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the theory of everything

by Sergio Sorrentino

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1.
first melody 03:44
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2.
point of view 03:12
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3.
doppelgänger 03:39
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4.
at the same time 03:59
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5.
random 02:12
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6.
hit the road 04:36
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left 04:26
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8.
thumb 02:54
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9.
whistles 03:00
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last melody 02:43
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11.
the theory of everything 04:36
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I recorded 10 solo improvisations which contain within each of them a different phenomenon of guitar improvisation. The naked melody, the alternate registers, harmonics, percussions, the use of different techniques. I created and recorded them prefiguring their possible coexistence within a subsequent total composition, The Theory of Everything, generated by the union of the single phenomena, explaining them through their union. Track after track, we witness the birth of a total guitar improvisation. It all happens on my clean archtop guitar.

In memory of dear John Russell, who taught me the freedom to express myself through the six strings

BIO - Sergio Sorrentino "A Superb Musician" (The Wire)
Sorrentino is acclaimed as "the best concert music electric guitarist" (Il Manifesto) and “one of the most important contemporary guitarists” (RAI Radio Tre).
As a performer he promotes the classical guitar and electric guitar contemporary repertory. As a composer and improviser his music is based on sonic research and combines elements of contemporary classical music, minimalism, avant-garde, ambient, experimental. His CD Dream - American Music for Electric Guitar (Mode Records), which includes works by Feldman, Cage, Wolff, Curran and others, was reviewed and highlighted in the New York Times by Seth Colter Walls as one of the "Week’s Best Classical Music Moments”, defining the album “of disarming beauty”.
Philip Glass published Sergio Sorrentino's video performances of "Orphée's Bedroom" and "Opening" on his official channels for the #glassminutes series. Orange Mountain Music released both versions as Singles on all digital platforms on January 2021; the Singles are earning a lot of success.
Sergio plays with the great Gavin Bryars ("Sergio Sorrentino has performed many of my works for guitar, and also my ensemble pieces that include the guitar and I have the greatest admiration for his work in this respect") as a member of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble and he plays live and in studio with Elliott Sharp, Magnus Andersson and John King.
He released a duo album with Gavin Bryars (Gavin Bryars: Electric Guitar Works”), where he plays some world premiere recordings together with the great English composer.
With the legendary American guitarist Loren Connors, Sorrentino released “Shadow”, album based on improvisations for two electric guitars.
He has worked with important composers and musicians like Christian Wolff, Alvin Curran, John Russell, Machinefabriek, David Lang, Steven Mackey, Usui Yasuhiro, Scott Fields, Loren Connors, Tim Brady, Paul Lansky and many others. Van Stiefel wrote for him “Bound” - Electric Guitar Concerto for electric guitar and orchestra. Sergio’s recording of David Lang’s “Questionnaire” has been highlighted in the Bandcamp New and Notable section and it has been included by the historian Ted Gioia in his Top 100 Recordings of 2021. As a soloist, Sergio Sorrentino started his international concert career very early and has held solo concerts and master classes in many important festivals and venues (like Yale University, Sprague Hall in New Haven, Spectrum in New York, Festival de Música Contemporánea de La Habana in Casa de Las Américas, Cuba, Italian Cultural Institute of Paris, Experimentik Festival in Berlin, Sala Biala of the Wilanow Museum (Warsaw, Poland), International Guitar Research Conference/University of Surrey (UK), Vortex in London, Performance Room of Luxembourg, Filharmonia Gorzowska Concert Hall, ON Cologne Neue Musik Festival, In Situ Art Society in Bonn, Specktrum in Berlin,
Nuova Consonanza Festival in Rome, Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano, AngelicA Festival of Bologna, etc.).
He wrote the first book ever written about the concert repertoire for electric guitar (“La Chitarra Elettrica nella Musica da Concerto”, Arcana Edizioni) and several other books and articles about guitar history. He teaches classical and electric contemporary repertoire at the Lagonegro International Guitar Festival Master Class and at the Vercelli Music Institute.

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released June 30, 2023

Sergio Sorrentino, archtop guitar
Recorded on April 21, 2023 in Vercelli

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“A Superb Musician” (The Wire). Sergio Sorrentino is a 21st Century guitarist whose music ranges from ambient to classical, from blues to experimental.
His CD Dream (Mode Records)
was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the "Week’s Best Classical Music Moments”.
He plays with great musicians like Gavin Bryars, John King, Elliott Sharp, Machinefabriek. He collaborated with Philip Glass. ... more

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