{"id":84,"date":"2010-01-04T05:54:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T10:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcproducties.com\/wordpress\/?p=69"},"modified":"2010-01-04T05:54:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T10:54:14","slug":"10-html-css-tips-for-easier-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doreendagostinomedia.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/04\/10-html-css-tips-for-easier-coding\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludovico Einaudi's Nightbook CD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ludovico Einaudi may defy easy categorization, but this composer and pianist is already a megastar in Europe. With the release of his mesmerizing and elegant new album Divenire arriving in the United States on June 10th, 2008, Einaudi is set to finally conquer America. Divenire, which translates in English as \u201cto become,\u201d is a masterly mix that weaves together the best of a classical sensibility, electronic experimentation, a hypnotic ambient groove, and an almost cinematic sweep. Part of Einaudi\u2019s talent is deftly dodging arbitrary labels of genre and tradition. Once a student of the famed modern classical composer Luciano Berio and a fellow at the highly prestigious Tanglewood Music Center, the now 52-year-old Milan resident has written some fifteen film scores, several of which have won prizes as best soundtracks in Italian, German, and French film festivals, including the BAAF award (a precursor to the UK\u2019s famed BAFTA prizes) for his soundtrack for British filmmaker Shane (Dead Man\u2019s Shoes, Twenty Four Seven) Meadow\u2019s new film This Is England, which has already won the Special Jury Prize at the recent Rome International Film Festival and the Best British Independent Film award at the British Independent Film Awards this past September. His score for Fuori Dal Mondo(by Giuseppe Piccioni) received an Academy Award nomination as Best Soundtrack Read More…<\/a>
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\n Einaudi\u2019s eclectic roster of past recording colleagues includes notable musicians from around the globe, including the Turkish electronica\/world music magician Mercan Dede, Robert and Ronald Lippok of Germany\u2019s post-rock trio To Rococo Rot, Malian kora player Ballak\u00e9 Sissoko, and the Portuguese keyboardist (and Madradeus co-founder) Rodrigo Leao. <\/p>\n

Einaudi\u2019s fan base is equally eclectic and widespread. He regularly performs sold-out shows at some of the world\u2019s most prestigious venues, including London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican Centre; shows this spring take him to locales as exotic as Tokyo and Mumbai. With more than 20,000 friends and more than a thousand visits a day, the popularity of his MySpace page dwarfs those of most other classical and ambient artists, totaling more than a quarter million page views.<\/p>\n

With Einaudi already an immense audience favorite on Britain\u2019s Classic FM radio, millions more fans across Europe have recently heard a cut from Divenire (the track \u201cPrimavera\u201d), which was used in a Sony Blu-Ray advertisement that launched last summer. Divenire has already gone gold in Italy, following the success of Einaudi\u2019s previous six solo albums, six film scores, a greatest hits collection, and an album of compositions and arrangements for harpist Cecilia Chailly. In the US alone, digital and import sales of Divenire alone have quadrupled during the last six months of 2007. <\/p>\n

The pianist describes Divenire as an album that contains a real journey and larger narrative while it interweaves solo, chamber and orchestral sounds. \u201cYou know how in 17th-century paintings a single work depicts several scenes at once\u2014the night, the sun, a landscape, a battle, whatever? I wanted to evoke that sensibility in Divenire,\u201d says Einaudi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe music for Divenire was inspired partly by the paintings of the 19th-century artist Giovanni Segantini, who painted the Alps,\u201d he continues. \u201cBefore he died, he was working on a famous mountain triptych, the Alpentriptichon, which contains the whole cycle of life, nature, and death. And so the album Divenire is about those cycles.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was also inspired by the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus,\u201d the well-read Einaudi continues. \u201cHe said, \u2018Everything is in flux\u2019\u2014like you can\u2019t step into the same river twice. Everything is in a constant state of change, of metamorphosis. And that\u2019s the idea I wanted to explore on Divenire.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first track on Divenire is \u201cUno,\u201d a piece for piano and electronic loop, explains Einaudi, \u201cIt\u2019s like the enigmatic DNA code of the album,\u201d explains Einaudi. \u201cIt\u2019s the source material, but you can\u2019t decode it easily. You\u2019re not sure where it\u2019s going to go.\u201d In the title track that follows, the composer continues, \u201cWe hear the first introduction of rhythm. And it\u2019s no longer just the sound of the piano\u2014an orchestra comes in. When I compose music for solo piano, I\u2019m more aware of little details; it\u2019s like drawing in ink. When I\u2019m writing for orchestra, I paint with a far bigger brush. Every sound and gesture is amplified: it\u2019s bigger, but it also carries much more strength and weight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMonday\u201d sees the pianist returning to a solo setting. \u201cThis piece has a very precise quality, and a very intimate energy,\u201d Einaudi professes. \u201cI think of it as almost a folk ballad. But in the following track, \u2018Andare,\u2019 the loop returns; the movement between the piano and the electronic loop is as if the piano has a shadow following it. But we also have the cello entering in a duet with the piano. \u2018Andare\u2019 means \u2018to go\u2019 in English, and I was really playing with the whole idea of going, of letting energy flow without knowing for sure where it was headed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next track on the album, called \u2018Rose,\u2019 harkens back to the earlier piece on the album called \u2018Monday.\u2019 \u201c\u2019Rose\u2019 actually draws upon the same source material as \u2018Monday,\u2019 though it\u2019s not an exact replication, \u201c Einaudi reveals. \u201cBut the sound is actually reversed in \u2018Rose.\u2019 I wanted it to be as if you were looking in a mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next piece, \u201cPrimavera\u201d (\u201cSpring\u201d), sees Einaudi looking backward to his classical roots. \u201cThe name and style is something of a reference to Vivaldi\u2019s famous piece The Four Seasons,\u201d Einaudi observes, \u201cThis selection is with orchestra, with a real explosion of sound coming from them that just overwhelms the piano in a rather Vivaldi-like way. But I really was thinking also about how flowers just explode in the spring,\u201d the composer asserts Another reference to nature comes in the next track, \u201cOltremare\u201d (\u201cBeyond the Sea\u201d). \u201cThis is another intimate solo work, a quite dark one this time, that forms part of the nucleus of the album,\u201d the composer explains. \u201cBut here the form is quite complex and unpredictable. Everything is built on connections, like in a game of dominos.\u201d <\/p>\n

In \u201cL\u2019Origine Nascosta\u201d (\u201cThe Hidden Origin\u201d), Einaudi builds on harmonic possibilities. \u201cOn the natural piano, the harmonics series generated by playing decays very fast. So I used the electronic loops to sustain those harmonic series. \u2018Fly,\u2019 which comes next, is the brother of \u2018Andare.\u2019 Here, there\u2019s a piano loop, but then the sound of the piano is generated into new territory, into the sound of a distorted electric guitar, which appears here for the first time on the album. The shadow finally becomes reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAscolta\u201d pulsates on a groove of electronic pulse. \u201cAscolta literally means \u2018to listen,\u2019\u201d the composer explains, \u201cand I think of this track\u2019s obsessive loop as if you\u2019re listening inside yourself, hearing your heartbeat. And as the album comes nearer to a close as we reach \u2018Ritornare\u2019 (\u2018Return\u2019), I was thinking of a Shakespearean tragedy like Hamlet, in when near the end Hamlet makes a speech that\u2019s a statement, a bit of rhetoric; that\u2019s how I think of Ritornare. And the very end is the track \u2018Svanire\u2019 (\u2018Vanishing\u2019). There is no piano, just the cello and orchestra, as if I\u2019m just listening myself to this unpredictable melody. It\u2019s like looking at a sunset over the mountains; the horizon line is indistinct. \u2018Svanire\u2019 is a farewell, with a sense that this day, this journey, is finished.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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