Stefano Scodanibbio
Stefano Scodanibbio (1956-2012) was born in Macerata, Italy. He studied double bass with Fernando Grillo and composition with Fausto Razzi and Salvatore Sciarrino. A bassist, improviser and composer, he worked with Brian Ferneyhough, Iannis Xenakis, Luigi Nono and Terry Riley, and with the philosopher Giorgio Agamben and the poet Edoardo Sanguineti. In 1983 he founded the Rassegna di Nuova Musica in Macerata. From the 1990s he gave master classes at Rice, Berkeley, Stanford, Oberlin and the Paris Conservatoire. After an ALS diagnosis in 2010 he moved to Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he died.
Cartoline per voci e contrabbasso - Omaggio a Stefano Scodanibbio (DVD)
* 2024 Stock * Documentario dedicato all'opera di Stefano Scodanibbio, con materiali inediti, riprese on site e interviste a Terry Riley, Irvine Arditti, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Gianni Dessì, Dario Calderone, Wolfgang Korb…
String Quartets
Defining the character of a composer’s music is always hazardous, especially if the composer is restless. But around Stefano Scodanibbio’s music we often return to the concept of wandering, which moreover reflects his life. This is testified by his w…
Incontri & Reuniones
Double bassist Stefano Scodanibbio was a superlatively inspirational figure not only in the world of the double bass, but in the larger world of new music as well. Even three years after his premature death of ALS this sense of inspiration hasn’t dis…
Oltracuidansa
Stefano Scodanibbio's Oltracuidansa for contrabass and 8-channel tape (stereo version), built from almost six hours of contrabass sounds made with 26 methods of sound production, with the tape created at CCMIX in Paris.
On Debussy's Piano and...
Die Schachtel is proud to present a recording that embodies the virtuosity of Thollem McDonas and Stefano Scodanibbio in the spirit of Claude Debussy's rebellious creativity. As Terry Riley wrote: “Anyone who has heard Thollem or Scodanib…
Alisei
Works for solo double bass, two basses and eight basses by Stefano Scodanibbio, played by Daniele Roccato, Giacomo Piermatti and the Ludus Gravis ensemble under Tonino Battista; recorded February-March 2014 in Perugia and Rome.