Tra Ealileo e il Futurismo

Galilei-Leonard, Double Remix (2009)
for saxophone and live electronics
Composed by Neil Leonard
World Premiere

Galilei-Leonard, Double Remix revisits material from two pieces that I composed using the computer as a key resource. The first composition is entitled Partita Tripla con Galilei (2009). While working on this piece I created a library of sounds based on a recording of Vincenzo Galilei's madrigal In Exitu Israel. Individual processed notes from In Exitu Israel are used in the first part of Double Remix to invoke celestial/angelic voices.

The second source is a composition named M87 (1995) from my debut solo CD Timaeus. M87 is named after a giant elliptical galaxy photographed by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope. M87 is believed by some to be a supermassive black hole. The Hubble photos shows a 5000 light-year long jet stream made up of electrons being ejected outward at near light-speed.

Partita Tripla con Galilei was composed in collaboration with Padova based composers Maura Capuzzo, Marco Braggion and coordinated by Nicola Bernardini for the Giornata dell' Ascolto, Padova, 2009. In Exitu Israel was sung by Alessandro Carmignani and used with his kind permission. Parts of the remix of M87 were created with Gadi Sassoon (aka Memory 9) in London, 2008.

Mil Manera para Decir Adios with The Simple Company

Mil Manera para Decir Adios for computer generated sound, guitar and dancers
November 2007, Padova, Teatro delle Maddalene with The Simple Company and Interensemble

Music: Neil Leonard (music copyright Neil Leonard 2007)
Choreography: Elena Borgatti
Dancers: Hoda el Deib, Tiziana Maiuro, Veronica Pasqualotto
Guitar: Marco Pavin

Neil Leonard performs Tre Fiati with The Simple Company

Tre Fiati for computer generated sound, soprano saxophone and dancers
November 2007, Padova, Teatro delle Maddalene with The Simple Company and Interensemble

Music: Neil Leonard (music copyright Neil Leonard 2007)
Choreography: Elena Borgatti
Soprano saxohone: Neil Leonard
Dancers: Claudia Baldan, Giulia Colombo

Concert with Choreographer Elena Borgatti

10 novembre 2007
Padova, Teatro delle Maddalene
ore 21.00

Mil maneras para decir adiós (prima assoluta)
Marco Pavin, chittara

Tre Fiati (prima assoluta)
Neil Leonard, saxophone/live electronics

Coreografia di Elena Borgatti
Musica di Neil Leonard

Dancers: Claudia Baldan, Giulia Colombo, Hoda el Deib, Tiziana Maiuro, Veronica Pasqualotto.
www.cmp.unipd.it/danza/




Mil maneras para decir adiós
Dancers: Hoda el Deib, Tiziana Maiuro, Veronica Pasqualotto






Tre Fiati
Dancers: Claudia Baldan, Giulia Colombo

Italia nuovamente ...

I will give a workshop at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica 'A. Steffani' di Castelfranco Veneto, Italy



I will present three works in concert at the conservatory, including the world premier of a wind quintet dedicated to Paul Robeson entitled "4951 Walnut". This piece is a larger arrangement of a work for jazz quartet that was commissioned by the Paul Robeson House and Philigraphika.



The following day I present works for dancers/saxophone/electronics and dancers/acoustic guitar/electronics at Teatro Maddalena in Padova. The hosting group is Interensemble, directed by Bernardino Beggio.



The program features new works by choreographer Elena Borgatti.

Sacred Bath from CD Timaes was choreographed by the Simple Company

The Simple Company performing Sacred Bath, Computer art Festival 2007, Teatro delle Maddalene, Padova, 5 febbraio 2007. Foto di Paolo Colombo e Gianluca Paradisi (per gentile concessione).


Sacred Bath from my CD Timaes was choreographed by The Simple Company and presented by Elena Borgatti in the Giornata dell'Ascolto, Padova.

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GIORNATA DELL'ASCOLTO, PADOVA
LA DANZA CONTEMPORANEA
Palazzo Zuckermann Corso Garibaldi 33, ore 20.30 - 21.30

Il rinnovato PalazzoZuckermann, costruito tra il 1912 e il 1914 su incarico di Enrico Zuckermann, ospita lo spettacolo della compagnia di danza contemporanea The Simple Company del Concentus Musicus Patavinus (Università di Padova). Lo spettacolo all’aperto, dal titolo EGOS, è un continuo gioco di innesti tra la musica di Shostakovich, Milhaud, Beethoven, con Jeremy Barnes, Cécile Schott, Oliver Alden, Neil Leonard, i giochi di luce, le strutture suggestive del teatro all’aperto che intersecano i movimenti della danza.





LINKS:
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Info on the Simple Company

Upcoming Events in Italy

Date: July 12
City: Padova, Italy
Venue: Rubano Art Festival
Event: Performance with Giuliano Perin Ensemble

Date: July 7
City: Padova, Italy
Venue: Notte Bianca, Tindaci
Event: Performance with Giuliano Perin Ensemble
Address: via Dante 17
Contact: spaziotindaci@tindaci.com

Date: July 6
City: Padova, Italy
Venue: Caffè Pedrocchi
Event: Un Anno di Jazz a Padova” voluta da Centro Porsche Padova e Caffè Pedrocchi
Giuliano Perin "Passion and Reason" CD release concert with Leonard (sax), Perin (vibes), Marcello Tonolo (piano), Luciano Milanese (bass), Massimo Chiarella (drums). The CD also features Dave Samuels (marimba)
Link: www.padovajazz.com

Date: July 1
City: La Spezia, Italy
Venue: Pop-eye festival
Event: Set by Neil Leonard and Anthony Baldino, Jess Hewitt, Pierce Warnecke (Students of the Music Synthesis Department, Berklee College of Music)

Date: June 30
City: Ameglia - La Spezia, Italy
Venue: La Marrana id Montemarcello
Event: Sound performance and installation

Date: June 29
Time: , 5:00 PM
City: La Spezia, Italy
Venue: Palazzina delle Arti
Event: Sound performance
Set by Neil Leonard and Anthony Baldino, Jess Hewitt, Pierce Warnecke (Students of the Music Synthesis Department, Berklee College of Music)

Date: June 28
City: Siena, Italy
Venue: Cattedrale di San Galgano
Event: Sguardi Sonori Festival of Media and Time Based Art
Sound Installation by Gary Chang and Neil Leonard

Date: June 26-27
City: Isola di San Servolo, Venezia, Italy
Venue: Chiesa di Santo Spirito
Event: Sguardi Sonori Festival of Media and Time Based Art
Concert works by Neil Leonard, Pamela Z, Phil Niblock & Katherine Liberovskaya, Pamela Z, Neil Leonard , Amnon Wolman, John Duncan, Steve Piccolo & Gak Sato, Duprass (Ido Govrin & Liora Bedford), Cardiotest with Fathi Hassan, Alessandro Pintus e Morena Tamborrino, Mauro Sambo & Ignazio Lago, Patrizia Mattioli
Sound Installation by Gary Chang, Chiesa di San Servolo

Date: June 21
City: Benevento, Italy
Venue: Piazza Santa Sofia
Event: Sguardi Sonori Festival of Media and Time Based Art
Concert works by Neil Leonard and Anthony Baldino, Jess Hewitt, Pierce Warnecke (Students of the Music Synthesis Department, Berklee College of Music)
Sound Installation by Gary Chang, Chiesa di Santo Spirito, 5:00 PM

Date: June 20
City: Rome, Italy
Venue: Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Teatro Studio, Roma
Event: Sguardi Sonori Festival of Media and Time Based Art
Concert works by Neil Leonard, Olivia Block, Pamela Z,
Steve Piccolo & Gak Sato
Sound Installation "Sanctuaries" by Gary Chang

Date: May 27
City: Padova
Venue: Giornata dell'Ascolto
Event: Music for dance performance with The Simple Company organized by the University of Padova