Academic Year 2023-24

Academic Year 2024-25

Live version - Mantua 21/02/2024

Carlo Sampaolesi - Accordion

Signs For The Unknown (2024), for accordion

I am never anywhere / anywhere I go (2024)
for spatialized trio and special instruments (big barrel and aluminium cans)

Premiered on 04.2024 in the Foyer of the Conservatory of Mantua, Italy

Performers: 
mdi ensemble
Giorgio Casati (Cello)
Paolo Casiraghi (Bb Clarinet)
Sonia Formenti (Piccolo flute)

"I am never anywhere, anywhere I go" is a piece for spatialized trio and sound object. Clarinet, piccolo and cello are disposed at the vertices of a triangle, in the center of which a special instrument is placed: a barrel that acts as a resonator to a metal grid, which the musicians gradually approach to play through bows and cans.
The spectral and timbral properties of this 'new instrument,' as well as the visual and gestural implications it brings to the performance, are the object of research in this work. The attempt at an organic homogeneity of sound, despite the different sources from which it comes, together with the extremely resonant acoustic environment of the foyer help to accentuate the concept that gives the piece its title: "wherever I go, I am nowhere."

I am never anywhere / anywhere I go (2024), for spatialized trio and special instruments

Grani (2024) for ensemble.

Premiered on 17.05.2024 by Ensemble Suono Giallo

Flute - Andrea Biagini
Sax - Michele Bianchini
Percussion - Laura Mancini
Piano - Simone Nocchi 
D.Bass - Giacomo Piermatti

Pasquale Lauro - Grani [use headphones]

flute: Manuel Zurria
cello: Francesco Dillon
piano: Anna d'Errico

Im lus (2024), for trio

for Ensemble
Ensemble Suono Giallo
Michele Bianchini    Sassofono
Andrea Biagini        Flauto
Laura Mancini        Percussioni
Simone Nocchi        Pianoforte
Giacomo Piermatti  Contrabbasso

Come impeto qui ed all'interno, dove altrove solitudine

for flute, saxophone, double bass and electronics
Performed by:
Andrea Biagini (flute)
Michele Bianchini (sax)
Giacomo Piermatti (double bass)
Ensemble Suono Giallo

Over the line (2024) for Ensemble Suono Giallo

Esos Ø for amplified ensemble (2024)

NAMES Ensemble
Conductor: Gregor Mayrhofer

Live Recording, Klangspuren Festival, 17 September 2024 - Schwaz 

Esos Ø

Bagliori (2025), for prepared vibraphone

Premiered on 18.05 at Studiottantuno, Mantua 
Performance of this recording on 28.05 at Mantova Musica del XXI Secolo 
Performer: Roberto Enea Varalta (Percussion) 
Recorded by Lorenzo Arioli
Technical support and 3D print preparations: Fabio Machiavelli



“Bagliori” is a piece that reflects on brightness, transparency and shine. Sudden explosions of light find a musical correspondence in the sounds produced by metallic and high-pitched instruments, which create bright and shining sonorities. This exploration comes from the urgency to express musically a visual and sensorial world that I absorbed from the places where I grew up - in South Italy - made of rural and bare landscapes, bright, raw and essential.
In doing this musical research, I prepared the instrument, thanks to the help of composer and researcher Fabio Machiavelli, by incorporating supports for microtonal wah-wah tubes into the structure of the vibraphone itself and giving the performer the use of a mouth harmonica and some bells, which enrich the timbral palette.

Bagliori (2025), for prepared vibraphone

Centralia for amplified violin (2025)
Corinna Canzian 
Live recording - Mantova Musica del XXI secolo

Centralia

Premiered by Elio Marchesini (Divertimento Ensemble) in June 2025, within the WeekIDEA festival in Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (IT).
Recently performed by Alberto Anhaus within the Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2025.

Score published by SZ Sugar.

This is the studio version, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by me.

CALCO (Tocco) (2025)

For ensemble and electroacoustic devices.

Premiered by Suono Giallo ensemble within the Mantova Musica del XXI Secolo concert series in March 2025.  

This is the studio version, recorded at OPOS (Milano, IT) with:
Dario Cottica – flute
Massimo Falascone – alto saxophone
Stefano Grasso – vibraphone
Luca Pissavini – double bass
Giovanni Falascone - piano, live electronics
Sebastiano Ratti, Fabio Machiavelli – technical supervision

Over the line (2024) for Ensemble Suono Giallo

Davide Pentassuglia