My music and sound art has been performed by the Lontano Ensemble in London, the Christ Church Choir in Chelsea, London and been featured at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, as well as the soundtrack of San Francisco artist Olivia Ting's artwork Into Beethoven's Box (2020). 

 

I trained as a composer at King's College London with Silvina Milstein, completing my Master's in Composition in 2008. I came to composition under the spell of late romanticism: César Franck and Johannes Brahms' chamber music, a love of miniatures and short form. I then incorporated some later acquired flavors: early atonal works by Webern especially, but blended with the lyrical strain of Italian modernists like Luigi Dallapiccola, and Luciano Berio, and pretty cluster harmonies inspired by Györgi Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, and Luigi Nono. You can find out and hear more here. 

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I also love making creative montages of taped oral history interviews, bringing out the counterpoint and chorality of speaking voices from the archive. The Italian oral history movement of the 1970s was about voice, memory, messy sound, and I passionately believe in reinterpreting that in a way that speak to contemporary audiences. Oral history, when handled imaginatively, is profoundly musical. I have written about the nature of sound, memory and politics in late 1960s Italy, and am currently conducting research at the Archivio Cesare Bermani and helping with the cataloguing and valorization of the sound recordings at the Biblioteca Franco Serantini in Pisa. 

 

My sound art therefore is a way of giving form to the confusion that arises when we try to remember something, or find our way in a place or time we don't yet know. Visit Sound Art to learn more. 

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