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New video playlist – Music for acoustic objects

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A collection of videos (playlist on Youtube) featuring some performances from the two albums Atto and Oltreorme , music for acoustic objects. They are compositions performed by the composer with real objects, without musical instruments (commonly understood) or electronic processing, objects arranged in the space of the hall in such a way as to create three-dimensionality and naturalness. Sometimes they are objects of common use, sometimes less common, in any case it seems that none of them intends to reveal – through their voice – their specific identity. Visualize the musician performer in the deep hall surrounded by many objects, he engaged, but only as a “medium”, in awakening, in reanimating these objects in another way, acoustically, in micro-sensitive and micro-perception events. The two albums were released by the English label Another Timbre in 2011 and 2012. It is not possible to listen to a musical expression of such subtlety and fragility with the audio of the smartphone (...

New exhibition – Pinacoteca Comunale di Città di Castello

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In the splendid Renaissance residence of the Pinacoteca di Città di Castello, among masterpieces by Raffaello, Signorelli, Spinello Aretino, but also De Chirico, De Pisis…, a new exhibition with two artist books. The first is La stella smarrita , a manuscript by Giulia Napoleone created by hand especially for the exhibition, which contains 5 of her new works and the poem La stella smarrita (1993) by Osvaldo Coluccino, handwritten by the artist. The other book is Ai piedi degli alberi , Edizioni Il Bulino, Rome 2023. Municipality of Città di Castello, Department of Culture: Giulia Napoleone – Segni senza confini , curated by Lorenzo Fiorucci, with critical texts by Bruno Corà and Luigi Lambertini, Pinacoteca Comunale di Città di Castello, 12 June - 19 July 2025 read on Exibrt

New artist book – La notte di Tantalo

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New artist book,  La notte di Tantalo,  1 poems from the unpublished collection  Quale leggerezza  (1990) by Osvaldo Coluccino, 1 original work of art by Alfonso Filieri (2024), Archivio Orolontano, Roma 2024. See details and photos here on my website:  artist books  

New disc – Rispecchiato in quarzo

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Osvaldo Coluccino, Rispecchiato in quarzo (2020-2023), for solo instrument and electronics. Recorded with Jan Michiels in Brussels, Carl Rosman and Daniel Agi in Cologne.  Released by Kairos, Vienna, May 27, 2025, with the support of Fondation Salabert, Paris:  read here: Kairos music

New video playlist – Music for piano

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A collection of videos (playlist on Youtube) featuring some performances of some Stanze for solo piano in concerts and elsewhere between 2008 and 2021:  Listen and see here

New video – Voce d’orlo (in concert)

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Osvaldo Coluccino, Voce d’orlo , live in concert 2008. for flute, clarinet, violin and cello. Nieuw Ensemble, Amsterdam. World premiere, Milan, “Milano Musica” Festival, Puccini Hall, Conservatory, 15.10.2008. Listen and see here (Youtube)

New encyclopedia entry – Enciclopedia Treccani

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  https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/eol-coluccino-osvaldo/?search=Coluccino%2C%20Osvaldo%2F

New Exhibition – SpaziOlevano

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The artist book Ai piedi degli alberi exhibited at SpaziOlevano, by Comune di Olevano Romano and Museo Civico d’Arte “Domenico Riccardi”, March 22, 2025: read here

New artist book – Magici specchi

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New artist book just arrived: Magici specchi, Loredana Müller and Osvaldo Coluccino, Areapangeart Editions, Bellinzona 2025. Details and photos here