December 21, 2023
The project New Song is being presented in Sassari, including my song Senza domande.
December 03-05-07, 2023
Premiere and various performances in Zurich, Locarno and Tilburg of Traces, a new multimedia performance for clarinet, modular synthesizer and live video, featuring the multi-dimensional gestural controller Sabre. Riccardo Acciarino, clarinet.
November 29-30, 2023
HAUNTED with Nemø ensemble at the HERMESstudio, Het Kanaal, Wijnegem. Produced by HERMESensemble, Inspiratum 2023 and Nemø ensemble.
November 23, 2023
Performance of my piece Then Silence, and Stillness, and Night at the Knap Cultural Center in Zagreb by the wonderful Synchronos Ensemble.
November 08-09, 2023
Premiere of my new piece Senza domande in Ittiri and Cagliari (Spaziomusica Festival) by the Ensemble Laborintus. This is a song for voice and ensemble for which I composed both the lyrics and the music. Featuring the unique voice of Marta Raviglia. Commissioned by Associazione Musicale Laborintus.
October 12, 2023
Can You Hear Me? won Best Soundtrack at the International Music Film & Video Festival URTIcanti.
September 24, 2023
Performance of Then Sound, and Motion, and Touch for prepared piano and iPad in Molfetta. Benedetto Boccuzzi (piano), Francesco Vitucci (live electronics).
September 11, 2023
Performance of Déjà-vu #2 for violin and street sounds at Festival URTIcanti. Teresa Dangelico, violin (Six Memos Ensemble).
September 04-10, 2023
Artistic residency at the HERMESstudio (Wijnegem, Belgium) and first tryout of the HAUNTED project with Nemø ensemble.
July 2023
The BabelScores Reading Panel 2023 advised to include my works in the BabelScores Catalogue. The jury was formed by composers Huihui Cheng, Lucas Fagin, Luis Naon, Marco Antonio Suarez, Patricia Alessandrini and Pedro García Velasquez. Happy to start this new exciting collaboration!
January 2023
My piece Then Silence, and Stillness, and Night is a winner of the 2022 Call for Scores of Synchronos Ensemble!
December 30, 2022
The experimental video Can You Hear Me? was screened at the REF – Resilience Festival 2022 in Foggia.
October 18-19, 2022
Happy for a double performance of Uncluttered in Sassari and Nuoro, by the Contemporary Music Ensemble of the Sassari Conservatory. Conductor: Andrea Ivaldi.
September 15, 2022
Haunted for amplified guitar was awarded an honourable mention at the ECHI Festival International Call for Scores.
August 31, 2022
A new, exciting collaboration with Nemø ensemble has started with the concept concert Pendulum, held at the Kint Pianos atelier in Ghent. My pieces Haunted (for amplified guitar), Uncluttered (for ensemble) and Then Silence, and Stillness, and Night (for ensemble) were performed by Nemø conducted by Kevin Hendrickx.
August 27, 2022
My piece I soprammobili di Gustav was broadcast on Rai Radio 3 during the presentation of the CD Call for Scores by Marcello Corti. Check it out!
August 18, 2022
New release of the CD Call for Scores by 19’40” including my piece I soprammobili di Gustav, conceived as a musical sabotage of Mahler’s Lied Des Antonius von Padua Fishpredigt! Played with love by the ensemble Esecutori di Metallo su Carta conducted by Marcello Corti. Artwork by Annalisa Nali Limonta.
July 30, 2022
Two new works premiered at the Foresty International Music Festival in Montaldeo (Italy)! Andrea Zamengo wonderfully performed the multimedia work Mirroring. My new installation Pas de deux was also on display: have a glimpse here!
January 12, 2022
Concierto sin programa: la escucha imprevista (Concert with no program: the unexpected listening). Ricardo Descalzo is performing my composition Then Sound, and Motion, and Touch at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid.
November 29, 2021
A brand new interpretation of my piece for piano and granular synthesis Then Sound, and Motion, and Touch is being presented at the Sassari Conservatory by the pianist and conductor Andrea Ivaldi. This is the final event of the contemporary music festival Musica Nova.
November 26, 2021
Ricardo Descalzo is performing the new version of Then Sound, and Motion, and Touch at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, within the final concert of the masterclass “Composición e interpretación de la música actual” held by Ricardo together with the composer and pianist Gustavo Díaz-Jerez.
November 20, 2021
My video Untitled. Hands on Canvas is featured in the virtual exhibition Audiovisual Frontiers organised by the Department of Music at UC Riverside and the UCR ARTS.
November 5, 2021
The book about artistic research L’instabilità del quesito [The Instability of the Question] edited by Gabriele Manca is being presented at the Milan Conservatory. It features a 30-page essay of mine, titled Around Music. Compositional Paths in The Poe Project. Let’s hope that this book and the international workshops, organized in collaboration with the Orpheus Institute (Ghent), may lead to a wider spread of the artistic research discipline in Italian conservatories!
October 9, 2021
Premiere of Uncluttered by the Contemporary Music Ensemble of the Conservatory of Sassari directed by Andrea Ivaldi. This piece was commissioned in 2020 by the Conservatory of Sassari as a homage to a piece by Franco Oppo (Alcune verità indimostrabili). It was supposed to be performed within an exchange project with the Conservatory of Shanghai that got canceled because of COVID-19. The creative starting point was a quotation of Oppo’s piece, where very few notes are used. In search for essentiality, I decided to build the whole piece on a very reduced set of recurring elements, thinking the musical form as a circle… or a room. Here is the program note:
Uncluttered was crafted as an object of Italian design—or like a carefully furnished room. It is based on transparent lines, accurate details, delicate nuances, logically conceived cross-references between recurring sonic categories. My leading idea was to reject all unnecessary clutter. The range of compositional possibilities was thus significantly narrowed, starting with pitch classes. Anti-expressionistic in style, Uncluttered is nonetheless expressive: it has been strongly influenced by a little-known essay by Edgar Allan Poe, titled The Philosophy of Furniture (https://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/philfurn.htm). In this text, Poe criticises the «perposterous want of keeping», and describes his ideal room in great detail, as «a small and not ostentatious chamber with whose decorations no fault can be found». The deep influence of an essential and beautifully furnished space on the psyche is also highlighted: «What is ultimately haunting about the setting itemized by Poe as ideally conducive to relaxed and imaginative speculation is its ability to evoke, despite its rational organization, its luminous openness and its simplicity, a troubling sense of the unknown» (Dani Cavallaro).
September 18, 2021
Premiere of a new, revised version of Then Sound, and Motion, and Touch by Ricardo Descalzo at the ADDA (Auditorio de la Diputación de Alicante), within the Festival Contemporáneo de Alicante 2021. This version was commissioned by and prepared in collaboration with Ricardo!
September 2021
Happy to be a winner of the super interesting Call for Scores 2021 of 19m40s! My piece is a “sabotage” of Mahler‘s Lied Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (also recycled in the Scherzo of his Symphony No. 2). It will be performed in concert and recorded by the ensemble Esecutori di Metallo su Carta.
August 6, 2021
Fading was selected as a finalist for best experimental film at the Rome Prisma Independent Film Awards.
July 18-22, 2021
Beauty Cage, my latest work for spatialized ensemble and electronics, will be premiered by the Schallfeld Ensemble as part of an online concert, within the Conference on AI Music Creativity at the University of Music and Performing Arts of Graz.
June 5-6, 2021
Premiere of the new documentary El Quijote de Almagro by Javier Gómez Bello at the Málaga Film Festival, featuring my original soundtrack. Good job Javier!
December 25, 2020
My video Can You Hear Me? was selected and broadcast at the OUA – Electroacoustic Music Festival in Osaka, Japan.
September-December 2020
Screenings of the documentary Malakooti at numerous film festivals, including the following: Salento (Colombia), Festival de Cine en las Montañas 07-14/09/20; Cullera (Spain), Festival K-LIDOSCOPI 19/10/20; Daroca (Spain), Festival de Cine de Daroca 09/11/20; Granada, Festival de Cortometraje Social Edita 01-10/12/20.
September 4, 2020
My audiovisual work Can You Hear Me? was selected at the Sound, Image and Interaction Design Symposium. It is featured on the Exhibition page of the conference website.
August 23-25, 2020
Malakooti was included in the official selection at the Málaga Film Festival 2020.
July 12, 2020
The short film Malakooti by Javier Gómez Bello, featuring my original soundtrack, won the prize for Best Documentary at the Skyline Benidorm Film Festival 2020.
February 27, 2020
Sensibilities (video art version) was selected at the Muslab Festival, and it will be screened in Mexico City at the Centro Cultural España en Mexico.
January 26, 2020
My piece Déjà-vu #1 for percussion ensemble will be opening a Neue Musik concert in Sinsheim, Germany.
October 26, 2019
Noise4Eyes (Pietro Dossena and Miguel Angel Frausto) with the special guest Irina Ghivièr present a special performance and live soundtrack for Ugo Falena’s 1910 short film Salomè, titled Salomè 2 0 1 9 1 0. Crema, Caffè del Museo, 19:30.
September 7, 2019
Premiere of my new piece Red for flute and guitar, by Carlotta Raponi and Pierpaolo Dinapoli, at Salotto in Prova, Milano.
June 30, 2019
Déjà-vu # 1 for percussion ensemble (student level) will be performed at the Musikschule Sinsheim within a program built around the concept of “auricular witness” (Ohrenzeuge). Thanks to the organiser Erwin Schaffer! This piece can be found in the Datenbank Neue Musik.
June 2019
I am deeply honoured to be awarded the “Arnaldo Rancati” Prize by the Rancati Foundation, the City Council of Milano and the Conservatory of Milano.
June 23, 2019
A Fragmented Deity goes to New York! It was selected at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), the largest showcase of electroacoustic music in New York City, and one of the largest festivals of its kind in the world. It will be performed by Eleonora Claps.
April 28, 2019
Untitled. Hands on Canvas is one of the seven videos selected by the international jury for the 3rd Competition of Audiovisual Compositions promoted by the Department of Composition and Improvisational Performing Arts of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Tallinn). It will be screened on April 28 within the Festival Commute.
March 21, 2019
Today I will present a conference paper titled Gli Studi del terzo libro e l’ultimo Ligeti: considerazioni sull’ascolto e la visione («The Etudes of the third book and the late Ligeti: remarks about listening and vision») within the round table “Sound and image in XXth-century music and architecture” organised by the Conservatory of Milano (Festival di Primavera 2019, “Musica al quadrato”).
March 20, 2019
NOISE4EYES (Pietro Dossena, Miguel Angel Frausto) live at the Corte dei Miracoli, Milano. Soundtrack for Jean Epstein’s silent film La chute de la maison Usher.
March 2019
My composition Then Silence, and Stillness, and Night for prepared piano and ensemble was released on CD by the magazine Suonare News (n. 258, March 2019).
March 8, 2019
A Fragmented Deity @ Museo del Novecento in Florence. Our homage to the Feminine + the exhibition of wonderful new drawings by Cristiana Palandri.
February 22, 2019
Good news! I have been appointed Professor of Harmony and Analysis at the Conservatory of Sassari, starting from today. Here is my personal page on the institutional website.
February 20, 2019
Performance of my new experimental work In Between, a group performance with augmented reality made with the essential contribution of Omar Peracha and Viva Sanchez. This was part of the Workshop “Another Stage” at the Impuls Festival, Graz.
February 19, 2019
Performance of my miniature Micro Music (for classical guitar) by Mauricio Galeano, within the Special Program “Micro-Music Lab”, Impuls Festival, Graz.
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