“To create metaphysicality without rhetoric… a life suspended between this world and another cosmic, mysterious one.”
— Ettore Garzia, Percorsi Musicali
Solo Drums is the page dedicated to the solo research project for drums and prepared drums. This artistic process focuses on the musical aspect of the drums between soundscapes, avant-garde and poetry.
Microcosmo is a solo project that explores the expressive possibilities of drums and prepared drums. The instrument becomes a means of telling stories and creating evocative soundscapes, suspended and rarefied atmospheres, and magmatic episodes. Microcosmo alternates between original compositions and improvised pieces. The music draws inspiration from the childhood memories, the dream world, but also from the suggestions that small things can offer. In 2021, Microcosmo was released by the British label FMR Records. The album was recorded at Maxine Studio in Milan and produced by Rinaldo Donati.
Alberto Pederneschi: prepared drums, drums, kalimba, objects, voice (on “Origins”).
“Alberto belongs to that (small) tribe of musicians who pursue the utopia of freedom with their instruments. Pederneschi refines a writing style that is often dreamlike, but always very concrete and precise; songs in which nothing is left to “chance” but everything has a skilful expressive control that lies on the borderline between writing and freedom.” Paolo Ronchetti – Mescalina
https://www.mescalina.it/musica/recensioni/alberto-pederneschi-microcosmo
“Pederneschi, a drummer sui generis and not strictly devoted to free improvisation or reasoned composition. He is not pretentious and belongs to a “sect” of Italian percussionists who have long been focused on the boldness of their goals and instruments, on the desire to share discoveries that require patience and mediation of aesthetic characteristics.” Ettore Garzia – Percorsi Musicali
https://www.percorsimusicali.eu/2022/04/22/il-microcosmo-di-alberto-pederneschi/
“Listening to him is an experience […] Well, I had to reset my beliefs to let myself be transported into a dreamlike world. A journey that is adventurous but above all spiritual.” Beppe Ceccato – Musicabile – TGCom24
https://musicabile.tgcom24.it/2021/06/22/alberto-pederneschi-la-batteria-e-un-enigmatico-microcosmo/
With Microcosmo, he participated in the Transplanted Roots International Percussion Symposium “The performer as protagonist” held at ESMAE Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo – Porto, Portugal.
