With "Formaldeide" (2007), Vincenzo Ramaglia engages (on a score in 8 movements for flute, clarinet, sax and piano) in a sort of room ambient, which - through new, evocative and alienating alchemy of sound - plunges the sophisticated and polyargonic exuberance of the twentieth century (from Prokofiev to jazz) in contemporary reflection on sound (investigated through stratifications of harmonics, multifonals, glissandi, puffs, hisses, rhombs) and on silence. The critics enthusiastically accepted the experiment, calling it "impossible meeting place between Coleman Hawkins and Salvatore Sciarrino" (Michele Coralli, Blow Up), as well as an original attempt - "cultured and at the same time accessible, [... ] antithetical to a certain piano pop intimist and pimp with contemporary pretenses "(Vittore Baroni, Rumore) - to reach an ideal" medietas, just compromise between pleasure and research "(Daniele Follero, Sentireascoltare).
Birgit Nolte, flute
Massimo Munari, clarinet
Massimo Mazzoni, sax
Giulio De Luca, piano
"Formaldeide" (2007):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3BUsKyRc9s
