Celestial Music For The Soul
July 08, 2024 by Stefano Palleni
I was recently invited by RRI2, Radio Republik Indonesia, to present a book that I have been working on for about a year soon to be released. I would like to report here an excerpt from the broadcast which briefly shed some light on the work, its contents and purposes. Continue to read
April 01, 2024 by Stefano Palleni
After a longest three years gestation, what emerged is a mini-suite as an attempt of describing the sensations associated with the arrival of the monsoon, which repeats itself on the Asian continent since time immemorial, bringing along fertility and life. Continue to read
Jan 25, 2024 by Stefano Palleni
Once the sonic universe is opened up and we have acquired control of its elements, it’s possible to focus on the expressive and onomatopoeic qualities of music. Then other dynamic forces and energies that run through all aspects of life come into play. The accomplished artist is capable of harnessing and channeling these forces into music so that it’s endowed with vital force. Continue to read
Nov 19, 2023 by Stefano Palleni
The formalization of music in the form of structures known as scales or modes began much earlier than the medieval period and was at the hand of the Greeks. Although almost the entire corpus of Greek music is lost, the theoretical system has come down to us with the works of Plutarch and some other philosophers. In the classical era it was common breaking scales into two smaller groupings of four notes called tetrachords, each one enclosed the space of a fifth and containing an interval of a semitone. Continue
June 30, 2023 by Stefano Palleni
After a long time since the release of Raga Vela, my latest recording in the series Contemporary Raga, I decided to work at a studio version of the first Raga Udaya, which I earlier pictured at Goa Cina beach in Balikambang at the time of my research in music therapy at University of Malang. Continue to read
TEO CIAVARELLA / PLAISIR D’AMOUR
July 21, 2023 by Stefano Palleni
A concert for solo piano entitled "Jazz, Plaisir d'Amour" by Maestro Teo Ciavarella was held lately at Martini Conservatory in Bologna. This beautiful performance is set in a program dedicated to the Institute's teachers and it’s a worthy accolade for the career of a musician endowed with great human skills. Continue to read
I may say the original idea was there from the beginning. It was somehow lost along the way due to a few major causes, such as the late conservatory studies and professional activity, that dried up the music rather than nourishing it, then it all came back round trip. There was a moment when I thought it would have never returned, that the desire and the passion were forever gone. Continue to read
