Mirco Rubegni - Trumpet, French Horn, Percussion
Manuele Morbidini - Alto Sax, Percussion
Dan Kinzelman - Tenor Sax, Clarinet, Flute, Percussion
Rossano Emili - Baritone Sax, Bass Clarinet, Percussion
Renato Grieco - electronics, tapes

Unfall explores processes of recovery and reuse of musical materials, instruments and obsolete electronics. Shards and scraps from musical traditions including dixieland, band music, minimalism and prime-number polyrhythms are forged together using techniques from free jazz, radical improvisation and musique concrete . The possibility of dialogue between contrasting languages remains central to the discourse, inspired by tape music and the cut-ups of William Burroughs. Where possible, live performances are developed according to a site-specific approach, combining multi-channel amplification and the mobile nature of wind and percussion instruments into an elastic, electroacoustic acusmonium which exploits the specific acoustic and spatial properties of each venue.

 

Their eponymous debut record, coming on Kohlhaas in April 2025, was recorded during a series of residencies in Tuscany and Umbria before being disassembled and re-composed by Renato Grieco through re-recording on tape and dubplates, physical manipulation, modular synthesis and field recording. The musical structures remain partially undefined, and in many cases, the technical difficulty of the material precludes the possibility of a 'correct' performance. But it is precisely this liminal space between the possible and the impossible that is being investigated: Unfall is a search for balance between discipline and play, control and chaos. Errors become a generative seed, and the need to resolve the error activates a creative process whose outcome cannot be determined in advance, nor repeated in subsequent iterations. In the midst of all this, the five musicians search for a unified creative flow, building structures and spaces for reflection, meditation and healing.