Sonic dialogue 5 'Amplified Speaking Spaces' consists mainly of compositions based on graphic scores that leave ample room for improvisation and short impromptu improvisations (the 'micro sequences' series).

The concept for the entire work came about by chance this summer while I was on holiday in Barcelona visiting the beautiful MACBA museum of contemporary art. In a sunny city crowded with tourists, the museum appeared sparsely populated and only animated on the outside by a few kids using the entrance ramps as skateboard tracks. Inside, the impression of few visitors became a certainty: there were about ten of us at most. Here, within the vast halls, there was a series of installations featuring recorded voices that, cyclically, filled the silences of those spaces accustomed to beauty. As I walked slowly through the various exhibition rooms, I almost had the feeling that a dialogue was taking place between those voices, a continuous counterpoint that, in the solitude of those rooms, suddenly seemed to address me directly.

All this led me to a reflection I had already made in the past but which became concrete there: Art always communicates. It is perhaps we who are no longer able to listen to it or discover it.

About the artists:

ROSARIO DI ROSA:
Sicilian musician and composer, characterised by a vocation for research and contamination between multiple musical worlds, both acoustic and electronic. He was selected among 50 young pianists from all over the world to participate in the 'Martial Solal International Jazz Piano Competition' in Paris. He has released several records under his own name, obtaining excellent awards such as the JAZZIT AWARD 2010, 2012, 2015 and JAZZIT's TOP TEN READING POLL. He has been repeatedly reported as "Best New Talent" and "Best Musician of the Year" and in 2015 the Rosario Di Rosa Trio was ranked 2nd among the best ensembles of the year in Musica Jazz magazine's TOP JAZZ. His electroacoustic publications have been listed among the best of the year by the authoritative critic Ettore Garzia. He has collaborated with, among others, Paul Jeffrey, Woody Shaw Jr, Pietro Tonolo, Alberto N.A. Turra, Sarah Stride, Davide Bussoleni, Sorelle Marinetti, Stefano D’Anna, Attilio Zanchi, Giovanni Falzone, Jimmy Weinstein, Panagiotis Andreou, Ferdinando Faraò, Francesco Cafiso, Cristiano Calcagnile, Thomas Grimmonprez, Jean-Philippe Morel, ecc.

STEFANO MALTESE
Composer and arranger, he began his concert activity in 1974. At the same time, on his own instruments, he developed a personal and highly expressive language. Several times voted in the "Top Jazz" referendum in the categories "Musician of the Year" (1998, 1999, 2001, 2003), "Formation of the Year" and "Record of the Year". He played with Marilyn Crispell, Marcio Mattos, Claude Deppa, Paul Rogers, Sophia Domancich, Arkady Shilkloper, Steve Noble, Antonello Salis, Evan Parker, Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts, Louis Sclavis, Gianluigi Trovesi, John Law, Sergej Kuryokhin, Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky, Barre Phillips, Tobias Delius, Michael Moore, Han Bennink, John Tchicai, and many others.

CARLO CATTANO
He studied flute, saxophone and jazz at the 'Corelli' Conservatory in Messina. He also attended courses with the masters: Tony Oxley, Giorgio Gaslini, Paolo Fresu, Keith Tippett, Marica Rizzo, Phil Woods, Gianluigi Trovesi, Sebastian Korn, Vincenzo Tumminello, George Roberts, Cinzia Gizzi. He played first alto sax in the City Brass Orkestra and in the Mediterranean Jazz Orchestra of Catania. He has performed at the most important Italian and foreign jazz festivals and festivals alongside top level performers (K. Tippett, Phil Woods, J. Tchicai, M. Schneider, F. Ferguson, Bob Mintzer, P. Tonolo, P. Fresu, G. Gruntz, H. Cook, R. Bentivoglio, A. Salis, J. Hendricks, etc.)