Jean Ven Robert Hal
Encyclopedia
Jean Ven Robert Hal, stage name for Roberto D'Agostino Vendola born 11 May 1970 is an Italian musician, composer
of Electronic Music
, Kosmische Musik, Space music
, Progressive
, Ambient
, Jazz
, Synth pop and Orchestral music.
Approached music and composition when he was given the first keyboard at age six. After a period of neglect and lack of interest he picked up composing in the middle of adolescence and then never gave it up til today!
Hal specializes with passion on both the analog sound and digital electronic devices and the use of "vintage" synths with prestigious brands such as Moog
, ARP Instruments Inc., EMS (Electronic Music Studios), Elka
, Oberheim
, Synclavier
, Fairlight CMI
, Mellotron
, a precursor of today's samplers, the legendary Theremin
and many others, all musical instruments that have marked the history of modern music.
Jean Ven Robert Hal is one of the few representatives in Italy and belongs to the current musical wave of the Kosmische Musik genre with many “cultural” pieces.
The Kosmische Musik was born in Germany
from various musical influences that are substantially known as the “minimalism
”. The psychedelic music
and cultured electronic music is a consequence of post weberian style. The Kosmische Musik currently is filed under the category of “Ambient
“, and generically (even if improperly), as “New Age
”.
Many of his musical works have been transmitted on television. Jean Ven Robert Hal is a profound expert researcher, and creator of analogical and digital sound.
Other tracks worth mentioning that have enjoyed success on TV and once again are returning to the web are:
Jean Ven Robert Hal, fascinated by the world of 3D computer graphics for over ten years, has done some studies and improvements in this area. He is currently producing a multimedia project with 3D visual and musical experimentation that will be published in a DVD (in 2011). Hal also has approached to compose music for films, music for short films, free compositions, electronic symphonies, television themes.
(Italy
), as well as one of the first and extensive experts of electronic instruments and synthesizers. Hal has worked and collaborated with advertising jingles, musical interludes with various musicians in many productions, including "MTV Music", and followed the arrangements for the music of "Milan Channel". Hal has also collaborated with musicians and the conductor of the symphonic orchestra and for choir, among those “Adriano Bassi” in 1997- 98 for a series of concerts:
He sang as a tenor in the famous “Coro Hispano Americano” Choir in Milan at the Institute Cervantes from 1996 to 1999 founded by the great Conductor of choir “Marco Dusi”, and from this work blossomed about fifty concerts.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
of Electronic Music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
, Kosmische Musik, Space music
Space music
Space music, also called spacemusic, is an umbrella term, synonymous with a segment of New Age Music and Ambient Music, used to describe music that evokes a feeling of contemplative spaciousness. Space music can be found within a wide range of genres. It is particularly associated with ambient, New...
, Progressive
Progressive
Progressive is an adjectival form of progress and may refer to:-Politics:* Progressivism, a political ideology* Progressive Era, a period of reform in the United States Progressive is an adjectival form of progress and may refer to:-Politics:* Progressivism, a political ideology* Progressive Era, a...
, Ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
, Jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
, Synth pop and Orchestral music.
Biography
As a graduate of geometry, he also studied architecture and design.Approached music and composition when he was given the first keyboard at age six. After a period of neglect and lack of interest he picked up composing in the middle of adolescence and then never gave it up til today!
Hal specializes with passion on both the analog sound and digital electronic devices and the use of "vintage" synths with prestigious brands such as Moog
Moog synthesizer
Moog synthesizer may refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for older-generation analog music synthesizers. The Moog company pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled...
, ARP Instruments Inc., EMS (Electronic Music Studios), Elka
Elka
ELKA or Elka may refer to one of the following:*An Italian Synthesizer manufacturer, now defunct. Notable units include; ELKA Synthex, ELKA Rhapsody, ELKA X-55, and the ELKA MKxx series of MIDI controllers . Notable customers include Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and, Supertramp...
, Oberheim
Oberheim
Oberheim Electronics is an American company, founded in 1969 by Tom Oberheim , which manufactured audio synthesizers and a variety of other electronic musical instruments.-Oberheim Electronics:...
, Synclavier
Synclavier
The Synclavier System was an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation, manufactured by New England Digital Corporation, Norwich, VT. The original design and development of the Synclavier prototype occurred at Dartmouth College with the collaboration of...
, Fairlight CMI
Fairlight CMI
The Fairlight CMI is a digital sampling synthesizer. It was designed in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, and based on a dual-6800 microprocessor computer designed by Tony Furse in Sydney, Australia...
, Mellotron
Mellotron
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...
, a precursor of today's samplers, the legendary Theremin
Theremin
The theremin , originally known as the aetherphone/etherophone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device...
and many others, all musical instruments that have marked the history of modern music.
Jean Ven Robert Hal is one of the few representatives in Italy and belongs to the current musical wave of the Kosmische Musik genre with many “cultural” pieces.
The Kosmische Musik was born in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
from various musical influences that are substantially known as the “minimalism
Minimalism
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...
”. The psychedelic music
Psychedelic music
Psychedelic music covers a range of popular music styles and genres, which are inspired by or influenced by psychedelic culture and which attempt to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues-rock bands in the...
and cultured electronic music is a consequence of post weberian style. The Kosmische Musik currently is filed under the category of “Ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
“, and generically (even if improperly), as “New Age
New Age
The New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...
”.
Many of his musical works have been transmitted on television. Jean Ven Robert Hal is a profound expert researcher, and creator of analogical and digital sound.
Works
His most representative work is titled Cosmic Nature, which is a journey through space, in the nature of the universe, but implicitly also of its internal state, characterized by broad melodies, sounds and "cosmic" wrap. Among the most important pieces are also the composition of a symphony of the same name that is representative of the Overture Album.Other tracks worth mentioning that have enjoyed success on TV and once again are returning to the web are:
- Hopes and Dreams, a symphonic atmosphere completely reminiscent of classical, acoustic sounds in which Hal is able to give color to the synthesizer.
- Laser Hal 1 (part 1), is a song electronic-cosmic interpretation imposing and dramatic, which represents the beginning of an inner journey through time. It develops in one part rhythm, frantic and for a second more symphonic but still accompanied by full electronic effects with the use of the ThereminThereminThe theremin , originally known as the aetherphone/etherophone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device...
, and MellotronMellotronThe Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...
choirs legendary mythical "M400" in addition to other vintage synths. - Laser Hal 2 (Part. 2), one of the classic songs cosmic-based sequencing, interlocking chains of harmonie and complex. It is a journey in stages of the inner life sometimes with reversals in the face, but always accompanied by a "common thread".
- Moon Voice, a song that develops in a more rhythmic and techno-dance. It is a song entirely dedicated to the first "Moon Landing" in 1969, Apollo 11Apollo 11In early 1969, Bill Anders accepted a job with the National Space Council effective in August 1969 and announced his retirement as an astronaut. At that point Ken Mattingly was moved from the support crew into parallel training with Anders as backup Command Module Pilot in case Apollo 11 was...
, where you can listen to the voices of the Astronauts Neil ArmstrongNeil ArmstrongNeil Alden Armstrong is an American former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon....
, Buzz AldrinBuzz AldrinBuzz Aldrin is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing in history...
and Michael CollinsMichael Collins (astronaut)Michael Collins is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was Gemini 10, in which he and command pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins...
, processed electronically.
Jean Ven Robert Hal, fascinated by the world of 3D computer graphics for over ten years, has done some studies and improvements in this area. He is currently producing a multimedia project with 3D visual and musical experimentation that will be published in a DVD (in 2011). Hal also has approached to compose music for films, music for short films, free compositions, electronic symphonies, television themes.
Other collaborations
Hal has actively collaborated with the Italian conductors and Italian maestro/professor and European synthesist “Gian Felice Fugazza” of the electronic music divisions of the Conservatory of BolognaBologna
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
(Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
), as well as one of the first and extensive experts of electronic instruments and synthesizers. Hal has worked and collaborated with advertising jingles, musical interludes with various musicians in many productions, including "MTV Music", and followed the arrangements for the music of "Milan Channel". Hal has also collaborated with musicians and the conductor of the symphonic orchestra and for choir, among those “Adriano Bassi” in 1997- 98 for a series of concerts:
- Imperial "Nelson Mass” (Missa in Angustiis - 1798) di Franz Joseph Haydn
- "Missa" di José J. E. Lobo de Mesquita
- Various Compositions of Heitor Villa-LobosHeitor Villa-LobosHeitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
He sang as a tenor in the famous “Coro Hispano Americano” Choir in Milan at the Institute Cervantes from 1996 to 1999 founded by the great Conductor of choir “Marco Dusi”, and from this work blossomed about fifty concerts.
Listen online works
- Hopes and Dreams
- Laser Hal 1 (Part. 1)
- Laser Hal 2 (Part. 2)
- Moon Voice
- Automation