Dario Lo Cicero, musician and scholar with the rare merit of reinterpreting brave glimpses on history, under the sign of disregarded minorities, of consciousness about how long is the way towards tolerance and listening. Hilarious performances his ones, but also enlightening, even for his discovering and making old or unusual musical instruments.

Giovanni Damiani, from "Palermo: fondamenta per un ponte sul futuro" (“Palermo: foundations for a bridge towards the future”), Musica/Realtà, 90, Dec. 2009.

About Speculatio speculorum

About Variazioni ed eventuali azioni

Dario Lo Cicero, eccentric flautist from Palermo, has presented […] an impredictable concert-performance. […] Opposing to the average performing of early music he played […] giving room to his own imagination, in respect of the true renaissance mood and aesthetics. […] The continuous dialogue with the audience, also invited to choose from a musical menu the scores to listen to, contributed to the success of this open performance, hiding under the ludus the composer’s sophisticated eclecticism.[...] Using the play of light and reflection generated by mirrors, the fanciful musician used the space as a mythical flute’s birthplace. Magically a copper twisted tube, drilled on stage, gave out musical notes and sounds, rubber and glass tubes turned into flutes and trumpets giving life to an evocative happening, completed by the renewed proposal of R. Lupi’s experiment of '66. Supported by five volunteers he cut a reed near its nodes, getting small natural flutes, able to play their own scale. Recalling John Cage’s aleatoric music on purpose, Dario Lo Cicero improvised a tune following the sounds coming out at chance from blowing through the reed’s segments. At the end of the performance, the charmed audience was unbelieving that the concert, lasted more than two hours, has already finished.

Claudia Di Pasquale, “Suono dei Soli festival is going on, eccentric notes from Lo Cicero to Giannetto”, Giornale di Sicilia, April 12, 2001.

About Idrauletica

…the festival organised by Curva Minore presents tonight […] “Hydrauletic”, ingenious acoustic- visual performance by one of the more interesting musical instruments’ inventors, Dario Lo Cicero from Palermo, also known as well-appreciated flautist and composer. The neologism that gives the title to the concert derives from the synthesis between “hydraulics”, engineering science that deals with water dynamics, and “auletikè”, the word that ancient Greeks used for music composed exclusively for wind instruments.

“Hydrauletic – says Lo Cicero – was born in a singular way. Once I thought of making some instruments with the material I could find on the beach: beach umbrellas’ rods, fishing lines, fishing hand nets, but also things that nature left, such as canes, shells, pebbles and drift-woods sculpted by water.

Therefore a music played using instruments that share a common background. I wished to try out what I could get with recordings and samplings of water’s sounds as well, recovering past experiences. I liked the idea of putting together these paths and see what could rise up”

Gigi Razete, “Water, shells and fishing line, everything spectacles”, La Repubblica, July, 2 2004.

About Strangaj instrumentoj el sep kontinentoj

…a music evoked from unusual sound sources: a “harmonographone”, an “organetto strivido”, an enormous set of glass panpipes and other astonishing wind instruments invented, self-built and played by Dario Lo Cicero. Lunar sound charmer, with his inexhaustible imagination, long since he tries to go above the line of a sectarian and pedantic avant-garde.

Gigi Razete, “Lo Cicero’s instruments for Il suono dei soli Festival”, La Repubblica, March, 2 2005.

“Strangaj jnstrumentoj el sep kontinentoj is a sound travel book which constantly takes his cues from odd instruments: the fujara, Slovak shepherds’ oversized fipple flute, the Andalusian flauta rociera, the çiftelia, Albanian long-necked lute, the Chinese jade flute, the bowed Afghan ghichak, the xylophones from Africa and Asia, the mbira, African thumb piano...”

Simonetta Trovato, “Flute and outlandish instruments with voice-over”, Giornale di Sicilia, March, 2 2005.

About Suburbaj riveroj

Rare, gently transgressive has been the theatre action/installation Suburbaj riveroj by Dario Lo Cicero [...]

Aurelio Buono, "www.boapalermo.org" in auxdeejay.splinder.com