ENSEMBLE COLLETTIVO CRISIS

Pietro Frigato - guitar
Marco Bussi - piano, electronics
Daniel Savio - guitar
Davide Rossato - drums & percussion

Ensemble Collettivo Crisis is a group of composers and performers focused on music research and production in the fields of new music, improvisation and contemporary arts. They are active since 2012, based in Rovigo, in the north-east of Italy. The recent music production and research of Ensemble Collettivo Crisis investigates the unconscious formal paths and structures of free improvisation, and explores the concept of borders in music: sound/noise/silence, perception/non perception. The Ensemble is active in contemporary music composition as well, bringing improvisation in the score, deepening the idea of structuralism and expanding the possibilities of traditional instruments through live electronics and new technologies.

http://crisisensemble.it/ 

Pietro Frigato
Composer and E-Guitar player, based in Rovigo, Italy starts studing guitar in the early years of his life and at the age of 12 begins to attend the class of Clarinet at the conservatoire "F. Venezze" in Rovigo. During the secondary school he approaches to electric guitar world, taking part to several rock'n'roll projects. He started studing composition at the age of 17 under the carismatic and inspiring guidance of Maestro Carlo De Pirro and after the clarinet diploma (2009), he focuses his studies in the research of a personal poetics and musical language. He graduated in composition in 2017 in the class of M° Andreina Costantini and M° Nicola Evangelisti. The most of his works are connected by the need to create and investigate the relationship between the composer, the performer and the audience, in this way, both free and guided improvvisation get a valuable importance in his research. He takes part to several masterclasses with the composers Tristan Murail, Claudio Ambrosini, Azio Corghi, Andrea Agostini, Francasco La Licata, Paolo Aralla Sonia Bo and many others. In 2016 he studied composition in the "Hochschule fur musik und theatre" of Hamburg with the professor Xiaoyang Chen, and free improvisation with the prof. Vlatko Kucan. In 2012 He co-founded the "Ensemble Collettivo Crisis", a group of composers and performers who practices and performs collective composition and improvvisation in the field of contemporary music. In 2014 he created the F:A:M: fucina artistica musicale ("musical and artistic forge"), an educational project in which the music teachers can research and develops custom, non-standard, maieutical and innovative way to teach music and to improve the student's creativity and artistic freedom. 

Marco Bussi
Musicolgist and pianist, Marco Bussi started playing piano at five. In 2012 he graduated at the Conservatory “F. Venezze” in Rovigo where he is currently studying Composition with professors Andreina Costantini and Nicola Evangelisti. In 2015 he gained a MA in Musicolgy at the University of Pavia. He is interested in musical disciplines at 360-degrees and he works mainly on Twentieth Century Music Theory and on Music Cognition. He attended several Composition Masterclasses held by Tristan Murail, Claudio Ambrosini, Andrea Agostini, Francesco La Licata, Sonia Bo, Francesco Pavan among others; and also Piano Masterclasses held by Alessandro Specchi, Pietro di Maria, Sven Brich. In 2015 he worked at the Music Cognition Lab at Queen Mary University of London. During this period, he collaborated with prof. Marcus Pearce at the implementation of computational model for Machine Learning. In 2012 he co-founded the “Ensemble Collettivo Crisis” formed by composers and musicians who practice collective composition, experimental improvisation and contemporary music research. His research is oriented mainly on electronic and electroacustic music as well as on the implementation of automatic procedures for composition and execution. He is also interested in human-machine interaction and in experimental improvisation as a way to establish archetypical procedures of music communication.

Daniel Savio
Electric guitar, electronics and objects player based in Venice, Italy, starts studying guitar at the age of 14 by himself. He graduated as guitar jazz player from the Conservatory of Venice in July 2016 by the guidance of Andrea Massaria, and now he is making jazz specialization with Roberto Cecchetto and Domenico Caliri. He also deepened the study of classical harmony with Gianluca Mosca. In the last five years, he takes part to several masterclasses with: Steve Lehman, Evan Parker, Andrea Massaria and Bruce Ditmas, Bebo Ferra, Ethan Iverson, Eddie Gomez and many others.
In 2015 he performed in the Cà Foscari Jazz Ensemble of Venice with Nicola Fazzini. In 2016 he played in a classical guitars Ensemble, a tribute to Roland Dyens, under the guidance of Monica Paolini.
He played with “Tengo un' orchestra tanta Ensemble” (music by Frank Zappa) directed by Giovanni Mancuso. In 2018 he played in “Venezze improvisation ensemble” with Vlatko Kucan and Massimo Falascone at the “Cataclisma improvisation Festival” in Rovigo. He worked in the Theatre of Verona with actors, for rapresenting different stories by free impovisation. He founded many projects:
Ula Loop jazz trio, with original compositions and music by Bill Frisell and Paul Motian; The Poodles, a jazz rock duo formed by guitar and voice.
He recently played at London Oooh Festival, with a project called Polibobby, an improvisating duo born with the drummer Davide Rossato.
He is playing with the “Ensemble collettivo crisis” group.

Davide Rossato
He began studying percussion at the age of 5 at the Noale - Venezia Philharmonic. He graduated from the Conservatory of Venice and studied jazz percussions with Paolo Pellegatti and Cristiano Calcagnile. He also studies free improvisation with Giovanni Mancuso. After the first workshops attended together with Evan Parker, he collaborates with Otomo Yoshihide. The center of his expressive and artistic motivation stems from the sociological, political and human analysis of today's society. it resides in the desire to offer to the listener an alternative, a way out (and in) that leads to meditation, to the observance of nature and to the introspection that derives from it. The focus of his playing lies in the sound. He is a researcher, who combines freedom and responsibility in his improvisations. He is indeed ambassador of the work called the third paradise of Michelangelo Pistoletto. He recently played at the London OOOH festival in the project called polibobby together with guitarist Daniel Savio. He also play with the crisis ensemble.