exploring synaesthesia with deep hypnotic and experimental ambient sounds

Curator of : Circling on the Horizon

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.

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is a Canadian non-profit organization that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its productions are: Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, Cross Waves and SOUNDplay. 
NAISA's Soundcloud page features the Deep Wireless online compilations. recordings of past performances, and select editions of its Making Waves radio program for WGXC at the Wavefarm in Acra, NY.

Website: John-Fireman.com

Assistant Professor, Visual Arts, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME

Composer Contemporary Music

Sibylle Pomorin (*1956) studied from 1975 until 1980 flute and saxophone at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Münster, Germany. 

In 1984/85, she studied composition under Ernst Bechert in Hamburg, Germany and in 1994, she received composition lessons and an introduction to electroacoustic music from the American composer and electronic musician Alice Shields during a six-month stay in New York. 

Between 1982 and 1994 she toured with improvising musicians of the international scene and toured with her own groups and compositions through Europe and Israel. 

She received composition commissions for ensembles, festivals, broadcasting, and theatre as well as numerous prices and awards and was promoted by various working scholarships – inter alia in New York, Istanbul and Iceland. Scores publications and CD releases inter alia by Moers Music and in the Furore Verlag. 

Her music has been performed at international festivals for contemporary music in Europe, Israel, Mexico, Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan and the USA.

Voice experiments, unruly texts, electronics and sampled sounds arranged in  solo compositions, performances, phonotopes.

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