Mediterraneo Project

Hello and welcome!

To announce this project, I went to one of the most beautiful places in Sicily to record a video that is now on my YouTube channel.

First, I want to thank you for all the support you are already showing me, my YouTube channel is small right now, but it’s growing rapidly and this is thanks to you.

Introduction

What I've been thinking a lot about, is how to bring something new that is worth lessening to, and can be considered as a little tiny piece of the ongoing music history. We tend to create hundreds of recordings of the same pieces, especially for classical guitar where the repertoire is quite limited.

On the other hand, I notice the desire to push new music at all costs even though sometimes the musicians don't really like it either, and this only drives the audience further and further away. I think by continuing like this, especially the classical guitar, it’s in danger of being completely forgotten.

I would like the broadest possible audience to appreciate what we do as artists, and this does not mean lowering the quality of our art, but being able to touch those feelings that belong to everyone.

After reflecting on all this, I thought of a project that would be about all new music with this characteristic, but not only that, a project that would bring together as many arts as possible.

The idea and music behind Mediterraneo Project

The idea came about a year ago when I read pieces composed by Stefano Vivaldini that were about the Mediterranean area. I immediately felt that music perfectly reflected the place where I grew up and it touched me so much that I thought (like a bolt of lightning) I had to put it together because it managed to convey and encapsulate all those deep values and mediterranean culture that is not the common stereotype.

This music can stir up very deep things, every time I happened to play it for someone I felt a great energy it created.

It gets to everyone but it's not at all easy either instrumentally or musically, every time I study it's always an interlocking of voices that I didn't even think the guitar could do in this wonderful way.

And then I'm lucky enough to be able to work with Stefano so this project is also a composer-musician collaboration which makes al this even more special.

So Mediterraneo will be the name of this project.

What will happen

A big part of Mediterraneo is that I will share the whole process with you so that you can follow it step by step and participate with your suggestions. I am a great believer in collaboration: I don’t believe in individualism, and the classical music market, especially the classical guitar market, is very small, so the only way is to unite and to support each other.

But what will happen in practice? I will post one video with updates, behind the scenes, reflections, interviews. I will also continue to post the music videos.

In the last two videos you may have already noticed some attempts to improve the videos by making them more artistic, this process will continue, we have many ideas that I cannot reveal to you yet. I just tell you that you will probably see some very beautiful locations.

In addition to the videos, I will record all the music on an album that I will release in the spring, followed by a presentation tour.

So many things are still undefined, but that's the beauty of it, I start this project following a path that I don't know where it will take me and I will share everything with you.

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Ciao!

Roberta