Composer
Biography:
| Agostino Di Scipio, born in Naples (Italy) in 1962, studied at the Conservatory of L'Aquila in the early 1990s with composers Michelangelo Lupone and Mauro Cardi. He was a scholarship holder of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme (2004–05) and many other artist residency programmes. His compositions and sound installations are presented worldwide and are internationally recognised as outstanding contributions to contemporary experimental music and sound art. In 2014, his unique project Audible Ecosystems was featured in a special edition of the journal Contemporary Music Review. Recordings of Di Scipio's music have been released on various labels (including Edition RZ, Wergo, Neuma, Die Schachtel, Chrysopée Electronique). Together with Ciro Longobardi, he produced a large-scale version of John Cage's Electronic Music for Piano (Venice Biennale 2012, released by Stradivarius). With Mario Gabola, he founded a duo that plays music using recycled analogue circuits (Upset, Viande, 2011). Di Scipio has also composed two works for chamber music theatre, Tiresia (with the poet Giuliano Mesa) and Sound & Fury (based on various commentaries on Shakespeare's The Tempest), with poetry recitation and electronics. Agostino Di Scipio was professor of electroacoustic composition at the Naples Conservatory (2001–13) and now holds the same position in L'Aquila. He was Edgard Varèse Professor at the Technical University of Berlin (2007–08), visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2004), at the Centre Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis in Paris (2001–07) and at many other institutions worldwide. He is a member of the doctoral research group Ecologies du Son at the University of Paris 8. Di Scipio has conducted intensive research on the history, analysis and criticism of sound and music technologies and is the author of several monographs and numerous shorter essays and articles in international publications. |
Albums:
Works for Strings and Live Electronics:
