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Born in 1963 in Gorizia (Italy), he studied composition
at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan. In 1991 he left for Paris to study
computer music at the ircam, where he worked as Oresearching composer1 in
1993 and 1995. His pieces have won many international awards and have been
performed at the iscm World Music Days in Frankfurt and at the Royaumont
Festival, as well as by such new music ensembles as OItineraire1, OIctus1,
and OMusiques Nouvelles1.
Selected recent works: En Trance for soprano, ensemble
and electronics (199596), Professor Bad Trip I, II, III for orchestra
(19982000), Amok Koma for strings, percussion and electronics (2001),
Dead City Radio for orchestra (2002)
Flowing down to slow was commissioned by OMusiques Nouvelles1 and the
progressive art association OArt Zoyd1. In this piece, I tried to
integrate into my writing and compositional imagination techniques of
combination, distortion, interference and mixing adopted by digital
artists such as Aphex Twin, dj Spooky or Scanner.
Two symmetrical groups, each of them composed of a string quartet and a
mixer, are positioned at the extremities of the stage. In the centre,
there is a set of mixed acoustic percussion and a double-bass. The group
placed in the centre presents a sound object which the opposed symmetrical
ensembles read, analyse, progressively distort and mix with new objects
that are, in turn, integrated in a loop destined to drift catastrophically.
Again it is the hypnotic and ritualistic aspect, a taste for the deformed
and the artificial, which prevails.
Fausto Romitelli
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