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Abrons Arts Center Presents This Eclectic Sound
Research and music aren’t used often in the same sentence. Researching improvised music seems to be even rarer. What does such research entail? What would improvised music even sound like? EASilence, a variable ensemble with Mirio Cosottini (trumpet), Alessio Pisani (bassoon), and Tonino Miano are trying to answer those questions and provide new ones.
Cosottini and Pisani, the core of EASilence and originally from Tuscany, are the founders of the research group GRIM, based in the United Kingdom at the University of Leeds. GRIM is “an association for musical research and improvisation” that wants to “blur the line between performance and academic research in improvised music.” They study in many musical styles, attempting to understand the improvisational elements in all types of music through a practical (performance) and theoretical (written research) approach. They focus on collaborating performing subject and scholarly exploration.
EASilence “uses graphic scores to vehicle the sound in suggested directions”, leaving room and providing opportunities to improvise. They also use a language that is “multi-stylistic in nature.” Their sound reflects a land untouched, where no roads are seen and a path has to be made. It’s a world that doesn’t have borders or edges, but is created by the music in real time, so that the audience can experience and explore it with the musicians. It is a creation heard for the very first time. It is a venture that sounds part risky and part adventurous, but with musicians that have no fear and much experience.
This is the first time EASilence has a trio format, but the musicians involved have collaborated on many projects throughout the years. The biggest project was a CD called Cardinal (Grimedia/Impressus), which was released by Cosottini, Pisani, Miano, and Andrea Milani (drums). Cardinal received critical acclaim in Europe, making appearances on two European top ten lists and in the most notable CDs list of the decade by AllAboutJazz/Italia. One reviewer said that it “blurred the line between jazz and classical, feeling recognizable yet new.”
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