About
Fabio Cifariello Ciardi (1960) is a composer using instruments, sounds and technologies to mine real-word data. His current interest is in the transcription of speaking-voice rhythms and inflections for acoustic instruments.
He has been composer-in-residence at EMS (Stockholm) and IMEB (Bourges).
His compositions have been awarded in international competitions like “Ennio Porrino 1989” (Cagliari), “L. Russolo 1992” (Varese), “MusicaNova 1993” (Praha – Czech), “ICMC Cd selection 1993” (Tokyo – Japan), “Olympia 1993” (Athens – Greek), “Spectri Sonori93” (Tulane – USA), XXV Concours Int. de Musique Electroacoustique 1998 (Bourges – France), Valentino Bucchi 1999 (Roma – Italy), Premio Nuova Musica – 39° Concorso Internazionale di Canto Corale C.A.Seghizzi (Gorizia – Italy), “VideoEvento d’Arte 2000” (Torino – Italy), HK.5 Rimusicazioni Film Festival 2003 (Bolzano – Italy), AITS “Best sound in Italian motion pictures 2011” (Rome, Italy).
His music is published and recorded by Raicom, Curci, ICMA, CNI-LaFrontiera, Unesco CIME-Cultures Electroniques (Bourges, France), Mudima – Cramps Records, SiltaClassic, Edipan.
His works have been commissioned by Biennale di Venezia, Fondazione ITeatri di Reggio Emilia, Ravenna Festival, Divertimento Ensemble – Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Exnovo Ensemble, Instituts für Neue Musik di Friburgo, Orchestra Haydn di Trento e Bolzano, Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Orchestra MilanoClassica, Orchestra di Roma e del Lazio, Stockholm Electronic Music Studio, IMEB Bourges, Halle 14 Leipzig & ACC Gallery Weimar, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi Firenze, Agon-Centro Armando Gentilicci.
In 2006 Arte.tv has produced the Piroschka Dossi’s and Nico Weber’s documentary “Contre-attaque – Quand l’Art prend l’économie pour Cible: La Spéculation/ Gegenangriff – Wirtschaft im Fadenkreuz der Kunst: Spekulation” about Cifariello Ciardi’s sonifications of stock market data.
He has developed software/algorithms for dissonance calculation, sound spatialization, financial data sonification, speaking-voice musical transcription and other computer-aided composition tools. Cifariello Ciardi collaborates with the Italian National radio RAI-Radio3.
Cifariello Ciardi teaches Composition at Trento Conservatory (www.conservatorio.tn.it) and he is one of the founding members of Edison Studio (www.edisonstudio.it).
More info at http://www.fabiocifariellociardi.com and
