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Gabriele di Franco

LULELA VR (protoype)

22nd February 2022 by Gabriele di Franco
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LULELA is a contraction of the Italian ‘Lui’, ‘Lei’, and ‘L’altro’ (‘He’, ‘She’ and ‘The Other’).
It is a hybrid artistic performance in VR (for Oculus Quest), in which performers, a protagonist, and the audience are essentially one organism. It is a collective VR experience with an integrated music-theatre performance in which the course of the story is in the hands of the audience. Lulela is a VR-musical trip that combines emotions as loneliness and melancholia with humor and romance, addressing the theme of identity and how we define ourselves in relation to the world.
The audience can vomit rainbows, suddenly lose its hair, join a party, and much more. All this depends entirely on their choices.
In LULELA music, storytelling and VR technology merge into an innovative artistic format.

LULELA VR is not just a classical musical theatre show in virtual reality, nor just a game. It is a crossover project that aims to create a new experience that combines the possibilities of virtual reality with those of music-theatre.

Lulela VR in a nutshell

  • A participatory storytelling with multiple evolutionary possibilities
  • A unique blend of prerecorded 3D video, integrated into a VR universe
  • A story told by real performers
  • A collective experience
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LULELA VR is an adaptation of its “analogue” version LULELA (prod. by Lodmuziektheatre).

A snippet of the prototype

Curious to know more about LULELA VR? Contact me!

The prototype was developed thanks to the support of the Flemish government VAF, Cybernetic Walrus, and Lodmuziektheatre.

SJO\CGN | European Composers | Gabriele di Franco – Inspira (Inhale)

26th January 2022 by Gabriele di Franco
arrangement, big band, cologne, competition, composition, contest, orchestra, SJO\CGN, Subway Jazz Orchestra

Finally the video of INHALE is out.
Premiered by SJO/CGN at Subway Club on December 8th 2021 as part of the European Composers project.
Check it out on you tube and on instagram is also available a small explanation of the idea behind. 

Here available also a small interview where I say more about INHALE (Inspira)!

www.subwayjazzorchestra.com

Subway Jazz Orchestra | European Composers
Concert and live recording at Club Subway on December 8th 2021

“Inspira (Inhale)” composed by Gabriele di Franco
commissioned by the Subway Jazz Orchestra, Cologne

REEDS
Julian Bossert
Johannes Ludwig
Joachim Lenhardt
Jens Böckamp
Heiko Bidmon

TRUMPETS
Matthias Schwengler
Christian Mehler
Maik Krahl
Cay Schmitz

TROMBONES
Janning Trumann
Philipp Schittek
Matthias Schuller
Tobias Herzog

RHYTHM
Philip Czarnecki (git)
Felix Hauptmann (p)
David Andres (b)
Thomas Sauerborn (dr)

CONDUCTOR
Stefan Karl Schmid

Recorded & Mixed by Julian Speyer
Filmed by Cologne Custom Studios

Supported by Land NRW & Rheinenergie Stiftung Kultur

SJO\CGN presents: EUROPEAN COMPOSERS

22nd November 2021 by Gabriele di Franco
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I’m glad to announce that I was selected s part of the project EUROPEAN COMPOSERS promoted by Subway Jazz Orchestra of Cologne.
The big band selected five young composers from all over Europe who have composed new works especially for Subway Jazz Orchestra and will be giving their world premieres on the 8th of december.
This was preceded by a Europe-wide call by the SJO for composers up to 35 years of age. From the 54 applications received, the collective selected five candidates who were awarded a commission to compose for the orchestra.

Congrats also to the other 4 selected composers:

Jorik Bergman (born 1996 in Leiden, The Netherlands) is a professional jazz flutist, composer and arranger living in Cologne. She enjoys writing for large jazz ensembles and is currently organising her next big project. On the side, she has her own jazz trio in which she plays the flute, is doing her Master’s degree in composition at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and is also a professional model. Her dream is to retire one day and build her own miniature golf course in the south of France.

Tobias Hoffmann (*1988) is a saxophonist, composer and arranger born in Germany and currently living in Vienna and Graz. Besides being the bandleader of his award-winning “Tobias Hoffmann Nonet”, he works as a sideman for various projects and bands. He is also currently working on the debut CD of his “Tobias Hoffmann Jazz Orchestra”, which will be released in 2022.

Bianca Rantala is a 22-year-old arranger, composer, pianist and big band conductor from Estonia. She is currently studying music production in Helsinki, Finland and works as a freelance musician. Rantala is the conductor of several Estonian big bands, including the Taltech Bigband, the GOMK Bigband and the New Wind Jazz Orchestra. She has composed and arranged for all kinds of ensembles, but especially for big bands, vocal groups, wind and string orchestras. In 2020 she won 1st place in the Baltic Big Band Composition Contest.

Born in 1992 in south-eastern Styria (Austria), singer, composer and pianist Ursula Reicher shows her great passion for music in her diverse work, moving in many musical styles. She completed her master’s degree in jazz composition and arranging with Ed Partyka at the Kunstuniversität Graz/Institut Jazz as well as studying music education at KUG Graz and German at KF-Uni in Graz. Her great love is her current main project ‘The Void-Quintet’, a special formation with which she released her debut album “Globular Cluster” in 2019 and was also awarded a Downbeat- Award for “Outstanding Performance” in 2019 and 2020. Ursula was also awarded a Downbeat Award for Outstanding Composition in 2020 and 2021.

Recensione LULELA – Matteo Tangolo

26th October 2021 by Gabriele di Franco
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Una nuova bellissima recensione per LULELA nella edizione di ottobre di quiSalento.
Un grazie speciale va a Matteo Tangolo che con attenzione e professionalità è sempre disposto ad ascoltare e leggere le mie produzioni.

“Lulela. Lui, lei, L’altro” non è solo un libro, ma una lucida follia…
…Tutto funziona a puntino, con linguaggio limpido e una voglia matta di tenere il segno col dito, tra le pagine, per ritrovare quel bivio che ci si è lasciati alle spalle, e vedere come sarebbe andata la vita se si fosse imboccata un’altra strada.

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LULELA (Albatros il Filo) AWARDED at the International Award “Europa in versi e in prosa” 2021

24th September 2021 by Gabriele di Franco
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I’m very happy to announce that the text of LULELA was awarded 2nd prize at International Award “Europa in versi e in prosa” 2021.

Among the works received in the PUBLISHED NARRATIVE section, the jury decided to proclaim OVERALL WINNER:

BARBATI GABRIELE, Ho immensamente voluto, Funambolo Edizioni

FINALISTS
2° CLASSIFIED WITH EQUAL MERIT

di FRANCO GABRIELE, Lulela, lui, lei, l’altro, Albatros
SGARBI MARCELLO, Il bambino dell’aceto, Bookabook

3° CLASSIFIED WITH EQUAL MERIT

CICOGNETTI MAURIZIO, Replicante, Europa Edizioni
MALVOTTI ARMIDO, Internet non ci basta più, Helicon edizioni
SALVATORE ANTONELLA, L’Africa nel cuore, Albatros

The award ceremony will take place 23rd of October at La casa della poesia di Como, and the event will be also streamed.

The modalities of participation in the event will be announced on the website www.europainversi.org from the beginning of October.

MORE INFO

LULELA (Albatros) finalist at INTERNATIONAL PRIZE OF POETRY AND FICTION EUROPE IN VERSE AND PROSE

15th September 2021 by Gabriele di Franco
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Super happy to share another achievement for the text of LULELA (published by Albatros il Filo).

Lulela is finalist for the category PUBLISHED FICTION.

The jury of the International Award “Europa in versi e in prosa” 2021, having examined the numerous works competing in the various sections, has made an initial selection of the creations of greatest artistic merit, from which the finalists in each category, including the absolute winner, will be chosen.

MORE INFO HERE

Berlin selected as a finalist at the Barga Jazz International Contest

13th August 2021 by Gabriele di Franco
2021, Barga Jazz, berlin, big band, Concorso Internazionale, jazz orchestra, Mario Raja, orchestra

I’m glad to announce that my composition Berlin got selected as a finalist at the XXII CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE DI ARRANGIAMENTO E COMPOSIZIONE PER ORCHESTRA JAZZ.

The final will take place in Barga the 21st of August 2021.

Selected Composition – Section B (Originals)

  • Hyperbolic Time Chamber di Mo Han Chao
  • Berlin di Gabriele di Franco
  • Strange Sunday di Stefano Travaglini
  • Politics di Daniel Hofecker
  • Renegade di Tobias Hoffman
  • Pantelleria di Alessandro Presti

LULELA at Bijloke wonderland

9th July 2021 by Gabriele di Franco

I am pleased to announce that the premiere of LULELA will take place 27-28-29 August in the context of the Bijloke Wonderland Festival.

Get your ticket HERE

More about LULELA HERE

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Synolon // di Franco, Negro

14th June 2021 by Gabriele di Franco
Francesco Negro, synolon

SYNOLON

//DUO

ABOUT SYNOLON

SYNOLON [from gr. σύνολον, comp. by σύν «with» and ὅλος «everything»], the first album of Gabriele di Franco and Francesco Negro, merges the love for songs, free improv, classical, and jazz music.
That’s ‘how’ and ‘why’ Gabriele and Francesco decided to sum their notes in SYNOLON.

TOUR DATES
17 March – Bruxelles (BE) – Belgian Italian Jazz Festival – IIC

6 May – Fragagnano (IT) – Osteria dei quattro venti

7 May – Maglie (IT) – Ass. Cult. Bud Powell (Interview and Listening Session)

8 May – Lecce (IT) – Teatro Paisiello “Maggio musicale salentino”

11 May – Gent (BE) – Bar Lume

13 May – Bad Segeberg (DE) – Marienkirche Church

10 August – Genk (BE) – Jazz op het plein – C-mine

22 August – Maglie (LE) – Lammia in Jazz

27 September – Bruxelles (BE) – The Music Village

28 September – Bruxelles (BE) – Muntpunt

29 September – Charleroi (BE) – Livre ou Verre

8 November – Bruxelles (BE) – Midis d’Hortense au Musée Charlier

 

LISTEN TO SYNOLON

DISCOGRAPHY

Synolon // Gabriele di Franco, Francesco Negro

Gabriele di Franco

guitar and effects

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Synolon duo - ph © Federico Fiordigiglio (studiosciolto)

Francesco Negro

piano

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RELEASE: Tesseract trio EP

5th June 2020 by Gabriele di Franco

I’m very happy to share with you the first EP of Tesseract Trio!
Some of my compositions are in there, some standards and some other originals from the brothers Otto Kint and Egon Loosveldt.

The EP is available on BANDCAMP:
http://tesseracttrio.bandcamp.com/album/tesseract-ep

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