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Continue readingMASTERCLASS 19th Century – Duo Savigni
October 11, 2026
Masterclass su Strumenti Storici Sabato 28 e Domenica 29 novembre 2026, dalle 10:00 alle 18:00 TouchTheSound LAB - Via Giacomo Matteotti, n.12, Carpi (MO) Docenti: Enrica Savigni, chitarra | Laura Savigni, fortepiano Una masterclass di due giorni dedicata ad approfondimenti...Continue reading
Hummel: Serenades, Vol.2 – Duo Savigni
June 2, 2026
Duo Savigni & TouchTheSound EnsembleAlbum sponsored by TouchTheSoundBuy the Album: € 18 (plus shipping cost) This second album, dedicated to Johann Nepomuk Hummel's music for guitar and piano, focuses on the chamber music works including these two instruments, namely La...Continue reading
MASTERCLASS 19th Century
May 4, 2026
Masterclass su Strumenti Storici Enrica e Laura Savigni, in collaborazione con TouchTheSound, terranno un weekend di Masterclass e Workshop a Modena sabato 16 maggio e domenica 17 maggio, dedicato a pianisti e chitarristi interessanti ad approfondire il repertorio del XIX...Continue reading
UnOriginal – Julian Bream’s Unpublished Guitar Transcriptions. Giulio Cecchi
March 11, 2026
Giulio Cecchi Label: Da Vinci ClassicsGuitar used thanks to TouchTheSound project: Simon Ambridge Julian Bream’s (1933–2020) guitar transcriptions belong to that historical juncture when, from the end of the nineteenth into the early twentieth century, the guitar ceased to be...Continue reading
7. Blind Musicians in Spain, from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (History)
February 15, 2026
Blind Musicians in Spain, from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century Blog curated by Marco Ramelli, TU Dublin Conservatoire Extract taken from Ramelli, Marco. 2025. “A Lost Culture of Touch and Sound: The Contribution of Visually Impaired Musicians to...Continue reading
6. Listening Through the Hands: Learning from a Visually Impaired Researcher (Extra)
February 3, 2026
Listening Through the Hands: Learning from a Visually Impaired Researcher Blog curated by Marco Ramelli, TU Dublin Conservatoire How to try a guitar? During a guitar exhibition at the Festival Corde d’Autunno 2024, I decided to create a poster to...Continue reading
A Tempo Rubato: Book + CD
February 2, 2026
A Tempo RubatoVol.1 Romantic Music ESSAYS, POEMS, IMAGES & SOUNDS BOOK + CDMarco Ramelli, Enrica Savigni edited by Jonathan LeathwoodBuy the book: 20 € (plus shipping cost) Or Order by email Tempo rubato – the art of rhythmic flexibility –...Continue reading
5. A conversation about the Tornavoz (Organology)
January 20, 2026
A conversation about the Tornavoz Blog curated by Marco Ramelli, TU Dublin Conservatoire On 19 November 2025, as part of the event Sound as Vibration: Perspectives on Perception at TU Dublin Conservatoire, I held a conversation with Jonathan Leathwood , addressing several aspects...Continue reading
4. Lassel stà… l’è roba de barbun (“Leave them alone… that’s homeless stuff.”) (Extra)
January 16, 2026
Lassel stà… l’è roba de barbun (“Leave them alone… that’s homeless stuff.”) Blog curated by Marco Ramelli, TU Dublin Conservatoire When I first began to take an interest in the history of blind musicians in relation to the evolution of...Continue reading
3. The Guitar as a Sensory Substitution Device (Cognitive Science)
January 16, 2026
Blog curated by Marco Ramelli, TU Dublin Conservatoire In the chapter Toward a Theory of Duende of article A Lost Culture of Touch and Sound. I propose a radically different conception of historical plucked musical instruments, suggesting that some plucked...Continue reading
The Guitar Soldier – François de Fossa – Samuele Provenzi
January 11, 2026
Samuele Provenzi Label: StradivariusGuitar used thanks to TouchTheSound project This recording offers a renewed engagement with the music of François de Fossa, one of the most distinctive figures of the early nineteenth-century guitar. Soldier, traveller, and cultural mediator, de Fossa...Continue reading
2. Segovia and Yepes: Last Links to the Blind Guitarists’ Legacy
January 9, 2026
Blog curated by Marco Ramelli, TU Dublin Conservatoire In the article A Lost Culture of Touch and Sound. I also explore how the culture of blind musicians, developed over centuries, influenced the emergence of the Spanish guitar. In particular, I...Continue reading
1. Blind musicians in ancient time (History 1)
January 9, 2026
Blog curated by Marco Ramelli, TU Dublin Conservatoire extract taken from Ramelli, Marco. 2025. "A Lost Culture of Touch and Sound: The Contribution of Visually Impaired Musicians to the Evolution of the Spanish Guitar." Soundboard Scholar 10, (1), 2. From earliest...Continue reading
A Lost Culture of Touch and Sound
January 9, 2026
A Lost Culture of Touch and SoundBlog curated by: Marco Ramelli I decided to create a blog to explore the various dimensions of the article A Lost Culture of Touch and Sound: The Contribution of Visually Impaired Musicians to the...Continue reading
TouchTheSound Guitar Audition: La chitarra di Barrios vista da vicino, con Pietro Locatto
January 5, 2026
La chitarra di Barrios vista da vicino, con Pietro LocattoGuitarMind, Carpi Coordinamento: Gabriele Lodi Direzione Organizzativa: Bottega del Restauro e TouchTheSound ProjectGuitarMind, Via Matteotti 12, Carpi (MO) La Bottega del Restauro desidera invitarvi, Sabato 31 Gennaio dalle ore 10.30 alle...Continue reading
Puor un Hommage (French guitar music of the early XX century) Michele Festa
December 1, 2025
Michele Festa Label: Contrastes recordsGuitar used thanks to TouchTheSound project: Santos Hernández This recording explores the unique relationship between Paris and the guitar from the early twentieth century to the late 1960s, a period shaped by the artistic vitality of...Continue reading
En Verlaine mineur by Ricardo Viñes – Transc. James Beneteau
November 23, 2025
En Verlaine mineur by Ricardo ViñesTranscription by James Beneteaudownload the transcription Ricardo Viñes is well known as a virtuoso pianist, and many great composers, including Debussy, Ravel, Satie, and Mompou, dedicated works to him. On the other hand, Viñes' activity...Continue reading
A Lost Culture of Touch and Sound: The Contribution of Visually Impaired Musicians to the Evolution of the Spanish Guitar
November 16, 2025
New article published for Soundboard ScholarA Lost Culture of Touch and Sound: The Contribution of Visually Impaired Musicians to the Evolution of the Spanish GuitarMarco Ramelli Article published on Soundboard scholar: digitalcommons.du.edu In the story of music-making, blind musicians have...Continue reading
‘Sound as Vibration: Perspectives on Perception’
November 12, 2025
'Sound as Vibration: Perspectives on Perception'TU Dublin ConservatoireConcert Hall - TU Dublin (Ireland) This is the first in a series of conversations dedicated to sound as vibration, exploring perceptions of sound and their influences on the creation of music and...Continue reading
Resoconto di TouchTheSound Guitar Audition: Robert Bouchet
November 9, 2025
TouchTheSound Guitar Audition: Robert BouchetGuitarMind, Carpi Coordinamento: Gabriele Lodi Direzione Organizzativa: Bottega del Restauro e TouchTheSound ProjectGuitarMind, Via Matteotti 12, Carpi (MO) Entrare nel contesto da cui é emersa la figura di Robert Bouchet, attraverso la prova e l’analisi di...Continue reading
TouchTheSound Guitar Audition: Robert Bouchet
October 18, 2025
TouchTheSound Guitar Audition: Robert BouchetGuitarMind, Carpi Coordinamento: Gabriele Lodi Direzione Organizzativa: Bottega del Restauro e TouchTheSound ProjectGuitarMind, Via Matteotti 12, Carpi (MO) La Bottega del Restauro desidera invitarvi, Sabato 25 Ottobre dalle ore 10.00 alle ore 19.00, presso GuitarMind di...Continue reading
Il colpo d’occhio finale
August 1, 2025
Il colpo d’occhio finale - Liuteria Narrata n.6 31 Luglio 2025 A cura di: Umberto Cevoli - Marco Golfieri - Leonardo De Marchi Scarica la versione pdf ITADownload English version Il colpo d’occhio finale La prima chitarra che i liutai...Continue reading
Il vivo contatto con la Liuteria Spagnola. Intervista a Luigi Attademo
June 25, 2025
Il vivo contatto con la Liuteria Spagnola. Intervista a Luigi Attademo - Liuteria Narrata n.5 25 giugno 2025 A cura di: Umberto Cevoli - Marco Golfieri - Leonardo De Marchi Scarica la versione pdf ITADownload English version Il vivo contatto...Continue reading
Legnani: The Indomitable Guitar (Rediscovered Works)
June 9, 2025
Legnani: The Indomitable Guitar (Rediscovered Works)Leopoldo Saracino Luigi Legnani was one of the most long-lived guitarists of the nineteenth century (born in Ferrara on 7 November 1790, he passed away in Ravenna on 5 August 1877), yet he enjoyed a...Continue reading
Sul Tornavoz – Liuteria Narrata n.4
June 6, 2025
Sul Tornavoz - Liuteria Narrata n.4 5 giugno 2025 A cura di: Umberto Cevoli - Marco Golfieri - Leonardo De Marchi Scarica la versione pdf ITADownload English version Sul Tornavoz - Liuteria Narrata n.4 Una delle sfide che da sempre...Continue reading
Continuità e discontinuità con la tradizione – Liuteria Narrata n.3
May 9, 2025
Continuità e discontinuità con la tradizione - Liuteria Narrata n.3 8 maggio 2025 A cura di: Umberto Cevoli - Marco Golfieri - Leonardo De Marchi Scarica la versione pdf ITADownload English version Probabilmente suona come una banalità ricordare che il...Continue reading
A tu per tu con gli originali – Liuteria Narrata n.2
April 18, 2025
A tu per tu con gli originali - Liuteria Narrata n.2 10 aprile 2025 A cura di: Umberto Cevoli - Marco Golfieri - Leonardo De Marchi Scarica la versione pdf ITADownload English version Quando si costruisce uno strumento ispirandosi a...Continue reading
Perché di un progetto- Liuteria Narrata n.1
March 28, 2025
Perché di un progetto- Liuteria Narrata n.1 26 marzo 2025 A cura di: Umberto Cevoli - Marco Golfieri - Leonardo De Marchi Scarica la versione pdf ITADownload English version Liuteria Narrata: Un Dialogo tra Liutai e Interpreti Il progetto di...Continue reading
Il Barbiere di Siviglia / piano and guitar – Duo Savigni
March 27, 2025
Ouverture de ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’ by Gioachino Rossini (1792 – 1868)Transcription by Duo Savigni We are happy to present the scores of our version of Rossini's Ouverture "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"! This edition is our free adaptation of this...Continue reading
Restoration of the guitar by Francisco Simplicio No. 66 (1926) Gabriele Lodi and Javier Somonza
March 26, 2025
Restoration of the guitar by Francisco Simplicio No. 66 (1926) Gabriele Lodi and Javier Somoza have just published an article in Roseta – Revista de la Sociedad Española de la Guitarra, nos. 19–20 (2024), about the restoration of Francisco Simplicio’s...Continue reading
Twilight Pieces by William Baines – Transc. James Beneteau
March 26, 2025
Twilight Pieces by William Baines (1899 – 1922)Transcription by James Beneteaudownload the transcription In the three short movements that comprise Twilight Pieces (1921), one can hear what a skillful and imaginative composer William Baines was, and at such a young...Continue reading
12-13/04/25 Musica Pittorica – Galleria delle Arti Modena
March 24, 2025
12-13/04/25 Musica PittoricaCarlo Alberto Vandelli, pittore Laura Savigni, fortepianista.Evento dal vivo Galleria delle Arti, Modena Il 12 e il 13 Aprile ci sarà a Modena la presentazione del progetto Musica Pittorica, un progetto ideato da Carlo Alberto Vandelli, pittore e...Continue reading
Articles, Centro Asteria, Corde d'Autunno, Francesca Naibo, Giulia Mazza, Residenze Erranti, Sensing Sound, Video
Giulia Mazza: “sentire non sentendo” Festival Corde d’Autunno 2024 – Residenze Erranti
March 22, 2025
“Sentire non sentendo”Giulia Mazza in conversazione con Francesca Naibo 23 Novembre 2024 - Centro Asteria Milano Giulia Mazza, violoncellista italiana non udente, è stata la protagonista di un incontro particolare al Festival Corde d'Autunno moderato da Francesca Naibo, in cui...Continue reading
Jonathan Leathwood presentation Guitar (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) for Residenze Erranti project
March 21, 2025
Jonathan Leathwood presentation Guitar (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) for Residenze Erranti project Jonathan Leathwood presented a chapter from the book Guitar, co-authored with Richard Wright, to the Residenze Erranti artists on 13 October 2024. His lecture offered an in-depth exploration...Continue reading
Jonathan Leathwood
March 21, 2025
Curriculum JONATHAN LEATHWOOD is one of the few guitarists to perform on six-string and ten-string guitars, mixing modern and traditional works in his innovative programs. His last London concert led Classical Guitar to call him “a genius”; the Musical Times...Continue reading
Giacomo Susani – Frammenti (After M.Llobet)
March 19, 2025
Frammenti by Giacomo Susani “Last year my friend Marco Ramelli asked me to write a piece for him. He had recently come across a peculiar document, displaying a few germinal ideas and a general plan for a violin and piano...Continue reading
Claudio Maccari – 26 Marzo 2020 – Guitar & Fortepiano
March 19, 2025
New work by Claudio Maccari For this project and anniversary, we collaborated with the TouchTheSound Project and Siccas Guitars to bring an idea to life. TouchTheSound commissioned composer Claudio Maccari, one of the leading experts in 19th-century guitar, to write...Continue reading
Introduzione – Liuteria Narrata
March 11, 2025
Introduzione Liuteria Narrata A cura di: Umberto Cevoli - Marco Golfieri - Leonardo De Marchi Scarica la versione pdf ITADownload English version Liuteria Narrata: Un Dialogo tra Liutai e Interpreti Negli ultimi anni si è portata grande attenzione alle forme...Continue reading
Marco Golfieri
February 27, 2025
Curriculum Liutaio per passione, autodidatta. Nella vita di tutti i giorni si occupa di logistica e analisi all’interno di un’Azienda leader nel settore del packaging alimentare. Da sempre appassionato di musica, sin da piccolo si innamora del legno e di...Continue reading
Leonardo De Marchi
February 27, 2025
Curriculum Leonardo De Marchi è chitarrista classico. Si è diplomato con lode nei conservatori di Venezia, Novara, Pavia e ha ottenuto la laurea triennale con lode in Germanistica e Slavistica presso l'università Ca' Foscari di Venezia. La sua attività artistica...Continue reading
HUMMEL ‘Pot-Pourri’ Vol.1 – Duo Savigni
February 20, 2025
HUMMEL Vol. 1 ‘Pot-Pourri’Works for guitar and piano vol. 1Buy the Album: € 13 (plus shipping cost) This recording by Duo Savigni is the first volume of the project dedicated to the guitar-and-piano duo music written by the renowned pianist-composer...Continue reading
Liuteria Narrata
February 7, 2025
Liuteria NarrataBlog a cura di: Leonardo De Marchi, Umberto Cevoli e Marco Golfieri Negli ultimi anni si è portata grande attenzione alle forme di creatività condivisa e di cooperazione in campo musicale. Sono sempre più frequenti le interazioni creative che...Continue reading
Duo Martini-Dominguez – Festival Corde d’Autunno – Stauffer guitar
January 29, 2025
Louis Spohr - Schifferlied der Wasserfee op.72Performing during the XV Festival Corde d’Autunno 22 November 2024 Duo Martini-Dominguez, part of the Residenze Erranti programme 2024/2025, performing during the XV Festival Corde d’Autunno, opening Duo Maccari-Pugliese concert. Enjoy their performance of...Continue reading
TU Dublin Conservatoire – TouchTheSound guitars – Learning from the Instrument
August 19, 2024
TouchTheSound Guitars for Young Artists TouchTheSound Guitars for Young Artists, Learning from the Instrument, is a collaboration between TouchTheSound and TU Dublin Conservatoire. Historically inspired guitars, designed by Gabriele Lodi and Marco Ramelli, are loaned to students free of charge....Continue reading
UNRUHE – Duo Savigni
July 16, 2024
UNRUHENew Transcriptions for Guitar and Piano (J.K.Mertz/Duo Savigni) Unruhe is a collection of five new transcriptions performed on historical instruments and recorded in the Castle of our town, Formigine (MO, Italy). These compositions by Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856), were written...Continue reading
13/7/2024 – Chitarre di Aria(s) – La Bottega del Restauro
June 25, 2024
Chitarre di Aria(s) - giornata di approfondimento sulla figura di Vicente AriasGuitarMind, Via Giacomo Matteotti 12, Carpi (MO) Talvolta è proprio nei cosiddetti momenti di transizione, tra un'epoca artistica e l'altra e nella confusione di stili, che nascono i più...Continue reading