mevlido / simone spampinato

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I have no substance beyond quotes that made the person I am:

So you have swept me back / I who could have walked with the live souls / above the earth, / I who could have slept among the live flowers / at last; so for your arrogance / and your ruthlessness / I am swept back / where dead lichens drip dead cinders upon moss of ash;

H.D Laurance

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“We are but gods holding a world and held by it, Fates that sound the trumpets Whilst the breath and the music come from beyond. And I rebel. I would exhaust myself to emptiness. I would dissolve myself afar from your vision”

Earth Gods" by Khalil Gibral.

for bells, violin, accordion and Live Electronics.

The three instruments are isoleted by walls, rooms, and other things that are meant to let them be distant.

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Email: website.essence189(at)passinbox.com

CV (PDF)

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“If beneath things there were to hide a bottomless void, never to be filled, what would life be other than despair? If this were the case—if no sacred bond were to unite humanity, if generations were to renew themselves one after another like the foliage of forests, if they were to be extinguished one by one like the birdsong fading in the woods; if they were to traverse the world as a ship crosses the ocean, or as the wind crosses the desert, as a blind and sterile action; if an eternal oblivion, perpetually ravenous, were to stalk its prey, and there were no force capable of tearing it away—how empty and desolate life would be"

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il canto delle cicale è un canto di pietra

non un canto di gola, neppure d’aria

come quello dei passeri, quello delle fronde

ma un canto di sole bruno e di pietra

un canto di tronco secco come la pietra

un canto d’arso e stoppie come la pietra.

Le cicale sono il punto d’incontro

l’anello mancante

fra l’insetto e la pietra.

Guido Celli, Pietra Madre

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discography

Liniaments I/II | October Ballads, Friederick Rasten - Mark Reid Bulatovich - Simone Spampinato, Isthmus Recordings ( to be release 2026)

Gentle Fire Helsinki, Dito Publishing (2025)

mastering, mixing and other form of collaboration

Treasure Hunt, Livia Schweizer, xxx (to be released 2026)

You Were There, Francesca Fabrizi, xxx (to be released 2026)

Artificial Dreams, Vittorio Auteri, Defense Mechanism (2025)

Irei/Tikur, Ivan Liuzzo, ZOK Records (2025)

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We speak of the windows and I see that you are distracted, you look for your own face in the shiny glass and your secrets, or the stories you tell, they stay trapped in this back and forth they don’t get to me. Water that runs, water that slaps, digging up absurd structures, inoperable. teems overflows crosses until it doesn’t pierce but it eats away with the perseverance of a hundred year old ant indifferent army that presses onward bit by bit.

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Gentle Fire Basel is a rework made with Ivan Liuzzo initiated in 2021, based on Alvin Lucier’s composition Gentle Fire (1971). The piece consists in transforming a sound image, present in a list, into another sound image, part of a second list.

This process should be slow and clear. Some sound ‘images’ written in the lists are sound events from the environment, others are speculative and imaginative.

[…] For me those lists were ways of making beautiful scores. I thought of them as poetry. […] ‘Some of the lists remind me of dreams…’

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What does Gentle Fire leave behind as a score, an idea or possible and concrete realizations? It is the right question for each human creation, not just musical ones: what does it leave behind?

Emiliano Turazzi on Gentle Fire Basel (2025)

Alvin Lucier rework by Ivan Liuzzo and Simone Spampinato

text contributions by Emiliano Turazzi and Daniela Gentile photographs by Tzuchi Su

edition curated by Klim Kutsevskyy and Martha Micali (DITO Studio)

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Il lavoro si concentra sull’epifenomeno del momento musicale. Quello che diventa musica è il passare del tempo, l’attesa, la permanenza del suono nello spazio più che il gesto che lo produce. La chitarra viene privata del suo attacco, del transiente mentre l’amplificazione distante crea una frattura percettiva. Come se la chitarra e performer non stiano comunicando tra loro. Il suono arriva come un residuo, come qualcosa che è già successo o che sta succedendo altrove.

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mater (2021)
wind stop before the wall (2020)
viola d'amore (2019)
short pieces (2019)

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l'écume des jours

sensibili alle foglie

tell your birds

TK ENSEMBLE

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Gentle Fire Basel, Dito Publishing (2025)

Del nostro Scavo continuo, Amalgama Edizioni - Archivio Tipografico di Torino (2025)

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sensibili alle foglie, is a ensemble specialised in intertwining between instruments, objects, and space. Their work seeks the presence of sound and its path through repetition towards absence, the path of becoming hemmed in between the imagined and the real. A lead into the otherness of listening.

“When They denied motion, He, as everyone knows, came forward in protest, actually came forward, because He did not say a word, but simply walked back and forth a few times, with which gesture He believed he had sufficiently refuted Their position. ” From: Soren Kierkegaard. “Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs”,

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ancorati alla sabbia (2025)

W (2025)

our hymns (2025)

Gentle Fire Basel (2021-2025)

minor angel n.1 (2024)

del nostro scavo continuo (2024)

an oath: of desert and sea (2024)

il canto delle cicale è un canto di pietra (2024)

tutto ciò sotto il sole: un soffio (2023)

archive of old and not anymore important projects (2018 - 2022)

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Un infinito vuoto

Un infinito niente

Tutto è vuoto niente

Qohélet, a cura di Guido Ceronetti

composed together with Gabriele Teti

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this part of the website is still under construction.

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A project by Caterina Dufì, Emanuele Caprioli, Simone Spampinato

Crossed by the subtle terror that is part of the miracle, we live the fear of failing to decode any sign, and that, because of this, the chthonic world from which the archaic creature comes may swallow us whole, leaving no escape. It is the ghosts of objects, their liquid shadows, that show us the way. Every sign becomes presence, every gesture becomes ritual, and we witness the miracle in disbelief, unfolding through our half-closed eyes.

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2026

July

June

26/06 valittu.kaduta, for Solo Violin, with Orest Smovzh, supported by Musiikin edistämissäätiö (MES)Toinen Kerros, Helsinki (FI)

May

17/05 second minor angel, Toinen Kerros, Ããnen Lumo, Finland (FI)
14/05 4 SOUNDS, Two2 by Cage, with Orest Smovzh, Toinen Kerros, Finland (FI)
05/05 Sulo Kolemainen-Mevlido, Kasarmintori, NEMO architetcts events, Helsinki (FI)

March

19/03 Sensibili alle foglie, Kulttuuriasiainkeskus Eläintarhan Huvila, Mymmala 2, Helsinki (FI)
17/03 Lecture and workshop at EMTA LAB Classes - Gentle Fire Basel with Ivan Liuzzo, Estonia (EE)

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W - for solo violin and pre-recorded violin

12 seconds starring at a window and then something appear.

12 seconds holding your breath and then ask you why.

12 seconds keeping you alive between impenetrable self to impenetrable unself.

For Orest Smohvz, W and always W.

Performed:

29/11/2025 Korvat Auki, Vaapa Taiten Tilla, Helsinki (FI)