NYAB Event - "Down to Earth + NY Strings" Exhibition

"Down to Earth + NY Strings" Exhibition

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Andrea Belfi was born in Verona in 1979. He is a drummer and an electro-acoustic musician. He started studying drums at the age of 14, and has featured in various punk/hardcore bands ever since. studied contemporary art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. He’s co-founder of Rosolina Mar, an instrumental rock trio with which he played over 200 gigs, as well as the backing band of the singer Larkin Grimm for her 2008 Italian tour. He’s one half of the duo Christa Pfangen, with which he released the album “Watch me getting back the end” (Die Schachtel 2008). He collaborates also with the super 8 film archives association Homemovies, in many audio/visual projects (Stillivingrooms, Circo Togni, Catherine). Since 2003 Belfi has been developing a solo liveset, where he uses his drummer’s skills along with the results of his long-time researches with electroacustic devices and synthezisers.

His solo album “Between Neck & Stomach” was released in September 2006 by the Swedish label Hapna. He has toured Europe presenting it in Stockholm, Paris, Gent, London, Geneva, Berlin and many other cities. His last solo record, “Knots”, has been released by Die Schachtel records in January2008. He played it as a live set in Turin (Artissima 2007), Chicago (Lampo), Aalst (Netwerk), Bruxelles (Klara festival 2008), Stockholm, Oslo. Andrea’s constant concern and interest, as one can clearly see from the whole of his work, is the live and performative moment, constantly treated and re-shaped in different and challenging ways. He has played and collaborated with Giuseppe Ielasi, ¾hadbeeneliminated, Damo Suzuki, Tony Conrad, Rhys Chatham, Nicola Ratti, Dean Roberts, Atelier MTK(Metamkine), Zimmerfrei, Stefano Pilia, Ignaz Schick, Å, Werner Dafeldecker, Claudio Rocchetti, Xavier Garcia Bardon (aka Saoule), Valerio Tricoli, Alessandro Bosetti, Xabier Iriondo, Mattia Coletti, Renato Rinaldi, Larkin Grimm.

Stefano Pilia was born in Genoa in 1978. He lives and works in Bologna. Electro-acoustic composer and multi-instrumentalist who has realeased various recordings with both Italian and foreign labels (LastVisibleDog, Hapna, Sedimental, Die-Schachtel, Soleilmoon..), has toured Europe and the USA, collaborating with artists as well as musicians and bands (Phill Niblock, Marina Rosenfeld, Medves, Mudboy, Black Forest Black Sea, Stefano Tedesco, Manuel Mota, David Maranha, Rhys Chatam, Saoule, Dean Roberts, Giuseppe Ielasi, Metamkine…). His work has become progressively concerned with the research of the sculputural dimensions of sound and its relations with space both through instrumental executional practices and investigations into the recording and production process. He is one of the founder members of 3/4HadBeenEliminated, a synthesis between improvisation, electro-acoustic composition and avant-rock sensibilties. He generally plays live as solo and with 3/4HadBeenEliminated, recently with Massimo Volume and frequently collaborates on the sound-tracking (both live and on CD/video) for the productions of theater, movies, dance and contemporary arts companies (Zimmerfrei, Wu Ming 2, Homemovies, Balletto Civile…)