ALFA#2_ Stork Story

watch video ➤ • 2'39" ~ for Accordion, Prepared Piano, Percussion & Electronics

This second video of the series is a beautiful neo-realistic short film by Francesco Mattuzzi (Milan, It), made in the unconventional 9:16 vertical format.

Francesco sets the film around a church in a little village near Milan, where a relationship between a man and a family of storks is evolving through sound. The keyboard, the bells of the church, and the clacking of the storks' beaks are the natural sounds around which the entire sound universe is built using percussion, prepared piano, accordion, and electronics.

ALFA#Rafael LeloupJune 25, 2016Accordion, Percussions, Electronics, 9:16, Vertical, Italy, Experimental, Atonal, Neo-realism, Francesco Mattuzzi, Berlinale Talents, PianoComment

ALFA#1_ Ouverture

watch video ➤ • 2'26" ~ for Accordion, Piano, Harp, Percussion & Electronics

The first piece of the series has been written around the notes D, F, A - Ré, Fa, La in French -, Fa and La being an anagram of the project name ALFA. The scores were handed to 3 musicians in New York, Bordeaux and Brussels, who filmed themselves playing the piece. The resulting video is an edit of all best ideas received. Short and colorful, it serves as a perfect Ouverture for the suite.

From East to West - Percussions: Arthur Ros, recorded in Brussels — Harp: Louise Ollivier, recorded in Bordeaux — Piano: Michelle Kalisz, recorded in New York — Accordion: Rafaël Leloup, recorded in Los Angeles

ALFA#Rafael LeloupMay 24, 2016Accordion, Piano, Harp, Percussions, Electronics, Los Angeles, New York, Bordeaux, Brussels, Michelle Kalisz, Louise Ollivier, Arthur Ros Comment