Leonardo Barbierato / patterns for transcendence
Leonardo Barbierato – patterns for transcendence
Leonardo Barbierato – basso elettrico/elettronica
Attilio Sepe – sassofono contralto/elettronica
Lorenzo Morra – pianoforte/sintetizzatore
Riccardo Marchese – batteria
The avant-garde quartet patterns for transcendence is the project in which Leonardo Barbierato, bassist and improviser, pursues an artistic exploration of the inter-relationships between improvisation and environmental/cultural ecology. [insita], the first record work, released on the nusica.org label, materializes in a solution of photographic and musical images, electronic and acoustic sounds, search for balance between writing, rationality, extemporaneity and instinctiveness, reflections on human-ecological mental immanence and transcendence.
patterns for transcendence is an audio-visual project in which eight photographs, containing urban and natural elements, are the starting point from which sounds emerge, transforming images, patterns and abstractions into suggestions of as many musical compositions, between synthetic-electronic and acoustic sound elements. Images born from places (and non-places) in different contexts, at different latitudes, give life to eight original compositions, ranging from free improvisation to electronics, from noise to jazz.
The quartet won the special mention reserved for the innovative project at the 2022 Isio Saba Prize, has performed in prestigious venues in the Italian peninsula and has been positively received by Italian critics.
[Bassist, improviser, soundscaper]
His aptitude for experimentation and artistic research led him early on to probe various unconventional musical styles. Improvisation, interplay, blends of electronic and acoustic sounds, polyrhythmic explorations, inter-disciplinary forays between nature, mathematics and music are common features of his music.
Born in Alexandria on August 16, 1992, into a family rich in musicians, he first took up the violin and then the electric bass. During his years of study, at the Conservatory of Alessandria and Piacenza, he has the opportunity to study with great Italian artists, including Riccardo Fioravanti, Enrico Fazio and Paolino Dalla Porta; he also attends master classes with Linda Oh, Ben Wendel, Dominique Di Piazza and Fabian Almazan. In 2016, he graduated with his thesis Kaleidophone and Thesaurus. Driven by a strong passion for the natural world, in 2018 he obtained a bachelor’s degree in biology and in 2020, he completed his two-year degree at the Conservatory of Piacenza with his work Cross- Rhythms. These works form the basis on which his artistic research path begins to take shape, which will lead him in 2022 to win a scholarship for the AreMus Master’s program at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and in 2023 to be selected for a PhD in artistic research at RomaTre University.
Currently, his research project, patterns for transcendence, focuses on the inter-relationships between improvisation and cultural/natural ecology. This project sees as its output a photo-music album called [insita], released in September 2023, and a series of site-specific improvisation performances, [in situ], with which he was selected as an emerging artist under 35 for the DUNE23 contemporary art project.
With his projects and as a session-man, he has the opportunity to perform in some prestigious venues, in Italy and Europe, such as Torino Jazz Festival, Novara Jazz Festival, Monfrà Jazz Festival, Borghi in Jazz, Jazz in Sardinia, European Jazz Expo, and to be awarded as an “innovative project” at the Isio Saba Prize (2023), the AIM Festival (2020) and the Stefano Cerri Memorial (2019).
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