LUCA VENITUCCI

​

A multi-instrumentalist, improvisor and composer, he has been active in the field of new and experimental music for more than thirty years.

​

With piano, accordion and singing he has developed a highly original expressive approach, focused on the intensity of live performance and on a variegated sound research in which extended instrumental techniques, electronic devices and unconventional sound sources are also employed.

​

His music is characterised by an intuitive synthesis of compositional and improvisational aspects, which draw and re-elaborate / rework elements from a wide range of genres, styles and approaches: free improvised music, contemporary jazz, popular music, folk, songwriting, post-cagean experimentalism and concrete and electroacoustic music.

​

In 1995 he co-founded the electroacoustic improvisation group Ossatura, together with Fabrizio Spera and Elio Martusciello, with whom he has released several albums and toured in Europe, Usa and Canada. Other projects which he has taken part in include 7k Oaks with Alfred Harth, Massimo Pupillo and Fabrizio Spera, Michael Thieke’s Unununium quartet and octet and the experimental accordion trio 300 Basses together with Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Jonas Kocher.

​

In 2002, as a member of the Berlin based Ensemble Zeitkratzer and together with Ulrich Krieger, he transcribed and orchestrated Lou Reed’s experimental composition Metal Machine Music, which he then performed with the same ensemble and with Reed as a guest musician at Berlin’s MaerzMusik Festival and at the Malibran Theatre in Venice.

​

His most recent project is Genera with Dario Miranda and Ermanno Baron, a piano-bass-drums trio expanded with extended techniques, little instruments and electronic devices.

​

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.

​

Once again Luca Venitucci aroused surprise for the total timbral control of his musical world, made of small sounds, explosive timbres, dramatic bellow openings and sounds that explode like in a fantastic alchemist's shop (Marco Colonna)

 

A totally different sound world emerges from the keys of the instrument. Venitucci is endowed with a remarkable inner sensitivity and is capable of creating a synthesis between apparently distant sound worlds, such as the most avant-garde experimentalism and the folk tradition (Stefano Piferi, Sentireascoltare)

 

A shuffle of evocations that draw from the ordinary and then spread in unexpected and unintelligible trajectories (Romina Baldoni, distorsioni.net)

 

Luca Venitucci on accordion and prepared piano was the greatest surprise for me (Frans De Waard, Vital Weekly)

​

longer bio