Adrian Clemens Di Ruscio, composer

About Me

ADRIAN CLEMENS DI RUSCIO Adrian Clemens Di Ruscio, (b.2 July, 1981) is a Norwegian composer, violinist and violaist. His list of works consists of music for solo instruments, vocal, chamber, orchestral music and EA. Di Ruscio's musical material is derived from a number of sources;serial techniques, harmonic multiplication, algorithmic composition, (pseudo)-random choice etc. Some of the influences are listed below: ELEMENTS OF MY MUSIC: Serialorganisation of pitch after: Schoenberg, Berg and Webern
Rhythmic organisations after: Stravinsky and Messiaen,
Serialisations of additional musical parameters after: Boulez and Barraque
Sound blocks and aggregates, fixed objects, after: Edgard Varese..
Random elements and unpredictability: after Kagel, Chaplin
Quarter-tone tuning after oriental models and flexible phrasing after: Ravel and Debussy, Messiaen, Bob Dylan (for his flexible and virtuoso phrasing, tight-rope walker vocal and surreal harmonica playing.
Formal interpolations after: Stravinsky, James Joyce
Musical aggressivity after: Bartok and early Stravinsky
Anti-fascist aesthetics: Walter Benjamin, Chaplin, For more information, music and scores please visit :

Toscanini: l'internazionale/The internationale/Internasjonalen:

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Member Since: 2/8/2007
Band Website: adriandiruscio.com
Influences: Some composers I like: Luigi Nono, Barraque, Theodor Adorno (I think his compositions are great), Galina Ustwolskaja, Georg Antheil, Edgard Varese, Grisey, Luciano Berio, Dallapiccola, Malpiero, Mahler, Hauer,Kagel, Boulez, Ravel, Debussy, Stockhausen, Strawinsky, Bartok, Xenakis, Schaefer
Literature: Georg Johannesen, Bertold Brecht, The line: Epicurus-Lucretius / Marx-Brecht Camillo Sbarbaro, Paul Celan, Rene Char, Aim.. Cesaire, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Blok, Mandelstam, Mallarm.. Quasimodo, Montale, Ungaretti, Machado, Bertold Brecht, Pound, Eluard, Breton, Leslie Kaplan, Anne Portugal, Anne Marie Albiach, Emmanuel Hocquard Thomas Mann, Kafka, Joyce, Celine, Zweig, Homer, Dante, Vergil Philosophy: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse...William Z. Foster Heraklit, Epicurus, Aristotle, Cicero, Giordano Bruno, Klosterlasse(Laurentius Nicolai Norvegicus) William Mandel Painters: De Chirico, Ernesto Treccani, Osvaldo Lichini,Richard Gerstl, Klee, Other interests: Acoustic ecology, Dub, sound sculptures, sound poetry, . concrete poetry, lichenology, macro photography, microcosmos, the art of institutionalized and outsiders

Record Label: Music Information Center Norway (MIC)
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

MY WORKS AT MIC

My works are published by MIC (Music Information Center Norway)Link to the catalog
Posted by Adrian Clemens Di Ruscio, composer on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:14:00 PST

Epigrafi no.III for horn og piano (score)

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Posted by Adrian Clemens Di Ruscio, composer on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:46:00 PST

Acheronte (analysis with examples...)

Adrian Clemens Di RuscioACHERONTE (2003) for Double Bass, Piano and Percussion Ed elli a me: Le cose ti fier conte quando noi fermerem li nostri passi su la trista riviera d'Acheronte?Allor con li occ...
Posted by Adrian Clemens Di Ruscio, composer on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:27:00 PST

Epigrafi

ANALYSISThe work recalls the sonata form. With it's main theme; reduced to two notes; a perfect fourth ,and it's secondary theme; the (minor and major) third.The development and recapitulation of thes...
Posted by Adrian Clemens Di Ruscio, composer on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 02:10:00 PST

(La tomba di Morell) Requiem for my cat

"La tomba di Morell" is dedicated to my dead cat; Morell, the daughter of Øsekar. This short piece is made of an 15 second recording of her purr. Here's a picture of her: (Maby I should write a requie...
Posted by Adrian Clemens Di Ruscio, composer on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 03:49:00 PST

View my last film here

Adrian Clemens Di Ruscio: ETUDINE NO.I for camera and sound wavesThis is a study of passing cars on a highway combined with superposition of two sinus waves (400Hz and 402 Hz)Be shure to visit www.adr...
Posted by Adrian Clemens Di Ruscio, composer on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:04:00 PST

Archive of my works

As a complimentary to my website; adriandiruscio.com, I've decided to add an archive of my works. At the moment you'll find analysis of two of my works: Acheronte and Epigrafi as well as a short movie...
Posted by Adrian Clemens Di Ruscio, composer on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:11:00 PST