Acousmatic works
2023 Restless sleep - stereo
2022 Crumbling - stereo
2021 Fluid bronze - stereo
2020 Contracted chest - stereo
2020 Morphée cruel - stereo
2020 Monoblock noise stream - mono
2020 Flos Asisium - stereo
2019 Incendio città - stereo
2019 Eclipse in the Great Mother - stereo
2018 Sound for San Bevignate - stereo
2018 Polvere nera - stereo
2018 Sequenze - stereo
2017 Banlieue cuivrée - stereo
2016 Bodega bay - stereo
2014 Ropes water and blocks #1 - stereo
2014 Blocks #1 - stereo
2019 Breath Wood - stereo
Restless sleep
stereo - 01.00 - 2023
Program notes - eng
A restless sleep immersed in a transfigured nature. Is it real what I feel?
Program notes - ita
Un sonno inquieto immerso in una natura trasfigurata. È reale quello che sento?
Exhibitions
JUNE 2023 Premiere at 60 Sec Radio - work composed for CONCOURS DE CRÉATION RADIO • RADIO ART PROJECT, Montréal, Qc. Canada [work finalist]
Crumbling
stereo - 01.00 - 2022
Program notes - eng
A gentle descent towards a quiet multitude.
Program notes - ita
Una dolce discesa verso una silenziosa moltitudine.
Exhibitions
JUNE 2022 Premiere at 60 Sec Radio - work composed for CONCOURS DE CRÉATION RADIO • RADIO ART PROJECT, Montréal, Qc. Canada [work finalist]
Fluid bronze
stereo - 01.00 - 2021
Program notes - eng
“Fluid bronze” is composed exclusively of sounds produced by gongs of different sizes and played in an unconventional way. Starting from the hard material, the intention has been to create a soft, enveloping and floating mass in which to get lost and warm up. The hardness that produces its opposite.
Program notes - ita
“Fluid bronze” è stata composta esclusivamente da suoni prodotti da gong di diverse dimensioni e suonati in modo non convenzionale. Partendo dal materiale duro, l'intenzione è stata quella di creare una massa morbida, avvolgente e fluttuante in cui perdersi e riscaldarsi. La durezza che produce il suo contrario.
Exhibitions
JUNE 2021 Premiere at 60 Sec Radio - work composed for CONCOURS DE CRÉATION RADIO • RADIO ART PROJECT, Montréal, Qc. Canada [work finalist]
Contracted chest
stereo - 04.33 - 2020
Program notes - eng
The radio was the invention that contracted the chest to the world. Noise is its foundation.
"Contracted chest" is constructed entirely from manipulated noise and concrete sounds. The composition is a short narration of some moments of a day seen by an external observer: the listener, the voyeur who sees everything and hears everything. But vision and listening can never be clear, the veil of noise dominates impassive in its movement and presence.
Program notes - ita
La radio è stata l'invenzione che ha contratto il petto al mondo. Il rumore è il suo fondamento.
"Contracted chest" è costruita interamente da rumore manipolato e suoni concreti. La composizione è un breve racconto di alcuni momenti di una giornata visti da un osservatore esterno: l'ascoltatore, il voyeur che tutto vede e tutto sente. Ma la visione e l'ascolto non possono mai essere nitidi, il velo del rumore domina impassibile nel suo movimento e nella sua presenza.
Exhibitions
2020 work composed for audio release FREQUENCY ILLUSION | Studies in Radio published by Institute For Alien Research - album dedicated to the radio
30.08.2020 Premiere at Chigiana Radioarte special section BEYOND THE SILENCE/music in the time of pandemic project, Siena, Italy - radio broadcasting
22.04.2021 Earth Day Art Model, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
22.05.2023 - 28.05.2023 UNDÆ! Radio-programa #266 por Radio Círculo, Madrid, Spain - “Contracted chest” radio broadcasting
Morphée cruel
stereo - 01.00 - 2020
Program notes - eng
The restlessness of a sleep that slides towards hidden areas where nobody is aware of what they feel.
Program notes - ita
L'inquietudine di un sonno che scivola verso zone nascoste dove nessuno è consapevole di ciò che prova.
Exhibitions
16.05.2020 Ear Talk: Online Sound Gathering with SEAMUS 2020 Youtube Live Stream - Morphée cruel [acousmatic composition for The Ear Talk project
that enables people from remote locations to collaboratively share, shape, and form music through an interactive score on YouTube]
JUNE 2020 Premiere at 60 Sec Radio - work composed for CONCOURS DE CRÉATION RADIO • RADIO ART PROJECT, Montréal, Qc. Canada
Monoblock Noise Stream
mono - 01.43 - 2020
Program notes - eng
"Block noise stream". Granulated noise flow interrupted in its path. The monophonic space closes its boundaries.
Program notes - ita
"Block noise stream". Flusso di rumore granulato interrotto nel suo percorso. Lo spazio monofonico chiude i suoi confini.
Exhibitions
2020 work composed for audio release SEAMUS Miniatures 2020 - Monophonics [Original mono masters] published by S.E.A.M.U.S. records
Flos Asisium
stereo - 03.12 - 2020
Program notes - eng
Flos Asisium was composed using exclusively vocal material derived from a male voice declaiming an ancient poem from the popular literary tradition of Assisi.
Program notes - ita
Flos Asisium è stata composta utilizzando esclusivamente materiale vocale derivato da una voce maschile che declama un'antica poesia della tradizione letteraria popolare assisana.
Exhibitions
2020 work composed for audio release Il suono delle lingue published by Taukay Edizioni Musicali
Incendio città
stereo - 03.56 - 2019
Program notes - eng
Soundtrack for the painting "Incendio Città" by Gerardo Dottori.
Program notes - ita
Sonorizzazione del dipinto "Incendio Città" di Gerardo Dottori.
Exhibitions
27.06.2019 work composed for MUSAE. Musei Uso Sociale e Accessibilità come contrasto all'Emarginazione Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, Italy
Breath Wood
stereo - 01.00 - 2019
Program notes - eng
All Things Breathe.
Program notes - ita
Tutte le cose respirano.
Exhibitions
2019 work composed for audio release Microtopies published by Gràcia Territori Sonor, Barcelona, Spain
14.05.2020 Ear Talk: Online Sound Gathering with SEAMUS 2020 Youtube Live Stream - BreathWood [acousmatic composition for The Ear Talk project
that enables people from remote locations to collaboratively share, shape, and form music through an interactive score on YouTube]
Eclipse in the Great Mother
stereo - 05.06 - 2019
Program notes - eng
Eclipse in the Great Mother. A slow and soft slip into the universal mother's womb. Heat and mystery. The return to the origin, to the archetypal force of the earth. The fusion of stasis and tension to tend towards life, still shapeless and indefinite. The harmony of ancient femininity that governs time in its inexorable flow.
Program notes - ita
Eclipse in the Great Mother. Un lento e morbido scivolare nel grembo della madre universale. Calore e mistero. Il ritorno all'origine, alla forza archetipica della terra. La fusione di stasi e tensione per tendere alla vita, ancora informe e indefinita. L'armonia di una femminilità antica che governa il tempo nel suo inesorabile scorrere.
Exhibitions
07.03.2019 - 08.03.2019 This composition was created and selected for the sound installation of experimental electronic music and sound art "mixtape #IWD" by Hilary Mullaney presented on 8 and 9 March 2019 at the Department of Creative Arts, Media and Music - Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
Sound for San Bevignate
stereo - 28.48 - 2018
Program notes - eng
The conceptual approach followed for the production of the acoustic artifact, intended to "sound" the internal environment of the church of San Bevignate, was based on the search for a synesthesia between sound textures and the range of colors identified through the dominant of the gold/yellow tint. The evoked imagery springs from the ancient echo of the bare landscape of the Holy Land, from the deafening and dense void of the vaults, which bear the signs of archaic breaths and sure steps, stretched towards the divine. Through the use of concrete samples, elements of soundscape and choral fragments, subjected to electronic manipulation, a musical architecture was built that is able to blend in with the sacred one and to intensify the emotional experience of the viewer during the visit of the Templar plexus.
Program notes - ita
L’approccio concettuale seguito per la produzione del manufatto acustico, destinato a “sonorizzare” l’ambiente interno della chiesa di San Bevignate, si è basato sulla ricerca di una sinestesia tra tessiture sonore e la gamma di colori individuati attraverso la dominante della tinta oro/giallo. L’immaginario evocato scaturisce dall’eco antica dello spoglio paesaggio di Terrasanta, dal vuoto assordante e denso delle volte, che recano i segni di arcaici respiri e passi sicuri, tesi verso il divino. Attraverso l’utilizzo di campioni concreti, elementi di soundscape e frammenti corali, sottoposti a manipolazione elettronica, è stata costruita un’architettura musicale in grado di mimetizzarsi in quella sacra e di intensificare l’esperienza emotiva dello spettatore durante la visita del plesso templare.
Exhibitions
SUMMER 2018 The musical work intended to sound the Church of San Bevignate was commissioned by the Municipality of Perugia in the summer of 2018. However, the work was deemed too dark and gloomy by the then Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Perugia, thus putting in place a serious interference in the artistic direction of the event and showing a strong confusion of what is the boundary between the promotion of culture and the personal aesthetic judgment that is not part of the duties of a politician.
ESTATE 2018 Il lavoro musicale destinato a sonorizzare la Chiesa di San Bevignate fu commissionato dal Comune di Perugia nell'estate 2018. Tuttavia il lavoro fu ritenuto troppo scuro e lugubre dall'allora Assessore alla Cultura del comune di Perugia, mettendo cosi in atto una grave ingerenza nella direzione artistica dell'evento e mostrando una forte confusione di quale sia il confine tra la promozione di cultura e il giudizio estetico personale che non rientra nei doveri di un politico.
Exhibitions
06.10.2023 Bruit de la Neige, Eglise St Pierre de Faverges Concert Musique Concrète, Annency, France - "Sound for San Bevignate" [acousmatic concert - acusmonium]
Polvere nera
stereo - 5.47 - 2018
Program notes - eng
The totality of the acoustic material.
Excavated, mutilated. Sublimated and deposited. The One that is fragmented and reduced to dust. Chalk blocks engraved and carved through the space and elasticity of time. Polvere nera is divided into four sections, bounded by sudden stops and static poses, in which there is an incessant dialogue between two opposing formal poles: bands and points. In the end the dialogue becomes union through a process of massification of the material that does not however cancel the intrinsic differences of the models employed. Polvere nera was constructed using noise, synthesis sounds and percussive sounds.
Program notes - ita
La totalità della materia acustica.
Scavata, mutilata. Sublimata e deposta. L’Uno che si frammenta e si riduce a polvere.
Blocchi di gesso incisi e scolpiti attraverso lo spazio e l’elasticità del tempo. Polvere nera è divisa in quattro sezioni, delimitate da arresti improvvisi e pose statiche, in cui si svolge un dialogo incessante tra due poli formali opposti: fasce e punti. Nel finale il dialogo diventa unione tramite un processo di massificazione del materiale che non annulla però le differenze intrinseche dei modelli impiegati. Polvere nera è stata costruita utilizzando rumore, suoni di sintesi e suoni percussivi.
Exhibitions
09.08.2018 Premiere at ICMC 2018, International Computer Music Conference, Daegu, South Korea
19.10.2018 MUSLAB, Muestra Internacional de Musica Electroacustica, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
31.03.2019 Diffrazioni Firenze Multimedia Festival, Firenze, Italy
07.05.2019 Noisefloor Festival, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
21.07.2019 The 15th International Gothic Association Conference, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois, USA
12.09.2019 Convergence International Conference/Festival of Music, Technology and Ideas, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
18.09.2019 Audio mostly a conference on interaction with sound, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
16.11.2019 Electroacoustic Barn Dance, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, USA
2019 preselection Foundation Destellos art, science and technology, Mar del Plata, Argentine
25.06.2020 SMC Sound Music Computing, Turin, Italy
11.07.2020 ACMC Australasian Computer Music Association, Canberra, Australia
04.06.2021 La Hora Acusmática obras electroacústicas de compositores latinoamericanos y europeos, segundo concierto virtual, Argentine
17.10.2021 Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Seoul, South Korea
18.11.2021 Festival Ecos Urbanos, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Estado de México, Auditorio de Profesional, México
18.03.2022 CCMC2022 Contemporary Computer Music Concert, ACSM116, Shokeikan Hall, Doshisha Women's College Kyotanabe Campus, Kyoto, Japan
01.04.2022 SEAMUS Conference 2022, Dalton Lecture Hall, Western Michigan University Indiana University South Bend, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
25.06.2022 NYCEMF New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, New York, USA
Sequenze
stereo - 6.21 - 2018
Program notes - eng
Sequences. A short journey in space. Visions of planets told by concrete sounds of their alleged daily life. Wide rooms and curved horizons. The sidereal emptiness that dominates every place. It is a small psychic and intangible path that turns to the elsewhere of unknown natures. The cold and heat that lead to industrial elements built from gray metals. A tension towards the symbolic abstraction of a possible journey of the human spirit.
Program notes - ita
Sequenze. Un breve viaggio nello spazio. Visioni di pianeti raccontate da suoni concreti della loro presunta vita quotidiana. Stanze ampie e orizzonti curvi. Il vuoto siderale che domina ogni luogo. È un piccolo percorso psichico e intangibile che si rivolge nell'altrove di nature sconosciute. Il freddo e il calore che portano a elementi industriali costruiti con grigi metalli. Una tensione verso l'astrazione simbolica di un possibile viaggio dello spirito umano.
Exhibitions
01.09.2018 selected for From Outer Space: A Leap Into The Future, release by Electronicgirls in cooperation with SubSculture Arts Festival, 2018 edition.
16.12.2018 - 17.12.2018 selected for Sound creations inspired by the Universe, Cose Cosmiche & Human Kind Records, Milan, Italy - radio broadcasting within the project "24 hour live radio performance of sound, poetry and radio works inspired by the Universe"
24.08.2019 premiere at Festival Futura Mondes Parallèles Espace Soubeyran, Crest (Drôme), France
29.08.2021 Chigiana Radioarte Special section of the Chigiana International Festival, Siena, Italy - radio broadcasting
Banlieue cuivrée
stereo - 8.03 - 2017
Program notes - eng
BANLIEUE CUIVRÉE. Suburb brass. Crumbled concrete. The matter fragmentation, its chaos and energy, counterpoised to its implacable, pure and monolithic immobility. The cement shifted through the metal and the leather. The expression "banlieue cuivrée" comes from the will to represent the life of a cement magma with its morphed and dynamics fluctuations, its slackening and but also with its static poses sublimated in the urban architectonic context. Hence concrete. A specific matter. A "fact" surrounding our daily space. A rigid corporeality but that comes in liquid form. Concrete. Suburb. Banlieue. The colour grey. The composition has been built using exclusively concrete samples of metallophones and membranophones instruments. Brass is the dominant metal colour in the musical context, hence the second French term cuivrée. To this light a copper mass, alternating its breath in different ontological sound statuses, is the resulting terminological syntaxes.
Program notes - ita
Banlieue cuivrée. Periferia ottone. Cemento sgretolato. Il caos e l’energia della frammentazione della materia contrapposta alla sua staticità implacabile, pura, monolitica. Il cemento traslato attraverso il metallo e la pelle. L’espressione “banlieue cuivrée” deriva dalla volontà di rappresentare la vita di un magma cementizio con le sue fluttuazioni morfiche e dinamiche, le sue distensioni e i suoi rigurgiti ma anche delle sue statiche pose che nel contesto architettonico urbano trovano la loro sublimazione. Cemento dunque. Una materia precisa. Un “fatto” che circonda il nostro spazio quotidiano. Una corporeità rigida ma che nasce allo stato liquido. Cemento. Periferia. Banlieue. Colore grigio. La composizione è stata costruita utilizzando esclusivamente campioni concreti di strumenti metallofoni e membranofoni. Il colore dominante del metallo nel contesto musicale è quello degli ottoni. Da qui il secondo termine francese cuivrée. La sintesi terminologica risultante, quindi, è quella di una massa ramata che alterna il suo respiro in differenti stati ontologici sonori.
Exhibitions
07.03.2017 Premiere at Premio Nazionale delle Arti, Conservatory of Avellino, Italy - Best work in the Category A: "Acousmatic Works"
05.08.2018 Noisefloor Festival UK, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
17.07.2018 NYCEMF, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, New York, USA
04.07.2018 SMC 2018, Sound & Music Computing Conference, Limassol, Cyprus
21.11.2018 XXII CIM, Colloquio di Informatica Musicale, Udine, Italy
12.01.2019 BFE/RMA Research Students' Conference, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
31.03.2019 Diffrazioni Firenze Multimedia Festival Firenze, Italy
13.09.2019 Atemporánea Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
04.11.2019 Finale Prix Russolo Czech Music Information Center, Praha 1, Malá Strana, Prague, Czech Republic
08.11.2019 Finale Prix Russolo Sound Training College, Rory Gallagher Corner, Dublin, Ireland
10.11.2019 SOUND/IMAGE Exploring Sonic and Audiovisual Practice University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
17.01.2020 Finale Prix Russolo A4 Space for Contemporary Culture, Bratislava, Slovakia
20.02.2020 Finale Prix Russolo West Court Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
23.02.2020 Finale Prix Russolo Salle de musique: Phonoteque, Kobe, Japan
04.03.2020 Finale Prix Russolo Theâtre de L’echange, Annecy, France
05.03.2020 Finale Prix Russolo Studio 11 Usine Parker, Geneve, Switzerland
11.03.2020 XIV Festival Internacional de Musica Electroacustica y Electronica Primavera en La Habana JUAN BLANCO IN MEMORIAM Laboratorio Nacional de Musica Electroacustica, La Habana, Cuba
18.03.2020 New Music Miami Festival ISCM Florida International University Miami Beach Urban Studios, Miami, USA
19.03.2020 Finale Prix Russolo Ground Khodynka, Moscow, Russia
28.10.2020 Seoul International Computer Music Festival Seoul, South Korea
07.07.2022 ICMC 2022 International Computer Music Conference, University of Limerick [Ollscoil Luimnigh]
Bodega bay
stereo - 11.50 - 2016
Program notes - eng
"Bodega Bay" is inspired by the film of Alfred Hitchcock "Birds" of 1963.
The composition is a sound narration of a journey across the bay where much of the film is set.
This journey is to be understood as a psychic, intangible path, an involuntary path of the mind that can determine a dangerous drift. No mimetic representation then. No material simulation. But a tension towards the symbolic abstraction of a possible journey of the human spirit.
The wayfarer, closed in his subjectivity, runs through this chimerical and magmatic space without any purpose, enveloped in a hostile and unpredictable nature up to the freedom intended both as an end and as overcoming and resolving.
The composition is divided into four parts:
Part 1 [0:00 to 3:52] arrival at bay
Part 2 [3:52 to 6:19] start of the journey
Part 3 [6:19 to 9:56] across the bay
Part 4 [9:56 to 11:50] freedom
Program notes - ita
"Bodega Bay" è ispirata al film di Alfred Hitchcock "Uccelli" del 1963.
La composizione è una narrazione sonora di un viaggio attraverso la baia dove è ambientato gran parte del film.
Tale viaggio è da intendersi come un cammino psichico, intangibile, un percorso involuto della mente che può determinare una pericolosa deriva. Nessuna raffigurazione mimetica quindi. Nessuna simulazione materiale. Ma una tensione verso l'astrazione simbolica di un possibile tragitto dello spirito umano.
Il viandante, chiuso nella sua soggettività, percorre senza scopo questo spazio chimerico e magmatico avvolto da una natura ostile e imprevedibile fino ad arrivare alla libertà intesa sia come fine sia come superamento e risoluzione.
La composizione è costituita da quattro parti:
Parte 1 [0:00 / 3:52] arrivo alla baia
Parte 2 [3:52 / 6:19] inizio del viaggio
Parte 3 [6:19 / 9:56] attraverso la baia
Parte 4 [9:56 / 11:50] libertà
Exhibitions
05.03.2016 Premiere at Segnali 2016 Arti audiovisive e performance Conservatory of Music of Perugia, Italy
03.01.2018 Radio Cashmere radio broadcasting within the project “The Ear Has To Travel #16 – Revisiting the Soundscape with KitKat”, Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany
30.07.2019 Chigiana Radioarte special section of the Chigiana International Festival dedicated to sound and radio art - it is focused on soundscape and field recording in relation to music and nature, selection by Alessandro Perini, Siena, Italy
03.10.2019 SOUNDSCAPE OF WORK AND OF PLAY 9th International FKL symposium on soundscape San Cesario di Lecce, Lecce, Italy
Ropes Water And Blocks
stereo - 3.12 - 2014
Program notes - eng
The slow dripping of water grains.
Pulverised ropes gasping.
The slow dragging of resonances.
One is entering a deformed space oscillating between concrete docks and frothy waters.
A mind port. A transit area. The dimension where opposite meet.
The farewell and forsake. The docking and the discovery.
A short trip beyond the point of no return.
Program notes - ita
Il lento gocciolare di chicchi d’acqua.
L’ansimo di corde polverizzate.
Il lento strascico di risonanze.
Si entra in un ambiente deformato che oscilla tra banchine di cemento e acque schiumose.
Il porto della mente. Lo spazio del transito. L’ampiezza della coincidenza degli opposti.
L’addio e l’abbandono. L’approdo e la scoperta.
Un breve viaggio oltre il punto di non ritorno.
Exhibitions
13.07.2014 Premiere at Diffrazioni Firenze Multimedia Festival, Firenze, Italy
2018 selected for Acousmatic capsules n°44, Octandre electroacoustic music, Bordeaux, France
Blocks #1
stereo - 3.06 - 2014
Program notes - eng
Blocks.
Blocks like bulks.
Block like sound clusters moving in the empty space and turning into stones thrown into the void.
But block are also conglomerates, aggregation, union of sounds that embrace ad destroy one another until they dissipate and hurt themselves.
A messy dance rising from the silence and violently lashing down the casts, until fading out.
Slowly and inexorably.
Program notes - ita
Blocchi.
Blocchi come masse.
Blocchi come ammassi sonori che si muovono nello spazio e si trasformano in sassi lanciati nel vuoto.
Ma blocchi anche come agglomerati, come aggregazione, come alleanze sonore che si abbracciano e si scontrano fino a consumarsi e ledersi a vicenda.
Una danza scomposta che sorge dal silenzio per abbattersi con violenza lungo i fianchi del tempo fino ad arrivare alla dissolvenza.
Lenta e inesorabile.
Exhibitions
13.07.2014 Premiere at Diffrazioni Firenze Multimedia Festival, Firenze, Italy