MICHELE CORALLI
He has written for more than twenty years on contemporary and improvised music, jazz and rock (notably progressive) for the magazines «Amadeus», «Blow Up», «Auditorium», «Il Giornale della Musica», «Strumenti Musicali», «Musica Jazz», «il manifesto» and other print and online publications. He has edited books, guides, essays and encyclopedias of a musical nature, as well as written under his own name «Swingin’ Canterbury – Viaggio nella provincia del rock progressivo britannico 1967-1981» (Tuttle Edizioni) and «Van Der Graaf Generator – Discesa nel maelström progressivo» (Stampa Alternativa). With Claudio Ricordi for il Saggiatore: «Nanni Ricordi. The inventore dei cantautori».
He founded altremusiche.it, a website dedicated to the in-depth study and promotion of unconventional music, online from 2002 to 2025. In collaboration with the Sincronie Cultural Association, he produced the vinyl series “am” which hosted works by contemporary composers such as Fausto Romitelli, Riccardo Nova, Diego Capoccitti, Neil Kaczor, Andrea Mancianti and WK569.
With Claudio Ricordi and Luca Chierici he was editor and host of «Rotoclassica» on Radio Popolare Milano, as well as author of a series of musical and literary programs for «Labirinti musicali». Also as a radio writer, he produced the series of shows «Autobahn. Musiche per ogni viaggio» on Radio Onda d’Urto de Brescia.
Is the author of «Vibrante, luminoso!» a concert-reading with Elena Casoli e Michele Coralli based on texts and music of Fausto Romitelli and Riccardo Nova, and of «L’albatro», a live radio drama based on the poem «The Ballad of the Ancient Mariner» by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
As a videographer and walker, he began filming like Hay que caminar his own hikes in the Apuan Alps and the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, before turning to Africa (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Eritrea and Madagascar), experimenting videos “low budget” using lightweight equipment (video cameras. GoPros and smartphones) and collect sounds, noises and music in the field (“original field recordings”).
He is proudly linked to his degree in ethnomusicology obtained at DAMS in Bologna with Prof. Roberto Leydi, key figure in 20th century Italian culture and great popularizer “other sounds”.
He updates «Hay que caminar» channels on YouTube, Telegram and TikTok.