Guitarist, composer and sound designer from Italy. His work is focused on instrumental practice and a compositional gesture that starts from a performative gesture. Perciballi pursues a research where the structure is dominated by sound as an organoleptic agent, related to a dense network of references and memories
His activity as a musician covers a wide range of experiences: mainly, he performs in the field of creative improvisation, but he’s also comfortable with the jazz idiom. As a composer, Perciballi writes music for small and large ensembles, ranging from film music to theatre and dance acts.
He received commission from many ensembles like Dissonanz, Hume, Harpschule Graatz consort, Vocalmix. During the years he was resident composer for Tempo Reale, ICI in Paris and Teatro Cavidani in Trieste.
Active as a sound designer for contemporary performances, Perciballi is interested in the possibilities of interaction between visuals and music, and the use of the spoken word in musical contexts. His work in this field ranges from installations to electroacoustic music, combining multimedia elements with technology and traditional means of sound production.
His crave for multimedia experiences led him to work as soundtrack composer both for theater and cinema as well as a dance companies. Comfortable with other arts even as performer he created with painter Mattia Scappini the duo Fragile, active or more than 10 years, and working on improvised audio/visual performances based on codes mutated from Paul’s Klee. His relationship with spoken word and poetry is evident in his many collaboration with theatre and with poets such as Enrico Trebbi and Antonio Bertoni. Many works for dance led to the collaboration with Simona Bertozzi and the production of Onde, based on the playpoem by Virginia Woolf.
In a period of six years he cultivated a personal and artist relationship with Lawrence Douglas Butch Morris, the famous inventor of Conduction, that lead him to perform and work as assistant of his beloved master. His work as conductor continues with his own ensemble Fragile Orchestra.
His music was performed all over Europe and Asia by various ensemble and he gave concert as improviser and performer in Italy, Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom. During his career he collaborated with many artist from various environment such as Marc Ducret, Butch Morris, Alessandro Bosetti, Barre Philips, Anthony Moreno, Thomas de Pourquery and Italian glories as Roberto Bonati, Renato Sellani, Roberto Dani, Mauro Ottolini.
During the years he won important awards like Italian Jazz Graffiti 2012 (New talent in Italian Jazz), the important Premio Gaslini Prize 2016 and the FLUX residency as a composer at Tempo Reale (New music Research foundation) in 2017 and again in 2018 for the AUDIOVISIONI SOUNDSCAPES prize. During 2019 he was composer/performer in residence at ICI in Paris.
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After fully convincing us with the debut of his trio Organic Gestures, “Approximately Grids With A Plan,” the musician, composer, improviser takes us on a journey to other realms and sub-worlds across eleven stops. A clear testament to a talent attentive to the poetry of every detail, capable of capturing the hidden voices of the guitar like few others, in Italy and beyond.
Nazim Comunale – Il Manifesto
Not least, we must consider the element of further personal reflection that Perciballi conducts through his work: the guitar, which remains the central element of his music, is completely transformed and becomes a kind of vector for reflection on sound, noise, form, and the space it occupies. Suggestive and deserving of great attention.
Sandro Cerini – Musica Jazz
The Italian artist creates atmospheres with free movements, where experiments draw from the moment to give birth to new variations detached from any mannerism, circulating freely from one space to another to surprise as much as to be surprised.
Sacred Habits constantly defies expectations, a healthy off-road for music with roller coaster vibes, loaded with emotions and surrender, deregulation and restraint that can prove explosive. Mesmerizing.
Roland Torres- Silence and Sound
Currently, Luca is not only the most prepared and profound guitarist we have in Italy, but he also holds up exceptionally well against the ideologically varied competition posed by recent American guitarists/composers (I’m thinking of Thurston Moore and the minimalists foremost) and the naturalistic ones from Northern Europe. In a few words, a point of pride for Italy.
Ettore Garzia – Percorsi Musicali
Luca Perciballi 