Someone has to do the dirty job.

Vasco Barbieri, in art Bolasco, because it was my great grandmother’s surname. I chose it because she was the most pragmatic person in my family and of her words I’ll always remember : “Vasco, whatever you do, as putting in order a room, remember, you always need to start from a corner”.

Today I’m 32, I was born in summer, in August, and I grew up with divorced parents. With a mother that did the Art Gallerist and a father that did the Lawyer that respectively influenced my research of the extraordinary and my everyday organization.

When I was a child I seemed good with mathematic. At 7 year old I fell from a second floor causing a cranial trauma that left me in coma for 20 days, of which I keep the memory of very strong spiritual images. It lowered my vision and lost the memory of my first years, so I needed to start back again from another sense. Actually, I saw frequencies, the colours, the aura of the persons that were around. Once I found a piano and started playing my emotions, they liked it.

My family believed in my potentialities so in the summer of ’93 they sent me to study music in America… experience that corrupted my relation with the ‘official theory’.

After have studied music at elementary school, I started playing around for friends and neighbors in private houses.

At the end of school, not understanding why people and society did what they did, I started studying at the Actor Studio in Rome of D’Abbraccio. Than I become Doctor in Philosophy graduating first with a thesis in Esthetic of music on the relation between Kandinsky and Schoenberg, titled “The Crisis of Silence”, in which I deepen the synesthetics aspects of art. Than with a thesis of Philosophy of Communication, trying to understand the essence of communication, developing from the researches of Raimon Panikkar, I understand it’s mainly a com’unic’ation, a way of co-feeling, of empathy.

Start working as web master for the web site of the gallery of my mother, first, than for an online touristic guide. Meanwhile I organize my father’s library and the communication of the works of an artist. I was trying to understand how knowledge is organized. Dissatisfied because everytime the human factor was missing in the ontological systematization, I got back to work with music, with emotions.

So, once put together all the materials of my university’s concerts and the posters that friends of mine had drawn, I start working on my website to introduce my music and, so, developing a way of teaching it.

I arrive from an artist family, in the sense that everyone has tried to make his work and life become special.

Apart my grandfathe and my great grandmother, the other one, that were musicians, and my grandmother that did everything to restrain me to do it (therefore feeding my passion), I have done the musician because there was nothing else I could do.

Despite realizing the difficulties and loneliness this mission would have forced me to, after the umpteenth interview to pay a rent, to which I was rejected, I decided to invest totally in what I could not have been: an interpreter of this reality. In this way I decided to work together to redesign the world, which seemed me more and more confusing every day.

So, between the smoke of the doubt and the total absence of a perspective, with a slew of sleeves in my hand, I chose to make the hawk. The musician, the frequency alchemist, because I’m sure that by re-giving credit to the perception of listening, beyond this media age of the image, we can reveal new lands and perspectives that can accommodate and offer everyone a chance.

Today I teach Intuitive Piano, I have a Youtube channel on which my live shows live, I have a Facebook page with which I update about my studies on music and music therapy. My next goal is a music CD already in the works and an internet site about the Intuitive Piano method and motives, working progress.

My pop music, to get to everyone, springs in those moments when, alone in front of the piano, I try to make a point and give me courage. Emblematic titles such as Belive, Convert, Take it Easier, Hey, Love Remains, …