Academic Year 2023-24

ARIADNE

Monodrama-installation for voice, five performers and live electronics
text by Daniele Bellomi

Commissioned by Schallfeld Ensemble with the support of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung in coproduction with IRCAM - Centre Pompidou

Anna Piroli, voice
Schallfeld Ensemble
Lorenzo Derinni, violin
Myriam García Fidalgo, cello
Szilárd Benes, bass clarinet
Manuel Alcaraz Clemente, percussion
Maria Flavia Cerrato, pianoforte
Davide Gagliardi, sound engineer
Étienne Démoulin, Ircam computer-music design

Recorded at Théâtre de Gennevilliers T2G (France) on the 17/06/21
Score published by Edizioni Suvini-Zerboni, Milan

Ariadne (2021) [use headphones!]

Wasteland_underlife
for five instruments and electroacustic device

Commissioned by Ensemble Suono Giallo and funded by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

Andrea Biagini, flute
Michele Bianchini, saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion
Simone Nocchi, piano
Giacomo Piermatti, double bass

Score published by Edizioni Suvini-Zerboni, Milan

Wasteland_underlife (2022)_excerpt [use headphones!]

Maurizio Azzan
Wasteland_not yet (2023)
for nine amplified musicians
© Casa Ricordi srl, Milano – all rights reserved

Yalda Zamani, conductor

PHACE
Michael Krenn & Doris Nicoletti, sound objects
Walter Seebacher, bass clarinet & sound objects
Berndt Thurner, percussion
Mathilde Hoursiangou, piano
Ivana Pristasova Zaugg, violin
Leo Morello, cello
Alexandra Dienz, double bass
Samuel Toro Perez, electric guitar
Alfred Reiter, sound design

Audio: ORF / Radio Ö1

Wasteland_not yet

Wasteland_not yet (2023) [use headphones!]

Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini in memoriam (2022)
per orchestra d'archi
(da "Marginalia" per quartetto d'archi)

Orchestra dell'accademia d'archi "G. G. Arrigoni" 
Pasquale Corrado, direttore

10 novembre 2022, Teatro Sociale di San Vito al Tagliamento

Teorema (2022) for string orchestra

Live version - Mantua 21/02/2024

Carlo Sampaolesi - Accordion

Signs For The Unknown (2024), for accordion

"Konzert" for ensemble
Music by Simone Benedetti

Ensemble novecento
Pasquale Corrado direttore.

8 giugno 2023, TSB Auditorium "Parco Della Musica" Roma.

Konzert (2023) for large ensemble

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

Broken Things Are Hints (2024)
for amplified percussion trio

Broken Things Are Hints (2024) [use headphones]

performed and written for Mikołaj Rytowski for the ATTACCA Festival 2024; premiered on June 1 at Druckereihalle im Ackermannshof, Basel, Switzerland

recording: Robin Michel
mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield

The electronics for this work were recorded in part at the SWR Experimentalstudio in Freiburg, Germany with assistance from sound engineers Thomas Hummel and Luis Miehlich

link to binaural version (for listening with headphones): https://soundcloud.com/isaacrothblumfield/strange-symmetry-for-percussion-and-ambisonic-live-electronics-2024-binaural-version-use-headphones

strange symmetry | for percussion and ambisonic live electronics (2024) – stereo version

dove tutto è stato preso (Innerspace II)
for solo piano
Commissioned by the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music

Anna D'Errico, piano


“Dwell where everything has been caught maybe cannot help to divide the existing, to visualize its borders, its convergences; the dimensions in which light could illuminate (and scatter) what [we] can see. Convince ourselves to expose the “I”, to compose it, to focus on it – therefore to burn it – is often to nourish the unfinished: the “slow real” of the poem consequently becomes an acoustic dilatation, sign and proximity to isolation”.
(D. Bellomi, Notes of Poetics to “ Ripartizione della volta”)


mastered by Luca Piovesan at www.blowoutstudio.it
score published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni-Sugarmusic S.p.A.
buy the score at www.musicshopeurope.com

dove tutto è stato preso (Innerspace II) (2016)_excerpt

Of other spaces
for five spatialized musicians
Commissioned by Ensemble Fractales

Ensemble Fractales

Of other spaces (2017) [use headphones!]

Official page of the composition department of the Conservatoire "L. Campiani", Mantua (Italy)

Faculty:
Maurizio Azzan, Zeno Baldi and Alessandro Perini, composition
Alessandro Ratoci, electroacoustic composition

Giuseppe Franza is a composer whose works explore the tension between stasis and action, with a focus on the physical and spatial experience of sound. His music draws on sounds that emerge from everyday life, filtering them through imagination to reveal their hidden voices. What do these sounds have to tell us?

Giuseppe is particularly fascinated by the sounds of malfunction—unwanted, accidental noises that transform into central, noble materials in his compositions. He strives to create spaces and imaginary worlds where these sounds are held, transformed, and allowed to speak through a dreamlike grammar. His work embraces contradictions, celebrating the beauty in the broken and the accidental.

Giuseppe Franza studied composition at the Conservatory "San Pietro a Majella" in Naples and with Maurizio Azzan at the Conservatory of Mantua, while obtaining a postgraduate degree with Clara Iannotta at the MDW - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He has attended masterclasses with composers such as Salvatore Sciarrino (Accademia Chigiana), Frank Bedrossian, Francesca Verunelli, and Luca Francesconi, among others. 
He currently lives in Naples.

contact: giuseppe.franza@outlook.com

Broken Things Are Hints (2024) [use headphones]

Giuseppe Franza

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