My Aboriginal friends of Wadumbah Dance Group and also Mark Atkins, aboriginal player, told me: "Moreno keep playing the didjeridoo without taking tunes from our People, no rhythms, no names, no sacred decorations... play your music and do not compete with this instrument!"
I try to do it with respect.
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Hi everyone. I learned to play the didjeridu on my own years
ago here in Turin, while having a strong feeling of loneliness
and isolation as it was impossible to get clues or people
helping me in how to go ahead. It got me after watching
an Aboriginal Group performance where the didjeridu accompanied
traditional songs and dances. Caught by the sound of this
instrument I went closer to the stage to watch which technique
the musician was actually using. I could not guess what
was happening to me: the seed of my new life. My work as
copywriter and my agency became increasingly a memory fading
away since then. All occurred thanks to a inner guide which
took me into this wonderful world. To me playing the didjeridu
does not only mean to produce sounds within rhythmical patterns,
but also to get in touch with my deepest sides, these arising
only in particular moments. I reach my inner spaces with
the didje and I catch my creativity there. My advice is
then to technically learn how to play the instrument and
then leave it for your own expression when you feel loose
with it. First of all my thanks go to the Aboriginal
People from which this instrument comes and who find it
hard to get back to their dignity. The fact that many
white people play the didjeridu today is not happily welcome
by all the Aboriginal People. But it is tremendously crucial
to split who masters this research and plays his own music
without stealing anything from its original and sacred culture.
Similar instruments are played in some parts of the world
with quite different techniques and inspiration. Play it
if you like it but do it in you personal way, spontaneously
and musically.
I must thank my first teacher Luca from the
Balun (historical flea market in Turin) who dwells in Valchiusella
(Torino) next to the shore of a roaring stream. Since he
handed me a bamboo up to today many things have changed
in my life.
What
else I've done.....!!!
As
didjeridoo player, graphic designer and painter, he researches
on harmonic sounds and on didjeridoo and teaches his know-how.
He trasfers his knowledge through stages and workshops around
Italy. He imports high quality eucalyptus didjeridoos naturally
emptied by termites.
Before
a graphic designer and painter I've chosen to play the didjeridu
as a profession, this eucalyptus trunk naturally emptied
by termites which comes from the Aboriginal Culture of Australia.
I have arranged my own music with my technique and intuition.
I work in theatre and in concerts with solo performances
or sessions varying in time and gender. I also teach how
to play this amazing instrument in Italy.
DIDJERIDU
ITALIA is the independent brand created in 1997 which produces
and promotes Didjeridu Music
I
founded my own atelier in Turin in 1998 with research on
didjeridu sounds and harmonics
I
co-worked on creation of the book: Therapy of Dance and
Sound (Berenice d'Este - CET Publisher - 1998)
I
produced in 1998 with Patrizia Besantini, "PASSI" mimedance
and didjeridu show
I
produced "Passi" cd (Didjeridu Italia 1999 - MAP 2000)
I
wrote the method book: Didjeridoo, the Australian Aboriginal
wind instrument (CET Publisher - 2000)
I
produced in 2001 with Patrizia Besantini and Giancarlo Cagliero,
"KOOKABURRA" mimedance, didjeridu and electronic music show
I
founded Papi&Tann“ duo in 2001 with Walter Mandelli and
produced the CD "In the beginning" (Didjeridu Italia 2001)
I
founded the Triad group in 2002 with Walter Mandelli and
Gennaro Scarpato and produced the CD "Didjedrum" (Didjeridu
Italia 2002)
I
founded the Parallelo Zero group in 2003 with Walter Mandelli,
Gennaro Scarpato and Ezio Salfa and produced the CD "World
Tour" (Didjeridu Italia 2002)
I
founded the "SweetDuo" in 2004 with Monica Smith and produced
the CD "SWEET" Acoustic Ambient Music (Didjeridu Italia
2004)
I
wrote the second's method book: Didjeridoo, to play a tree
(Musica Practica Publisher - 2005)
I'm
part of the Australian CD brand Music Mosaic casting some of the international didjeridu players
(Didgeridoo Trance Dance II - Music Mosaic, Australia)
I'm
in touch with Australian didjeridu related people such as
Rripangu Yirdaki, Mainz Pty, Wandoo Didgeridoo, Yidaki-Doo
Pty, Didjshop, Gondwana Gifts, Prodidjas Didgeridus, Aboriginal
Fine Arts.
(The
White Cockatoo in Alba, Cuneo, Italy - A recent image of
Wadumbah - Mark Atkins)
Look
at pages 1 and 2 with my works and past events of 2001 / 2002 / 2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007
My
research with didjeridu has led me to meet and share "sound"
experiences with: the Aboriginal player Mark Atkins; the
Swedish player Lars Wallin with whom I supported the traditional
Aboriginal group White Cockatoo; the Australian Aboriginal
group Wadumbah which I accompanied along their Italian tournée:
the Tibetan Monks and their long metal trumpets met in various
events; the "Fana" wirling Dervish ensemble with
which I played a couple of times while they were performing
their trance dance; the Indian tabla player Nihar Mehta
guest in my atelier; the Australian virtuous guitar player
Tommy Emanuel with whom I played at the Australian Consulate
in Milan.
(The
wirling Dervish group "Fana" - Nihar Mehta - Tommy
Emmanuel)
CONCERT
FOR THE POPE - In front of the Pope John Paul II with Turin
Sermig Orchestra at the Vatican (Nervi Room, Rome).
(with
the Orchestra at Nervi Room - the Pope seen from my position
- the room with 10,000 people)
I
was together with the Music Opera dedicated to Pope John
Paul II directed by Maestro Salvatore Accardo with the Italian
Chamber Orchestra and the music Ensemble of the Arsenale
della Pace. Turin Sermig Auditorium (in the picture below).
I worked with/at theatre and music works whit: Gianmaria
Testa, Giuseppe Cederna; Paolo Rossi; Marco Paolini; Carlo
Actis Dato; Piero Ponzo; Gianluigi Trovesi; Fiorenzo Sordini;
Rino Vernizzi; Luca Morino and Fabio Barovero (Mau Mau);
Gigi Venegoni; Alessandro Cerino;Giovanni Falzone; Marco
Cimino; Enrico Fazio;Claudio Fossati; Ciro Buttari; Dino
Pelissero; Patrizia Besantini; Giancarlo Cagliero (Doctor
Jazz); Tommy Emmanuel; Wendy Morrison; Monica Smith; Saul
Beretta; Debora Mancini; Ancilla Oggioni; Federico Andreoni;
Giorgio Casati; Andrea Zani; Roberto Zanisi; Gennaro Scarpato
(Edoardo Bennato);Tann“ Walter Mandelli; Giovanna Gattuso;
Gilson Silveira; Luis Cashis; Ferdinando Chiquitico Despaigne;
Roberto Taufic; Simon Papa; Charlie Frascà; Filippo Gambetta;
Ezio Salfa; Federico Marchesano; Toni Santos; Riccardo Serra
(Lou Dalfin); Nihar Mehta; Mario Brai (Marenostrum); Gesuino
Deiana; Marcello Vitale; Sandro Fresi; Andrea Pisu; Ossi
Duri; Dunumba Afro Percussion; La Tarantola; Turin Sermig
Orchestra; Italian Chamber Orchestra with the Maestro Accardo; Edoardo Bennato.
(in
"Appunti Partigiani", Milan, with: Natalino BALASSO,
Enrico BERTOLINO, Mario BRUNELLO, Vinicio CAPOSSELA, Lella
COSTA, Claudio FASOLI, Fabio FAZIO, Davide FERRARIO, Paolo
HENDEL, Daniele LUTTAZZI, Luca MORINO (Mau Mau), Flavio
OREGLIO, Moni OVADIA, PALI E DISPARI, Sante PALUMBO, Marco
PAOLINI, Diego PARASSOLE, Piero PELU', Ottavia PICCOLO, Fernanda
PIVANO, Paolo ROSSI, Gino STRADA, Vincenzo ZITELLO, MERCANTI
DI LIQUORE, STORMY SIX and others...)
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