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Massimo Garritano
Author of music for silent films, ballets, readings, theatrical performances, soundtracks, multimedia performances, he is leader of projects. He splits between jazz, rock, experimental music, pop and its solo concerts in which it uses real time electronic effects, stringed instruments as acoustic guitar, bouzouki, lap steel and extra-musical objects with whom the guitar is prepared.
Jazz Composition teacher at the Conservatory of Music in Udine (2019, 2020,2021). Jazz guitar teacher at the Conservatory of Music in Potenza (2016 and 2017) and at the Conservatory of Music in Cosenza (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020).
From 2006 to 2016 he has been assistant professor for the pre-academic courses of jazz guitar, jazz harmony and jazz & pop-rock ensemble music at the Conservatory of Music of Cosenza.
In these last years his attention has been focused on the acoustic guitar with which he continues the research and experimentation of sounds combining the use of pedal effects with which he creates original soundscapes. In may 2016 he released Present his first solo acoustic album. On January 29, 2021 the new release Freefolk – Songs & Instant Compositions.
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Gianmaria Aprile e Massimo Garritano: visioni sonore solitarie
by Mario Calvitti
Recentemente sono stati pubblicati due lavori di chitarristi italiani accomunati da una gestazione molto simile, anche se molto diversi nei risultati musicali. Entrambi sono stati concepiti e realizzati durante un isolamento volontario degli artisti nei loro paesi di origine ai lati opposti della penisola (Lombardia per Gianmaria Aprile, Calabria per Massimo Garritano), in mezzo alla natura, affidando ai suoni generati dai loro strumenti la descrizione di immagini, ricordi, impressioni che vanno a costituire una sorta di diario sonoro intimo e ...
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