FREE
MIND
Libera Mente is a project on instant composition to affirm a natural, intimate, direct, pure, True approach to music.
And listen in the present to experience the impressions, now, without any written intermediation between artist and audience.
There is no true creation without hard work; what you call invention is nothing but an inspiration from above, for which I am responsible and for which I have no credit.
Johannes Brahms
(Massimo Mila, History of Music, Einaudi, Turin, 1993, page 89.
Libera Mente is the eleventh volume of Musica Determinata.
It's not improvisation.
Improvisation is, simply, a performance that is accomplished with ease and inventive immediacy.
Freely is something more.
Someone asked André Previn what he thought of my solo piano stuff and he said that anyone who plays for an hour and a half can get something out of it. [...] I'd like to say to him: "Well, André, if it's true, you're a pianist, go!"
Keith Jarrett
My fierce desire
E. Socrates, Rome, 1994, pag. 48
I hear sounds and one Sound requires another and another and so I hear music.
I like to discover the Sounds that are inside a piano. I release them around me and I say what I perceive from the Sounds that I listen to.
I breathe and feel the music in my hands
Freely.
Music hits the body and it has an effect.
Giuseppe La Spada is the author of the LiberaMente Cover.
I admire his work and ability.
In this photo I feel the most beautiful way to represent my breath, what I feel freely, among the sounds.
If I, at a certain point, play a chord in A minor, a listener may wonder in which direction I intend to go. I am a listener too, so I ask myself the same question.
Keith Jarrett
My fierce desire
E. Socrates, Rome, 1994, pag. 51
There are so many pianists: famous, very good, some simply amazing, award-winning, brilliant, natural, beautiful.
I compose instantly and when I play I only have time to listen and understand immediately in order to be able to say what I want.
Theory should never precede creation
Arnold Schomberg
(Arnold Schömberg, Structures and Functions of Harmony, Net, Cles, 2003.)
I sit at the piano, I like that sound, I feel it in my hands and I realize that I hear music.
[…] music teaching was becoming increasingly specialized and increasingly narrow. In the best of cases, this type of teaching produces instrumentalists with little theoretical and musicological knowledge, but highly expert in the performance technique required of a professional musician. Said was denouncing, in short, the lack, in today's musicians, of an essential ability, that of deepening, understanding, expressing the ultimate substance of music.
Daniel Baremboim
(Edward W. Said, Music at the Limits, Feltrinelli, Milan, 2010, page 8.)
Musica Determinata is a project about instant composition, but above all a discovery of the instrument I put my hands on.
Freely is my way of feeling the Sounds.
[...] the actual creative process is never conscious: it simply happens; the technique then intervenes to exercise its control.
Gyorgy Sandor, How to play the piano, Bur,, Milan, 1998, page 345