Corriere di Bologna (October 2007)
A profound feature interview exploring the multi-disciplinary roots, structural philosophies, and vocal improvisation methods behind the creation of Aisthànomai.
RDM Records Archive
10/5/20072 min read
Published on the occasion of the Voci di Tenebra Azzurra Festival in Faenza, this comprehensive feature interview by Paola Gabrielli for Corriere di Bologna explores Romina Daniele’s multi-disciplinary background across classical dance, photography, and cinema.
Entitled 'Improvisando penso a Demetrio Stratos' [Improvising, I think of Demetrio Stratos], the discussion provides a rare musicological preview of her upcoming masterwork, Aisthànomai: Il dramma della coscienza. Daniele details the dual structural pillars of her vocal method—balancing strict compositional architecture and intellectual rigor with absolute, real-time vocal improvisation—while reflecting on the profound, dream-like impact of her international Stratos Prize victory on her continuous sonic research.
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Headline: Improvising, I think of Demetrio Stratos
Subhead: The singer, award-winner in 2005, at the festival in Faenza
"FAENZA — Absolute vocal improvisation, electronic processing in real time, and musicological research. This is the mixed territory, open to the most extreme experimentation, in which twenty-seven-year-old Romina Daniele moves. Born in Naples, she lives in Milan, where she arrived to study at the Civic Schools, arriving from a background that goes from classical dance to photography and cinema.
Tonight she will be at the Masini Theater in Faenza (at 9 PM) inside the review 'Voci di Tenebra Azzurra'[Voices of Azure Darkness], organized by the MM&T Association, Area Sismica, and the Municipality. Daniele has a special bond with this review: in 2005 she won the Demetrio Stratos International Award for musical experimentation.
'Winning that award,' explains the artist, 'was a dream. Stratos represents a fundamental point of reference for me. His research on the voice as an instrument, capable of freeing itself from the word to express the unexpressed, is close to my work.' > For Daniele, the voice is an autonomous instrument. 'My performances,'she continues, 'are born from a path where fifty percent is structured composition and the other fifty percent is pure improvisation. I try to explore the vocal technical possibilities, from the lowest sounds to the highest, using electronics to multiply and transform the sound in real time.' Tonight, she will present a preview of pieces from her next recording project, 'Aisthànomai', a work centered on the concept of consciousness."
