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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the past years Riccardo\u2019s 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 D\u00f6rner, L\u00ea Quan Ninh, John Butcher, Michel Doneda, Massimo Pupillo, Toma Gouband, Stefano Pilia, Ingar Zach, Mike Majkowski and Lucio Capece among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since 2013 La Foresta has been active as a curator of experimental music concerts in the area of Modena, mainly with his organization B\u00e6d and since 2017 with NODE festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Riccardo is a 2021 artist of Shape Platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“La Foresta has pushed percussion music back into the realm of speculative improvisation”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Philip Clark, The Wire<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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