User:Robertgrassi
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[edit] Robert Grassi / Quick biography
robert grassi / italo swiss composer, author and performer / contempo on http://basic.ch / contempo@basic.ch / robert-alain grassi-proellochs, born in 1965 in geneva, switzerland / early formation in piano / plays the flute and the melodica / formed in the collège de Cayla in latin, photography, video and music (with Yves Jéquier) / plays guitar / declares to like any genre of music / hiking, skiing, bicycling, fencing, volleyball and badminton / educated in the collège voltaire in modern languages (with Bernard Schautz), classical choir singing (with Philippe Corboz, Thierry Fischer, Denis Martin, Igor Diakoff, the vocal ensemble Contrastes, singing the works of monteverdi, bach, handel, haydn, mozart, mendelsohn, beethoven, rossini, brahms, berlioz, verdi, stravinsky, schoenberg, alban berg, webern, fauré, poulenc, duruflé, messiaen, martin, schnittke, kelterborn, Steve Reich, berio, etc. and russian liturgy singing), drumming and percussion (with Stuff Combe and Raul Esmerode), photography (with Gad Borel) / drummer and singer in a jazz-rock band (entrée gratuite) / 1984 baccalaureate / visit in austria and hungary, in denmark / plays electric bass / la chanson français et la pop anglaise, hard rock and punk,jazz and funk / counsellor for the kids of the saint-jean area at the local ymca / 1985 drum certificate, army, specialised in hospital care / plays fretless bass / teaches private drums, guitar and bass lessons / drum studio in la praille train station / drives his friends around in his parents car talking music and cinema / one year of university in musicology and at the city conservatory studying percussion, counterpoint, harmony, analysis, history and solfeggio (with Pierre Metral, François-Xavier Delacoste, Xavier Bouvier, etc.) / plays electric guitar, banjo, congas, piano, sitar, synthesizer, sequencer, sampler, effects / studies in the popular conservatory in musical theory (counterpoint (with Jean-Yves Haymoz), practical harmony, history, jazz history, etc.), classical composition, scoring (with Erich Lauer), classical percussion (with Yves Brusteaux), computer music, conducting / jazz training and workshops in amr, dpc, geneva (studied with Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Lee Konitz, Nippy Noya, Juan Carlos Abreu, Maurice Magnoni, Michel Bastet and Jean François Mathieu) / 1985-1990 job as substitute teacher in primary classes / sings a lot for his friends / 1987 exchange iccp student in poughkeepsie, new york / video / studies satie, bartok, stravinsky and messiaen particulrely and Miles Davis and James Brown actively / 1992 end of musical studies specialised in composition, computer music and conducting (studied with Eric Gaudibert, Rainer Boesch and Liang-Sheng Chen) / workshops in zürich with Michel Waiswisz and winterthur with Joel Chadabe / presentations by Luciano Berio, masterclass with Dorothy Dorrow, with the Arditti String Quartet / powerclass (1991) with John Cage / lives in a squat 1993-1997 (la tour, geneva), works there until 2001, squats different buildings in geneva as an artistic action / 1992 - 2001 co-founder-producer of an international (and very smart) folk-rock collective ( i mericani ), 5 albums, 1000 concerts (in switzerland, italy, france, slovenia, croatia, germany, spain), tv (ch, es, ...), radio(ch, fr, it, es, hr, si, usa, ...), internet ...great success / co-opens an office for this group in an alternative area / (ends the project in 2001) / cast as "no.49" in Stairs 1 Geneva by Peter Greenaway / 1995 conscientious-objector-civil-service made in esav-esba specialised in sound editing / visit in British Columbia and washington / reads all shakespeare (aloud), all proust, all dostoevsky, all dante / writes an experimental novel (1999) / several film (Nicolas Frey, Alexandre Bianchini, Roland Pellarin, Pascal Magnin, Linda Martinez .... and personal videos), ballet (Guilherme Botelho, Jozsef Trefeli, Kylie Walters and Mikel Arestegui) and stage (Manfred Karge's workshop with Jarg Pataki, Francesca Reyes Cortorreal, Fiona Sanmartin, Loulou, Futurax, ...) musics composed, performed and recorded / fashion shows sound track or live for Maria Galvez, Caroline Bault / duo album with Patrick Berchtold (2000) / dj in le comptoir, geneva (2000-2001) / two visits in paris / 2 solo albums (musique pour the undiscoverd country (2002), 62 texts for contempo (2006)) / many different music productions for many different artistic occasions / 2001 - 2006 producer of an internet experimental classical contemporary literary interneterary radio live show, 1000 hours played, 700 hours archived, 75 hours composed and copyrighted (contempo) / one visit and one drive to barcelona ,visit in london, drive to bratislava) / train travels in switzerland to visit the art institutions / studies xenakis, berio, boulez, Helmut Lachenmann, john cage, stockhausen, Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley, etc. etc. (see the playlists under the dates of every session) / reads nietzsche, barthes, lacan, Michel Foucault / collective exhibition in forde (2001) and piano nobile in dasein(2006)] / participation with Véronique Aubouy (lire proust 2001), SOIA (2003) "(((art is violence))) says robert grassi" quoted in Carla Cruz text about soia, Rainer Ganahl (reading Frantz Fanon 2003, écrivez_write@... (2001)), airbag (motorcycling the airbag with guests 1999), radio (Jérome Leuba, Joelle Flumet, Laura Solari, Sandra Hebler), aipotu (singing in "radio" 2006), ultrapepita (2000), Spencer Tunick (fribourg 2001, neuchâtel, grindelwald, interlaken 2002, barcelona 2003, 2004, lyon 2005), Sigismond de Vajay, Hervé Saint Hélier, Nicoletta Fagiolo, Nicholas Marolf, Elena Montesinos, Peter Sempel, Alex Baladi / collaborations with Roland Baladi, Christian Marclay, Cicero Egli, Eve Seitz, Cynthia, Groovy Barbarella, Sister Nancy, mouchette,Carla Demierre, Sixto, Yves Levasseur, Regis Golay, Chine Curchod, John Menoud, Fréderic Pollier, Fréderic Post and Friends, Stephan Perrinjaquet, Sylvia, Thierry Devaud, Yanara, Roxane, Angèle, Sophie, Tatiana, Valérie, Maria, Paola, Isabel, ... / plastic works in progress (burning and drowning and virtualizing 200 cds live (((arte cattiva))), web opera and "poluted square meter" 2002-2003, driving cars and sticking poster for art (kbb (barcelona), luff (lausanne), vision du réel (nyon), toit du monde (vevey) 2000-2006) / copyrighting 75 hours of music at suisa in 2005-2006 and claiming 262 hours of brodcasting royalties (suisa refuses to pay anything on 20.11.2006), etc...) / poetic texts http://robertgrassi.tripod.com / current instrumental practice: voice, electric guitar, five strings bass guitar, electronic drums, synthesizer, sequencer, hand percussion, roland mc 505 groovebox, sampler, 6 tracks mixer, soundcard audigy video, software audacity beta, pentium 4, lacie brick 250gb / about 45 fiction and experimental videos (since 1985) / part of the project "radio", paris 2006 / project for the music of a full length film by Donatella Bernardi (rome - geneva 2007) / reads classic novels / "french web opera" part1, part2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12 / different experimentations with the wikipedia user page / other musical works archived among others in the imeb-Bibliothèque nationale de France electronic music fund and the swiss national sound archive
[edit] concerts
rome, (in the visual art performance of donatella bernardi: voltagabbana/scarlatti forever [45'] by zorro et bernardo) 15 february 2007, 21h00, istituto svizzero di roma, via ludovisi 48, 00187 rome, italy / +39 06 48 14 234
paris, in the visual art performance "retourner sa veste 3" [2 x 20'] by zorro et bernardo (donatella bernardi and andrea lapsezon) 22 february, 18h30 centre culturel suisse de paris, rue des francs bourgeois 32 et 38, 75003 paris, france / 0033 1 42 71 44 50
[edit] personal links
archives contempo
texts texts performed on contempo
the radio show basic.ch
[edit] Wikipedia contributions since 2006
- Eric Rohmer synopsis description for many films
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau short definition of his musical notation system
- John Irving "alternative comment" of the novel Until I Find You
- Eric Gaudibert short biography and full mention of the composer's published work
- Peter Greenaway description of the film and performance Stairs 1 Geneva
- Helmut Lachenmann list of works translated from german wikipedia
- Mino Cinelu short biography
- Italo Calvino discussion about Calvino's problematic biography
