, a man who possessed of an extraordinary
curiosity constructed a radical cosmology and dared to present
it to the world. In 1599, he was burned at the stake as
a heretic. Menocchio is representative of a fascinating
popular history known as micro-storia, which challenges
the nature continental revisionist nature of history. Also
having points of contact with the Annales historians and
the English “history from the bottom up” where
a simple rope maker could educate himself and interact with
the higher world, it is very germane to our students at
Columbus State.
available
soon from IUniverse.com
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2 Minute samples
from the 2 CD Set:
Retrospectives of the Music of Rocco Di Pietro
1.
Prison Dirges, (Model Version B) (1995)
4.
Tears of Eros, (Torso Version B) Live Multiple (2001)
5.
Deconstructed Fountain From Ravel with Derrida Watching
(1996)
Samples and CD available from CDBaby.com
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2
CD Set: Retrospectives of the Music
of Rocco Di Pietro |
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WAVE
FUGUE WITH ELECTRONIC LOST
DEAD SLEEPING SOLDIERS
CHAMBER LOST FOR CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI
TEARS OF EROS
DECONSTRUCTED FOUNTAIN FROM RAVEL
MOBILE PHONE DREAMS B
PRISON DIRGES
Including
the...
Avant
Collective
Ensemble
SCARECROW
PRESS
PUFFIN FOUNDATION |
"Moves
beyond the usual rhythmic and formal grids...into brand
new currents."
Kyle Gann, Bang on a Can
- Village Voice
"Electrifying
in its rapid passages"
- Sueddeutsche Zeitung
"Like
a typhoon that keeps trying to blow you down."
- New York Times
"Absolutely
striking, ending in exstatic somesaults."
- Munchen Merkur
"A
true original"
- Lukas Foss
Books
by Rocco Di Pietro
The Normal Exception
Dialogues with Boulez
Musician Without Notes |
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Multiples
and The Lost Project
is now available at TowerRecords.com!
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Fanfare Reviews:
Paul Ingram
Robert Kirzinger |
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Multiples and The Lost Project is a 2 CD retrospective
of the work of Rocco Di Pietro. It represents at least
twenty years of work in the cross over between electronic,
acoustic, and improvised musics.
You can purchase Multiples and The Lost Project from CDBaby,
EMF, or by calling 1.800.289.6923.
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Rocco Di Pietro was born in Buffalo, New York in 1949. He
studied composition and piano with Hans Hagen and Lukas
Foss in Buffalo and at the Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood.
He studied in New York and Darmstadt with Bruno Maderna
and was a freelance composer for twenty years before earning
degrees from SUNY Buffalo and Vermont College.He became
an interdisciplinary adjunct professor teaching in prisons and
on many college campuses throughout New York, Ohio, and
California. He toured California prisons as artist-in-residence
and conducted four years of interviews in Chicago with Pierre
Boulez. The resulting book, DIALOGUES WITH BOULEZ, was
recently published by Scarecrow Press. He composed Prison
Dirges I for the Kronos String Quartet.
Di Pietro's music has been performed by many musicians in
venues throughout the world. These include: Christiane Edinger,
Christobal Halffter, Lukas Foss, Julius Eastman, Bruno Maderna,
Frances Marie Uitti, Yvar Mikhasoff, Jan Williams, Anthony
Miranda, Gunther Schuller, Dennis Russell Davies, the Buffalo
Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, the
Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, CETA
Orchestra, Ojai Ensemble Sonor, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra,
Columbus Wind Orchestra, Earlham String Orchestra, the Avant
Collective, and the Madd Lab Orchestra. Venues include: The
Kitchen, La Mama, Bang On A Can Festival, in New York,
Contemporary Music Society of Seoul, South Korea and American
Academy in Rome among others. Recent performances of LOST
have been featured at Dartmouth College and Stanford University.
Recently, his work has developed on several fronts. Sound
text radio works have developed simultaneously with his teaching
at Columbus State College of electronic music and other courses
in the Humanities. These works have been broadcast on radio
stations in Seattle, Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, New York and in
Europe, in Naples, Rome, Vienna, Prague, Budapest etc.
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Essay
on The Lost Project
LOST
for Christian Boltanski is an ongoing project which
consists of a series of works based on the musical monograms
of lost children. These missing children from the “Have
you seen us?” cards come in the mail from the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 1-800-the lost.
Using
the classic technique developed by Bach, various ensembles
from trios to small orchestras and choruses perform the
child’s name as it is transcribed on the card. The
cards that come in the mail become the “parts.”
The work unfolds by means of a structured and guided improvisation
with the notes as written. The results vary widely from
the different LOST 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
The
work has grown out of my concerns as a social composer
who moonlights as a social worker. As such, it is an attempt
to make connections between art and life. As a community
outreach piece, many of the decisions about which children’s
names to play, and in what order depend on the technical
capabilities of the ensembles at hand – a community
part-book is built up rehearsal to rehearsal under the
guidance of the composer. In this sense, the homage to
visual artist Boltanski is apt, since the work is such
that “everyone can do my work for me, once I give
the rules,” to quote Boltanski.
With
that said, it is important to note that the final score
is constructed last, after the groups involved have made
their decisions with their conductors and performed the
work from the part-books. This is the opposite of a traditional
score where a composer composes a score before he or she
has heard it played. In the case of LOST, the final
score the jury is looking at consists of a snapshot of
the work. When the work is performed again (ideally) the
community decisions will be different and new part-books
are constructed with new children and different ensembles;
for example, the work has been performed in the street
on street corners as well as in churches and concert venues.
It is important to remember the guided improvised aspect
and above all of the tempo e rubato concept that is found
throughout the score. Nonetheless, it is also possible
to perform LOST from the snapshot of the work score
one is looking at, thus taking the work off the street
and out of the community and into the museum – which,
after all, is still useful.
The Mobile Phone Dreams with LOST is a work
for piano, mobile phones and small ensemble. It shows
how the lost children concept is invading all my work
at the moment. The piece is a dream about a central concept
that has three ideas:
1)
The globalization of the nineties;
2) The mobilization after 2000; and
3) The nomadism of the future as represented by the revolution
of the mobile phone all over the planet.
In my dream, mobile phones ring inside the piano. What comes
out of the phones are the souls of lost children. The work
is a series of panels moving back and forth from dream-piano
to improvised child monograms (circles with ensemble). This
work also contains improvisation, tempo rubato and proportional
notation and as such has slightly different notational outcomes.
It is important to read the score with this mind.
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Later
Solos With Electric Shadows From Lost 5
Paragone |
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Multiples
and The Lost Project is a 2 CD retrospective of the work
of Rocco Di Pietro. It represents at least twenty years
of work in the cross over between electronic, acoustic,
and improvised musics. |
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The
Lost Project
AVANT
LOST
Mobile
Phone Dreams with LOST
With
The Avant Collective Ensemble |
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Tears
Of Eros (Torso Version ©2000): Text by Georges Bataille
and Sam Mangwana. Recited by Rocco DI Pietro and Barbara
Adams.
Custom
Cd with original art work from the composer
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Anoxia
(©1999):
Air
Pipe, moog sonic V synthesizer, pitch pipe, and piano. Performed
by Rocco Di Pietro and Julius Eastman.
Air
Piece (©1973)
Custom
CD with original art work from the composer |
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The
Glass Case of the Heart's Fragility (1999):
Clocks,
pitch pipe, mandolin with triangle beater, piano and piano
strings. Performed by Rocco Di Pietro and Julius Eastman.
Clockscape
(©1973)
Custom
Cd with original art work from the composer |
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Ipseity
(©1999)
Text read by Rocco Di Pietro
With 3 handbells, computer-processed 'screams', & electric
Organ
Juli
Douglass- Soprano
Custom
Cd with original art work from the composer |
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Solos / Plus
1.
Melodia della terra ( violin )
2. Melodia Nera ( Timpanni )
3. Melodia Arcana ( Percussion )
4. Serenata For Lukas ( Piano )
5. Atmospheric Boundaries I
6. Atmospheric Boundaries II
7. Atmospheric Boundaries III
8. Atmospheric Boundaries IV
9. Melodia ( Cello ) |
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The
World Of Rocco Di Pietro, VOL. 1
Erotic
Triolgy
1)The
Glass Case of the Heart's Fragility
2)Tears
of Eros
3)Anoxia |
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Simulations
(Homage to Baudrillard)
For Roland keyboard, trombone, guitar, viola and 'photo-real'
magnetic tape
Performed
by Rocco Di Pietro , Lon Gormley, and David Malia
1.
White Man's Foot ( Two Faust/Multiples )
2. Fool's Run ( Two Faust/Multiples )
3. Paragone ( for Guitar )
4. Failed Star
5. Baudrillard's Room ( Melodia ) Trombone
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Three
Compositions ( How do we keep what happens to us from becoming
an anecdote? )
Self
Portrait From The South ; Three Black American Folk Songs
; Three Popular Songs
1.
Self Portrait From The South
2. Prayer (Three Black American Folk Songs)
3. Scherzo (Three Black american Folk Songs)
4. Dirge (Three Black american Folk Songs)
5. Pin Ball-Disco (Three Popular Songs)
6. Plum Tree Blues (Three popular Songs)
7. Tango-Muse (Three Popular songs) |
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Aria
For Piano (1978): Performed live in Darmstadt , Germany
by Rocco DI Pietro.
30 Links From The Slaughterhouse Of Love (1995): Performed
live on Roland keyboard in San Francisco.
Humor
Is A Cold Carnival (1994): Text by Umberto Eco recited by
Russell Link.
1.
Aria For Piano
2. 30 Links From The Slaughterhouse Of Love
3. Humor Is A Cold Carnival
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