Electrical parasites infect an imaginary maze
for ensemble
Ensemle Argo kollektiv
Leon Liang, conductor
2024 UA at the Musikverein (Wien Modern)


Electrical parasites infect an imaginary maze (2024)

What we’ll always have is something we lost in the snow (2024) for viola, soprano and objects.

Premiered on 11.2024 at the Festival Trieste Prima
Performance of this recording on 12.2024 at the Festival UdineClassica
Recorded by Roberto Borin

Performers:  Paolo Fumagalli (Viola)  Giulia Zaniboni (Voice) 


“What we’ll always have is something we lost in the snow” is taken from a poem by Ocean Vuong, in which grief and memory take shape in the image of the snow. The title of this piece already contains all the textual and phonetic material of which it consists. The text, in fact, is not enunciated, but emerges and dissolves in the phonemes of the letters in which it is immersed, through a vocality that is sometimes ambiguous, muffled, mimetic, sometimes pure and crystalline. The listening oscillates between the perception of the meaning of the text and that of pure sound, in this constant exploration of which the voice becomes the medium.

What we'll always have is something we lost in the snow (2024), for viola and voice

Ensemble Suono Giallo - 06/03/2025 - Conservatorio "L.Campiani" Mantova - Mantova Musica del XXI sec.

Bioma (2025), for quintet

As it feeds, it thrives, it rots – for ensemble and electronics (2025)

Schallfeld Ensemble
https://www.schallfeldensemble.com

Conductor: Leonhard Garms
Sound direction and live electronics: Davide Gagliardi

fl: Zinajda Kodrič
cl: Chiara Percivati
perc: Manuel Alcaraz Clemente
pno: Patrick Skrillecz
vln: Lorenzo Derinni
vla: Irem Bagarkasi
vc: Maiken Beer
cb: Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka

Live recording, 24 May 2025, as part of Schallfeld’s 2025 concert season “KORPUS III: SKIN”. Minoritensaal, Graz.

As it feeds, it thrives, it rots was commissioned by and is dedicated to Schallfeld Ensemble, with the support of the StAiR (Styria Artist in Residence) Fellowship 2025.

As it feeds, it thrives, it rots

Bagliori (2025), for prepared vibraphone

Premiered on 18.05 at Studiottantuno, Mantua 
Performance of this recording on 28.05 at Mantova Musica del XXI Secolo 
Performer: Roberto Enea Varalta (Percussion) 
Recorded by Lorenzo Arioli
Technical support and 3D print preparations: Fabio Machiavelli



“Bagliori” is a piece that reflects on brightness, transparency and shine. Sudden explosions of light find a musical correspondence in the sounds produced by metallic and high-pitched instruments, which create bright and shining sonorities. This exploration comes from the urgency to express musically a visual and sensorial world that I absorbed from the places where I grew up - in South Italy - made of rural and bare landscapes, bright, raw and essential.
In doing this musical research, I prepared the instrument, thanks to the help of composer and researcher Fabio Machiavelli, by incorporating supports for microtonal wah-wah tubes into the structure of the vibraphone itself and giving the performer the use of a mouth harmonica and some bells, which enrich the timbral palette.

Bagliori (2025), for prepared vibraphone

Centralia for amplified violin (2025)
Corinna Canzian 
Live recording - Mantova Musica del XXI secolo

Centralia

For ensemble and electroacoustic devices.

Premiered by Suono Giallo ensemble within the Mantova Musica del XXI Secolo concert series in March 2025.  

This is the studio version, recorded at OPOS (Milano, IT) with:
Dario Cottica – flute
Massimo Falascone – alto saxophone
Stefano Grasso – vibraphone
Luca Pissavini – double bass
Giovanni Falascone - piano, live electronics
Sebastiano Ratti, Fabio Machiavelli – technical supervision

Fessure (2025)

Debris (2025), for tenor saxophone and live electronics

Live Recording: Alberto Cavallaro, 23 July 2025, Accademia Chigiana Festival, Siena

Debris (2025)

Studio per un altro corpo

Frangenti (2025), for flutes and double bass

Premiered on 21.09 at Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemaßer Musik, Bludenz (AT)  
Performers: Blaurenz Duo
Rebecca Blau: flutes, harmonica
Rebecca Lawrence: double bass  
Recorded by Christina Bauer 

“Frangenti” (“breakers” in English) are the waves that, directed toward the coast, break on rock walls, shattering themselves. These huge and constant movements of water shape both the soundscape, with their loud and regular deafening rumblings, and the physical landscape, patiently eroding it.
In this piece, I have continued the sonic research that is touching my latest works: starting from a visual and physical perception of some materials, I explore textures that take inspiration from the natural elements of the landscapes in South Italy that have surrounded me since I was a child.

Frangenti (2025), for Flutes and Double Bass [excerpt]

Slough for Snare drum and live electronics

Premiered on 18.05.2025 by Roberto Enea Varalta at the festival Estate Musica 2025

Snare Drum - Roberto Enea Varalta

Studio recording by Lorenzo Arioli on 13/09/2025

Slough

Born in 1999, Pasquale Lauro is an Italian composer and sound artist. He initially studied violin
and piano before pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Electro-acoustic Music Composition at the
Conservatory of Salerno, where he graduated summa cum laude. Currently, he is furthering
his studies in Composition at the Conservatory of Mantua under the guidance of Maurizio
Azzan also taking courses with Zeno Baldi and Alessandro Perini at the same institution.

Pasquale has participated in numerous masterclasses led by notable figures such as Franck
Bedrossian, Pierluigi Billone, Francesco Filidei, Yan Maresz, Mauro Lanza, Clara Iannotta, Daniele Ghisi, Simone
Movio, Juste Janulyte, Lisa Streich. Recently, he collaborated with Paolo Fumagalli (Mdi Ensemble) and Giulia Zaniboni on his work
for soprano and viola and with Ensemble Suono Giallo on his work for ensemble. He
was selected by Divertimento Ensemble to work with Marina Boselli on a new composition
for euphonium and electronics, performed in the Rondò Concert Season (Milan). He was selected for Impuls Academy in Graz.

His upcoming projects include a new piece for ensemble and electronics, written for Proxima Centauri and a piece for accordion and double bass written for Carlo Sampaolesi and Pietro Elia Barcellona.

Pasquale's sound research is centered around the fusion of electronic and acoustic timbres,
establishing a phenomenological relationship between them, while creating intricate
harmonic structures through the analysis and processing of sound spectra.

Slough

Pasquale Lauro

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