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Yours in Beethoven: A Memoir of My Musical Journey with Julius Eastman
Find the book on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble
New York City at Roulette
MIVOS String Quartet plays Rocco Di Pietro: “String Quartet No.4 (Imaginal Listening)” (2012-2017)
Rocco Di Pietro: The Six Day Week
Rocco Di Pietro: “Mimetic Nostalgias (from the Room of Useless Memories)” (2020).
John Cage: Works for Solo Piano
”Finale” is now published by BabelScores!
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Upcoming Performances & News
The Comedy of the Real – The Dream of a K-Pop Youth
Rocco Di Pietro’s Novel, “The Comedy of the Real – The Dream of a K-Pop Youth”, is out and will appear in The December 21 Holiday issue of The New York Review of Books.
It available on LuluBooks, Barnes and Noble, and other sites.
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Rajas for John Cage will appear in the November 23 edition of the New York Review of Books
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October 2023 issue of the New York Review of Books
The Normal Exception Life Stories, Reflections and Dreams from Prison by Rocco Di Pietro
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Yours In Beethoven: A Memoir Of My Musical Journey With Julius Eastman by Rocco Di Pietro featured in New music books and publications section of The Wire
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RDP-AS-Lecture-SP23
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Yours in Beethoven: A Memoir of My Musical Journey with Julius Eastman
by Rocco Di Pietro
Find the book on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble
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World Premiere of Julius Eastman “Hail Mary”
Fall 2022
Ensemble and Choral Version conducted by David Nelson Tomasacci with Kathleen Supove in Di Pietro Arrangement.
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Books by Rocco Di Pietro
- Yours in Beethoven: A Memoir of My Musical Journey with Julius Eastman
- Rajas For John Cage
- Dialogues with Boulez
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We Have Delivered Ourselves From the Tonal.
Of, Towards, On, For Julius Eastman
Savvy Contemporary – Berlin -
Pour Bruno
Liberia musicale Italiana
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Works of Di Pietro – The Interpretations Series
New York City at Roulette
Sept 26, 2019
With the Mivos String Quartet, playing Rocco Di Pietro’s Quartet Imaginal Listening, and with Kathleen Supove Pianist playing Rocco Di Pietro’s Two Pastels for Lukas Foss, and with Joseph Kubera, pianist playing Rocco Di Pietro’s Acoustic Poems. Robert Dick Flutist playing with Rocco Di Pietro Eastman Hail Mary with Rocco Di Pietro playing and reciting his Message from Julius Eastman.
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Mivos plays Di Pietro
MIVOS String Quartet plays Rocco Di Pietro: “String Quartet No.4 (Imaginal Listening)” (2012-2017)
Rocco Di Pietro: The Six Day Week
Rocco Di Pietro: “Mimetic Nostalgias (from the Room of Useless Memories)” (2020).
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Performance from March 25, 2018 at Savvy Contemporary in Berlin
Message from Julius Eastman (2015) and Hail Mary (1984)
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Performance November 3rd at the Wexner Center for the Arts
John Cage: Works for Solo Piano
plus Di Pietro’s Rajas for John Cage Leap Before You Look Performances
Thursday, November 3, 2016 4:30PM
Thursday, November 3, 2016 6:00PM
Join us in the galleries to hear Columbus-based composer, writer, and educator Rocco Di Pietro perform a selection of solo piano works by Black Mountain College teacher and composer John Cage, plus his own Rajas for John Cage. Cage’s work has been a longstanding source of inspiration to Di Pietro, an affinity you’ll hear in his original meditative homage composed for narrator and chamber ensemble. Fusing narration, improvisation, and Cageian structures, Rajas for John Cage offers a unique window into the composer’s life and music, insight that Di Pietro has demonstrated in his book of the same title—a series of story poems that won him a 2012 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. An Ohio Arts Council artist in residence and guest lecturer and composer at Stanford University, Di Pietro is currently an adjunct professor at Columbus State Community College.
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Rocco Di Pietro at Spectrum New York
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Coming Soon
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SEM Ensemble performs Rocco Di Pietro’s “Rajas for John Cage “in New York City
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“Finale” performance at Stanford University on May 12, 2012
”Finale” is now published by BabelScores!
Rocco di Pietro – BabelScores – Contemporary Music Online
Access easily a selection of classical contemporary music through search engine, discover or research. Listen for free, take a look or buy scores (sheetmusic) online. Composers can submit their work in order to be diffused by BabelScores
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Rocco Di Pietro on SoundCloud
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Now Available
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Rocco Di Pietro with Ensemble, OSU Choir, and OSU New Music Collective under Tom Wells
RAJAS-FINALE from “The Rajas for John Cage”
Performed on November 19th at Weigal Hall
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Rocco Di Pietro – Rhizome For Evelyn Glennie from Rocco Di Pietro on Vimeo.
World premiere performance of Rhizome For Evelyn Glennie by Rocco Di Pietro at Weigel Auditorium at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
The piece premiered on April 14th 2010 and was performed by Jan Williams, Ryan Jewell, Matt Evans, Rocco Di Pietro and The Ohio State University Percussion Ensemble.
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Spring Dates
April 14, OSU Weigal Hall, “Rhizome for Evelyn Glennie”, with jan williams
May 2, The Flea theatre New York City, “Rajas for John Cage”, with Larry Marotta, Robert Dick and Ryan Jewel
May 21, OSU Weigal Hall, “Italian Rajas”, with New Music Collective and Tom Wells
June 17, OSU Urban Arts Space,”Body Trap”,Music for acupuncture with Linda Chun
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Rocco at CCRMA
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New Scores
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Upcoming Events & News for 2009
Starting in January 2009 Di Pietro will be SICA (Stanford Institute for the Creative Arts) Composer in residence. He will undertake a variety of projects in a campus wide initiative including writing his orchestra piece “Finale.As artist in residence working across disciplines he will write a new piece for the “Wired Sound “ensemble with Chris Chafe,Pauline Oliveros and Chryssie Nanou. As a guest composer he will show his work to Jonathan Berger and Paul De Marinis,and write a new section of the on going cycle: “The Comedy of The Real” for Ge Wang and the Stanford Lap Top Orchestra at CCRMA (Center for Computing, Research, Music and Acoustics). He will also perform in a public concert and seminar of his work.
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“Caravaggio”
Rocco Di Pietro will be performing a new work called “Caravaggio” for virtual cathedral organ and electronics.
Adrian Coburn – voice.
Kathy Supove’s: “Music With A view”
New york at The Flea Theater
41 White Street
October 13th, 7:00 PM
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Releases Now Available
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Forthcoming Releases for 2008
Rocco Di Pietro will be performing in New York City at the Roulette Experimental Inter-Media on Saturday, May 26, 2007. This program will feature Kathy Supove, Robert Dick, Larry Marotta, and David Reed. For more information in regards tickets, reservations and directions, please feel free to contact the following number, 212-219-8242.
Di Pietro to premier new composition in New York
Rocco Di Pietro, instructor in Humanities, has composed a new piece for the internationally renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie. The work is called “Rhizome for Evelyn Glennie,” and will be premiered at the State University of New York’s Buffalo Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Anthony Miranda in 2007.
The composition requires the help of LA sound percussionist Stephen Smith, who is constructing an all-stone instrument to be connected to real-time live electronics.
Di Pietro says the idea for the piece came after his illness with gall stones gave him the idea that “every illness is a musical problem” (Novalis) so the metaphor of stones as drops of consciousness for Evelyn Glennie–someone who uses her other senses to hear–was fitting.
While still a student, Evelyn Glennie learned that she was going deaf. Rather than abandon her study of music, in which she had shown such talent, she instead turned her focus toward percussion instruments and developed her ability to feel the sound through her body.
Evelyn Glennie
- Di Pietro to Teach at Stanford University (CCRMA) This Fall – “Three way seminar with Chris Chafe, Pauline Oliveros and Rocco Di Pietro.
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- Katrina Youth Monograms @ COMFEST
For hand bells, electronics, accordion and guitar.
With Hannah Corbin-handbells, David Reed sampler, RDP-accordion, Larry Marotta-guitar.
Community Festival at Goodale Park in Columbus, Ohio
Sunday June 25th 5:30pm on the new Solar Stage
- New Works Of Rocco Di Pietro
@ Acme Art Co.
Sunday February 26, 2006 in Columbus, Ohio
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- Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey
April 2, 2006
- Saturday April 29, 2006
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
CCRMA at the Knoll, San Francisco, California
Three-day festival of music and scholarship.
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The Freeyellow Rescue Project:
The freeyellow rescue project has been completed. This project was an effort to archive the contents of Rocco’s old website which was located at http://www.dipietroeditions.com/freeyellow/index.html. You can view the archived contents at the link below…
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THE THIRD POSITION
and its companion piece now in progress
THE FOURTH POSITION
Part of the forth coming book MUSICIAN WITHOUT NOTES
Two works dealing with the questioning of alternate realities.
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2005 – 2006 Broadcasts:
Iain Edgewater Host:
Prisms Radio Show series 2, #74 ,
Bellevue/Seattle: January 15-16, 2006:
Rocco Di Pietro
“Mobile Phone Dreams B”
Something Else Radio:
www.stopgostop.com/somethingelse/playlists.htm
June 27, 2005
Other Voices Radio:
http://kunm.org/music/playlists/search.php
WREK Music Database:
http://opdesk.wrek.org/pub/now_playing.php?timestamp=1137801175
Chamber Lost 2 For Christian Boltanski pt 4
Rocco Di Pietro
Multiples / The Lost Project
01-20-2006 03:48
Night
Rocco Di Pietro Editions
http://opdesk.wrek.org/pub/now_playing.php?timestamp=1122039754
Chamber Lost 2 For Christian Boltanski pt 4
Rocco Di Pietro
Multiples / The Lost Project
07-22-2005 03:51
Night
Rocco Di Pietro Editions
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2004-05 Broadcasts:
Difficult Listening – Australia
Sarah Combes and Bryce Moore
September 26 – Tears of Eros
October 10 – Dead Sleeping Soliders
November 7 – Prison Dirges
Art@Radio – Steve Bradley – New York, Amsterdam, Helsinki January 26 – Dead Sleeping Soliders, Prison Dirges
Performances: Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey –
Spectrum Press, March 12, 05
Prison Dirges
WHFR.FM “Making Waves”
Dearborn/Detroit radio broadcast
October 17, 04
Dead Sleeping Soliders
Alternating currents WMSE-FM 91.7 Milwaukee
September 5 – Multiples
October 3 – the lost
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2003 Broadcasts:
Art@Radio – Steve Bradley – New York
02/11 – Tarot Game Piece, Ipseity, Lost for Christian Boltanski
Sonic Stratosphere – Chris De Laurenti
June 7 – Anoxia
June 28 – Glass case of the Heart’s fragility
June28 – Tears of Eros
August 23 – Ipseity
Performances: Dartmouth college
Electric Rainbow Festival
Eric Lyon
August 27th – Unknown Lost, Prison Dirges
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Writings
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Dialogues with Boulez
Available from Scarecrow Press
Book Description from Amazon.com:
Pierre Boulez is arguably classical music’s most important living composer and conductor. His most famous compositions, the widely-performed “Le marteau sans ma”tre, Pli selon pli,” and “Le visage nuptial”, have earned him the reputation as a musical provocateur, while his current role as principle guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has established him as patriarch and elder statesman of today’s classical music scene. In this book of dialogues with author Rocco Di Pietro, Mr. Boulez reveals delightful ideas and insights on composition and imagination, listening and teaching, and muses on the nature of youth, communication, and fame. Di Pietro’s unusual writing format allows the reader to more easily understand the complexities of Boulez’s thinking. A firm believer in accidents, he reveals how his career took shape through a combination of coincidence and talent. Essential for recent Boulez converts and long time devotees alike.
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Other Writings:
The Third Position
My Dinner with Afasia
Musician Without Notes
In The Weeds Of Dialectics
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The Normal Exception:
Life Stories,Reflections and Dreams from Prison
coming soon from IUniverse.com
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a monograph by Rocco Di Pietro
on Carlo Ginzburg’s “The Cheese and the Worms”
Menocchio was a simple family man, a miller by trade. But he was also a voracious reader, a man who possessed of an extraordinary curiosity constructed a radical cosmology and dared to present it to the world. In 1599, he was burned at the stake as a heretic. Menocchio is representative of a fascinating popular history known as micro-storia, which challenges the nature continental revisionist nature of history. Also having points of contact with the Annales historians and the English “history from the bottom up” where a simple rope maker could educate himself and interact with the higher world, it is very germane to our students at Columbus State.
available soon from IUniverse.com
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2 Minute samples from the 2 CD Set:
Retrospectives of the Music of Rocco Di Pietro
1. Prison Dirges, (Model Version B) (1995)
4. Tears of Eros, (Torso Version B) Live Multiple (2001)
5. Deconstructed Fountain From Ravel with Derrida Watching (1996)
Samples and CD available from CDBaby.com
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WAVE FUGUE WITH ELECTRONIC LOST
DEAD SLEEPING SOLDIERS
CHAMBER LOST FOR CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI
TEARS OF EROS
DECONSTRUCTED FOUNTAIN FROM RAVEL
MOBILE PHONE DREAMS B
PRISON DIRGES
Including the…
Avant Collective
Ensemble
SCARECROW PRESS
PUFFIN FOUNDATION
“Moves beyond the usual rhythmic and formal grids…into brand new currents.”
Kyle Gann, Bang on a Can
– Village Voice
“Electrifying in its rapid passages”
– Sueddeutsche Zeitung
“Like a typhoon that keeps trying to blow you down.”
– New York Times
“Absolutely striking, ending in exstatic somesaults.”
– Munchen Merkur
“A true original”
– Lukas Foss
Books by Rocco Di Pietro
The Normal Exception
Dialogues with Boulez
Musician Without Notes
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Multiples and The Lost Project is a 2 CD retrospective of the work of Rocco Di Pietro. It represents at least twenty years of work in the cross over between electronic, acoustic, and improvised musics.
You can purchase Multiples and The Lost Project from CDBaby, EMF, or by calling 1.800.289.6923.
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Rocco Di Pietro was born in Buffalo, New York in 1949. He studied composition and piano with Hans Hagen and Lukas Foss in Buffalo and at the Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood. He studied in New York and Darmstadt with Bruno Maderna and was a freelance composer for twenty years before earning degrees from SUNY Buffalo and Vermont College.He became an interdisciplinary adjunct professor teaching in prisons and on many college campuses throughout New York, Ohio, and California. He toured California prisons as artist-in-residence and conducted four years of interviews in Chicago with Pierre Boulez. The resulting book, DIALOGUES WITH BOULEZ, was recently published by Scarecrow Press. He composed Prison Dirges I for the Kronos String Quartet. Di Pietro's music has been performed by many musicians in venues throughout the world. These include: Christiane Edinger, Christobal Halffter, Lukas Foss, Julius Eastman, Bruno Maderna, Frances Marie Uitti, Yvar Mikhasoff, Jan Williams, Anthony Miranda, Gunther Schuller, Dennis Russell Davies, the Buffalo Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, CETA Orchestra, Ojai Ensemble Sonor, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Columbus Wind Orchestra, Earlham String Orchestra, the Avant Collective, and the Madd Lab Orchestra. Venues include: The Kitchen, La Mama, Bang On A Can Festival, in New York, Contemporary Music Society of Seoul, South Korea and American Academy in Rome among others. Recent performances of LOST have been featured at Dartmouth College and Stanford University. Recently, his work has developed on several fronts. Sound text radio works have developed simultaneously with his teaching at Columbus State College of electronic music and other courses in the Humanities. These works have been broadcast on radio stations in Seattle, Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, New York and in Europe, in Naples, Rome, Vienna, Prague, Budapest etc. Top >>
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LOST for Christian Boltanski is an ongoing project which consists of a series of works based on the musical monograms of lost children. These missing children from the “Have you seen us?” cards come in the mail from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 1-800-the lost.
Using the classic technique developed by Bach, various ensembles from trios to small orchestras and choruses perform the child’s name as it is transcribed on the card. The cards that come in the mail become the “parts.” The work unfolds by means of a structured and guided improvisation with the notes as written. The results vary widely from the different LOST 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
The work has grown out of my concerns as a social composer who moonlights as a social worker. As such, it is an attempt to make connections between art and life. As a community outreach piece, many of the decisions about which children’s names to play, and in what order depend on the technical capabilities of the ensembles at hand – a community part-book is built up rehearsal to rehearsal under the guidance of the composer. In this sense, the homage to visual artist Boltanski is apt, since the work is such that “everyone can do my work for me, once I give the rules,” to quote Boltanski.
With that said, it is important to note that the final score is constructed last, after the groups involved have made their decisions with their conductors and performed the work from the part-books. This is the opposite of a traditional score where a composer composes a score before he or she has heard it played. In the case of LOST, the final score the jury is looking at consists of a snapshot of the work. When the work is performed again (ideally) the community decisions will be different and new part-books are constructed with new children and different ensembles; for example, the work has been performed in the street on street corners as well as in churches and concert venues. It is important to remember the guided improvised aspect and above all of the tempo e rubato concept that is found throughout the score. Nonetheless, it is also possible to perform LOST from the snapshot of the work score one is looking at, thus taking the work off the street and out of the community and into the museum – which, after all, is still useful.
The Mobile Phone Dreams with LOST is a work for piano, mobile phones and small ensemble. It shows how the lost children concept is invading all my work at the moment. The piece is a dream about a central concept that has three ideas:
1) The globalization of the nineties;
2) The mobilization after 2000; and
3) The nomadism of the future as represented by the revolution of the mobile phone all over the planet.
In my dream, mobile phones ring inside the piano. What comes out of the phones are the souls of lost children. The work is a series of panels moving back and forth from dream-piano to improvised child monograms (circles with ensemble). This work also contains improvisation, tempo rubato and proportional notation and as such has slightly different notational outcomes. It is important to read the score with this mind.
– Rocco Di Pietro
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Later
Solos With Electric Shadows From Lost 5
Paragone
Solos With Electric Shadows From Lost 5
Paragone
Multiples and The Lost Project is a 2 CD retrospective of the work of Rocco Di Pietro. It represents at least twenty years of work in the cross over between electronic, acoustic, and improvised musics.
The Lost Project
AVANT LOST
Mobile Phone Dreams with LOST
With The Avant Collective Ensemble
Tears Of Eros (Torso Version ©2000): Text by Georges Bataille and Sam Mangwana. Recited by Rocco DI Pietro and Barbara Adams.
Custom Cd with original art work from the composer
Anoxia (©1999):
Air Pipe, moog sonic V synthesizer, pitch pipe, and piano. Performed by Rocco Di Pietro and Julius Eastman.
Air Piece (©1973)
Custom CD with original art work from the composer
The Glass Case of the Heart’s Fragility (1999):
Clocks, pitch pipe, mandolin with triangle beater, piano and piano strings. Performed by Rocco Di Pietro and Julius Eastman.
Clockscape (©1973)
Custom Cd with original art work from the composer
Ipseity (©1999)
Text read by Rocco Di Pietro
With 3 handbells, computer-processed ‘screams’, & electric Organ
Juli Douglass- Soprano
Custom Cd with original art work from the composer
Solos / Plus
1. Melodia della terra ( violin )
2. Melodia Nera ( Timpanni )
3. Melodia Arcana ( Percussion )
4. Serenata For Lukas ( Piano )
5. Atmospheric Boundaries I
6. Atmospheric Boundaries II
7. Atmospheric Boundaries III
8. Atmospheric Boundaries IV
9. Melodia ( Cello )
The World Of Rocco Di Pietro, VOL. 1
Erotic Triolgy
1)The Glass Case of the Heart’s Fragility
2)Tears of Eros
3)Anoxia
Simulations (Homage to Baudrillard)
For Roland keyboard, trombone, guitar, viola and ‘photo-real’ magnetic tape
Performed by Rocco Di Pietro , Lon Gormley, and David Malia
1. White Man’s Foot ( Two Faust/Multiples )
2. Fool’s Run ( Two Faust/Multiples )
3. Paragone ( for Guitar )
4. Failed Star
5. Baudrillard’s Room ( Melodia ) Trombone
Three Compositions ( How do we keep what happens to us from becoming an anecdote? )
Self Portrait From The South ; Three Black American Folk Songs ; Three Popular Songs
1. Self Portrait From The South
2. Prayer (Three Black American Folk Songs)
3. Scherzo (Three Black american Folk Songs)
4. Dirge (Three Black american Folk Songs)
5. Pin Ball-Disco (Three Popular Songs)
6. Plum Tree Blues (Three popular Songs)
7. Tango-Muse (Three Popular songs)
Aria For Piano (1978): Performed live in Darmstadt , Germany by Rocco DI Pietro.
30 Links From The Slaughterhouse Of Love (1995): Performed live on Roland keyboard in San Francisco.
Humor Is A Cold Carnival (1994): Text by Umberto Eco recited by Russell Link.
1. Aria For Piano
2. 30 Links From The Slaughterhouse Of Love
3. Humor Is A Cold Carnival
To order CD’s contact Rocco Di Pietro
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