Pierluigi Billone
Pierluigi Billone (born 1960 in Sondalo) is an Italian composer who lives in Vienna. He studied with Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann, and in 2010 he received the composer prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. Much of his writing starts from the physical contact between the player's hands and the instrument, the idea behind his Mani series. Tom De Cock of Ictus recorded five of them for Sub Rosa.
La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura
Experiencing La lontananza utopica futura has enriched my musicianship. The unusual openness of the original materials by Nono required the establishment of an interpretive path through tapes and scores. This need has led to the emergence of a creative approach to performance, where the lines between roles and figures are blurred; with La lontananza, we cannot identify the composer as the provider of clear and direct instructions, and the performer cannot remain an invisible score-reproducer. A …
Mani
Mani is the very first recordings of the new collection Contra Naturam, a collaboration between Ictus Ensemble and Sub Rosa. Mani is released as a double-CD; Includes 24-page booklet.The concept of Contra Naturam: The "magic of the record" befits contemporary music, which starts by adhering to an open, flexible sonic space where magnetic bolts of lightning shoot through. In that respect, at least, it has always been pop. The record lifts the curtain on a virtual stage; it creates its own sp…