List of works

Opera

Magma, or The See-Through Wilderness [1996-1998] 70’, commissioned by CIDIM, Rossini Theatre in Lugo and Toscanini Foundation in Parma.
2 actors – Uomo, Donna
4 singers – Soprano, Mezzo, Baritone, Bass
orchestra – 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.0 2 perc [marimba, vibraphone, wood blocks, wood chimes, logdrum, 2 big maracas, 4 congas, timbales, snare drum, triangle, tuned gong Bb3, 5 cymbals, 2 Chinese cymbals] MIDI keyboard, strings 2.1.1.1
live electronics 2 operators, Tempo Reale, Florence
text by Sebastian Schloessingk

Orchestral music

Tre Variazioni [1993] 12’, for orchestra.

...the sun is out, the sun is out [1994] 8’, for large orchestra.

Alúna [2005] for viola, ensemble and live electronics; written for Rivka Golani; orchestra – 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.0 1 perc [marimba] piano, strings 2.1.1.1 viola solo, live electronics 2 operators.

Chamber music

Studio [1986] 8’, piano.

Kamu-purrui [1992] 9’, alto flute; written for Carlo Ipata.

Per Iona [1992] 4’, piano.

Boys And Girls Between The Wars [1993, rev. 2001] 8’, mezzo-soprano, flute [doubling alto flute] piano and cello; on a poem by Sebastian Schloessingk.

Il divo Claudio [1994] 6’, narrator, flute, clarinet, guitar and cello; on a poem by Zbigniew Herbert, commissioned by Nicola Campogrande.

Three Sephardi Melodies [1994] 8’, baritone, flute, clarinet, guitar and cello, commissioned by Alberto Iona.

Cinque Amori [1994] 10’, narrator, flute [doubling alto flute and bass flute in C], clarinet [doubling bass clarinet and Eb clarinet), guitar and cello; on texts by Thomas Moore, Russian folklore, Simone de Beauvoir, Aristophanes, Maynard d’Aubigné; commissioned by Paola Roman and the Toujours Ensemble.

Il racconto delle nuvole – Sette scene musicali [1995] 15’, narrator, flute [doubling alto flute], clarinet [doubling bass clarinet], guitar and cello; text by Marco Vacchetti, commissioned by Paola Roman and the Toujours Ensemble.

Antidotes: Red-earth [1997] 7’ for natural trumpet and live electronics; commissioned by Gabriele Cassone.

Touch [2001] 11’, piano and live electronics.

river teach me [2002] 10’,mezzo-soprano and string quartet; on a poem by Zbigniew Herbert, written for Monica Bacelli, shortlisted by the SPNM in 2003.

Flectar [2004] 8’, trombone and live electronics, written for David Purser.

Choir

A poem para Gloria [1991] 6’, a cappella chamber choir [SATB]; on a poem by e.e.cummings.

Electro-acoustic music

Novecento [1999] 25’.

Soundtracks for award-winning documentary films

Colombia Nuevo Mundo by Mauricio Garcia Matamoros, (Colombia-Italy 1992)

Lifers by Enrica Colusso (Metafilm, Italy 1995)

No Risk No Champagne by Enrica Colusso (Fandango, Italy 2003)

Music for the radio

Novecento, electro-acoustic soundtrack for a series of sixty programmes on the
20th century by RAI RadioTre, Italian National Radio (first broadcast in 1999).

Interactive installations

Intercos with AGON at Bologna’s COSMOPROF (2000), a six-room interactive environment with audio and video events triggered by visitors through gesture-controlled sensors.

Television programmes

Opera e No: l’altro Ulisse di Luciano Berio, (co-authored with Piero Berengo Gardin) a television documentary on the Italian composer and his opera Outis; selected by the 1998 Classique en Images Festival in Paris, 60’, RAITre, Italy 1997.

Selected conferences

The Integra project, Ensemble Network Meeting, Copenhagen 2006.

Panelist on the Sligo New Music Festival Open Forum on the music of Luigi Nono and Morton Feldman, Sligo 2006.

Music technology past, present and future, presented at the Music as Memory conference, Ultima Festival, Oslo 2006.

Selected articles and papers

Modernising live electronics technology in the works of Jonathan Harvey [ICMC Proceedings, Barcelona 2005] with Jamie Bullock.

Modernising musical works involving Yamaha DX based synthesis: a case study [Organised Sound, vol 11 no 3, December 2006], with Jamie Bullock.

Integra, a novel approach to live electronics [Nordic Sounds, December 2006]