Gogoducks – Palladio a Palla!
Gogoducks – Palladio a Palla!
Francesca Remigi | drum, percussion
Luca Zennaro | guitar, electronics
Paolo Peruzzi | vibraphone and programming
Sergio Zacco | creative coding
The project, inspired by nine of the sixteenth-century villas known as Palladian, attempts a virtuous synthesis between jazz, improvised music, architecture, and the digital universe.
Starting from the study of Palladio’s legacy, GOGODUCKS presents an album that pays tribute to his architecture, translating some of the compositional techniques used in his works into music: the well-defined use of rhythm, harmony, structure, energy, the relationships between elements, mathematical proportions, and the reinterpretation of tradition.
Their connection with the Veneto region, their homeland, leads GOGODUCKS to collaborate with Veronese creative coder Sergio Zacco for the creation of a video mapping inspired by the floor plans and architectural drawings, making the musical translation of Palladian architecture visible. Collaboration with Villa Angarano and Villa di Maser is also fundamental for the shooting of the video clip, a video interview, and some reels.
From this perspective, the compositional work carried out in the album aims to bring to life sound organisms that can be compared to Palladio’s forms, the ‘mechanisms’ of linearity and beauty in his actions, which often lead to contemplative immersion.
Francesca Remigi, a versatile drummer, experimental composer, and innovative improviser, Francesca Remigi is an artist based in Milan. Winner of the Italia-Jazz Nuova Generazione Jazz 2021 contest and the Top Jazz 2022 (Musica Jazz) award as the best new Italian talent, Francesca is known for her numerous international collaborations in the field of Creative Music with musicians such as Steve Lehman, Danilo Perez, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Carmen Staaf, George Garzone, Joachim Florent, Kris Davis, Val Jeanty, Nicole Glover, Immanuel Wilkins, Marion Hayden, Ellen Rowe, Sharel Cassity, Bruno Chevillon, Yuhan Su, Alexander Hawkins, Tomeka Reid, Angelika Niescier, Antonello Salis, Gianluigi Trovesi, Camila Nebbia. Known for her participation in renowned international festivals including L’Off Jazz 2022, Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2022, EFG London Jazz Festival 2023, DC Jazz Festival 2021, Tashkent Jazz Festival 2024, Umbria Jazz Festival 2022, and Panama Jazz Festival 2022, Francesca is the winner of the SIAE Prize 2022, the Best Soloist award at the Getxo Jazz Competition 2022, and the first prize at the prestigious Keep an Eye International Award 2023. She is also a finalist for the Next Jazz Legacy Award 2023 and 2024 by New Music USA.
Luca Zennaro is a guitarist, composer, and bandleader born in Chioggia (Venice) in 1997. Over the past years, Luca has explored various musical territories: with his new EP “ZENMUSIC” he approaches electronic music in a project involving musicians like Chris Fishman, Giovanni Iacovella, Michelangelo Scandroglio, Francesco Panconesi, and PPIERRRRE. The originality of the group lies in its ability to navigate both electronic and acoustic music effortlessly. Luca is also the co-founder of Hackout!, a trio with which he has recorded two albums in two years and completed two European tours. Luca has collaborated with national and international musicians such as Benjamin Clementine, Francesco Bearzatti, Jacky Terrasson, Gabriele Mirabassi, Chris Fishman, Alessandro Lanzoni, and many others. In recent years, he has performed at festivals and clubs in Mexico, India, Israel, Denmark, Sweden, the UK, Senegal, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Hungary, France, Austria, and Latvia. Luca is considered one of the most interesting musicians on the Italian jazz scene.
Paolo Peruzzi, in the words of NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington, Paolo Peruzzi “is a musician with the curious and inquisitive nature to push the genre forward.” Kris Davis describes him as “extraordinarily talented, hardworking, curious.” Founder of the award-winning chamber percussion ensemble Palladrum in 2015, after graduating from the Pedrollo Conservatory in Vicenza, he went on to earn a performance diploma from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. He was part of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, whose mission is to support and promote a cultural transformation in jazz with gender justice and racial justice as guiding principles.
Sergio Zacco is a multimedia artist, creative coder, and musician. Graduating with honors in Electronic Music from the Vicenza Conservatory, he then pursued self-taught studies in creative programming, which is now his full-time occupation. Combining his artistic background with studies in new technologies, he designs and creates interactive installations and audio-visual content, in which various types of sensors allow the works to generate and modify themselves in real-time, based on the interaction of actors, musicians, or spectators.
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