“Tento di raccontare qualcosa, ma subito ammutolisco e mi accorgo di non avere detto ancora niente. Una sostanza meravigliosamente lucente che non riesce a fluire rimane dentro di me e si fa beffe delle parole.”
(E. Canetti 1905/1994)
Si forma come danzatore, fino al 1998 frequenta “Dance and Visual Arts” presso l’università di Brighton (UK).
Si dedica successivamente allo studio del canto, privatamente, col soprano Giovanna Collica.
1999 Si iscrive alla facoltà di Lingue e Civiltà Orientali (Roma) approfondendo lo studio della musica mediorientale, mediterranea e in particolare della musica Sufi.
2001 Fonda insieme al sound-designer Marco Saitta il duo "Akdeniz" e pubblica sulla compilation "Mokabeach" (Carosello) il singolo "Dolap".
2002 Con Akdeniz, compone il brano “Dert” per la colonna sonora del film “Anime Veloci” di P. Marrazzo (il film uscirà nel 2005).
2004 Firma quattro brani, in turco, siciliano e inglese, nel progetto discografico T.A.O. Alchemic Symphony per l’etichetta Fairylands. Il progetto include anche un tour con i musicisti (fra cui Gavino Murgia e Vincenzo Zitello).
2005 Pubblica "Thonisorano", il suo primo lavoro solista,segue una serie di concerti in diverse città italiane fino al 2006.
2007 Inizia una stabile collaborazione col duo iraniano Avinar, realizzando un recital di musica persiana classica basato su poesie Rumi, Hafez e altri poeti mistici.
Partecipa alla XVIII edizione di Musicultura Festival col brano “Presa” , finalista ed incluso nel CD compilation.
2008 Compone le musiche e si esibisce nello spettacolo di teatro danza “Malpelo E Iqbal” con la regia di J.Ambrogio; il tema è il lavoro minorile. Debutta a Roma nel 2009 con il patrocinio UNICEF.
Scrive e rappresenta la performance video musicale “Help The Child Within” ,che indaga sul tema dell’uso e abuso delle armi da fuoco, nell’ambito del festival oFFENE bUHNE, alla Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlino. La performance è fotografata da E.Zerah.
2009 Esce l’album “Principia”, rimasterizzazione del disco d’esordio che include due brani inediti e le musiche dello spettacolo “Malpelo E Iqbal”.
Con il maestro di Tar Fakhraddin Gafarov e il polistrumentista Carmelo Siciliano realizza il programma “Canzoni d’amore dall’Egeo al Caspio”, inedito percorso musicale che valorizza preziosi e poco noti repertori musicali. Sonorizza e musica lo spettacolo teatrale "Aufbruch aus Troja" (Fuga da Troia) coproduzione del Ballhaus Naunyn/Teatroinstabile Berlino in scena al teatro Ballhaus Naunynstrasse a Berlino.
Parallelamente alla musica svolge attività didattiche e divulgative:
Nel 2003 insegna canto e tecniche di canto popolare al Music All (Roma) e guida il corso "Music in the Mediterranean" presso il Mediterranean Centre for Arts and Sciences - MCAS (Siracusa).
Nel 2004 tiene un seminario sulla musica mediorientale all'interno del master post universitario "Teoria e dinamiche del Teatro Classico" organizzato dal Dams di Torino ad Ispica (RG).
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Trained as a dancer until 1998 attending “Dance and Visual Practice” course at Brighton University (UK).
Following taking up private singing studies with the soprano Giovanna Collica.
Enrolling in “Oriental Languages” course in 1999 at Rome University deepening the study of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and particularly Sufi music (tasavvuf).
Setting up the duo Akdeniz together with the sound-designer Marco Saitta having the single “Dolap” out on the “Mokabeach” compilation (Carosello) in 2001.
2002, with Akdeniz he composes the track “Dert” for the movie soundtrack “Anime Veloci” by P.Marrazzo (the movie will be out in 2005).
Releasing 4 songs singing in Turkish, English and Sicilian in T.A.O. Alchemic Symphony (Fairylands Records), in 2004. The project also features a live tour with musicians like Gavino Murgia and Vincenzo Zitello.
His first solo album “Thonisorano” comes in summer2005 following a tour until 2006.
Starting out a profitable partnership with the Iranian duo Avinar in 2007, releasing and performing a repertoire of classical Persian Sufi music based on the poems of Hafez, Rumi and other mystical poets.
He runs at the 18th edition of Musicultura award as a finalist and the song "Presa" is included in the festival CD.
In 2008 he composes stage music and also performs in the play “Malpelo and Iqbal” directed by J.Ambrogio. The play focuses on child labour and debuts in Rome in 2009 sponsored by UNICEF.
Writing and performing the video musical performance “Help The Child Within” looking into firearms use and abuse with the photos of Etienne Zerah, staged at the festival oFFENE bUHNE, Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlin DE (oct 2009).
His second album “Principia” is issued in march 2009, it also includes some music from the play “Malpelo and Iqbal”.
Establishing a trio with master Fakhraddin Gafarov, virtuoso tar player from Azerbaijan and the eclectic Sicilian musician Carmelo Siciliano, performing the program “Love from Aegean to Caspian sea” which features famous love songs from Greece, Turkey and Azerbaijan.
Creates the musical environment and choir music to the play "Aufruch aus Troja"co-producted by BallhausNaunyn and Teatroinstabile Berlino, debut in oct at BallhausNaunynstrasse theatre, Berlin.
Toghether with his performing activities he leads training courses on Mediterranean music as well as creative workshops and vocal coach.
Pierre Pinoncelli, a French performance artist was arrested for striking Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain," with a hammer, at a Dada exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris.
The porcelain urinal was only slightly damaged. The artist, who back in 1993 also urinated into the same urinal and also struck it with a hammer at a show in Nîmes, France, has a long history of organizing destructivist "happenings"
He has claimed that his action was also a work of art, and in fact a tribute to Duchamp and other Dada artists who had made their name by challenging the very definition of art.
The Pompidou's "Fountain" is one of eight signed replicas made by Duchamp in 1964. The original fountain, a conceptual gesture, made in 1917, when first exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists in New York was rejected for being neither original nor art.
That version of the factory cast urinal, displayed by being flipped upside-down and signed R. Mutt, was subsequently lost. This recent attack by Pinoncelli will ignite more debate around the question as to "What is art?"
In 1993 Pinoncelli was jailed for one month and fined approximately $37,500 for urinating in Duchamp's "Fountain" in the Carré des Arts in Nîmes. He later said he wanted "to rescue the work from its inflated iconic status and return it to its original function as a urinal"
-Alfred Stieglitz, Photograph of Duchamp's Fountain (1917)-
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-Konstantinos Kondylis - Berlin 1936, Olympic Torch-
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