Alberto Nacci
musician, videomaker

"... Nacci possesses a sense of space of a rare balance….  
(Audio Review)

".Nacci is a great musician, who has been following for years non-conformist lines, but always adepted to jazz rigour..." 
 
(Jazz)

 “The jazzman that transforms the sounds of a steelworks in … music!".
(La Repubblica)


DISCOGRAPHY (cd - dvd): 

·       Alberto Nacci  Alma Quartet   Isola lontana   (cd - Splasc(h) Records - 1990 )
·       A.A.V.V.   III Rassegna Jazz Franciacorta   (LP - Jf Records - 1990 ) 

·       Alberto Nacci Alma   Project  Colours    (cd - Splasc(h) Records - 1992 )
·       A.A.V.V.  Sicilian Jazz Collection  (vol.3)  (cd - Splasc(h) Records - 1994 ) 
·       Alberto Nacci
  Trio   Kaos (cd - MAP Records - 1994
·      
Sax Mobile feat. Pierre Favre Conserto  (cd - Modern Times - 1996) 
·       Giorgio Gaslini - Ensemble Mobile Jelly’s Back in Town (cd - Dischi della Quercia - 1996) 

·       Alberto Nacci
Brass Project Passing (cd - Splasc(h) Records - 1996 ) 
·       Alberto Nacci
The Path of Water (cd - Modern Times - 1996) 
·       Alberto Nacci   Lovers (cd - AJP Records - 1998) 

·       Alberto Nacci
Self-portrait of a sound (cd - AJP Records - 1998) 
·       Vox Party Vox Party (cd - AJP Records - 1999)

·       World Fantasy – racconti in musica Chura e Marwe (cd - AJP Records - 2002)

·       Visioni (cofanetto con 3 opere sonore,cd - AJP Records - 2006) 

·       Fireworks (dvd video - AJP Records - 2006) 

·       The Colours of Black (dvd video - AJP Records - 2007) 

·       I Rifugi Antiaerei di Dalmine (dvd video – 2008) 

·       The Moving Town (dvd video – AJP Records – 2009) 

·       L’Arte della Calcografia (dvd video – AJP Records – 2009)

·       WiP - work in progress (dvd video – AJP Records – 2010)  

 

FILMOGRAPHY

 

·     Personaggi in cerca di … protezione (2003, didactic)

·     Kandinskij (2004, videoart)

·     Il Museo Archeologico di Bergamo (2005, documentary)

·     Fireworks (2006, videoart)

·     The Colours of Black (2007, videoart)

·     The Moving Town (2008, videoart)   

·     I Rifugi Antiaerei di Dalmine (2008, documentary)

·     L’Arte della Calcografia (2009, documentary)

·     Clusters (2009, videoart)

·     Scandalo a Palazzo (2009, documentary)

·     Quippe Dance (2010, videoart)

·     Tempio di Luce - Paolo Belloni,Chiesa a Dalmine (2010, documentary)

·     Philip Corner meets Eric Satie (2010, documentary)

·     Fra La Terra e  il Cielo - Mario Botta, Chiesa a Seriate (2010, documentary)
·     WiP - work in progress (2010, videoart)
·     SelfCare (2010, videart) 
      Art and Silence (2011, docu-film) 
      Sculpted by The Wind (2011, videdoart) 

 

 A polyhedric artist, boasting long experience in the field of jazz music. He collaborated with many of the major Italian and international jazzists, such as Giorgio Gaslini, Gianluigi Trovesi, Paolo Fresu, Enrico Rava, Pierre Favre, Franco D’andrea, Martin Dietrich, Joe Garrison, Tino Tracanna, Antonio Faraò, Rudy Migliardi , Arup Kantidas, Dudu Kwatech, a.o.  
In the last fifteen years has worked in different areas (jazz, theatre, art, contemporary dance, photography,videoart…) continually in the search for the… fifth dimension”  of reality: the Sound!  
He composed the music, produced video and directed a theatre performance, "La Via dell'Acqua, realized various musical projects and records, appreciated both by the public and the specialized press. He wrote and recorded music for the modern dance performances “Canali” and “Huis Clos”, with by Martine Bucci, “The Moving Sound” with choreography by Eugenio De Mello , “La Via dell’Acqua” with the actor Albino Bignamini, “Travolti”, (video-theater-music performance) with the actor Walter Tiraboschi , He participated in "Specchi d'Acqua", a contemporary art exhibition (Villa Viscontea, Castello di Trezzo sull'Adda, Milan) in which he presented his music on CD (The Path of Water - Modern Times Records). The interest for the possible relations between different visual arts and the world of sounds, led him to the creation of "Suoni e Ombre" (performance for saxophones and computer), “Fording” (performance for saxophones, computer and images) and “Fireworks (videoart project and “live” performance) with the photographer Dario Guerini , “The Colours of Black” with the great artist Mario Benedetti. He has collaborated with artist Morgan O’Hara and the english vocalist Sarah Frances for the  performance “Live Transmissions”.
Previously professor of Sound Design at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bergamo and L.A.B.A (Libera Accademia di Belle Arti) of Brescia,  Nacci perfected an artistic language where music interacts with the tones, harmonies and rhythms of instruments which he records in the most diverse environments thus creating pictures in which the usual hierarchy of image and sound is overturned in such a way as to give the latter the role of “point of reference” and guideline for the sequence of the film. Using this style, he created works of video art to great critical and public acclaim, winning prizes in Italy and abroad. His work has been presented in Saint Petersburg Philadelphia, Puebla (Mexico), Vien, Lisboa, London, Rome, New York, Los Angeles, Locarno Paris, Strasbourg, Toronto,  Milan, Florence, Naples, Bergamo, Verbania, Gorizia.



Artistic activity (selection)

2011  Torino, BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE UNIVERSITARIA: screened L'ARTE DELLA CALCOGRAFIA (directed by A.Nacci) during the exibition GRAFICA OGGI; Bergamo Spazio Espositivo Ex-Maddalena: screened videoart work SCULPTED BY THE WIND - Homage to Franco Normanni (directed by A.Nacci) in the exibition Spazi Composti di Franco Normanni; videoart work QUIPPE DANCE selected at SWANSEA BAY FILM FESTIVAL, HEARTH OF ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IRELAND, INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AUSTRALASIA, INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL THAILAND, INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WEST WALES, INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SOUTH AFRICA, INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL, NEW YORK SHORT FILM FESTIVAL;

2010  THE MOVING TOWN: selected at CANNES INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (FRANCE),  winner at ALASKA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Best Music Video); QUIPPE DANCE: winner (Best Editing) at 2010 PHILADELPHIA  DOCUMENTARY & FICTION FESTIVAL (USA); Special Mention of Jury at PUNTA DEL ESTE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Uruguay); screened at "THE BEST SHORTS OF THE WORLD" of the Annual Program Without Frontiers (West Hollywood California - USA; selected at DIGIFESTIVAL -  total art festival (Firenze), SHORT FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES (USA), SALENTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL , SAN FRANCISCO SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (USA). Producer and director of documentary FRA LA TERRA E IL CIELO - Mario Botta, Chiesa a Seriate screened at MART - Rovereto inside the exibition MARIO BOTTA - ARCHITECTURE 1960-2010, GAMeC (Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo), Triennale of Milan; producer and director of videoart work WiP - work in progress; producer and director of industrial documentaries for FERRETTI Spa/ECOCEM (Fos Sur Mer - France); producer and direcctor of industrial documentary for LAMBRATE-SEGRATE- Scarl; documentary for BELLAVISTA;

2009  selected (with  The Moving Town) at International Urban Film Festival (Tehran, Iran), ATHENS INTERNATIONAL FILM&VIDEO FESTIVAL (Ohio, USA), SHORT FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES (USA), SALENTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Italy) ; San Francisco Short Film Festival (USA); selected (wirh The Moving Town and The Colours of Black) at New York Short Film Festival (USA); Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti - Bergamo, screening L'ARTE DELLA CALCOGRAFIA tecniche e metodi;  2009 PHILADELPHIA DOCUMENTARY & FICTION FESTIVAL winner (best direction) (wirh The Moving Town); Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milano) screening L'ARTE DELLA CALCOGRAFIA; (wirh The Moving Town) FESTIVAL DU CINEMA DE PARIS Mention special du Jury; Venezia, Galleria Scalamata, PARALLEL WORLDS - collective contemporary art exibition;  Official Nomination 2009 Filmmaker International Film Festival (best short gilm with THE MOVING TOWN); winner (with The Moving Town, best photography)  Festival de Cine Internacional de Barcelona

2008 participation (with The Colours of Black  at  LOS ANGELES International Independent Film & Video FestivaL (USA):; presentation of picture The Colours of Black in the exibition by Mario Benedetti  "OPERE SU CARTA" at Seriate (BG) and ESPLORAZIONI at Verbania; selected  (with The Moving Town) at NEW YORK International Independent Film & Video FestivaL (USA), at 61^ FESTIVAL DU FILM LOCARNO (SWITZERLAND),  at Strasbourg International Film Festival (FRANCE),  at DIGIFESTIVAL (Total Art Festival, Firenze); participation (with Fireworks) at EURONIGHT08 proposed by Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Toronto (CANADA); selected (with The Moving Town) at 62^ FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL CINEMA DI SALERNO; 13th Tehran International Short Film Festival (Iran), Golden Gate Fiction & Documentary Festival, San Francisco (USA); participation at Biennale di Arte contemporanea del Piemonte (BAM Piemonte Project) with aerwork  "RESONANCE" realized with sculptor  Valerio Tedeschi; winner (with  "The Colours of Black" , best art direction) of CHICAGO SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (USA); with The Colours of Black, Mention Speciale du Jury  at FESTIVAL DU CINEMA DE BRUXELLES ;

2007  shooting of  FIREWORKS at UNARTE University of  Puebla, Mexico ; partecipation with FIREWORKS at  After Urban - International contemporary art meeting University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA - USA;  FIREWORKS "live performance" - at STUDIO CAPITOL - Vimercate (MI); show of  video "Mario Benedetti - THE COLOURS OF BLACK"  at Museo Civico di Cremona; ARTEOPEN - ITINERARI POSSIBILI - internarional contemporary art meeting  - Staranzano (GO); Internazional Festival SUONI E VISIONI (Milan) FIREWORKS "live"; winner (with FIREWORKS) at TAM TAM DIGIFESTIVAL 2007 (Naples) "Digimusic section"; partecipation at international festival SUONINTORNO 2007, Torre de' Roveri (BG); shooting of Fireworks at SALA ESPOSIZIONI PANIZZA - Verbania: FIREWORKS: selected at videoart festival International ArtExpo - Liquid Room" - New York; partecipation (with Fireworks) at "Incontri del Cinema italiano" - Lisboa (Portugal); selected  (with Fireworks and The Colours of Black) at 12th edition of Tehran International Short Film Festival;

2006  POLICE BUILDING ini Bergamo: GIALLO IN QUESTURA - "live" performance ad direction; GAMeC - Gallery of Contemporary Art in  Bergamo: VISIONI  (3 sonorous works) proposed inside the exibition  WAR IS OVER la libertà dell'arte da Picasso a Cattelan a Warhol; GORLE - Auditorium : LIGHEA - music-theatre performance; PORTA S.AGOSTINO - Bergamo, "live" performance to present new dvd FIREWORKS ;OPEN DAY for  100 yeard of  TENARIS DALMINE Company: FIREWORKS "live" performance; International OPEN CINEMA FESTIVAL (San Pietroburgo): FIREWORKS projection; Università of Bergamo: concert-lesson about the theme "Jazz & Finance"Theater Comuna Baires (Milan): "USCITA DI EMERGENZA" (International festival of contemporary dance) in collaboration with english dancer and coreographer iRobert Eugene; Politecnico of Milan: GENERATIVE ART CONFERENCE 2006: Fireworks (live performance);

2005  Salone di Apollo di Palazzo Rasini - Cavenago (MI): performance "FORDING "; Sistema Bibliotecario di Bergamo - Stage IL COLORE DEI SUONI; University of Bergamo - SdM - School of Management: presentation of project JAZZ&MANAGEMENT; Old Church of Cornale (BG): performance "FORDING ";DIGIFESTIVAL 2005: Alberto Nacci - Winner for Music section with the video FIREWORKS;

2004  LIBERA UNIVERSITA' Theater - Trapani: "TRAVOLTI"; PAPRIKA, Dalmine (BG) theater-music performance "LIGHEA"; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART of Gazoldo degli Ippoliti (MN) performance "FORDING  COMUNA BAIRES - Milano (with dancers Eugenio De Mello and Marcella Fanzaga) USCITA DI EMERGENZA  (contemporary dance festival);

2003   TEATRO SAN GIORGIO - Bergamo, "TRAVOLTI"  theater-music performance;  Auditorium of  Verdellino (BG) "TRAVOLTI", in the festiva OSIAMO TEATRO;AUDITORIUM P.ZA LIBERTA' - Bergamo, FORDING - faces of memory - five tales for images and sound; CENTRO DEVADATTA - Genova, "TRAVOLTI";

2002 CENTRO DEVADATTA - Milano - FORDING - volti della memoria; PORSCHE HAUS - Milano: solo-performance for the vernissage of Clelia Cortemiglia; SALA DEGLI ARCHI - Osio Sotto - FORDING - Volti della memoria; HOTEL MICHELANGELO - Milano - Jazz Convention; TEATRO SOCIALE – Bergamo “LIVE TRASMISSION” performance for tenor saxophone, voice and painter (with Sarah Frances (voice) and Morgan O’Hara (painter);

2001 Art Gallery “D’ARS” - Milan: sax solo-performance for opening of exibition of images dedicated to memory of Michel Petrucciani;; PAPRIKA JAZZ LIVE – presentation of new version of FORDING – volti della memoria; Sala Consiliare - Comune di Vimercate: multimedialstage IL COLORE DEI SUONI, for A.V.O. Associazione Volontari Ospedalieri  (San Raffaele Hospital  - Milan); HEMINGWAY CAFE: FORDING – volti della memoria; MURPHY’S : FORDING - live performance;

2000 Teatro Comuna Baires (Milano) Dance Festival "USCITE DI EMERGENZA"; Teatro Telaio (Brescia) Festival "BRESCIA DANZA"; Centro Petralata (Roma) International Dance Festival "IL CORPO ECCENTRICO"; CONCERTI DEL CHIOSTRO: Cantico Espiritual con l’Ensemble Solidad Sonora - Santuario dell'Annunciata - Rovato (Bs); THE MOVING SOUND – Rassegna Bergamo Danza;

1999 Aula Magna Università Bocconi, Milano - "FORDING " - performance for saxophones, computer and immages (music by A.Nacci, black and white immages by D.Guerini); Festival BERGAMO JAZZ , Orchestra Ensemble Mobile, project about the music of Duke Ellington; CLUSONE JAZZ FESTIVAL; BERGAMO DANZA ’99, The Moving Sound, performance of music and contemporary dance - music by A.Nacci, coreograpy by E.De Mello; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea – Bergamo - SUONI E OMBRE - performance for saxophones and computer; International Jazz Festival JAZZ’N FALL 99 – Pescara; 

1998 SPAZIO ZAZIE - Milano; TEATRO S.GIORGIO - Bergamo; Rassegna IMMAGINI DAL JAZZ - Bratto (Bg); I CONCERTI DEL CHIOSTRO: SUONI E OMBRE - Santuario dell'Annunciata - Rovato (Bs); CHIOSTRO DI SANT'AGOSTINO, presentation of  ballet CANALI (music by Nacci, coreograpy by M.Bucci); "AL VAPORE" – Mestre (VE): presentation of cd "Self-portrait of a sound"; HUIS CLOS (Balletto - music by Nacci-Balanescu-Kronos, coreography by M.Bucci: KellerTheater Mels, Alteskino Brig, KleinTheater Luzern (Svizzera);

1997 Centro Ricerca Documentazione Teatrale - (Treviglio - Bg); RELAZIONI PERICOLOSE Rassegna di Teatro-musica - (Ponteranica, Bg); 1°Rassegna di Orchestre Jazz - (Teatro Verdi, Sassari); CloroFilla ’97: Suoni ed Ombre, (Performance for saxophones and computer - S.Agostino,Bergamo); JAZZ ON HITCHOCK - Vicenza; IL FILO DI ARIANNA - International Theatre Festival (Belluno); Bergamo Jazz ’97 ; LA LUNA E LE STELLE - Art, Science, Culture - Chiostro S.Francesco, (Bergamo). theatre,dance Laboratory of Teatro S.Matteo - Piacenza; Rassegna Jazz Musica e Cultura in Ateneo - Chieti. 

1996 FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE BERGAMO JAZZ - Teatro Donizetti, Ensemble Mobile, dir. G.Gaslini feat. Fresu, Trovesi, Tracanna; I CONCERTI DEL CHIOSTRO - Santuario dell’Annunciata (Coccaglio, Bs); VERONA JAZZ ; RICORDI MEDIASTORE (Milano): presentazione del cd "Passing" - Splasch Records; CLOROFILLA ’96 - (S.Agostino, Bergamo); RELAZIONI PERICOLOSE - "Rassegna di jazz e altro" (Ponteranica,Bg); SPECCHI D'ACQUA - Mostra d'arte Contemporanea, Villa Viscontea - Castello di Trezzo sull'Adda (Mi) - presentazione del cd "The Path of Water"; 

1995 ISTRIA JAZZ (Slovenia); BERGAMO JAZZ - Sax Mobile, feat. Pierre Favre; RAI3 "Dove sono i Pirenei"-presentation of project "Arie celebri per tenore cantate da un sax tenore"; DECADENZ ‘95 (Bressanone, Bz); VAPORE JAZZ (Mestre); RASSEGNA INTERNAZIONALE MUSICASFERA" (Verona); 

1994 RASSEGNA INTERNAZIONALE CRISTALLI-JAZZ (Bologna); SPECCHIO MAGICO ; Rassegna di Musica italiana extra-colta (Grosseto); JAZZ E... DINTORNI (Trapani); " SEVEN STEPS ABOUT CARMEN" Ensemble Mobile, feat. E.Rava, G.Trovesi, arr. B.Tommaso; JAZZITALIA (Verona); BOBADILLA (Dalmine, Bg): presentazione del cd "KAOS" MAP Records; BERGAMO JAZZ; FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE "CLUSONE JAZZ"; SAN VITO JAZZ FESTIVAL (Trapani); 

1993 BERGAMO JAZZ : "THE LODGER" di A. Hitchok (Ensemble Mobile, music by Guarino-Zappatini); JAZZ & CO.; ‘PREMIO ISPRA’ II Concorso Internazionale di Musica (Ispra,Va) - (1° Premio e Premio Speciale della giuria per il Jazz); ALPHEUS JAZZ (Roma); DECADENZ '93 (Bressanone, Bz); JAZZ E...DINTORNI (Trapani); 

1992 6° SETTIMANA DEL JAZZ (Bergamo); JAZZ & CO. ; CAPOLINEA (Mi): presentation of cd "Colours" - Splasch Records; MILANO ESTATE concerti a piazza S.Stefano; BERGAMO JAZZ

1991 RASSEGNA DEL JAZZ ITALIANO (Palermo); PHOENIX JAZZ (Bolzano); JAZZ AT THE BIG (Padova); JAZZ & CO. (Como); IVREA JAZZ

1990 CLUSONE JAZZ FESTIVAL ; III° RASSEGNA JAZZ FRANCIACORTA (Adro); 3° SETTIMANA DEL JAZZ (Bergamo); Momenti Jazz (Piacenza); JAZZ ALL’OPERA’ (Parma); 

1989 ANACRUSI - performance of music and contemporary dance (music by Stefano Gervasoni - Bergamo, Teatro Sociale); Rassegna ITALIAN JAZZ ALL STARS (Bergamo); RASSEGNA DEL JAZZ ITALIANO "CITTÀ DI SIENA";