1st Prize Corwin Awards 2023

Shortlisted at IEMC - International Electronic Music Competition 2022

What people say is not always what they think, people act to exist in the society, to live a life that follows certain rules of standardization. Occasionally, particular events bring us outside our routine in which we are constantly immersed, almost to the point of drowning, and some thoughts emerge like interferences in our mind-set. Thoughts that create a different pattern in our steady life, that force us to stop and reflect, in a moment of reconnection with ourselves, as human being and part of the nature. How magical and refreshing is the place where it is allowed to reconcile with our body and mind?! But, how long can we hold out? There is always a point in which we have to come back to reality. However, what is reality? Is that what society suggests us to be real?

NO Synths are used in this track! :)

SHOMO

Turning Point [Cello & Electronics]

When we are lost and confused, when we are stuck in a difficult moment, situation or place, when we face new challenges in life, when we are in the middle of an important change that feels scary, there is eventually a turning point in which we choose a direction and realize how actually dangerous it was to stay still.

DiegoRatto_2022_©

Turning Point [Cello & Electronics]

2nd Prize - ULJUS Competition 2024
Honorable Mention - Prix Russolo 2024
Honorable Mention - MA/INtermedia Festival 2024

A tempestuous journey through time, into the profound recesses of fragmented memories. Hidden and distant realms of moments and snapshot recollections, a personal odyssey guided by the echoes of childhood sounds.

MEMORIA

This is a piece made for Acousmonium and the Acusmoniae festival 2.1

DiegoRatto_2015_©

StormBreath

Prize: Residency CIME Prix 2017

Mention: Electroacoustic Contest EFME 2016 (Santa Fe, RA)

Call selection: Et Lux Radio, Diffrazioni Festival 2016 (Firenze, IT), WOCMAT 2018 (Taiwan)

Mobyrei is an evolution through different moods and “pictures”, translated in musical terms in a tripartite structure. The elaboration of concrete sounds recorded by the composer himself, creates a personal sound for this composition which presents a contrast between regular and irregular rhythms, in a coexistence of aggressive and delicate gestures. Everything is done with a specific attention to dynamics, in order to create music that becomes alive for the audience.

DiegoRatto_2016_©

Mobyrei

Selected from the following Calls:
Sound Thought 2018 (Glasgow, UK), EMUfest 2017 (Rome, IT), MA/IN 2017 - MAtera INtermedia festival (Matera, IT), MusLab 2017 (Mexico City, MEX), Acousmatic Premiere Performance Competition - TEM (Udine, IT).

The piece is made by three movements. Violent gestures interrupt a fake tranquillity. Deeper, there is a stormy excitement that really comes out in the last part. Silence, virtual-space and picture-background management, are just a few of the important aspects which the composition is focused on.

DiegoRatto_2017_©

Echoss

The original version was made for a Picture Exhibition about Stockholm in Switzerland in 2018 for Kultur im Stöckli.

Afterwards has been implemented for the Stockholm Ljudbanken project 2019.

DiegoRatto_2018_©

Eindrücke Aus Stockholm

Prix Russolo 2022 

2nd PRIZE at WOCMAT2018 International Phil Winsor Computer Music Competition

Call for works: SICMF Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2019 (Seoul, south Korea), MusLab 2018 - Call for Electroacoustic Works 2018(Mexico City, MEX), Espacios Sonoros 2020 (Salta, Argentina).

This is an electroacoustic piece about Stockholm with concrete sounds of Stockholm. In this composition, there are different sections in contrast that, for me, describe some aspects of this capital, such as: the agitated commuter life, the metro and public transport, the rhythm of a big city, the restful nature and the sea. Different parts and moods that all together create what has been this place for me, especially in the early period. So, this can be also a personal way to work on my thoughts and impressions as a foreigner who moved, from a small town in Italy, to a new place, a new city and a new urban reality. What I’ve seen, what I’ve heard and especially what I’ve felt.

DiegoRatto_2018_©

1st PRIZE - Golden Lala Awards 2020 (Poznań, Poland)

HONOURABLE MENTION - Musicworks Magazine Electronic Music Composition Contest 2019 (Toronto, Canada)

HONOURABLE MENTION - Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition Destellos 2019, (Mar del Plata, Argentina)

Call For Works: MusLab 2020(Mexico), Hot Air Music Festival 2020 (San Francisco), Bushwick Open Studios MISE-EN_PLACE 2019(New York).

A conflict between tumultuous confused emotions of the heart and the imposed rational thinking of the mind. How can such a strong dichotomy coexist in the same person at the same time?

DiegoRatto_2019_©

Cohærere

Diego Ratto, an Italian composer and sound designer currently based in Los Angeles, CA, boasts a diverse portfolio spanning film music, acousmatic compositions, music for video games, video-art installations, and concert music.

He holds a PhD in Music Composition from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). His educational journey includes studying film scoring at UCLA and completing a Master of Music in electroacoustic composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (KMH). He also received separate Bachelor of Music degrees in jazz guitar and electronic music from the Music Conservatory "A. Vivaldi" in Alessandria, Italy.

His compositions have been selected in several international calls for works and have won awards in competitions such as: Prix Russolo 2022, Sound of Silences - Film Scoring / Romaeuropa Festival 2020, Prix CIME 2017 - International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music, WOCMAT 2018 International Phil Winsor Computer Music Competition, ULJUS 2024, Reel Loud Festival 2024, ULJUS 2023, Corwin Award 2023, IEMC 2022, Prix Russolo 2024, Golden Lala Awards 2020, Musicworks Magazine Electronic Music Contest 2020, Rimusicazioni Film Festival 2018, and Electroacoustic Contest EFME 2016 (Santa Fe, Argentina). In June 2018, he was offered an artistic residency at the prestigious ICST - Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ZHdK) in Zurich.

In 2021, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study Music Composition in the United States of America.

Diego Ratto

Popular tracks