Antonino Chiaramonte
- Composer
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- Music Department
Antonino Chiaramonte is an eclectic Italian musician, internationally acclaimed electroacoustic composer, sound designer, live electronics performer and flautist.
His music production is oriented towards the research and experimentation on new expressive abilities which arise from the interference between different music languages and technologies applied to the arts. His attention is focused on intermediality, live electronics and performers' interaction, in a continuous dynamic exchange between gesture/improvisation and control/composition.
He graduated in flute at "St. Cecilia" Conservatoire of Rome.
He studied composition with Mauro Cardi, focusing on electroacoustic music and on music and the moving image interaction.
He obtained a First-class Diploma in Electronic Music Composition at Perugia Conservatoire with Luigi Ceccarelli.
He has collaborated with many international festivals both as composer and live electronics performer.
His piece Riflessioni won the first Prize at the 34th International Competition of Electroacoustic Music - Bourges 2007 and was also selected within the 3rd Federazione CEMAT call for Electroacoustic Music works CD production.
His piece Envoys was finalist at the "European competition for live-electronic music projects" organized by ECPNM (European Conference of Promoters of New Music), and hosted by the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2007. This work was also selected for the ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) 2008 - Belfast.
The audio/visual live performance Cut-up & grain, Chapter 1: Life, conceived and performed together with Cesare Saldicco, obtained a Mention at the 36th International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art - Bourges 2009.
The video/music work Falling, directed by Adriano Cirulli, has been selected by the ICMC 2012 and screened at IRZU (Institute for Sonic Arts Research) - Ljubljana.
He has been collaborating since 2007 with the dancer and choreographer Francesco Scavetta, producing the sound design and the live electronics music for the piece Sincerely yours, premiered at Full Moon Dance Festival, Pyhäjärvi - Finland. Recently he produced the multichannel sound design of Scavetta's last piece On the Moon and the day after, performing the sound diffusion and live electronics during the premiere at Dansens Hus, Oslo (NO), March 2013.
In 2009 he has established, together with Anna Troisi, a project called ..::Electroshop::.., which is a workshop where the building of sounding artworks and the programming of original audio/video signal processing software overlap with music scores or improvised electroacoustic performances, achieving a correspondence between the created instruments, the live video and the music.
He currently is the artistic director and conductor of FLEE (Frosinone Laptop & Electroacoustic Ensemble).
He is professor in Performance and Control Environments for Live Electronics at the Frosinone Conservatoire and former member of the ICCMR (Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research), University of Plymouth (UK) as Honorary Research Fellow in Electronic Music Composition in the Faculty of Arts.
He is also active as a movie soundtracks composer.
His works have been successfully performed in Italy, Switzerland, U.S.A., Canada, Belgium, The Netherlands, China, France, Finland, Japan and U.K.