Awakening | Guidonian Hand - I. Tekiah (Blast)

I compose music for Moog and MakeNoise synthesizers, and acoustic instruments, too. Check out my latest album Starry Messenger at UrsaBorealis.bandcamp.com

Born in 1978 and grew up in a little town called San Polo di Piave in the north-east of Italy, since young age Emiliano demonstrates interest in music, 
he start to play bass at the age of 15 and take lessons for a few years.
He soon found interest in unconventional music and he left the school to concentrate in his own projects.

Bought an Akay sampler he start to experiment with samples and field recording, he choose don't work whit sequencer and spent a lot of time trying to find 
ways to treat and process the samples in real time.
At the age of 20 he bought his first PC and starts to experiment with cut & paste techniques and modular softwares.
During this period met who will be his most important collaborator: The drummer Lucio Bonaldo.

At the same time Emiliano start to go deep into sound engineering which become his primary job until now.
He studied at famous Fonoprint Studios situated in Bologna, with the engineer Maurizio Biancani, and later he starts work like studio assistant and live engineer around italy.
At this point together with Lucio chooses to  build his own home studio called StudioTanSound.

The big changes come in 2003 with the acquisition of an old Powerbook g4 and Reaktor, now he has finally left the hardware world to concentrate in built his 
own software.
In 2008 he left Reaktor for  moving to MAX/MSP and since then it is the only software he use.

In the early days of 2009 Emiliano make another radical change, he move to Brazil, where he actually lives with his girlfriend, work like freelance
sound engineer and produces electronic music.

Since he start to use MAX he concentrate his research into the live interaction between acoustic instruments and live electronics and chooses don't work with prerecorded samples anymore.
He develop his own software that allow him to record and process the any kind of incoming signal in real time and give the ability to play live in a very 
intuitive way.

Result of this new era are the:
Kunstkammer Duo (Recorded live with Lucio Bonaldo)
Musica Povera RieLaborata (Recorded at home - Sound source by Lucio Bonaldo)
About a computer and a cello (Recorded at home - Sound source by Erik Friedlander)
Waiting the year end (Recorded at home - Sound source by Cornelius Cardew)

Others records
L'Imbroglio - Introspettivo (Engineering; bass; electronics) RES Records
Lab@Res - AA.VV. RES Records
L'Imbroglio - Krar/Qelt (Engineering; bass; electronics) MP Records
L'Imbroglio - Disintegrato (Engineering; bass; electronics) MP Records

Chris McGovern is The Gen-X Muse, and the host of that podcast

New York City based composer, pianist and video artist Brian Mark has been hailed as an "attractive and intelligible" artist (Boston Musical Intelligencer), whose work is "compelling" (London Jazz News), and "preserves the vibrancy and relevance of contemporary art music" (New York Examiner). The American Composers Forum esteemed Brian as an "intelligent, modern composer who employs many media elements and does so with marked idiosyncrasy and depth”, and his concert programming has recently been described as “a fluid approach to presenting new music in fresh contexts and juxtapositions” (The New Yorker).

Brian’s music have been performed by many notable ensembles, such as the BBC Singers, Psappha Ensemble, Chelsea Symphony, Ensemble Signal, Atlas Ensemble, MikroEnsemble, Brave New Works, Choral Chameleon, both the Ligeti and Esterhazy String Quartets, Juventas Ensemble, Dither Quartet, members of the London Symphony Orchestra, among many others. His works have been presented around the world in festivals such as Bang on a Can, MATA, Oregon Bach Festival, London Contemporary Music Festival, Atlas Festival, Spitalfields Music Festival, i=u, June in Buffalo, Tutti Festival, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the highSCORE Festival.

Brian has recently been awarded a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council.  He has also received multiple awards and grants from the Jerome Composers Commissioning Program/Jerome Fund, New Music USA, the Grammy Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, ASCAP and SCI, New London Singers, Ross McKee Foundation, Florence Gould Michael Iovenko Memorial Fellowship, the BMI Henry Warren Film Scoring Award, and was very highly commended for the 2016 Alan Bush Prize.  He has been featured as a composer-in-residence with the Chelsea Symphony, the Bizarre Noir Theatre Company, and was awarded multiple artist residencies at the I-Park Artists’ Enclave, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Ucross Foundation.  He has received an Honorable Mention from the 2015 American Prize in Orchestral Composition, and recently was awarded one of the top ten prizes from Mozaik’s Philanthropy’s “Future Art Awards” Competition for works created in response to COVID-19.  In 2019 Brian also received a fellowship to study Korean Music at the National Gugak Centre in Seoul.   

As a composer for film, his music for the Independent Short Film Misunderstood, directed by Pablo Herrán de Viu, was exhibited at the 2009 Screen Loud Film Festival in New York City, and the 2010 Festival Internacional de Cine Pobre de Humberto Solás in Habana City, Cuba. His collaborative work Sublime Oasis, commissioned by the East London Dance Company, was showcased at the 2012 Spitalfields Hidden Gems Dance Festival.

From 2009-2011 Brian was the Co-Artistic Director and Founder for DETOUR, a composer collective and New Music Ensemble, which was featured as “one the top five new music events of 2011" from New York’s Classical WQXR. He has also collaborated with UK’s record label Nonclassical as a concert curator, featuring emerging composers and artists throughout London and abroad. In addition, he was appointed as an Associate Member for the London Symphony Orchestra’s Composer Soundhub Scheme from 2015-2017, which culminated of his first video installation performance comprising of members from the LSO.  His curated concert series Ensemble in Process made its debut at the Iklectik Creative Space in Southeast London on 15 May, 2017.

Brian had completed his PhD at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Gary Carpenter.  He is also a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Berklee College of Music, and Boston University.  He has received a graduate certificate in film scoring from the University of Southern California, and has also studied with Philip Cashian, Samuel Adler, David Conte, David Garner, James Russell Smith, and Howard Frazin.

Awakening | Guidonian Hand - I. Tekiah (Blast)

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