Beyond Notes
Beyond Notes – Unlocking the Creative and Emotional Power through Music, by Tony Carnevale, is now finally available on Amazon.com and worldwide. The new English-language edition, published by Soundtrack, is…
Oltre le note
ANORA PROJECT
Directed by Tony Carnevale
Anora R-Evolution : A New Phase in the ANORA Path
A R-EVOLUTION understood as a change in perspective, in which thought, experience, and creation are brought back into a unified and coherent framework.
The New ANORA Project
ANORA is the acronym for Approccio NOn RAzionale (Non-Rational Approach).
Today, ANORA Project identifies the overarching framework of a path of research, mentorship and
formative work, understood as human learning and developmental processes, and artistic practice
developed by Tony Carnevale over the course of a long artistic, professional, and formative experience.
It is not a single project, nor an isolated initiative, but a unified cultural domain in which thought,
reflection, artistic practice, mentorship, writing, and creative collaboration coexist.
The Non-Rational Approach
The Non-Rational Approach (ANORA Method) is enriched by research into the psychodynamics of
creative processes and the formative relationship, with particular attention to music understood as a
human expressive-representational language.
From this perspective, music is not considered only as a technical matter or an aesthetic product, but as a
form of thought, relationship, and representation of inner experience.
The research therefore integrates:
- musical and artistic practice,
- theoretical reflection,
- formative praxis,
the study
- of ideational, imaginative, perceptual, and emotional processes,
- the study of human responses to sound.
ANORA Project as an Overarching Framework
ANORA Project brings together and connects:
- research and practice grounded in the Non-Rational Approach,
- mentorship understood as an evolutionary and transformative process,
- writing and editorial development,
- laboratories and formative experiences,
- artistic and cultural projects coherent with this vision.
In this sense, ANORA Project represents the ANORA world as a whole, as an open, evolving, and
multidisciplinary space.
Writing, Research, and Publications
Experiential and psychodynamic research is documented and developed through a body of publications that
collect the editorial and reflective work of Tony Carnevale.
This corpus includes the volumes Il pensiero e il suono, Il suono ritrovato (1st–4th editions), Poetica,
ricerca e formazione musicale, Formazione Musicale Psicodinamica, and Oltre le note, which represent
different phases in the theoretical development of the Non-Rational Approach.
Alongside this path stands Beyond Notes – Unlocking the Creative and Emotional Power through Music,
the first volume in English, which opens ANORA research to an international dimension and makes its
foundations accessible to a broader audience.
In addition to published volumes, current writing and ongoing research articles find their place in the Tony
Carnevale Journal (TC Journal), hosted on the ANORA Association website.
The TC Journal represents the living and ongoing continuation of the research path, in continuity with what
has already been developed in the books.
The ANORA Association
The’Associazione Culturale ANORA was established with the aim of:
- disseminating the Non-Rational Approach and the ANORA Method,
- supporting research and formative activities,
- fostering artistic and cultural collaboration.
The Association operates as a vehicle for dissemination and sharing, not as the authorial subject of the
method.
The theoretical voice and conceptual development of the Non-Rational Approach remain uniquely
attributable to its author, while the Association provides the context in which this thought can be shared,
narrated, and lived through experiences, testimonies, and practices.
An Open Path
ANORA Project is not a closed system, but an open and continuously evolving path that places at its
center:
- the human being,
- creative experience,
- relationship,
- artistic languages as forms of knowledge.
Within this space, research, mentorship, creation, and production coexist — not as separate fields, but as
parts of a single process.
Artists for Artists
is an operational and collaborative domain within ANORA Project, dedicated to artistic collaborations.
It is not a formative path in the traditional sense, but an evolved mode of continuation of the formative
path, which develops through the creation of works within a context of real artistic collaboration.
Within this domain, in continuity with a way of doing formation long practiced within the ANORA
Laboratories, Tony Carnevale participates directly in the projects as a co-author, in addition to his role
as artistic director, actively contributing to the creative and realization processes together with the other
artists involved.
In this space, creative practice becomes direct experience of work, exchange, and production.
The project is open to artists working through different expressive-representational languages, including
music, dance, theatre, cinema, audiovisual media, visual and performative arts.
A Concrete Artistic Collaboration
Artists for Artists was created with the aim of:
- fostering creative encounters among artists,
- supporting the realization of original projects,
- promoting an artistic practice grounded in relationship, listening, and shared creative and productive
processes.
Artists may propose a project that includes the presence of music.
If the project is coherent with the artistic vision of ANORA Project, collaboration in its realization takes
place free of charge, as a cultural and non-commercial choice.
Artistic Direction
The artistic direction of the projects is entrusted to Tony Carnevale, who coordinates the creative and
realization processes, ensuring coherence with the overall vision of ANORA Project.
Artists for Artists is neither a production label nor a record label, but a contextual signature, identifying
works born within a shared artistic collaboration experience.
Evaluation and Realization
The evaluation of proposed projects is free of charge.
Each proposal is analyzed in order to understand possible developments, adaptations, or realization paths.
ANORA Project reserves the possibility of realizing the works using its own means, with no costs for the
artists involved.
HANDS
HANDS is the first work realized within ANORA Project – Artists for Artists.
A collaborative project between Stefania Graziani, a participant in the ANORA Laboratories, and Tony
Carnevale, born within the context of the Laboratories themselves.
The work places at its center the artisanal dimension of artistic making:
hands as the realizing instrument of imagination, gesture arising from relationship.
HANDS represents a concrete example of the evolution of the ANORA formative path, in which a way of
doing formation initially developed within the Laboratories transforms into real, co-authorial artistic
collaboration.
A work that affirms the value of human work and the creative process as a conscious alternative to
automation and the indiscriminate use of artificial intelligence, proposing a different and evolved way of
continuing the artistic formative path.
For Information:info@anora.it
ANORA, an acronym for Approccio NOn RAzionale (Non-Rational Approach), is a different way of experiencing music and artistic performances, based on extensive artistic and professional experience, combined with equally extensive research into the non-rational reality of human beings.
The activity of ANORA Association is mainly in the field of music, but it extends, frequently, into other artistic and cultural fields. However, the focus is on training and research into expressive-representational thinking and the psychoacoustic and psychodynamic aspects of the creative process and the training relationship. The ANORA method and the research and experiences from which it was developed are collected in the books of Tony Carnevale, president of the association.
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Beyond Notes
What is music? What is creativity? What is imagination? This book answers these and other questions
Psychodynamic Music Training
First international publication in which Psychodynamics approaches music education
The Rediscovered Sound 2020 – 4th Edition
Sensibility, imagination, creativity. A non-rational approach to music
Poetics, Research, and Music Training
The book explores research on music and music education, leading to the creation of a teaching method based on an expressive, non-rational approach.
The Rediscovered Sound – 2018, 3rd Edition
Profound considerations on how to think about music, with suggestions on formation, composition, arrangement, and interpretation
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