Stefano Scodanibbio
Stefano Scodanibbio ( born June 18, 1956 in Macerata, † January 8, 2012 in Cuernavaca ) was an Italian double bass player and composer.
Life
Scodanibbio, born 1956 in Mascerata, was considered one of the greatest bass players of our time. Newly developed techniques he expanded the possibilities of the instrument in a not previously considered possible extent. John Cage described him as the most extraordinary double bass player he had ever heard. Composers such as Sylvano Bussotti, Salvatore Sciarrino, Donatoni, Julio Estrada, Brian Ferneyhough, Fred Frith, Vinko Globokar and Iannis Xenakis have written works for him.
He worked long together with the composer Luigi Nono and Giacinto Scelsi and performed regularly in a duo with Rohan de Saram, with Terry Riley and Markus Stockhausen. Much attention has also his appearances with the experimental poet Edoardo Sanguineti.
In 1983 he founded in his native di Nuova Musica the Rassegna, a Festival of Contemporary Music, which he headed since then. Since 1996 he has taught double bass at the Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt. Scodanibbio composed works for solo double bass (including Be studi ) and other string instruments in various combinations, several string quartets, pieces for guitar, ballet, music for a radio play, Alfabeto apocalittico for reciter and double bass, and finally the music theater piece Il cielo sulla terra for two dancers, fifteen children, ten musicians, electronic instruments and video.
Reception
In the Press
FonoForum 08 /11: "With almost analytical thoroughness explores the Italian double bass player and composer Stefano Scodanibbio for over 30 years, the sonic possibilities of his instrument of How an encyclopedia modern bass game comes. " Oltracuidansa "(1997 /2001), therefore, a one-hour solo without virtuoso showmanship, the fans out by tape in up to nine different individual voices. Normal tone is in this polyphonic sound continuum absolute exception, instead it can Scodanibbio in the will, " deep in the bowels of the instrument " diving, strong noise, whistle, growl and groan. One it hard to believe that there is no electronic sound alteration is at work. ... is not "
P. Korfmacher in CLASSIC today 8/98: " This CD, with its driving calm, the ever-changing mixtures of overtone cosmos in A screaming for more And if after just under 46 minutes, the CD is played, one wishes the title. of the work, where the composer and inter- pret 1979-1997 feilte over again, would come true, and that it had actually never end with this breathing force from the depths. "