Gianfranco Pernaiachi
Gianfranco Pernaiachi is a composer and poet whose work centres on silence and listening. His double CD Ora (Ants, 2002), boxed with scores and texts by Pernaiachi and Renzo Cresti, uses natural and everyday sounds instead of conventional instruments and is conceived as an open work. Abendland, issued by Amiata Records, is a solo piano piece he reworked for Abendland. Zweites Stundenbuch (Ants, 2016) with Luca Miti and Silvia Sbordoni.
Abendland. Erstes Stundenbuch
1996 release (light storage wear) ** Gianfranco Pernaiachi’s Abendland is a solitary and profound piano solo meditation on sound and silence. The piano hints, rings out and whispers. The sound is crystal clear; essential and like a prism that divides…
Abendland. Zweites Stundenbuch
The new work by Gianfranco Pernaiachi is based on a re- working/re-thinking of a previous piano score: Abendland. This new work, passing thru a series of "actions" and further writings, became a completely different piece. Most important it's became …
Visitazioni
Two works from different periods come together in this "case-book": Ora (1997/2001) and Visitazioni (2011/ 2013). Times ... ways ... experiences intersect. Ora is a single stream of sounds and silences of 120 minutes. It can be "healed" (replaced) ac…
Ora
A meditation on silence, ecstatic and radical hearing of a soul who catch the real essence of sound and frees his creativity without a doubt. The result of a deep inner search, involved and involving. The journey of a non-compromised artist that c…