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GIACOMO CUTICCHIO

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Giacomo Cuticchio, born in Palermo in 1982, composer, pianist and heir of one of the strongest and vital sicilian theatre traditions. Son and grandson of Pupari Masters, his formation as an artist takes place in Knights dreams, senses lost and mysteriously found, battles, passions and ethical paradigms, in the frame of extreme rigor and attention, which characterizes the family theatre activity.

The Inclination towards music of the young Giacomo found a fertile land in the sounds of pianino, which traditionally scans and comments the episodes of France’s heroes, and the extraordinary and precious vocal exercise typical of the Opra e Cunto. The random encounter between Philip Glass’s music and the always vivid attention towards antique music, renaissance and baroque, have indicated to a still very young Giacomo the path to him most suitable, putting himself to fundamental ideals of a research on the roots of music, for many aspects similar to the efforts of Padre Mimmo, from the innovation of the Opraa starting from its bases.

Far from preoccupations due to language, Giacomo Cuticchio tries to arrive to immediate emotion, trying, on structural canovacci almost archetypical, forms most adaptable to his intentions:Giacomo’s music was born directly from the heart of mechanisms that regulate le form function.

A lot of attention to the last principals on which the birth of music stands cannot have, as corollary, interest for the sound and in relation with the existing, constantly fomented by the the vivid practice of improvisation.

On the bases of his extraordinay intuition for the sound and for the dramma it is possibile to track down, with enough certainty, the custom of cunto, of which his father Mimmo, already student of Pupero and the cuntista PeppinoCelano, last of the authentics heirs: as in cunto, with the rhythmic alteration of the breathing, the word becomes song, freeing its musical soul, so, with the same naturality, in Giacomo’s music the sounds become tangible, audible form.

We could trace in this the origin of his fascination for minimalism, for this last big “ismo”, which attention to the sound is much more than a simple and superficial observation. And it’s probably here that the circle closes, bonding the tradition in which Giacomo Cuticchio was born to the big experiences of modern music, along the thinnest crest between breathing and word, sound and organized sound, between a sense constantly lost and found at the sound of an old pianino.

To the rhythm of a human existence which is still possible.