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My Favorite Topolò (live/excerpt)
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  • Genre: Electroacoustic / Experimental / Jazz

    Location Milano, Milano, It

    Profile Views: 30612

    Last Login: 3/10/2013

    Member Since 4/26/2007

    Website www.massimofalascone.com

    Record Label Setola di maiale, 00, Eh?, Die Schachtel, RaiTrade, Takla Rec, Altroquando

    Type of Label Indie

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improviser :: composer :: sound artist :: video maker

massimo falascone
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alto, baritone and sopranino saxophones :: tugombuto :: crackle box :: ipod :: live electronics

Brief biography
Experimental improviser, performer and digital music composer, active on the scene of Italian and European improvised music since early eighties, he has developed a distinctive tonal and expressive palette in his music now including the electronic treatment of sounds.
He has played and recorded with groups like Gruppo Contemporaneo, Takla Makan, Circadiana, Mondo Ra, Blast Unit Orchestra, M.M.&T., CrowdofOne and with many fine musicians including Barre Phillips, Filippo Monico, Edoardo Ricci, Guido Mazzon, Gaetano Liguori, Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter Kowald, Fabrizio Spera, Alberto Braida, Peeter Uuskyla, Alessandro Bosetti, Peter Friis Nielsen, Biggi Vinkeloe, Giancarlo Locatelli, Ab Baars, Walter Prati, Elliott Sharp, Alberto Tacchini, Tito Mangialajo Rantzer, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Steve Piccolo, Gak Sato, Matteo Pennese, Cristiano Calcagnile, Xabier Iriondo, Bob Marsh, Stefano Giust, Antonio Della Marina, Evan Parker, Luca Tilli, Claude Parle, Dan Warburton, John Hughes, Heiner Metzger, Nicolas Wiese and many others.
He has played in many festivals including Clusone, Sant’Arcangelo, Festivaletteratura, Controindicazioni Roma, Europa Jazz Noci, Fringes, Pulsi, Ah Um, Berlin Jazz, Locarno, Senza parole, Acusmatiq, Invasioni Visive, Stazione di Topolò / Postaja Topolove, Electronika, ContemporaneaMente, Le Rotonde de Choc (Paris), Milano Film Festival, Memories Design, Quiet Cue (Berlin), Bild-Wort-Ton (Hamburg), etc.
He had founded the Takla Improvising Group, an association involved in practising and diffusing improvised music. He has composed music for many theatrical works, films and video-installations, usually collaborates with artists, dancers, poets and video-makers and often conduces workshops and master classes on improvisation.

Musicista improvvisatore, performer e compositore di musica digitale, attivo sulla scena della musica improvvisata italiana ed europea dai primi anni ‘80, ha costruito una personale tavolozza timbrica ed espressiva che oggi comprende anche il trattamento elettronico del suono.
Ha suonato e inciso con formazioni come Gruppo Contemporaneo, Takla Makan, Circadiana, Mondo Ra, Blast Unit Orchestra, M.M.&T., CrowdofOne e con musicisti quali Barre Phillips, Filippo Monico, Edoardo Ricci, Guido Mazzon, Gaetano Liguori, Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter Kowald, Fabrizio Spera, Alberto Braida, Peeter Uuskyla, Alessandro Bosetti, Peter Friis Nielsen, Biggi Vinkeloe, Giancarlo Locatelli, Ab Baars, Walter Prati, Elliott Sharp, Alberto Tacchini, Tito Mangialajo Rantzer, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Steve Piccolo, Gak Sato, Matteo Pennese, Cristiano Calcagnile, Xabier Iriondo, Bob Marsh, Stefano Giust, Antonio Della Marina, Evan Parker, Luca Tilli, Claude Parle, Dan Warburton, John Hughes, Heiner Metzger, Nicolas Wiese e molti altri.
Ha suonato in vari festival tra cui Clusone, Sant’Arcangelo, Festivaletteratura, Controindicazioni Roma, Europa Jazz Noci, Fringes, Pulsi, Ah Um, Berlin Jazz, Locarno, Senza parole, Acusmatiq, Invasioni Visive, Stazione di Topolò / Postaja Topolove, Electronika, ContemporaneaMente, Le Rotonde de Choc (Paris), Milano Film Festival, Memories Design, Quiet Cue (Berlin), Bild-Wort-Ton (Hamburg), ecc.
E’ tra i fondatori dell’associazione Takla Improvising Group, dedita alla pratica e alla diffusione della musica improvvisata. Ha scritto musiche per diversi spettacoli teatrali, collabora attivamente con artisti, danzatori, poeti, compone musiche per film e video-installazioni, conduce workshop e lezioni-concerto sull’improvvisazione.

Selected discography
Gruppo Contemporaneo: Aspettando i dinosauri (1985, Bull Records lp 0009)
Massimo Falascone/Musimprop: Unissued 91-92 (1992, Murec - limited edition)
Massimo Falascone - Giancarlo Locatelli - Filippo Monico: Takla Makan (with Simonetta Artuso, Barre Phillips, Fabrizio Spera) (1997, C.M.C. Records 9970-2)
Circadiana: Clangori (1998, Leo Records cd 045)
Massimo Falascone: Bordogna - 15 (Quasi) Solo Improvisations (1998, Takla Records 1)
Takla Jazz Quartet: art. '68 (1999, musicando mus 033)
Massimo Falascone 4tet: Falsa Partenza (2003, Altroquando 1)
CrowdofOne (Massimo Falascone / Steve Piccolo / Gak Sato): The Box Man (2007, RAI Trade/Tracce RTPJ 0008)
Massimo Falascone: Works 05-007-2008 (2008, Setola di Maiale SM 1340)
Re:Start (Alberto Braida / Massimo Falascone / Filippo Monico)(2009, Setola di Maiale SM 1470)
Bob Marsh / Massimo Falascone: Non Troppo Lontano (2010, Public Eyesore Records - Eh? 47)
Wintermute (Xabier Iriondo / Cristiano Calcagnile / Massimo Falascone)(2010, Die Schachtel Zeit Imp1.5)

DVD
Abitanti e Topolò dir: Gianfilippo Pedote and Leonardo Gervasi - mus: Massimo Falascone (2007, Stazione di Topolò/Postaja Topolove DVD 004)


“Non si possono che ammirare la capacità architettonica e costruttiva del polistrumentista, la sua perizia tecnica [...] la musica è estrema, ludica e di ricerca” (Musica Jazz)
“Falascone’s music serves as a fitting or prime example of the Italian Jazz and/or Improvisational scene [...] Highly recommended” (All About Jazz)
“Massimo Falascone shakes the mind to shriller heights” (Coda Magazine)
“Falascone expands the language of freely improvised soloing by examining the elements of pure sound reproduced through his various reeds” (Cadence Magazine)

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Current live projects

Solo works
[Live solo saxophone performances, audio-video compositions and/or real time sound manipulations interacting with visual artists, dancers actors and videomakers]

Re:Start
with Alberto Braida (piano, objects) • Filippo Monico (drums, percussions, flute)

Falamar
with Bob Marsh (electric violin, cello, pedals, processed voice, airsynths)

Tevut (wrong way)
with Matteo Pennese (cornet, max-msp-jitter processing, video, objects)
[audio-video performances, physical computing]

Wintermute
with Xabier Iriondo (mahai metak, real time processing, objects) • Cristiano Calcagnile (drums, percussions)

Influences...and correspondences

• My beloved ones, the musicians and the artists I have been playing with and...
• Ornette Coleman
• Luis Buñuel
• Frank Zappa
• John Cage
• Anton Webern
• Art Ensemble of Chicago
• Beatles
• Sun Ra
• Anthony Braxton
• Stanley Kubrick
• Eric Satie
• Charles Mingus
• Enzo Jannacci
• Eric Dolphy
• Edgar Varèse
• Peter Sellers
• Vasilij Kandinskij
• Donald Duck
• Dario Fo
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Paul Klee
• Stephen King
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk
• Umberto Eco
• Thelonious Monk
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Easy Rider
• Igor Stravinsky
• Roscoe Mitchell
• Misha Mengelberg.
• Steve Lacy
• Fluxus
• Sherlock Holmes
• Georges Simenon
• Monty Python
• Woodstock
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Reiser
• Robert Altman
• Hieronymus Bosch
• Dracula
• Alberto Sordi
• Robert Johnson
• Derek Bailey
• Joan Mirò
• Eugene Ionesco
• Cornell Woolrich
• Lucio Battisti
• Walter Matthau
• Jimmy Lyons
• Joni Mitchell
• John Coltrane
• Laurel & Hardy
• Frankenstein
• Billy Wilder
• Tadeusz Kantor
• Miles Davis
• Kurt Weill
• The Twilight Zone
• Sergio Leone
• Charlie Parker
• Woody Allen
• Wounded Knee
• Wile E. Coyote
• Cochi e Renato
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hide
• Sonny Rollins
• György Ligeti
• Roland Topor
• Charles Ives
• Andy Warhol
• Federico Fellini
• Duke Ellington
• Mario Corso
• François Truffaut
• Marcello Mastroianni
• Philip K. Dick
• Dada
• Lebowski
• Giacinto Scelsi
• Pink Floyd
• Nino Rota
• Akira Kurosawa
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Marcel Duchamp
• Nikola Tesla
• AMM
• Luciano Berio
• Roman Polanski
• The Blues Brothers
• William Burroughs
• Escher
• Steve Reich
• Martin Scorsese
• Mel Brooks
• Frank Sinatra
• Iannis Xenakis
• Ugo Tognazzi
• Nam June Paik
• Bob Dylan
• Jack Kerouac
• Fabrizio De Andrè
• ICP Orchestra
• Bruno Munari
• Man Ray
• Ray Charles
• Jackson Pollock
• Marco Ferreri
• Robert Wyatt
• Roger Corman
• Jimi Hendrix
• Glenn Gould
• Skip James
• Pierre Schaeffer
• John Carpenter
• Wendy Carlos
• John Fahey
• Dylan Dog
• Raymond Carver
• Quentin Tarantino
• Morton Feldman
• Giorgio Gaber
• Cecil Taylor
• The Avengers
• Billie Holiday
• Clint Eastwood
• Krautrock
• John Lee Hooker
• Bill Bryson
• Wim Wenders
• Alan Ford
• Evan Parker
• James Ellroy
• The Simpsons
• Company
• Francis Ford Coppola
• Bruno Bozzetto
• Henry Mancini
• Totò
• Alan Lomax
• Brian Eno
• FMP
• Alvin Curran
• Jim Jarmush
• Brotherhood of Breath
• Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo
• Raymond Scott
• Tristan Honsinger
• Mike Westbrook
• Michel Waisvisz
• John Belushi
• Mario Monicelli
• Pan Sonic
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Harry Partch
• David Lynch
• Piero Umiliani
• Cassiber
• Coen Brothers
• Terry Riley
• Don Cherry
• Gong
• Bill Viola
• Luc Ferrari
• JM
• and many others...

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