Giovanni Verrando

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    • Chamber works 2005 – 2022
      • Camera Music #1 – ‘In praise of my splendid voice’ (2022)
      • Instrumental freak show (2017-2020)
      • 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)
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      • Multiplicity (2013)
      • The Sinopia of Dulle Griet (2010-11)
      • Polyptych (2007)
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      • Sottile (1996-97)
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      • Seventh Born Unicorn (2019)
      • Sixth Born Unicorn (2018)
      • 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)
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      • The 4 delights of Jeroen Anthoniszoon (2007)
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      • Alex Brücke Langer (2002-03)
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    • One work, one sound
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    • Striving for an unheard sound
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    • Helsinki lectures – Why research into lutherie?
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    • Sulla nuova liuteria
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Sixth Born Unicorn (2018)

for e-guitar & electronics

Commissioned by: Mats Scheidegger
First performance: Basel, IGNM, Gare du Nord, 01.02.19
Publisher: Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
Duration: 7’40”



Programme notes

Instruments are means with a musical purpose.
To achieve my purpose, my musical goal, I need a personalisation of instruments. Study of the
properties of sound has shifted my attention away from the sound of the means to sound tout
court, has further moved the musical instrument from the role of the end to that of the 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.
“Sixth Born Unicorn” is written for and dedicated to Mats Scheidegger.

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contact: SugarMusic S.p.a. - Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Galleria del Corso, 4 20122 Milano, Italy

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