Diego Minciacchi
Diego Minciacchi is a composer whose recorded output centres on works that pair solo instruments or voice with tape, alongside a series of Klavierstücke for piano. Two albums of his music have been released by Col Legno. The Aforesaid gathers five pieces with tape: Earth Will Have Her Say for trombone and percussion, a collection for viola, Ritual for the New Morning for seven flutes (in its 1993 version), Cimeli zoomorfi for alto flute, and Westbau from Der Dom for bass voice, double basses and trombones.
Piano Works 1
Composer and neurologist Diego Minciacchi is as likely to publish a paper on motor skills as he is to compose music that mixes scientific and poetic ideas; yet this fact should not intimidate listeners new to his work, who might worry that the compositions on this 2005 release from Col Legno are too cerebral or complicated to appreciate. What they should know upfront, however, is that Minciacchi is a product of the generation of composers who absorbed the lessons of the 1960s and '70s avant-gard…
The Aforesaid
A professor of neurology at the University of Florence and one of Italy's foremost experimental composers, Diego Minciacchi creates fascinating music from raw scientific data and appends cryptic titles to his pieces that give them something of a whimsical, if not philosophical or mystical, context. The Aforesaid, Minciacchi's 2001 release on Col Legno, is a collection of five chamber works from the early '90s, a time when he found his voice and developed a feasible methodology in his works for v…