Works for ensemble

Vermi, for ensemble and electronics.
Composer: Matteo Tundo
Year: 2020.
Performed by Proxima Centauri, during Delian Academy for New Music 2021. 26 June 2021.

Vermi is a composition structured as a spontaneous birth and subsequent evolution of musical material. The listener is led into this evolutionary story through the characterization of specific musical figures, which change over time, with their precise identity. The figures born from a primordial sound magma, and then become more and more connoted, laboriously conquering space in the listener's perception.
“…all was a chaos, that is, earth, air, water and fire were all mixed together; and out of that bulk a mass was formed, just as cheese is made out of milk, and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels... “ (statement made in 1584 by Domenico Scandella, an italian miller, during an inquisitorial question).

Vermi, for ensemble and electronics (2020)

Acquaforte, for violin and string orchestra (2021)
Composer: Matteo Tundo
Violin: Francesco D'Orazio
Conductor: Pasquale Corrado
Orchestra d'archi Arrigoni

Recorded in San Vito al Tagliamento (ITA). 14 April 2021.
Final concert of the masterclass by M° Ivan Fedele, San Vito Musica Contemporanea 2021. Artistic director: Maurilio Cacciatore.

Acquaforte, for violin and string orchestra (2021)

Terrario. for 13 instruments (2021-22).
Composer: Matteo Tundo
Performed by Ensemble del Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana.
Directed by: Francesco Bossaglia.

Recorded at Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano (CH).
14 April 2022.

Terrario, for 13 instruments (2021-22)

Animals Of Your Pasture 
by Bara Gisladottir

Riot Ensemble, Aaron Holloway-Nahum, conductor

Live concert at 20 November, 2021 at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, St. Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield, UK. Performed by Riot Ensemble. Performers: Horia Dumitrache, clarinet; Richard Craig, flute; Philip Haworth, oboe; Amy Green, baritone/tenor saxophone; Sam Wilson, percussion; Goska Isphording, harpsichord; Jack Ross, guitar; Marianne Schofield, double Bass; Aaron Holloway-Nahum, conductor.

Animals Of Your Pasture

“transmission”, for electric guitar and live electronics 
(1996-1999)
By Richard Barrett

Mauricio Galeano - electric guitar 
Santiago Bogacz - live electronics in Csound

Recorded by Gonzalo Varela and Leonardo Croatto on August 19 of 2022 in Facultad de Información y Comunicación, Montevideo, Uruguay

Mixing by Santiago Bogacz 

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Este material fue producido en el marco de la Universidad de la República, Unidad Académica Asociada entre la Facultad de Información y comunicación y la Facultad de Artes

Richard Barrett - transmission

Innesti, for euphonium and electronics (2022).
Performed live by Concrète [Lab] Ensemble, in Lisbon (PT), 10 May 2023, Festival Música Viva.
Composer: Matteo Tundo

In this composition, the sound material is immersed at various times in different imaginary resonant environments. In this way, the listener will embark on a journey of exploration through soundscapes with diverse acoustic characteristics; reverberant spaces, others where the material undergoes deformations due to delay, others where echoes fill vast imaginary spaces, and others where narrow spaces force the sound to rapidly decay, leaving it dry and devoid of resonances. The musical materials become part of the designed resonant environments, originating from them and changing with them, undergoing variations, transformations, and distortions.

Giardini di risonanza, for ensemble (2021-22)

Agenor Linea, for ensemble (2023).
Performed live by Ensemble '900 conducted by Pasquale Corrado, in Rome, Auditorium E. Morricone Parco della Musica, 05 October 2023.
Composer: Matteo Tundo

The title 'Agenor Linea' is linked to the intriguing geological formation of Europa, Jupiter's moon, where chaotic surface features converge into more ordered lineaments. This title provides a conceptual reference for the composition, which employs methods of statistical distribution and logistic functions to shape its structure and the evolution of the sonic material.
The use of these non-linear methodologies reflects an attention to the functioning of human perception and understanding. 'Agenor Linea' aims to convey this balance between order and chaos, exploring a fluid and evolving sonic environment where structures emerge and transform. The composition itself reflects this duality between order and chaos, particularly highlighted by moments characterized by strong acoustic contrasts.

Agenor Linea, for ensemble (2023)

In A Place Where There Is No Noise, Strive To Be A Noise

Pulses is an acousmatic piece based on the iteration of different pulses, in many different contexts, and transformations.
The piece was commissioned by Projecto DME (Dias de Música Electroacústica). 


Pulses

Blow Up Percussion

Alessio Cavaliere, Pietro Pompei, Aurelio Scudetti, Flavio Tanzi

Live recorded on July 14th 2024, Festival ArteScienza, Goethe-Institut, Rome

Editing and mastering by Matteo Tundo

Meccanica dell'insurrezione (2024) - for four amplified metal plates

Frammento [94] - (2025) - for flute and double bass
Curva Minore

Alessandro Lo Giudice (flute)
Pietro Elia Barcellona (double bass)

Live recording on June 7, 2025 - Curva Minore archives
Sound engineer: Simone Sfameli
Sala Michele Perriera - Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo




A fragment of farewell.
A voice suspended between presence and absence, between memory and disappearance. Like a turning point, the piece moves through a state of transition, where something comes to an end, and something else begins, uncertainly. Flute and double bass chase each other, touch, and imitate one another. Two distant registers searching for common ground, as if the sound could strive toward a single breath.
A dialogue of distances that stretch and contract, in a fragile but ever-moving balance.

Frammento [94] - (2025) - for flute and double bass

The twentieth century gave us to ability to dislocate sounds in time as well as in space. Especially invention of digital processing skills facilitated ‘Schizophonia’ which means separation between an original sound and its electroacoustical reproduction named by R.Murray Schaffer. In this context, this piece ‘Habits of 0&1’ reflects the Schizophonia in order to represent the invisible digital relationship including conversations in our isolated daily life. By means of delay feedback and panning effect, tiny grains of sound components describes the auditory realization of fragmentary ‘communications’ with conversations which are separated and disconnected each other easily, like ‘0 and 1(off & on)’. Its basic idea was inspired by Georges Aperghis’s piece “Retrouvailles” which contains various metaphors for communication through the two men’s body action and voice performance. This work reminded me of ‘pingpong’ game between two people with small talk and jokes. Depending on development of pingpong ball sound transformation, this piece has narrative arcs which are linked in a mixed form of fragmented components and played with the ground voice modulated by using Audiosculpt. In the process of finding ‘breakthrough’ of conversations, the first and the last parts of this piece form symmetrical structure with respect to stationery sounds.

Awards received: Award of Distinction at Matera Intermedia Festival 2016 (MA/IN Festival,Italy) 
https://www.mainfest.it/en/mainprize/

[program booklet]
https://issuu.com/materaintermedia/docs/ma_in_2016_booklet__hq_

(Original website (on constructing..)
http://www.materaintermedia.it/main-2016/
https://www.casacava.it/2016/12/21/matera-intermedia-festival-2016/

NWEAMO Festival 2016(Tokyo)
http://nweamo.org/tokyo-2016/

Musiques & Recherches
(association dédiée à la musique acousmatique)
http://electrodoc.musiques-recherches.be/fr/c/6857/lee-hoyong

Prix Luigi Russolo Awards 2025 Shortlisted (60 composers)
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1262230222579899&set=pcb.1262230379246550

Premiere: September 26, 2015, The Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI) in the College of Music at the University of North Texas,  ICMC 2015 in Denton (Texas, USA)

* Sonus Jukebox
https://sonus.ca/artiste/CP-10137--hoyong-lee?tri=titre

Habits Of 0&1 (2015)

Aspro Sommerso, per flauto, clarinetto, violino, violoncello, pianoforte ed elettronica.

Composer: Matteo Tundo
Year: 2018
Performed by Ensemble Taller Sonoro, Parma 11 Sept. 2018
Live recording.

Aspro Sommerso, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and electronics (2018)

Acousmatique 4, Quadriphonie | 2019 • mix stereo

Recording by JACK quartet of an excerpt from A complete history of music for string quartet and electronics.
Commissioned by Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik (WTK) 2020.
Broadcast première on WDR3, April 2020.

A complete history of music - Appendix 2

I Sing the Body Electric (2020)
by Claudia Jane Scroccaro
Florentin Ginot, double bass
Claudia Jane Scroccaro, live electronics
Arnaud De la Celle, sound engineer
Mikhail Malt, Encadrement Pédagogique

Recorded the 1st of July 2020 in the Grand Salle du Centre Pompidou
Manifeste Festival 2020 - IRCAM, Paris

I sing the body electric (2020) for Double Bass and Electronics - Florentin Ginot

Matteo Tundo is an Italian composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. His compositional research focuses on the perception and cognition of sound events, investigating the neural mechanisms underlying the signification of sound. His work centers on the integration of neuroaesthetics into musical composition, employing innovative technologies to enhance the listener’s perceptual engagement and sensory experience.
After his initial guitar studies, he devoted himself entirely to composition and new technologies, studying at the conservatories of Florence, Parma, and Lugano, and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He studied composition with Ivan Fedele, Giorgio Colombo Taccani, Javier Torres Maldonado, and Nadir Vassena, and electronic music with Marco Ligabue, Alfonso Belfiore and Michelangelo Lupone. He also attended specialized courses with Salvatore Sciarrino, Yan Maresz, Beat Furrer, Franck Bedrossian, Marco Stroppa, Mark Andre and others. 
In 2024 he was composer in residence for the Divertimento Ensemble. In the same year, together with guitarist Pierpaolo Dinapoli, he founded the h[t] DUO, a guitar and live electronics duo, for which he is active as an electroacoustic performer
His compositions have been performed in Italy, Germany, England, Portugal, France, Spain, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, United States, Iran, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia. He has participated as composer in international festivals.
He teaches computer music at the Conservatory of Brescia, Italy. After his initial guitar studies, he devoted himself entirely to composition and new technologies, studying at the conservatories of Florence, Parma, and Lugano, and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He studied composition with Ivan Fedele, Giorgio Colombo Taccani, Javier Torres Maldonado, and Nadir Vassena, and electronic music with Marco Ligabue, Alfonso Belfiore and Michelangelo Lupone. He also attended specialized courses with Salvatore Sciarrino, Yan Maresz, Beat Furrer, Franck Bedrossian, Marco Stroppa, Mark Andre and others. 
In 2024 he was composer in residence for the Divertimento Ensemble.
His compositions have been performed in Italy, Germany, England, Portugal, France, Spain, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, United States, Iran, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia. He has participated as composer in international festivals.
He teaches computer music at the Conservatory of Brescia, Italy.

Vermi, for ensemble and electronics (2020)

Matteo Tundo

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