Riccardo La Foresta is a percussionist and sound artist from Modena (Italy) whose research of the last years wants to question the role of the drum as a percussive instrument. Resonances and vibrations generated treating the drum as an aerophone, create acoustic drones, ancestral melodies and complex beats that drastically distance the instrument from traditional drumming. The ongoing process of his research is focused on the development of a system called Drummophone.
In the past years Riccardo’s been intensely touring Europe and working in between the fields of experimental music, free jazz and sound art, collaborating with musicians such as Fis, Anthony Pateras, Chris Corsano, Axel Dörner, Lê Quan Ninh, John Butcher, Michel Doneda, Massimo Pupillo, Toma Gouband, Stefano Pilia, Ingar Zach, Mike Majkowski and Lucio Capece among others.
Since 2013 La Foresta has been active as a curator of experimental music concerts in the area of Modena, mainly with his organization Bæd and since 2017 with NODE festival.
Riccardo is a 2021 artist of Shape Platform.
“La Foresta has pushed percussion music back into the realm of speculative improvisation”
Philip Clark, The Wire
Links:
https://www.riccardolaforesta.com/
Sajeta 2021
- STEM (Nmk)
- Isabelle Duthoit (Fra) & Jaka Berger(Slo)
- SEBASTIAN LEOPOLD (Aut)
- ANTHONY PATERAS (Aus)
- ISABELLE DUTHOIT (Fra)
- MAG (Swe)
- DARKO RUNDEK & EKIPA (Cro)
- ROZA (Srb)
- RICCARDO LA FORESTA (Ita)
- RABIH BEAINI (Lbn/Ger) & VINCENT MOON (Fra)
- FREE STELLAR TRIO (Slo/Ita)
- KOENIG – solo – MESSING (Aut)
- TROKUT (Slo/Cro)
- PureH (Slo)
- 3:RMA (Slo)
- KAČIS (Slo)
- NEMANJA (Cro)
- KAVASUTRA (Slo)
- VASILY KUZMICH (Ukr)
- JOONDROID (Npl)
- GORDAN (Ger/Srb)
- KRALJ ČAČKA (Srb)
- JAN NEMEČEK (Srb)
- UMBRA (Srb)
- STEFAN FRAUNBERGER (Aut)
- MARYLOU (Fra)
- MARTA DE PASCALIS (Ita)
- UPPERGROUND ORCHESTRA (Ita/Lbn)
- ŠKM BANDA (Slo)
- CARLO MASCOLO (Ita)