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Francesca Fantini is a saxophonist, improviser and artistic researcher whose work moves smoothly between classical music, contemporary repertoire and free improvisation. Her artistic practice explores physicality, listening and non-idiomatic improvisation, often within transdisciplinary and experimental contexts.Dear reader,
Today I started composing for the night of the 27th. You should definitely come and support me. It’s the first time I’m trying to combine all of my current music-related activities into one evening.
It’s beautiful to see how the creative process unfolds and takes on a life of its own. The fact that I’m only starting to write down concrete ideas today doesn’t mean this is the first time I’ve reflected on it. I spend a lot of time thinking about it, imagining it, and picturing it in my head beforehand.
It’s a wonderful exercise in creativity and imagination. In your head, everything becomes possible — which comes with its pros and cons.
When I start to feel nervous and my head can no longer focus, I know it’s time to write. And when I write, choices come along. What felt completely clear and sounded perfect in my mind reveals itself to be a bit less simple than I thought.
Authenticity is the most difficult thing to aim for and to achieve. When you want to create a new world — even a small one, even just for one hour outside of reality — you need to be convincing so that everyone can step into it and join you.
It is about consistency, not much in the choices of sounds and language, but much more into the proccess and models you choose to follow and implement. Authenticity gives the work soul.
Coherence brings trust along. How much do we miss coherence nowadays? We have lost our trust. We are left with hope.
And that’s why we need to be honest.
Will it be true? Well, if art likes to bring you away from reality, it won’t be true. But it could become if we embody it and enactivate in our realities. Art as a way of living. Why not?
I must thank
Mario Calzada
Prof. Leonella Caprioli
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