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Sergio Armaroli

Born in Italy in January 1972, Sergio Armaroli is a jazz and improvising musician who has played a variety of percussion instruments, composes, as well as being a visual artist.

Sergio Armaroli (born 1972) is an Italian composer, percussionist, vibraphonist, teacher and total artist. His actions resonate through various artistic and musical fields, that of jazz being, perhaps, his most practised. He declares himself to be a painter, concrete percussionist, fragmentary poet and sound artist as well as founding his work "within the language of jazz and improvisation" as an "extension of the concept of art". Armaroli has collaborated with Fritz Hauser Steve Day Giovanni Maier Evan Parker Andrea Centazzo Giancarlo Schiaffini, Elliott Sharp, Roger Turner, Riccardo Sinigaglia, Billy Lester, Alvin Curran...

A composer, percussionist, vibraphonist, and multidisciplinary artist, Armaroli has been issuing radical and forward-thinking musical gestures for decades, working as one of Italy's most noteworthy interpreters of composer's like Giacinto Scelsi, John Cage, Pietro Grossi, Giancarlo Schiaffini, and Walter Branchi, as both a solo performer and member of the highly regarded Rib Trio, as well as forging a singular practice as a composer, intertwining his efforts as a painter, concrete percussionist, fragmentary poet and sound artist, within a total art, rooted "within the language of jazz and improvisation" as an "extension of the concept of art".

Sergio Armaroli is a composer, percussionist, vibraphonist, teacher and total artist. His actions resonate through various artistic and musical fields, that of jazz being, perhaps, his most practised. He declares himself to be a painter, concrete percussionist, fragmentary poet and sound artist as well as founding his work “within the language of jazz and improvisation” as an "extension of the concept of art".

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"...Ancora intorno a John Cage perché è difficile trovarne altri così contemporanei. Sorprendenti, divertenti. Prendendolo in parola, un musicista che si sta rivelando protagonista della neo-neo-avanguardia artistica non solo in Italia, Sergio Armaroli, sostiene che con Cage finisce la musica e si apre la stagione degli spazi dove risuonano liberi i suoni. In questo cruciale momento di transizione Armaroli fa musica di improvvisazione, anima circoli di ricerca musicale e..."

Mario Gamba, Alias/il manifesto del 20 agosto 2022

...come metodo conoscitivo, fuori dalla paralisi dello stile.