Rob Mazurek - piccolo trumpet, electronics, voice
Gabriele Mitelli - piccolo trumpet, electronics, voice

 Facing each other. No filters, no mediations. Through mirrors and mutual recalls, constantly walking the tightrope. Rob Mazurek and Gabriele Mitelli: trumpeters who are not just trumpeters, musicians who made the 'beyond' and the ‘elsewhere’ their way of life. Mazurek, a revered master. At the heart of the Chicago scene for almost two decades now, catalyst of energies, tireless experimenter and focal point between the dancing legacy of Sun Ra and the uncompromising impulses of the most non-aligned (post-)rock, between the lesson of Bill Dixon and the majestic path of the AACM generation. Mitelli, young but with great artistic personality. Instinctive and courageous in throwing himself headlong into the least accommodating situations and most unlikely contexts. Within a few years he was playing with the greatest masters of avant-garde music, from Joe McPhee to Mats Gustaffson, participating in some of the most important international festivals.. They had to meet one day. It’s about affinity and consonance. A matter of life. A matter of music.

Star Splitter was founded in 2018 and in a few years has maintained a steady concert activity and the release of two records, "Star Gaze Night" Clean Feed Records (2019) and "Medea" We Insist Records 2024.

“The duo’s playing was raw, uninhibited and real. Their sonic cornucopia, wild and free, is one of the most exciting and convincing meldings of electronic and acoustic forces I’ve heard” (Andy Hamilton)
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(…) the pair function like hall of mirror refractions of one another across a single work. The duo juggle trumpets, electronics, and raw vocalizing in a shapeshifting sound quilt that veers from spacious deliberation to densely raucous rapture. Despite the shared instrumentation, the musicians blend disparate aesthetic tendencies, sometimes coalescing but more often generationg a visceral fraction through differences that push and pull. (Peter Margasak, The Wire)

An intense and timeless work that captivates and grips. (Franpi Barriaux, Citizen Jazz)
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duo now effectively established, but always evolving, in which electronics have taken on even more prominence, with a full-bodied, vitalistic, free, noisy and also enjoyably playful use. (Marcello Lorrai, Il Manifesto)