Drumavox at Teatro Intrepidi Monelli

Though voice and percussion have a long history in human musical development, the concept of a modern music ensemble using only four voices and percussion has been rarely explored.

Drumavox fuses the New York drummer, composer Sean Noonan with a Sardinian a cappella choir that features soprano Alice Madeddu, mezzo-soprano Eva Pagella, tenor Matteo Siddi, and bass Manuel Cossu. This relationship began in 2016 at the Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz Festival in the premiere of Noonan’s rock opera Zappanation, a dedication to Frank Zappa and Edgar Varese.


Noonan coins himself as a rhythmic storyteller and conducts with a pair of drum sticks multi-stylistic music, fusing his discoveries from jazz-rock to modern classical chamber music. As a drummer, his compositions serve as an extension of his four limbs, mapping out polyrhythmic language on the drum set which is arranged for choir. ...

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Though voice and percussion have a long history in human musical development, the concept of a modern music ensemble using only four voices and percussion has been rarely explored.

Drumavox fuses the New York drummer, composer Sean Noonan with a Sardinian a cappella choir that features soprano Alice Madeddu, mezzo-soprano Eva Pagella, tenor Matteo Siddi, and bass Manuel Cossu. This relationship began in 2016 at the Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz Festival in the premiere of Noonan’s rock opera Zappanation, a dedication to Frank Zappa and Edgar Varese.


Noonan coins himself as a rhythmic storyteller and conducts with a pair of drum sticks multi-stylistic music, fusing his discoveries from jazz-rock to modern classical chamber music. As a drummer, his compositions serve as an extension of his four limbs, mapping out polyrhythmic language on the drum set which is arranged for choir.

The eight compositions on Drumavox’s debut album are in part discoveries from his "wandering folk" theory where he gathers and adapts from a modern perspective stories, legends, and folklore from America, Europe, Africa and beyond.

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