The Turinese musician and composer is one that, judging from his flares and hooked moustaches, could easily be mistaken for a Florentine radical architect, Frank Zappa or somebody coming straight out of a ‘70s pop festival. De Simone’s old-fashioned creativity, no doubt, lies in his cinematic vision and gently evocative music.
Dubbed by French newspaper Libération as “the new prodigy of pop”, Andrea Laszlo has been able to conjugate his previous experience in cinema – as we can enjoy in his wondrous music videos – with the technical challenges live music has been facing since the advent of Covid.
Il Film del Concerto – exclusively streamed on Dice.Tv on Sunday April 11th, 21.30 (CET) – is therefore promising to look like a meta-performance.
The artist, together with director Fabrizio Borelli (who previously worked with the likes of Luigi Comencini, Andrei Tarkovskij, Ermanno Olmi e Ettore Scola, among others), will use the Triennale environments to guide the audience through a both visual and emotive journey, hence challenging the physical and sensorial limits imposed by streaming.
The event – produced by MI AMI Festival as part of its #miamimimanchi project – revolves around the ‘Immensità’ suite that – divided into four acts: ‘Il Sogno’, ‘La Realtà’, ‘Lo Spazio’ e ‘Il Tempo’ (‘Dream’, ‘Reality’, ‘Space’, ‘Time’) – was conceived by De Simone as a cinematic journey from "the darkness to the light", where the elaboration of mourning leads to a metaphorical rebirth. A renaissance that, we hope, this event will represent, contributing to lead towards a new total art-like approach to live music.
Opening image: Andrea Laszlo De Simone, photo Camilla Riccardo Studio, courtesy La Triennale.
Preview image: Andrea Laszlo De Simone, photo Marco Previdi, courtesy La Triennale