GOGODUCKS defines itself as the electro-experimental-socio-psycho-mega-jazz trio, formed by Italian, Veneto region-based drummer-percussionist Francesca Remigi, guitarist and electronics player Luca Zennaro and vibes player-programmer Paolo Peruzzi. The album Palladio a Palla! was created with multimedia artist-creative coder-electronics player Sergio Zacco and pays a musical hommage to one of the most influential architects in history, the Venetian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), considered to be one of the most influential individuals in the history of architecture.
Palladio a Palla! was inspired by nine of the sixteenth-century villas known as Palladian, and attempts to suggest a synthesis between modern jazz, free improvised music, architecture, and the algorithm-based digital universe. The album experiments with translating the refined, precise, liner yet fluid geometric shapes and structures of Palladio’s architecture into rhythms, harmonies, forms and energies. Zacco created a video mapping inspired by the floor plans and architectural drawings of Palladio, making the musical translation of the Palladian architecture visible.
This unique album was recorded at Artesuono Recording Studio in Udine in May 2024. Its compositional process offers thoughtful and layered nine sound organisms that may be compared to Palladio’s structures, or even replicate the ‘mechanisms’ of linearity and beauty in his actions in evocative sounds and sonic textures, in a way that leads to contemplative immersion. The nine pieces, with their ironic titles and wordplay, reflect in a somewhat irreverent way on the neo-classical tradition and adapt current-day innovative, sonic techniques to their iconic beauty, expanding the original, intricate shapes and structures with imaginative, often sensual and always playful rhythmic sensibility.
Eyal Hareuveni
Francesca Remigi (drums, percussion), Luca Zennaro (guitar, electronics), Paolo Peruzzi (vibraphone, programming), Sergio Zacco (electronics, audiovisuals), Andrea di Pietro della Gondola (architecture)
