The School of Music and Dance (SDSU) and the Center for World Music proudly present, "Music?ntica" an evening of traditional and modern music from Mediterranean Italy
Music?ntica focuses mainly on the music from Southern Italy?s oral tradition while simultaneously reaching for a more contemporary musical style best described as Mediterranean World Music. Oral tradition refers to music, poetry, and ritual passed on from generation to generation by untrained musicians, in this case belonging to lesser known segments of Italian society, such as peasants, fishermen, or street vendors. Music?ntica finds a remarkable freshness in traditional music and believes in its contemporary continuation despite attempts by Italian artists to confine it to frozen tradition or misuse it in popular music renditions. Music?ntica believes continuity is possible because each musical process in time is historical, part of a continuous discourse between current innovation and past sedimentation. Music?ntica?s repertoire includes, therefore, both traditional and original compositions. Several of the instruments used by Music?ntica are native Italian. These include the tamburieddhru, a frame drum used for the pizzica tarantata dance; the putip?, a friction drum; the chitarra battente, a 10-string guitar from the Renaissance era; percussion such as castanets, animal jingle collars, sheep copper bells; the benas, a single and double Sardinian reed clarinet, and the marranzanu, or mouth harp. Other instruments used include classical guitars, the mandolin, the mandola, the Greek bouzouki, the Arab oud, the harmonica, the fina (a lamellaphone created by Enzo Fina), and several other homemade instruments.
Music?ntica performers:
Roberto Catalano - guitar, chitarra battente, mandocello, mandolin, bouzouki, oud, jaw's harp, benas, putip?, frame drum, percussion, vocals
Enzo Fina - frame drums, fina, guitar, mandolin, percussion, putip?, jaw's harp, harmonica, flutes, vocals.
Chris Garcia - kanjira, percussion
Roberto Catalano was born in Catania, Sicily, where he began his music career as a self-taught guitarist in 1973. He is a scholar, a teacher, a composer, and a multi-instrumentalist. He holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from UCLA and his main interests include Mediterranean music cultures with specific attention to the socio-cultural interaction in music between southern Italy, North Africa and the Near East. As a guitarist, he has performed in Europe and North America and has played with artists such as jazz guitarist John Scofield. As an arranger, he has written scores in several contemporary styles, among these a Sardinian piece arranged for the Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet. Catalano is a collector and maker of musical instruments, his collection amounting to about 170 instruments from all over the world.
Enzo Fina was born in Salice Salentino, Lecce, Italy. He holds a M.A. degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce. Long fascinated with the acoustic nature of sound, Fina employs an interdisciplinary approach to art and extended his studies on the acoustic properties of sound by creating his own musical instruments. Fina has worked with diverse music and theater ensembles ranging from traditional music research to film scoring; from street theater to puppet shows to anthropological theater in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Morocco, Canada and the United States. Currently, he works as art and music therapist for troubled adolescents in Los Angeles.
Chris Garcia is a Los Angeles native whose approach to percussion is truly global. His background includes performances in a wide variety of genres throughout Europe and the Americas. Garcia is an expert in a variety of traditional and modern drumming styles and in a broad range of instruments, such as the tabla, kanjira, and ghatam from India. Garcia?s drumming is unusual in that it incorporates not only the standard rhythms and their permutations, but also fluency with odd time signatures and sonic textures, which he seamlessly incorporates into his playing.
Admission: General $15, Students/Seniors $12
Location:
Smith Recital Hall, SDSU
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182
Monday, October 11 - 6:00 PM
For more information, please call: (619) 594-1017 or visit: www.centerforworldmusic.org
Music?ntica focuses mainly on the music from Southern Italy?s oral tradition while simultaneously reaching for a more contemporary musical style best described as Mediterranean World Music. Oral tradition refers to music, poetry, and ritual passed on from generation to generation by untrained musicians, in this case belonging to lesser known segments of Italian society, such as peasants, fishermen, or street vendors. Music?ntica finds a remarkable freshness in traditional music and believes in its contemporary continuation despite attempts by Italian artists to confine it to frozen tradition or misuse it in popular music renditions. Music?ntica believes continuity is possible because each musical process in time is historical, part of a continuous discourse between current innovation and past sedimentation. Music?ntica?s repertoire includes, therefore, both traditional and original compositions. Several of the instruments used by Music?ntica are native Italian. These include the tamburieddhru, a frame drum used for the pizzica tarantata dance; the putip?, a friction drum; the chitarra battente, a 10-string guitar from the Renaissance era; percussion such as castanets, animal jingle collars, sheep copper bells; the benas, a single and double Sardinian reed clarinet, and the marranzanu, or mouth harp. Other instruments used include classical guitars, the mandolin, the mandola, the Greek bouzouki, the Arab oud, the harmonica, the fina (a lamellaphone created by Enzo Fina), and several other homemade instruments.
Music?ntica performers:
Roberto Catalano - guitar, chitarra battente, mandocello, mandolin, bouzouki, oud, jaw's harp, benas, putip?, frame drum, percussion, vocals
Enzo Fina - frame drums, fina, guitar, mandolin, percussion, putip?, jaw's harp, harmonica, flutes, vocals.
Chris Garcia - kanjira, percussion
Roberto Catalano was born in Catania, Sicily, where he began his music career as a self-taught guitarist in 1973. He is a scholar, a teacher, a composer, and a multi-instrumentalist. He holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from UCLA and his main interests include Mediterranean music cultures with specific attention to the socio-cultural interaction in music between southern Italy, North Africa and the Near East. As a guitarist, he has performed in Europe and North America and has played with artists such as jazz guitarist John Scofield. As an arranger, he has written scores in several contemporary styles, among these a Sardinian piece arranged for the Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet. Catalano is a collector and maker of musical instruments, his collection amounting to about 170 instruments from all over the world.
Enzo Fina was born in Salice Salentino, Lecce, Italy. He holds a M.A. degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce. Long fascinated with the acoustic nature of sound, Fina employs an interdisciplinary approach to art and extended his studies on the acoustic properties of sound by creating his own musical instruments. Fina has worked with diverse music and theater ensembles ranging from traditional music research to film scoring; from street theater to puppet shows to anthropological theater in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Morocco, Canada and the United States. Currently, he works as art and music therapist for troubled adolescents in Los Angeles.
Chris Garcia is a Los Angeles native whose approach to percussion is truly global. His background includes performances in a wide variety of genres throughout Europe and the Americas. Garcia is an expert in a variety of traditional and modern drumming styles and in a broad range of instruments, such as the tabla, kanjira, and ghatam from India. Garcia?s drumming is unusual in that it incorporates not only the standard rhythms and their permutations, but also fluency with odd time signatures and sonic textures, which he seamlessly incorporates into his playing.
Admission: General $15, Students/Seniors $12
Location:
Smith Recital Hall, SDSU
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182
Monday, October 11 - 6:00 PM
For more information, please call: (619) 594-1017 or visit: www.centerforworldmusic.org
