About Me
Born in Arona in 1953, Riccardo Sinigaglia is an architect as well as musician. He teaches electronic music at Milan Conservatory where he studied during the Seventies with Angelo Paccagnini.
He collaborates with the video center of the Faculty of Architecture, Milan University, where he lectures on the relationship between music and image.
His musical production also include music for documentaries, ballets and theatre spectacles.
His work is based on modes, mean tone, pitagorean scales and complex polyrhythmic: he is deeply involved in ethnomusicology, the elements of which are revisited and employed in his musical language.
Yuval Avital and Riccardo Sinigaglia Godess from Riccardo Sinigaglia on Vimeo .
In the 80's, together with Walter Maioli and Gabin Dabiré, he founds the group Futuro Antico, a cross beetwin electronic and etno shamanic music.
In 1985 he founded, together with Mario Canali, the audio-visual art group Correnti Magnetiche beginning to work with digital system.
Yuval Avital and Riccardo Sinigaglia Endings from Riccardo Sinigaglia on Vimeo .
Correnti Magnetiche uses computerized systems in order to create audio-visual compositions, and produces videotapes, installations and live-electronics concerts. In concert play with Maurizio Dehò (violin), Gabin Dabiré (balafon and percussions), Tommaso Leddi (violin, horn) and the soprano Rossana Maggia when Mario Canali paint on a graphic tablet with a big screen fellowing the music.
Correnti Magnetiche works have won many prizes at international demonstrations of computer art in Austria, Japan, U.S.A., Italy, Hungary and Switzerland, and they have been broadcast on TV and radio world-wide (see curriculum).
From 86 he work with Doubling Riders a musical group with Pierluigi Andreoni and Francesco Paladino.
Many time before internet Doubling Riders make international collaboration, we record some tracks and we send tape at others musicians, they join new tracks and send back and so on.
In every LP or CD of Doubling there is different collaborators in every track.
They play in festivals like Time Zone in Bari and All Frontiers Trieste.
He work als in world music project with the libic singer Ahmed Fakrun.
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Rituale d'autunno New version from Riccardo Sinigaglia on Vimeo .
His group The Swimmers play in many important places like Biennale of Venezia, Auditorium of Milan for more info: www.theswimmers.org/sinigaglia.html.
The Swimmers is with: Alzek Misheff lighting, Maurizio Barbetti viola, Rocco Parisi bass clarinet.
The Swimmers play also with Don Buchla, Charles Amirkhanian, Theodosii Spassov, Iva Nikolova.
He work also with Pietro Pirelli and his Ensemble de la Roue, with Corrado Colliard (Tbn.), Mauro Gino (perc.) and Maurizio Barbetti (Vla.).
Dal fiume le pietre from Riccardo Sinigaglia on Vimeo .
see also: www.virb.com/sinigaglia
