Luca Venitucci
Luca Venitucci
piano, melodica,
electronic devices
Dario Miranda
double bass
Ermanno Baron
drums, objects
Genera is a trio with piano, double bass and drums, expanded by the use of extended instrumental techniques, electronic devices, small instruments and sound objects.
The trio’s music ranges from fully improvised pieces to open compositions based on loose structures that organize the musical flow without forcing it into rigid forms.
The trio’s musical approach is distinctly experimental and at the same time engaging, direct and energetic, extremely attentive towards every smallest sonic detail and nuance. Elementary melodic cells, textures, noises and irregular pulsations integrate giving life to a rich, vibrant and constantly changing sound world.
All the members of the group are extremely active in the jazz, free improvisation and experimental music scenes and have extensively toured in Italy and abroad.
Genera's first album, recorded June 2022 at Abbey Rocchi Studios in Rome, is soon to be published. The album can be previewed here.
Video
Promo Video
full track video | Septa
Audio
full track audio | Symbiont
full track audio | Spores
full track audio | Hyphas
full track audio | Primordium
Luca Venitucci
A multi-instrumentalist, improviser and composer, he has been active in the fields of new and experimental music for more than thirty years.
In 1995 he co-founded the electroacoustic improvisation ensemble Ossatura, together with Fabrizio Spera and Elio Martusciello, with whom he has released several albums and toured in Europe, USA and Canada. He has also been a member of Zeitkratzer Ensemble and of other groups such as 7k Oaks with Alfred Harth and Massimo Pupillo and 300 Basses with Jonas Kocher and Alfredo Costa Monteiro.
He has played and recorded with musicians and composers such as Axel Dorner, Peter Kowald, Alvin Curran, Keith Rowe, Elliott Sharp, Butch Morris, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Marco Colonna, Otomo Yoshihide, Tim Hodgkinson, John Butcher, Alessandro Bosetti, Ingar Zach, Franz Hautzinger, Gianni Gebbia, Radu Malfatti, Michael Thieke, Mike Cooper and many more.
Since the nineties he has played in international festivals and venues such as Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville (Canada), Kolner Jazz Haus Festival, Total Music Meeting, Maerzmusik (Germany), Musique Action, Fruit De Mhere, Densités (France), Alternativa (Czech Republic), Controindicazioni, Angelica, Crossroads Jazz Festival, Young Jazz Festival, Festival Nuova Consonanza, Tempo Reale, Casa del Jazz, Auditorium Parco della Musica (Italy).
Dario Miranda
A musician and composer with varied experiences, he has always loved to move within the field of research and experimentation.
He graduated in double bass with top marks plus honours under the guidance of Maestro Rino Zurzolo and undertook the study and practice of jazz by attending Siena Jazz seminars. He has also attended courses in ethnomusicology, musical anthropology, history of modern and contemporary music, methodology of music criticism, orchestration, composition and music for film in institutes such as the University of Milan, the Experimental Centre of Cinematography and the International Music Institute in Rome. In Barcelona, he attended the Soundpainting Workshop with Walter Thompson.
He is a co-founder of the ensembles N-Est, Telegraph and SwedishMobilia, with which he has recorded for labels such as LeoRecords, Auand and Fundacja Słuchaj, receiving excellent reviews in the best specialized magazines both in Italy and abroad. He has played and recorded with Luca Aquino, Paolo Fresu, Antonello Salis, Chuck Findley, Fabrizio Bosso, Rita Marcotulli, Giovanni Francesca, Marco Colonna, among others.
Since 2010, his intensified concert activity has led him to perform in several international festivals and prestigious venues such as Fajr Festival (Iran), Paris Jazz Festival, Impro Focus (France), Revolution Festival (USA), Istropolitana Project (Slovakia), Auditorium Parco della Musica (Italy).
Ermanno Baron
He combines the freshness and creativity of jazz with today’s sensitivity of the experimentations in electroacoustic and electronic music.
Founder of the Italian electroacoustic improvisation ensemble Acre, he is also a member of other well renowned groups such as the MAT Trio with Marcello Allulli and Francesco Diodati, Ada Montellanico Canto Proibito and the Francesco Negro Trio.
He has collaborated widely with acclaimed musicians such as Peter Evans, Antonello Salis, Frank Tiberi, Steven Bernstein, Gianni Gebbia, Francesco Bigoni, Francesco Bearzatti, Shane Endsley, Fabrizio Bosso, Marco Colonna, Ohad Talmor, Brad Shepik, David Binney, Luca Aquino, Ludovica Manzo, Eugenio Colombo, Giovanni Falzone, Danilo Gallo, Dan Kinzelman, Javier Moreno Sanchez.
His continued development of a personal voice has led him to carry out an intense concert activity in prestigious festivals and international venues such as Smalls, Blue Note, Barbes, Fat Cat (New York), Jazz and World music festival (Zimbabwe), Jazz-Pt (Portugal), Tremplin Jazz Avignon (France), TanJazz (Morocco), Ankara Caz (Turkey), 4Fakultat, Oblomov (Germany), Interpenetration (Austria), Match&Fuse, (Poland), Roma Jazz Fest, Young Jazz in Town, Casa Del Jazz, Crossroads, Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Sudtirol Festival, Vicenza Jazz (Italy).