Out of standard 11

2023 

Music compilation by ADN records

" Gravel " is the music  soundtrack for NFT : " Silicon-Carbon based Life : Embryonic "

Roberto Musci : E.guitar,Percussion,Voice,Vcs3,Buchla.

" Voices in the shadow " 

Roberto Musci : 50 voices treated in granular synthesis with Borderlands and Stria software

Japanese released 

Music from memory 

Japan double CD

2018 

Japanese released compilation of MFM's finest moments according to compiler Chee Shimizu on double cd.

Features a live recording of an exclusive Music From Memory DJ mix from the man himself.

Messages & Portraits

Low Company ( UK )  

2018

"Digitally re-masterering of "Water messages on desert sands" (Grammy nominated 1987) and "Urban and tribal portraits". With: 

Giovanni Venosta  : piano , synth , 

Roberto Musci : guitar , synth , sampler, steel guitar , gopi yantra

Marco Vecchi : sampler

Valentino De Santi  : sampler

Tiziano Tononi : percussion

Daniele Cavallanti : sax

Sandro Cerino : sax , flute , clarinet

Paolino Dalla Porta : double bass

Andrea Petrus : french horn

Franchino Gabualdi : oboe

Music from all over the world ( Africa , Asia and Middle East ) sampled and played with " real" musical instruments , decontextualized to create a music near to " concrete music" in Plunderphonics style

" Urban and tribal portraits " was choreographed from 1990-1992 by Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers/Louise Reichlin & Dancers ( The Urban and Tribal Dances )

Mosaic : a tribute to Third ear band

Gonzo Multimedia Records (U.K.) 

2016

The lure to recreate that old music atmospheres for letting them live is still great in me. Basically the project was inspired by John Oswald's work who coined the expression "Plunderphonics" ( Plunderphonics : taking one or more existing audio recordings and altering them in some way to make a new composition ). 

The idea was to record a tribute to the Third Ear Band just using their original music for recreating that musical poetic and the sensations they gave to me, playing the right instruments and looking for that pictures linked to their specific iconography (ancient Egypt, Alchemy, Druids... )

Vampyr & other stories

Recommended Records ( UK & Italy ) 

2015

The first & last song by Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta (...for now) and a live concert with Chris Cutler. 

Roberto Musci : sampler , percussion , flute

Giovanni Venosta : piano , synth , monochord

Chris Cutler : drum s , percussion

Vampyr, one of the first horror movies with sound, is the work of the highly influential danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. 

The soundtrack was recording at the " Palazzina Liberty" Milan, in 1998. 

Vampyr is not a silent movie but there is very little dialogue, so we sampled the spoken parts, transforming them into sounds to use in building our accompaniment. 

In an interview in 1935, Dreyer said that the advent of sound in the cinema came 'too soon' and, for this reason, we chose to transform the movie's sparse dialogue using live electronic processing into musical elements of our score, as if Vampyr were, indeed, still a silent movie.

Various‎ – Italia Forza

     Not on lable– U.S.A 

2014

U.S.A. released compilation of Italian musicians

Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta : 

" Nexus On The Beach "

Maps and diagrams

when the rain comes

Leaves ( Lithuania ) 

2012

Leaves is a small netlabel from Lithuania which consist of artists from many places on this earth, our ways crossed on purpose.  

They believe in diversity and the strength of art and we work towards crossing borders and connecting people. 

It's a collection of sounds on vinyl, cassette and digital recordings dating back to the 1960's with music from the electronic pioneers of that era with a couple of newer sounds that encapsulate the nostalgia of early electronic and psychedelic music.

" Claudia Willem R and me "

ReR Disk Red

Rer U.S.A. 

2007 -2008

Electronic, Jazz, Rock , Classical, Noise, Post-Modern, Abstract, Art Rock, Free Improvisation, Experimental

A compiltion with :

Faust 

Sun Ra 

Fred Frith 

Art Bears 

Roberto Musci &  Giovanni Venosta 

" When A Dolphin Saves A Baby "

Art bears revisited and the art box 

 Recommended ( U.K. ) 

2003

The world as it hopes in winter

Remixes , reworking & new ways of listening Art Bears With : 

Jon Rose ,

Otomo Yoshide  

Chris Cutler

The Residents

Fred Frith

Christian Marclay

Bob Drake

Roberto Musci  & Giovanni Venosta and Massimo Mariani

This project was six years in the making. It was originally planned for our 21st anniversary (that's a coming of age number here in the UK) but the pieces and their authors had to take the time they needed and meanwhile the number of invitees relentlessly expanded. 

The planned CD is now a double, and I'm happy about that. ( Also in a 6 - cds set whith original albums) . 

" While I expected the inventiveness and the consequentiality  (I knew who I was asking), the sheer range of approaches has been a constant pleasure as the pieces slowly trickled in, especially knowing the constraints determined by the material available to work with."  Chris Cuttler

The day after the end of world party

Auditorium 

2003 - 2004

Live recording  at "Dangerous Corrents" an Art festival in Vancouver BC-Canada 2003.

Massimo Mariani : guitar, vocals , 

Roberto Musci : sampler, theremin, electronics and videos 

Steve Duncan : spoken words. 

A Live electronics & poems performance.

Claudio Gabbiani Nightnursing

Auditorium records (It)

2000

The live and studio recordings of Italian guitarist Claudio Gabbiani .

With: 

Chris Cutler : drums 

Jon Rose : violin 

Roberto Zorzi : guitar 

Giorgio Magnanensi: guitar 

Kees Boeke : flute , viola

Silvia Mandolini : violin 

Roberto Musci : sampler

Claudio Gabbiani : guitar

Steel water light

Recommended records (U.K.) 

1999

The soundtrack was  live recording at  " Palazzina Liberty"    , Milan 1999 

With : 

Chris Cutler : drums , percussion

Jon Rose : violin

Claudio Gabbiani : guitar

Roberto Musci : sampler , percussion

The recording of live soundtracks of silent movies

 " Regen " directed by Joris Ivens

" The bridge " directed by Joris Ivens

" Manhatta" directed by C.Sheeler & P.Strand . 

The soundtrack was recording at the " Palazzina Liberty"    Milan 1999.

Unintentional beauty 

 Lowlands ( Belgium ) 

1997

Visna Mahedi Ensamble : the recording of the the live soundtrack of silent movie "Der Golem,wie er in die Welt kam " 1920 , at "Time Zones music festival" Bari , Italy  with: 

Claudio Gabbiani : guitar

Giorgio Magnanensi : guitar

Roberto Zanisi : percussion

Silvia Mandolini : violin

Marco Ruggeri : voice

Roberto Musci : guitar , sampler

The Golem: How He Came into the World " is a 1920 silent horror film co-directed by and starring Paul Wegener. 

The picture was directed by Carl Boese and Wegener, written by Wegener and Henrik Galeen, and stars Wegener as the golem. 

The cinematography of Karl Freund, in collaboration with Poelzig and Wegener, is cited as one of the most outstanding examples of German Expressionism.

Massimo Cavallaro

Giu' al nord

Auditorium records ( It ) 

1997 

I played with Massimo Cavallaro  for the recording of the cd " Giu' al Nord ", soundtrack of Antonio Albanese  shows .

Music on cd by Massimo Cavallaro for italian comic actor's shows : "Giu' al nord " and "Uomo".

With : 

Antomio Albanese : voice

Massimo Cavallaro : sax , sampler , voice

Diego Baiardi : piano

Riccardo Fioravanti : bass

Piero Guerrera : drums

Massimo Mariani  : guitar , clarinet

Luigi Maione :  guitar

Diego Ruvidotti : trumpet

Maurizio Deho : violin

Piero Marrazza : accordion

Carlo Fava : voice

Roberto Musci : sampler

Debris of a loa

Lowlands ( Belgium ) 

1997

" Debris of a loa " is the digitally re-masterering of LP " The loa of music " ( Raw Materials Records ,1983) plus " Umi - the sea " .

" Umi - the sea " , played and composed with italian guitarist Claudio Gabbiani, is a project for computer generated human voice , guitars and samplers inspirede to Ukiyo-e : " pictures of the floating world " )

It is a genre of paintings that flourished in Japan from the 17th through 19th centuries ; it describes beautiful women ( Utamaru paintings ), kabuki actors , sumo wrestlers , scenes from history and folk tales , travel scenes , landscapes , flora , fauna and erotic art .

Loosing the orthodox path

                 Le disque Victò ( Canada ) 

1997

The recordings of two projects : middle age music revisited with electronics and the soundtrack for " Principle of moment " ( Berlin) a dance project by Dieter Heitkamp about the art of Yves Klein . 

With: 

Giovanni Venosta  : piano

Massimo Mariani  : guitar

Roberto Musci : sampler , guitar , percussion

Sandro Cerino  : sax , clarinet

Silvia Mandolini  : violin

Moni Ovadia : voice

Roberto Zanisi : percusion

Ciaccio De Rossi :cello

Cesare Picco : trumpet

Liliana Bancolini : vooice

Laura Pone  : voice

Amelie Berson : voice , flute

Didier Aschour : voice

Quan go world voices

Island records " (U. K.) 

1996

" Woman in late" with Giovanni Venosta.

A compilation by Tom Schnabel with : 

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ,

Natacha Atlas 

Uman 

Milton Nascimento 

Ana Belen 

Mercedes Sosa 

Le Nouvelles Polyphonie Corses 

Selif Keita 

Vox

Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta

A noise , a sound

Recommended Records ( U.K. ) 

1992

The second CD for ReR with Giovanni Venosta and :

 Marco Vecchi : sampler

Sandro Cerino : sax , flute , calarinet

Roberto Zanisi  : percussion , steel drums , harmonica , bouzuki , guitar

Luciano Margorani  : guitar

Saverio Angiolini : bass

David Moss : voice

Momi D'Averi : cello

Ciaccio De Rossi : violin

Olivia Bignardi : clarinet

Giovanni Venosta : piano , harmonium , percussion

Roberto Musci : guitar , sampler , percussion , kalimba

Music from all over the world ( Africa , Asia and Middle East ) sampled and played with " real" musical instruments , decontextualized to create a music near to " concrete music" in Plunderphonics style. 

Beautiful cover taken from a work by the painter, sculptor and model Paola Fonticoli

Messages & portraits

Recommended Records ( UK ) 

1990

"Digitally re-masterering of "Water messages on desert sands" (Grammy nominated 1987) and "Urban and tribal portraits" , with: 

Giovanni Venosta  : piano , synth , 

Roberto Musci : guitar , synth , sampler, steel guitar , gopi yantra

Marco Vecchi : sampler

Valentino De Santi  : sampler

Tiziano Tononi : percussion

Daniele Cavallanti : sax

Sandro Cerino : sax , flute , clarinet

Paolino Dalla Porta : double bass

Andrea Petrus : french horn

Franchino Gabualdi : oboe

Music from all over the world ( Africa , Asia and Middle East ) sampled and played with " real" musical instruments , decontextualized to create a music near to " concrete music" in Plunderphonics style

" Urban and tribal portraits " was choreographed from 1990-1992 by Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers/Louise Reichlin & Dancers ( The Urban and Tribal Dances )