From 7th to 19th November CLUSTER, Lucca’s Contemporary Music Association, starts its ninth year of activity with a novelty: the CLUSTER Music Festival. These are twelve days dedicated to new CDs, book presentations and the Cluster Music Festival. The Festival includes meetings with composers, concerts, as well as scientific discoveries on brainwaves and their beneficial effects on humans reacting to sound waves: all organized in the name of contemporary music with free entrance, thanks to the contribution of the Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca.

On Thursday, November 9th, at 6 pm, at the Fondazione Banca del Monte Auditorium in Lucca, the KUKU Trio from Florence will present their new “kuku” project (‘pulse’ in Hawaiian) combining the artistic researches of Martino Rappelli (guitar), Sara Montagni (voice, flute and sensors) and Tommaso Rosati (live electronics). Experimentation and hybridization of different musical languages ​​characterize the trio’s production: a series of jazz-inspired compositions in which exploration of timbre and the search for a personal language interplays with ‘mathematical’ rhythms and frozen static sound. Synthetic, acoustic and concrete sounds stand out. The Trio is the winner of the “Julia … jazz and not only” competition 2013, “Giovanni Finizii” award for the best unpublished 2013 songwriter, finalist at the “Jazz Live Prize” Fara music festival 2013.