ADN 40th Anniversary

40 years 40 tracks

Artist: Roberto Musci & Keith Tippett
Label:ADN records
Year: 2024
Track: “Music for Labyrinths”

This three-CD box set celebrates the 40th anniversary of ADN Records with a collection of 40 tracks and an 88-page booklet. Roberto Musci appears with an alternative version of “Music for Labyrinths,” contributing to a commemorative release that reflects the label’s long-standing commitment to experimental, independent and exploratory music.

Music for Labyrinths 

Artist: Roberto Musci , Claudio Gabbiani , Keith Tippett
Label: Dark Companion
Year: 2024
Track: “Music for Labyrinths”

A live recording of the concert Music for Labyrinths, performed on 21 October 2000 at Palazzina Liberty in Milan, Italy.

Personnel:
Keith Tippett — piano
Claudio Gabbiani — acoustic and electric guitars
Roberto Musci — sampler, percussion, theremin, VX7, didgeridoo, bass clarinet, electronics

Music for Labyrinths is an open live project conceived as a series of soundtracks for labyrinths: physical, symbolic and interior. The labyrinth is approached as an ancient archetype, a form connected to meditation, ritual and transformation. It represents a journey towards the centre and a return to the world, creating a space where sound, memory and inner movement can converge.

Out of Standard 11

Artist: Roberto Musci
Label: ADN Records
Year: 2023
Track: “Gravel” ,"Voices in the shadow"

A compilation released by ADN Records featuring two works by Roberto Musci.

“Gravel” was created as the soundtrack for the NFT artwork Silicon-Carbon Based Life: Embryonic. Instrumentation: electric guitar, percussion, voice, VCS3 and Buchla.

“Voices in the Shadow” is based on 50 voices treated through granular synthesis using Borderlands and Stria software.

Japanese Release 

Artist: Roberto Musci
Label: Music from Memory ( JP )
Year: 2018
Track: “Tamastave”, "Nexus on the beach "

A Japanese double-CD compilation curated by Chee Shimizu, presenting selected highlights from the Music From Memory catalogue. The release includes Roberto Musci’s “Tamastave” and “Nexus on the Beach”, alongside a live recording of an exclusive Music From Memory DJ mix by Shimizu..

Messages & Portraits

Artist: Roberto Musci & Giovanni venosta
Label: Recommended Records
Year: 2018

A digitally remastered edition of Water Messages on Desert Sands and Urban and Tribal Portraits. The release brings together Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta’s distinctive approach to sampling, acoustic instrumentation and electroacoustic composition.

The music draws on sound materials from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, sampled and performed with acoustic instruments, then decontextualised into a language close to concrete music and plunderphonics. Urban and Tribal Portraits was also choreographed between 1990 and 1992 by Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers / Louise Reichlin & Dancers as The Urban and Tribal Dances.

Personnel includes: Marco Vecchi, Valentino De Santi, Tiziano Tononi, Daniele Cavallanti and Sandro Cerino

Vampyr & Other Stories

Artist: Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta & Chris Cutler
Label: Recommended Records
Year: 2015

A release combining material by Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta with a live concert featuring Chris Cutler.

The project includes music connected to Vampyr, the 1932 film by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. The soundtrack was recorded at Palazzina Liberty in Milan in 1998. Although Vampyr is not a silent film, its minimal dialogue was sampled and transformed through live electronic processing, becoming part of the musical structure of the performance.

Various‎ – Italia Forza

Various Artists – Italia Forza
Format: CDr, Compilation
Country: United States
Year: 2014
Track 18: Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta – “Nexus on the Beach”

Released in the United States in 2014, Italia Forza is a compilation devoted to Italian experimental and independent musicians. Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta are represented by “Nexus on the Beach,” a composition originally included in their collaborative repertoire. The track combines electronic instrumentation, tape-based sound processing and French horn, reflecting the distinctive electroacoustic approach developed by the two composers.

Maps and Diagrams

Maps and Diagrams – When the Rain Comes
Artist featured: Roberto Musci
Label: Leaves, Lithuania
Year: 2012
Track: “Claudia, Wilhelm R and Me”

Released by the Lithuanian netlabel Leaves, When the Rain Comes brings together recordings originating from vinyl, cassette and digital sources, spanning early electronic experimentation, psychedelic atmospheres and more recent approaches to sound. The compilation reflects the label’s commitment to artistic diversity, international exchange and the crossing of geographical and cultural boundaries.

Roberto Musci is represented by “Claudia, Wilhelm R and Me”, a composition originally associated with The Loa of Music. The piece exemplifies Musci’s distinctive integration of archival and ethnographic recordings, acoustic instrumentation and electronic processing, creating an imaginary sound geography suspended between memory, ritual and experimental composition.

ReR Disk Red

Various Artists – Disk Red
Label: ReR USA / Recommended Records U.S.A.
Format: Promotional CD compilation
Country: United States
Date: approximately 2004–2008
Track: Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta – “When a Dolphin Saves a Baby”

Released by the American branch of Recommended Records, Disk Red is a promotional compilation presenting a broad selection of international experimental and avant-garde music. The collection includes artists such as Faust, Sun Ra, Fred Frith, Art Bears, Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta, bringing together electronic music, jazz, progressive and art rock, contemporary composition, noise and free improvisation. Musci and Venosta are represented by “When a Dolphin Saves a Baby,” originally released on their 1992 collaborative album A Noise, A Sound.

Ben Picks da Hits 

 Various Artists – Ben Picks da Hits
Label: Audiophile
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 1999

Released in the United Kingdom by Audiophile in 1999, Ben Picks da Hits is a compilation bringing together artists from the international experimental and independent music scenes. Its contributors include Big City Orchestra, Copernicus, David Soldier, Lagos–Venosta–Mariani, Roberto Musci, Sblluppsteypa, Slant, Steroid Maximus, Steve Fisk, The Duo Fatale Orchestra and TV Pow. The collection reflects a broad spectrum of electronic, electroacoustic, avant-garde and unconventional sound practices.

A Noise , A Sound

Artist: Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta
Label: Recommended Records
Year: 1992

The second CD by Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta for ReR, developed through a combination of sampling, acoustic performance and experimental composition.

The album works with sounds and musical materials from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, sampled and performed with acoustic instruments, then decontextualised into a language close to concrete music and plunderphonics. 

The cover artwork is taken from a work by painter, sculptor and model Paola Fonticoli.

Personnel : Marco Vecchi , Sandro Cerino , Roberto Zanisi , Luciano Margorani , Saverio Angiolini , David Moss , Momi D’Averi , Ciaccio De Rossi , Olivia Bignardi , Giovanni Venosta Roberto Musci.