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Nicola Matteis – over 300 years ago, he hitchhiked from Italy to London.
And
there he managed to captivate his audience with passionate violin playing.
For us however he left behind a mystery, since he wrote down his music only
in mere sketch form.
How can this mystery be unravelled?
Etienne Abelin and his colleagues from the Matteis Project have the unexpected answer: in a fusion of “reImagination”, creativity and method - the Matteis Project Method - they discover the music of Matteis afresh. The Baroque musical language is transfered and translated into other languages, other styles. And a novel mixture of pop-, jazz and Baroque emerges: Transbaroque.
This transbaroque music is now confronted by Baroque music - the semi-electric violin with the Baroque violin. The Matteis Project sets up a time-bridge spanning 300 years.
The transbaroque music you hear on this pages and more music samples provide
an initial aural impression of this amalgamation of old and new, of a mysterious
tie between two epochs.