Moonbird is a video opera, an hybrid piece that blends cinema, videoart and music.
With the direction by visual artist and film director Ra di Martino.
Original libretto & music by Mauro Remiddi
With Silvia Calderoni & Manfredi Beninati.
The piece is exhibited in different contexts: as a live performance with live music & video projections; as a video art work to be shown in exhibitions (now showing at Merzt Foundation in Palermo & Bologna’s Museum Of Modern Art ‘MAMBO’).
The live performance ‘Moonbird Variations’ is an immersive and contemporary opera piece where the music brings together neo-Baroque themes and abstract electronics with drum machines and voice manipulation.
The projections and the music will lead us in a journey through the story of Moonbird, an honiric creature that appears and hanimates the villa of a man that decided to cut all ties with the outside world.
Link BANDCAMP
MASMAS
MASMAS is the new project of Mauro Remiddi, Simone Pappalardo & Simone Alessandrini.
They met during a residency at the Mattatoio in Rome (May 2021). Coming from different backgrounds, the three musicians’s approach to the live set is raw and immediate, sounds are played, re-sampled, then manipulated, juxtaposed and stripped of all points of reference.
Simone Pappalardo Live electronics
Simone Alessandrini Sax and electric guitar
Mauro Remiddi Voice, Modular synth.
Listen/free download here
I had the desire to hear Maria Callas voice out of its natural contest.
By stretching and morphing her voice, eliminating the meaning of the text, I wanted to find the blind spot where language finally dissolves, calling everything into question again.
(Bandcamp)
Collaboartion w/ director Derrick Beclham
‘Fable’
"FABLE" is an evening-length production set in the sprawling 60, 000 sq. ft of the Knockdown Center in Brooklyn (NY).
Features music written and performed live by Mauro Remiddi, Blonde Redhead, Julianna Barwick, David Moore (Bing & Ruth), Skyler Skjelset (Fleet Foxes, Beach House), Sarah Neufeld (Arcade Fire), Prince Rama, Hannah Epperson.
Features music written and performed live by Mauro Remiddi, Blonde Redhead, Julianna Barwick, David Moore (Bing & Ruth), Skyler Skjelset (Fleet Foxes, Beach House), Sarah Neufeld (Arcade Fire), Prince Rama, Hannah Epperson.
(Watch trailer here)
Crestline Morning Improvisation
I lived in Crestline (California) for a year and inspired by the stunning panorama one morning I decided to set up my instruments on the deck to film my modular synth/organ improvisations.
Directed by
Manolo Remiddi
(Watch here)