Diego Minciacchi
Diego Minciacchi is a composer whose recorded output centres on works that pair solo instruments or voice with tape, alongside a series of Klavierstücke for piano. Two albums of his music have been released by Col Legno. The Aforesaid gathers five pieces with tape: Earth Will Have Her Say for trombone and percussion, a collection for viola, Ritual for the New Morning for seven flutes (in its 1993 version), Cimeli zoomorfi for alto flute, and Westbau from Der Dom for bass voice, double basses and trombones.
Piano Works 1
Composer and neurologist Diego Minciacchi is as likely to publish a paper on motor skills as he is to compose music that mixes scientific and poetic ideas; yet this fact should not intimidate listeners new to his work, who might worry that the compos…
The Aforesaid
A professor of neurology at the University of Florence and one of Italy's foremost experimental composers, Diego Minciacchi creates fascinating music from raw scientific data and appends cryptic titles to his pieces that give them something of a whim…