Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (1967)
A 47-minute black-and-white film by Theo Gallehr and depicts Il Gruppo in various candid stages - in interviews, setting up, recording, working with eachother, and performing onstage. The players showcased here include Bertoncini, Branchi, Evangelisti, Heineman, Kayn, Morricone, Vandor and Frederic Rzewski. It's interesting to watch the composers interact and perform spontaneously as it is to see them preparing the piano by tying horsehair around the strings and rubbing the interior with empty plastic bottles and vaccuum cleaner attachments.
Director: Theo Gallehr
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Ennio Morricone as Self |
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Walter Branchi as Self |
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Frederic Rzewski as Self |
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Mario Bertoncini as Self |
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Franco Evengelisti as Self |
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John Heineman as Self |
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Roland Kayn as Self |
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Ivan Vandor as Self |
| Directing | Theo Gallehr | Director |
| Production | Hansjörg Pauli | Producer |
| Camera | Nils-Peter Mahlau | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Mario Bertoncini | Music |
| Sound | Walter Branchi | Music |
| Sound | Franco Evangelisti | Music |
| Sound | John Heineman | Music |
| Sound | Roland Kayn | Music |
| Sound | Ennio Morricone | Music |
| Sound | Frederic Rzewski | Music |
| Sound | Ivan Vandor | Music |