JULY/AUGUST 2008
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17/07
Interview by Max Marchini
(Rockerilla n. 335/336), online at page:
Review
Press
:
http://www.rominadaniele.com/RD_review_press.htm
(italian)
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Ritual Magazine,
n. 35, july/august 2008, by Tony Aramini:
<<[...]
extreme
vocal experimentation [...] layered and assembled vocal tracks [...]
unusual harmonic features. A brave and versatile work - which include also
two extracts from the ‘Ascenseur pour l'échafaud’ soundtrack - for a young
artist born just in 1980
[...]>> [Full text (italian) available
at
Press page]
JU
NE 2008
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Max
Marchini
(Rockerilla,
n. 334)
writes about Aisthànomai, Il Dramma della Coscienza (cd, 2007):
<<As
if the plastic of the voice would be shaped here in a new aesthetics
(…) Her semantic and musical research is personal and sometimes
heartbreaking too. Voice and electronics trying to define a meaning
for this particular aesthetic and etymological project which draws
equations between sensation, perception, art and representation of
pain.>>
[Full text available at
Aisthànomai page]
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23/06
Interview by Roberto
Alessandro Filippozzi
(Darkroom Magazine) online:
http://www.darkroom-magazine.it/ita/109/Intervista.php?r=724
(italian)
MAY 2008
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On the 1st of May,
Radio Libertaire 89.4 F.M, PARIS (by
Nicolas Marmin
a.k.a. bondage),
very much actively interested in the cultural
and musical avantgarde, and in the electronic experimentation, broadcasts
the track "05. Dix ans, vingt ans" of the "Aisthànomai, Tragedy of Consciousness"
album project.
Info e playlist show:
http://epsilonia.free.fr/laccueil.htm.
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Simone Broglia (Mescalina.it) writes about
Aisthànomai, Il Dramma della Coscienza (cd, 2007):
<<
is
one of those albums which we are always less used to (…) concentrating on
the sound, it is a work about frequencies, often about very low frequency
sound waves (…) The voice is the main theme of the entire album, not an
instrument, but a way to create synonyms; the
voice is the presence of the artist herself
(...) divided and re-composed, separated in frequencies which are able to
dilate, lay, smooth over and strengthen themselves (...) Romina Daniele is
presenting a work that leave the listener satisfied for the opportunity to
appreciate an experimental work and a research about sounds, dynamics,
vocal timber, theatre, poetry, aesthetics, body.>>
Full review (Italian) at:
http://www.mescalina.it/musica/recensioni/recensioni-musica.php?id=2349
APRIL 2008
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Romina performed at Stanica.sk
Festival in
Žilina.
Video extracts
from the live shows in Slovakia on April 26th
and 27th are online at
Video Live Concerts
page. |
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Review by
Massimo Salari (Rock Impressions):
<< [...] we can listen electronics on which the singer express herself
completely, her voice going beyond, above its structural logics which
we have always been used to in our music listening. Intensity,
weirdness and theatrical atmospheres together in a reticular way. As
the artist says: ‘Aisthànomai involves sound diffractions and
introduces text diffractions (whereas the text commonly intended is
the symbol of the omniscience I want to unhinge) and digital
diffractions…’ [...] >>
Full review (Italian) at:
http://www.rock-impressions.com/danieleromina2.htm
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Review by
Erba della Strega.it:
<< [...]
Because she is not simply an
artist recording albums…we are in front of a soul which creates, modifies,
destroyes and creates something new. We are very far from the common
‘album’ concept and we are very close to the classical concept of ‘Art’,
take it or leave it. [...] >>
>>
Full review (italian)
here
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Review by
Dionisio Capuano (BLOW
UP Magazine
119, April 2008):
<<[...]
not only a great vocal ability - power and versatility – but a great
talent interpreting the sense of music and composing abilities
as well. You can listen/read "Aisthànomai" like a theoretical work, an
organized anthology
and a poetical-musical form (...) arising charming
performing/interpreting solutions (...) it’s mainly a sensory
experience (if not sensual) with the vibrating woman body, into
urgency (impact) of the reunification [...]>>
[Full text available at
Aisthànomai page]
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Review by Drexkode.net (Music, Events, Readings & Visions Webzine):
<<[...]
A peculiar
combination of
different disciplines including theatre, philosophy, aesthetics and
electronics used as a movie soundtrack. Aisthànomai - the
Greek term that means "to perceive, to understand” – with its essay
and its multifaceted
directions, it can be seen as a real opera of avant-garde theatre. Romina
Daniele put herself in front of the audience stimulating it and
producing a thrilling and a charming sound (...) the unique and
changing voice creates endless moods. Aisthànomai is a great
opera of direction [...]>>
[Full text available at
Aisthànomai page]
MARCH
2008
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The essay "il Dramma della Coscienza" ("Tragedy of
Consciousness"), from the "Aisthànomai" booklet - cd 2007, has been
published on
“Conseguenze: rivista di riflessioni critiche”
by Girolamo De Simone, available on-line.
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Review by
Roberto Filippozzi
(Darkroom Magazine):
<<Romina Daniele (born in Naples in 1980
and living in Milan from 2005) is
not so much known yet, but
she is representing one of the best new artist of the Italian
avant-garde musical scene. In 2005 she has been awarded with the
Demetrio Stratos International Award for musical experimentation
thanks to her first record. This award has been given to
Diamanda
Galàs and
Meredith Monk
too and it is dedicated to the memory of Demetrio Stratos which has
given a great contribution to the musical experimentation with his
band Area and the solo career (...)>>
[Full review (Italian) at:
http://www.darkroom-magazine.it/ita/109/Recensione.php?r=594]
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Review
by Delio Salottolo
(Labaut):
<
<
[...]
We could think… beyond the One (as sense, belonging,
voice, word and sensation) and the Manifold (of senses
excluding themselves, of the (non)belongings, of the (un)responsible
sounds, of the (non)meaning, of the emotional cords skinned from the
sounds), but we do not have to care about this: we have to face the
real danger [...] >>
[Full text soon available at
Aisthànomai Reviews page]
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Aisthànomai, il
Dramma della Coscienza (cd, 2007)
Digital distribution
>>
iTunes Store
Remember that
everyone can write a review at the
following pages:
CdBaby page -
AllMusic page -
iTunes Store
If you buy "Aisthànomai"
at
CdBaby, you will
also receive Diffrazioni Sonore (cd, 2005) for free.
More
info:
pmaster@rominadaniele.com
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March 8th 2008. Radio
Libertaire 89.4 F.M, PARIS (by
Nicolas Marmin
a.k.a. bondage),
very much actively interested in the cultural
and musical avantgarde, and in the electronic experimentation, broadcasts
the track "14. Poesis II" of the "Aisthànomai, Tragedy of Consciousness"
album project.
Info e playlist show:
http://epsilonia.free.fr/laccueil.htm.
DECEMBER
2007
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Video extracts:
- from the
performance on
July
16th 2006 at Arezzo Wave festival
- from the
performance on
October 13th 2007 at SoundMetak
OCTOBER
2007
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mailing service
We have discovered a mailing
error, several attempts of contacts didn't get
to us, in particular
referring the applications for
Diffrazioni Sonore free copies.
Please, excuse our slip
and write us again soon.
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Video extracts from
the performance on October 13th at SoundMetak are online at
http://www.soundmetak.com/soundmetak/live.htm
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Diffrazioni Sonore
reviewed by
Mattia Bergamini (MusicBoom): <<It's
bound to be ispired by
Diplofonie, Triplofonie, Investigazioni which, in that distant
1978, gave us an essay of Demetrio Stratos's vocal producing
ability. It is also bound to remind the spiritual and pensive forays of
Buffy Sainte-Marie (...) It's about
vocal experimentations, through its
stratifications and recording, which has - in the case of our Romina and
in her own words -
«the
objective to exalt the terms of the construction-sensation relationship,
not as conflict but as several extensions»
(...)>>Complet text (in italian):
http://www.musicboom.it/mostra_art.php?categoria=rubriche&Unico=20070917201731
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The concert of
october, 5 2007, at the
Carlo Zauli Museum - Faenza is been
cancelled and so
postponed,
because of an indisposition of Romina. Anyway Romina specially thanks
to the Faenza council, the organization of the festival in the person
of Michele Francesconi, the cultural project "Distretto Culturale
Evoluto".
SEPTEMBER
2007
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A collector's documentary live video (a
fragment from the performance at Villa Greppi) is available on
JULY
2007
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Diffrazioni Sonore
reviewed by
Enrico Mauro (art people & sites illustrated
Bella Lì
magazine): <<With
Romina Daniele's work we enter into a quite dangerous field, not only for
the Demetrio Stratos's experience and the vocal and sonorous experiments,
but also for the Diamanda Galàs's theatrical atmospheres, the standing and
the pain. It's difficult to judge (...) Her work isn't simply just music,
but the interpretation/interpreter essence itself: inviolable in its
audible, not indictable in its manifest complicated form.>>
Complet text (in italian):
http://www.musichunter.it/MHrecensione.php?ID=43.
JUNE
2007
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Romina
is performing at the Notturni of
Musicamorfosi,
the reticular cross-party Saul Beretta's project which takes
place in the suggestive Brianza parks with the concourse of many and
several artists, to rewrite the Twenty Century era.
MAY
2007
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Meeting
with Meredith Monk - Romina Daniele's performance
Ferrara, thursday 7 june,
at "Biblioteca Ariostea/Teatro Anatomico" h.18
edited by
Claudio Chianura and Franco
Masotti
“Demetrio Stratos”
International Award
promoted by
MM&T, Auditorium Edizioni and Insound magazine
At the end of the
Aterforum Festival 2007
open meeting dedicated to Meredith Monk, the exceptional american artist
is taking the
“Demetrio Stratos” International
Award for musical experimentation
(2nd edition), designated to celebrate the research and performing work
developed by the greek vocalist missing in the 1979. The award is assigned
by a jury presided by
Daniela Ronconi Demetriou, Demetrio
Stratos's wife: the last year award has been awarded from Diamanda
Galas and the young vocalist Romina Daniele
(new project), who works in a research field that is strictly related
to the Meredith Monk and Demetrio Stratos experiences.
(in italian)
http://www.teatrocomunaleferrara.com/aterforum07/aterforum07.asp
Romina performs
Aisthànomai, info at the live-page.
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Diffrazioni Sonore
reviewed by
Alberto Carozzi (Sands-zine):
"The
Daniele's
working method consists in to
record totally free vocal improvisations - singing, reciting, screaming
and vocalism
in a broad sense
- that are successively edited in complex set-compositions. It is a
contemporary concept of the composition process, in which the writing is
not on the paper but on the take, or the hard-disk; it involvs anyway an
arrangement and adjustment work as classical technique of composition
does.
Romina Daniele can be seen in a
new group of experimenters of the vocal expression possibilities..."
Complete text (in italian):
http://www.sands-zine.com/recensioni.php?IDrec=880.
MARCH
2007
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Diffrazioni Sonore
reviewed by Massimo Salari
(rock-impressions):
<<(…)
We, admirers of music,
we often turn up our nose
at certain kind of trial. Bad. It would need to approach the
subject with the necessary cultural and mental qualifications: here there
aren't tunes to croon, neither music to whistle (...) In Diffrazioni
Sonore we listen 30 minutes of vocalises, which are improvised during
a 3 hours studio session, but following 3 years of solitude, passion,
silence (...) A sonorous experiment in which the voice continuously
changes, exactly as a pinched and stretched spring does.>>
Complete text (in italian):
http://www.rock-impressions.com/danieleromina1.htm
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Diffrazioni Sonore
reviewed by Francesco Ovarelli
(territoriomusicale.it):
<<The
work that Romina Daniele has carried on over these years should not been
so easy.
The entire work is based on a
research exasperated to the core, to be retaken in several and improvised
sequences (...) The result, the first matter, is all here. The uneasiness,
the happiness, the pleasure, the serenity are some of the emotions which
Romina transmits to us through the most versatile and malleable instrument
at everyone’s disposal: the voice
(...) The voice supports the whole work, it's the only source for the
composition. Almost unconsciously, Romina realizes a splendid work in the
contemporaneous art ambit. The atmosphere is almost theatrical, crude and
visceral, marked by the superb and agonizing Romina’s vocal ups and downs.>>
Complete text (in italian):
http://www.territoriomusicale.it/recensione.aspx?id=192
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Diffrazioni Sonore
reviewed by Luca Rapetti alias Slovo
(blogbuster.it): <<An introduction: the work
by Romina Daniele can be placed in the avant-garde. And a prayer:
listening keeping away every preconceived ideas, any pre-established music
rule, its common meanings, structures, constitutive elements. Now we're
ready to listen to "Diffrazioni Sonore" (...) The realization of this
project, supported by a strong philosophy (which is the Manifesto of the
work) is free from all the common processes as well (...) Works like this
obviously arise more questions than assertions: where is the line that
separates the experimentation and the ultimate result? (...)
Anyway, it must be said that
Romina shows great courage proposing a work like this, probably more than
that Stratos needed in the 70’s, when there was an audience very sensitive
to the experimentation.>>
Complete text (in italian):
http://www.blogbuster.it/dblog/articolo.asp?articolo=360
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Thursday, the 1st march 2007.
Radio Libertaire 89.4 F.M, PARIS (by
Nicolas Marmin
a.k.a. bondage),
very much actively interested in the cultural
and musical avantgarde, electronic experimentation and "pushing voices",
broadcasts the track "Differisco II" (36° cr.) - of the "Diffrazioni
Sonore" project.
Info e playlist show:
http://epsilonia.free.fr/laccueil.htm.
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Diffrazioni Sonore
reviewed by Riccardo Merolli:
<<I manage to listen to "Diffrazioni Sonore" in a
strange condition, I feel very different moods until the total explosion
of my brain. Perfect electronics mixed with a particular leaden voice, so
I imagine cold and snow paths. The continuous research and innovation are
at the base of the perfect work by the Milanese by adoption "Romina
Daniele", to find new ways when all seems already done is certainly
talent. "Diffrazioni Sonore" deserves, without roundabout ways, sincere
applauses.>>
Complete text (in italian):
http://www.rockambula.com/recensione_details.php
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Diffrazioni Sonore
reviewed by Alessandro Nespoli:
<<Does
anyone knows where the voice was born? Where does it goes? What's its use
and how does it works? Is it possible that this mean of communication,
this natural musical instrument is paralyzed in a limited and wrong
culture? In the West, this wall was pulled down by Demetrio Stratos,
voice, not in a limited sense, of the band “Area”: he started with rock
music and rhythm'n'blues,
from a popular sound, to take his vocal research out of every limit of the
musical experimentation; he implemented his technical work with
scientific, psychoanalytic, ethnic and anthropological researches which
enabled him to involve diplo-phonic and triplo-phonic techniques of
mongolian and tibetan origin, which enabled him to work in a field of an
avant-garde sound applied to the theatrical expression, as Antonin
Artaud's work.
This wide, but not dispersive,
preface, introduce us to the character of Romina Daniele who, worthy to be
a Stratos pupil, has produced a work strictly rare and elaborate, not
really mannered.>>
Complete text (in italian):
http://www.theholyhour.it/rominadanielepage.htm
NOVEMBER
2006
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Diffrazioni Sonore
reviewed by Donato Zoppo:
"When
Area and Demetrio Stratos are mentioned, the frequent question is: who has
taken their legacy? Here she is, a great
heiress
not only for the vocalism but above all, for the deep exploration, spirit
of the Stratos's research. Romina Daniele has been awarded with the "Demetrio
Stratos international award for the musical experimentation" in 2005: her
bold and avant-garde project "Diffrazioni sonore" gave her this great
acknowledgement.".
Complete text in italian:
http://www.movimentiprog.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Recensioni&file=view&id=2237
OCTOBER
2006
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Romina Daniele's
Vocal laboratory -
november/dicember 2006. Valmadreara (Lc) Info:
info@cantierisonori.it
SEPTEMBER
2006
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Pubblished the page
LA VOCE PER DIRE (in
italian) title of the essay on the vocal producing by RD .
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September
11/12 2006:
Romina Daniele's seminar
on the occasion of
LeccoArtLab/Cantieri Sonori
- Valmadrera (Lecco). The program will be available soon. September 11,
2006: Romina Daniele will perform the Aisthànomai concert. - Lecco. Info:
lab.stage@cantierisonori.it
CRAMS 0341.250819
JULY
2006
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Prewiew: available the Romina
Daniele's article
Appunti su Arezzo (text in
italian); wrote for the
Insound
magazine where it's being published in september.
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Romina Daniele interviewed by
Alessandro Bianchi - RadioOrizzontiSaronno
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Available the
Romina Daniele Live AWLF
16luglio2006 mono
video (Performance and interview).
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RadioRaiInternational
in link-up to Arezzo: Ugo Coccia
intervews Claudio Chianura (Auditorium Ed.). The latter presents the
Insound magazine and Romina Daniele, artist proposed in Arezzo Wave.
In broadcast "Intro intellegibile".
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Said from Arezzo: "
Awarded with the prestigiouse DEMETRIO STRATOS award in the 2005, Romina
Daniele is working in the field of the vocal research by combining
experimentation and feeling. The strong personality of the 25 years old
napolitan girl shows a rare artistic disposition in the contemporary
music survey. The choice of InSound underlines her free and stimulating
way to intend the voice work."
(borrowed from the page
www.arezzowave.com/festival/gruppo.php?ID=1526).
"Romina Daniele, artist selected by
the prestigiuos InSound magazine, confirms the expectations, delighting
the audience with vocal and sound alchemy. After awarding the Demetrio
Stratos award, the 25 years old napolitan girl seems projected towards a
remarkable artistic growth, by a peculiar vocal research which unites
experimentation and pathos."
(borrowed from "Wake Up stage report -M. Ferrante"
www.arezzowave.com/notizia.php?ID=3181).
MARCH 2006
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May/july 2006
Romina Daniele's
Vocal laboratory
on the occasion of
LeccoArtLab/Cantieri Sonori - Valmadrera (Lecco).
OCTOBER/NOVEMER
2005
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On Alias Il Manifesto, it's been published the
article "Rivoluzione
Musicante" by Girolamo De Simone (KonSequenz)
about the music and the revolution from a social
and philosophical point of view.
[Here the article in italian]
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Proposing the work
Diffrazioni Sonore
Romina
Daniele has been
awarded
with
the Demetrio Stratos International
Award for musical
experimentation,
theme: “vocalism and research”.
The
award has been
given for the Career
to the
great
American artist Diamanda
Galàs .
[Here the releted article
and press release.]
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