WANDERLUST
Piece for Double bass and loop station
Wanderlust was composed during the 2023 Composing For Double Bass scheme organized by Manchester-based Psappha Ensemble.
music performed by Toby Hughes
recording, mix & mastering by Rob Kelledy
photography and video editing by Leighton Moody
BY THE SEA
Audio Visual work
By the sea is an audio-visual portrait of the Venetian sea, structured in three main sections in which the observer’s gaze explores different elements: starting with the amorphous nature of the place, passing through its dynamic character in the second act, and finally reaching the feeling of holy intimacy in the last chapter.
music performed by Perpetuo Saxophone Quartet & Michele Deiana
mix & mastering by Emanuele Frison
graphic design by Camille Le Flem
released by Birmingham Record Company
distributed by NMC Recordings
DAWNS
Piece for Voice and Loops, Clarinet, Violin, Percussion, Piano and Fixed Media
Dawns is intended as a moment of connection where a group of musicians brings a musical encounter on a stage, in front of an audience and after a long time of isolation; celebrating the beginning of a new path through a ritual moment of human and musical interaction.
Result of the Artistic Residency Prospettive Sonore, produced by Associazione Progetto Musica with the support of SIAE and the Italian Ministry of Culture.
HWYL
Piece for saxophone quartet and marimba
Hwyl is a wide-meaning Welsh word that Tiffany Watt Smith describes as "the word for a boat sail [...] that means exuberance or excitement, as if clipping along on a guest of wind". Hwyl can also be used to say goodbye (Hwyl fawr - go with the wind in your sails).
premiered by
Perpetuo Saxophone Quartet and Ambra Ceroni Agostinelli
OASIS
Concert for saxophone quartet and electronics
Oasis is the result of my artistic residency at Lamia Santolina (Carovigno, Puglia), artistic space and home of Cosimo Terlizzi and Damien Modolo. The concert was performed by the Perpetuo Saxophone Quartet in October 2021.
Check the Bandcamp page to know more.
A NEW CENTER
Piece for a cappella choir
A choral piece that deals with the theme of isolation, with lyrics written after Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year. Building a bridge with the 2020-2021 pandemic experience. Dedicated to The Carice Singers
and premiered at the 2021 Cheltenham Music Festival in the UK.
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words and music
MICHELE DEIANA
CONCETTO SPAZIALE
Short Film
CONCETTO SPAZIALE wants to create a narrative derived from the original work of Lucio Fontana, which allows the viewer new constructions of meaning.
actor and voice
NICOLO' POLESELLO
direction
JACOPO MARCO ZANESSI
music
MICHELE DEIANA
using
EXTINCT (Folklorica Sounds)
the demo Luce is composed by
MICHELE DEIANA
Folklorica is a meeting of technology and mythology: a project which uses tales, taboos, superstitions and proverbs as starting points in creating colourful and conceptual virtual instruments for Kontakt.
These instruments have been created by Scottish composer Lucie Treacher by fusing together field recordings and samples of rare acoustic instruments with electronics.
VST Project by Lucie Treacher
LUCE for FOLKLORICA
ASCOLTI DALLO STUDIO
Mini series
Six stories about the music of the present, in the frame of the city that between streets and canals bears the signs of a centuries-old history: Venice. Divided into three evening events, 'Ascolti dallo studio - Diari Veneziani', written by Luca Benatti and directed by Francesco Rossi,
will take you into the musical world of six living Venetian composers,
through music and words.
5th episode focuses on Michele Deiana
with the premier of 'Glint', for cello and piano
INTERTIDAL. BARENE
Short Screen-Dance Film
The lagoon of Venice is a dynamic ecosystem that lives a daily struggle
for survival. A performative action on the salt marshes creates
a game of contrasts between fragility and resilience,
translating the landscape and sonic dimension on a human scale.
direction
COLLETTIVO CONFLUENZE
starring
ANJA DIMITRIJEVIC
music
MICHELE DEIANA
VEIL
Audio Visual work
Veil – an audiovisual work by Claudio Bellini and Michele Deiana – originates from the idea of connection, which we all feel strongly these days: we are connected to others by virtual networks where we are the nodes and our relationships are the links. A virtual mesh, where vertices are the fundamental elements, is used as a similitude to evoke a network of relations.
direction & video
CLAUDIO BELLINI
music
MICHELE DEIANA
SONDER
Piece for Amplified Ensemble
Sonder meaning: "The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passed in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it." Coined in 2012 by John Koenig, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words.
dedicated to & premiered by
DECIBEL ENSEMBLE
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