Giovanni Verrando

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    • Multimedia works
      • Camera Music (2022 – in progress)
      • Instrumental freak show (2017-2020)
    • Orchestral works
      • Multiplicity (2013)
      • The Sinopia of Dulle Griet (2010-11)
      • Polyptych (2007)
      • Triptych (2005-06)
      • Agile (2004)
      • Sottile (1996-97)
    • Chamber works 2005 – today
      • Keekee Bouba (2015-17)
      • Krummholz (2013-14)
      • Travelling icon on rabbit-skin glue (2013)
      • Grammatica dell’inarmonico (2012)
      • Dulle Griet (2009-10)
      • Triptych#2 (2008)
      • Memorial art show (2005)
    • Chamber works 1989 – 2005
      • Quartetto n° 3 (2003)
      • Il ruvido dettaglio celebrato da Aby Warburg (2002)
      • Evanescente Orchestra Meccanica II (1999)
      • Quartetto n° 2 (1998-99)
      • 4 invenzioni sull’Offerta Musicale (1995)
      • Accanto alla quiete (1993)
      • Animismus (1992)
    • Solo
      • The Unicorn cycle
      • Seventh Born Unicorn (2019)
      • Sixth Born Unicorn (2018 – rev. 2025)
      • Fifth Born Unicorn (2016)
      • Fourth Born Unicorn, angular version (2016)
      • Fourth Born Unicorn, rounded version (2015)
      • Third Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for (2009)
      • Second Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for (2002)
      • First Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for (2001)
      • Discanto (2000)
      • 3 opere misurate (1994-95)
    • Choir
      • The 4 delights of Jeroen Anthoniszoon (2007)
    • Opera
      • Alex Brücke Langer (2002-03)
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  • senza famiglia – lutherie & composition
    • One work, one sound
    • Un’opera, un suono
    • Striving for an unheard sound
    • Tendere ad un suono inedito
    • Musica da camera con la nuova liuteria
    • Helsinki lectures – Why research into lutherie?
    • Le conferenze di Helsinki – Perché una ricerca sulla liuteria?
    • Instruments as apparatus
    • Gli strumenti come apparati
    • On new lutherie
    • Sulla nuova liuteria
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senza famiglia – lutherie & composition


Musica da camera con la nuova liuteria/Chamber music with new lutherie
Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, a.a. 2020-21


Un’opera, un suono/One work, one sound
“Composition is an awareness and representation of one’s own perspective. To achieve this we must focus more than ever on every single phase of the creative process, including the development of one’s own means.
I find myself not only in the form, the algorithms, the organisation of the chosen materials, but also in the means that help me to translate my timbral ideas. I am my sound.”.


van_minnen_christian_2013_rational_ideas_oil_panel_14_x_11inStriving for an unheard sound/Tendere ad un suono inedito
“Irregularity, confusion, splendour, enchantment, the different and the abnormal have greater potential to convey the exclusive nature of each individual imaginary”.


Daxophone-KKBBHelsinki lectures – Why research into lutherie?/Le conferenze di Helsinki – Perché una ricerca sulla liuteria?
“With the passage of time, the traditional acoustic sound paradigm has become impractical and inadequate”.


Daxophone-KKBBInstruments as apparatus/Gli strumenti come apparati
“The evolution of lutherie is closely related to the notion of a complex system, of an apparatus, and replaces that of simple instrument”.


Krummholz-ditaliOn new lutherie/Sulla nuova liuteria
“What seems both inevitable and crucially important, is a more modern, flexible approach to the figure of the musician, and a readiness to see the instrumental families that make up the orchestra and chamber ensemble as interchangeable”.

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