gazzolo productions

Est. by Livia Gazzolo October 2023 to create innovative multimedia musical experiences.

"Charade"

In October 2023, Livia Gazzolo partnered with The Vickers Theatre in Three Oaks, MI to create the first Silent Film Show featuring Livia Gazzolo on vocals and Reynaldo Certain on guitar performing Brazilian Tropicalia in front of Jean Cocteau's Blood of a Poet (1932). Since then, Ms. Gazzolo has produced and performed in a selection of shows with different concepts combining silent films from the early 1900's with wildly varied musical accompaniments, including improvisational jazz, traditional Kurdish folk music, memorable rock and roll hits and Brazilian Tropicalia (to mention a few). Ms. Gazzolo believes that the juxtaposition of live performance with silent film can bring into relief historical patterns still relevant, while highlighting the ingenuity born of a time that was pure analogue. She uses ethnomusicology as a lens to explore the connection between cultures through music while experimenting with how mood and tone (beyond language) can bring a new dimension to the story unfurling on film.

News Coverage:

New Buffalo Times

Red Chuck Productions

New Buffalo Explored

Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce

Ms. Gazzolo and Gazzolo Productions partnered with Dr. Sherry Wang and T.C.T. (Transcultural Cymatics Theatre) to create The Sound of Silence. This project brought the silent film performance concept to Guangzhou, China November 2024.

Director Hu of the Grandview Museum wrote, "For hundreds of years, the "meaning" of music has been like a fog that has swirled in the hearts of aesthetes, musicians, and philosophers, leaving them intoxicated and confused. I once thought that "music without boarders" was just a beautiful vision, but tonight, "The Sound of Silence," a world-class live music feast, has truly built an emotional bridge between Chinese tourists and exotic artists."