Such an honor to receive the “Premio della critica Franco Abbiati” for the album Earthing. My music is somehow absent in Italy, but it is always a great pleasure to have support from my home country. Grazie!
CD Release: MOULT
My new portrait CD has been just released by KAIROS this month! It includes all my large scale pieces — MOULT, for orchestra; paw-marks in wet cement (ii), for piano, 2 percussions, and ensemble; Troglodyte Angels Clank By, for ensemble; and dead wasps in the jam-jar (ii), for string orchestra — performed by the WDR Orchestra, Wilhem Latchoumia & L’Instant Donné, Klangforum Wien, and the Münchener Kammerorchester.
My deepest thanks to the Ernst von Siemens Foundation, who gave me this incredible and unique opportunity; to KAIROS, for the production; to Markus Böggemann, for writing a beautiful booklet; and to all the musicians, artistic directors, graphic designers, and technicians involved in making all this possible.
You can find the CD here. I hope you will enjoy it!
CD Release: Earthing
My new portrait CD is finally out! It includes all my string quartets — A Failed Entertainment (2013), dead wasps in the jam-jar (2017–18), Earthing — dead wasps (obituary) (2019), and You crawl over seas of granite (2020) — amazingly performed by JACK Quartet, released by WERGO.
Many thanks to Deutscher Musikrat, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and WERGO, for the production; to Theresa Beyer, for writing such a nice booklet; to Michael Havenstein for the recordings and mastering; to Chris Swithinbank for the cover image; and last but not least, to Austin, Chris, Jay, and John, for their commitment and never-ending attention to every single sound. You guys pushed my imagination to new darker territories, and I will be forever grateful.
You can find the CD here or listen to it on Spotify (headphones are HIGHLY recommended).
I hope you enjoy it.
skull ark @ Transart
In September, we were invited at the festival Transart, in Bozen (Italy), to perform the new version of skull ark, upturned with no mast.
Statement for “50:50 in 2030”
This year I was lucky enough to have two dear pieces of mine performed at Wien Modern — MOULT, performed by the RSO conducted by Marin Alsop, and dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii), performed by Arditti Quartet.
It has been a really inspiring week, meeting and talking with fellow composers and musicians, and walking around Vienna!
As part of Wien Modern, I was also asked to join a panel about gender equality, and what we can do to make our new music community more inclusive. I wrote a short (quite personal) statement, which you can read here.
Audio-visual Installation
Since 2018, I started to collaborate with Eva G. Alonso, an incredible light designer and visual artist.
The first collaborative installation, Untitled #1, was created for the Vernissage of the exhibition Le vent se lève, and realized at the Villa Médicis on May 23, 2019. All sounds are created by an e-bow circuit machine built in collaboration with Jan Bernstein and Mickey van Olst. No electronics, no amplification, what you hear is simply the vibration of the piano strings. All lights are generative.
We are developing the project further for a solo performance for Daniel Walden that will be realized in 2020.
Hear: Eclipse Plumage
You can now listen to the live recording of Eclipse Plumage, performed by Ensemble Oerknal on September 2019 at the Gaudeamus Festival.
It’s my first piece using the Antimachine, an instrument created in collaboration with Jan Bernstein and Mickey van Olst, that generates magnetic fields around the strings of the piano — in the last 5′ minutes of the piece you can really listen to the machine, as there’s no electronics, just piano and a few percussion instruments.
Huge thanks to Daniel Walden, Chris Swithinbank, and the Gaudeamus team.
Premio Una Vita nella Musica — Giovani 2019
Such an honor, to be awarded the prize Una Vita nella Musica – Giovani 2019.
I left Italy more than 10 years ago, my music is mostly played elsewhere, my Italian is not great anymore (am still fluent in Roman though), but receiving such a recognition in my own country feels really good.
Thank you so much, Teatro La Fenice!