La linea obliqua matches two Italian musicians exploring the relationship between improvisation, sound, and architecture. Trumpeter-researcher Ludovico Franco explores the sonic environment as a complex system and the relationship between improvisation, sonic environment, and urban architecture. Baritone sax player (and tubaist) Federico D’Angelo explores the timbral spectrum of his instruments with extended techniques, and focuses on the dialogue between contemporary music, architecture, and spirituality, especially in the historic churches of Rome.
The album features the first collaboration of Franco and D’Angelo, with their unconventional instrumentation, playing free and site-specific improvisations in two radically different locations in Rome, recorded in early 2021. The first eight short improvisations were recorded at the small and intimate artistic-musical
