maurizio rinaldi
[ electronic music . ( performer + composer ) ]
"Composing means fulfilling a musical desire,
satisfying musical curiosity,
getting to know music that doesn't (yet) exist"
(G. M. Koenig)
ABOUT (EN)
Guitarist, composer and performer of electronic music. In his professional artistic and didactic activities, he mainly deals with research and experimentation in the field of composition and improvisation in electronic music. Active as a guitarist and live electronics musician in groups and solo projects. He collaborates as a composer of music for exhibition spaces, theatre, cinema, dance and for sound and audiovisual installations. He teaches math and physisc at high school and electromnic music at the academy of fine arts. Interested in the relationship between art and science, he researches in the field of data sonification. He promotes and participates as a speaker in cultural activities aimed at the dissemination of sound arts.
His works have been presented and performed at Bushwick Open Studio Festival (New York, USA), Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte (Montepulciano, Italy), Fondazione Teatro Grande (Brescia, Italy), HCI Human Computer Interaction International, SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference, Festival della Scienza (Genova, Italy), Bergamo Scienza (Bergamo, Italy) and more.
about (IT)
Chitarrista, compositore e performer di musica elettronica, sound designer. Nelle sue attività professionali, artistiche e didattiche, si occupa principalmente di ricerca e sperimentazione nell'ambito della composizione e dell'improvvisazione nella musica elettronica. Attivo come chitarrista e musicista live electronics in varie formazioni e in progetti in solo. Collabora come compositore di musiche per spazi espositivi, il teatro, il cinema, la danza e per installazioni sonore e audiovisive. Interessato alla relazione tra arte e scienza ricerca nell’ambito della sonificazione di dati. E’ docente di matematica e fisica nella scuola secondaria di secondo grado e docente di musica elettronica in accademia di belle arti. Promuove e partecipa come relatore ad attività culturali volte alla diffusione delle arti sonore.
I suoi lavori sono stati presentati ed eseguiti in numerosi contesti tra i quali Bushwick Open Studio Festival (New York, USA), Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte (Montepulciano, Italy), Fondazione Teatro Grande (Brescia, Italy), HCI Human Computer Interaction International, SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference, Festival della Scienza (Genova, Italy), Bergamo Scienza (Bergamo, Italy).
PROJECTS
> Acousmatic composition.
> Electroacoustic performance.
> Quantum Fields. Live solo for electric guitar and live electronics.
> SoniCosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset.
> Compositions for screen/theatre/dance/exhibitions.
> A/V
AUDIO
VAALBARA
For electric guitar and laptop
[2022]
Vaalbara is a live extemporaneous composition for electric guitar and laptop. The title refers to the name of the first supercontinent of the Earth emerged from the ocean surface. Sound masses, composed of microsounds, textures and patterns generated by processing and controlling the instrument signal in real time, progressively emerge from silence and rare events.
MINIMALIA
A sound diary
[2021]
Minimalia. A collection of extemporary and composed sound fields in the COVID-19 pandemic era. A sound diary.
Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know
Acousmatic [2020]
PAROLE
In memoria della strage di piazza della Loggia, Brescia, Italia, 28 maggio 1974
Acousmatic [2019]
"...per questo mondo rinato in un oscuro mattino"
(Pier Paolo Pasolini, Comizio, Le Ceneri di Gramsci, 1957)
Brescia: May, 28th 1974. Piazza della Loggia bombing. During a trade union anti-fascist protest, the explosion of a neofascist bomb killed eight people and wounded one hundred protesters. We still have an audio recording of the event captured from the stage of the rally that provokes the utmost sympathy to the social ordeal. This work aims to the memory protection of an historical event of my city, but there is more. The compositions tells us about the distances, the coexistence, the hurdles of balancing the historical dimension of space and collectivity with the private element of everyday life. The idea is to inspect the tragic feature of the human existence in the World. The composition has been created with the following: - sound synthesis; - reinterpretation of samples from Luc Ferrari's archive; - audio recording fo Piazza della Loggia bombing (copyleft Associazione Casa della Memoria); - W.H.D. Rouse's Sounds of Ancient Greek, Linguaphone Institute, 1932 (public domain); - original field recordings: moments of my household while composing; night in Piazza della Loggia, water of Piazza della Loggia fountain, where the bomb was placed and hidden.
MoNoKHORDON
Acousmatic [2019]
“There is geometry in the humming of the strings.”
(Pythagoras)
“There is coming-to-be of not one single thing of mortal things, nor is there any end of deadly death, but only mixture and separation of what is mixed, and nature (physis) is the name given to them by humans.”
(Empedocles, in Plutarch Adv. Coll. 1111f)
“In string theory, each particle is identified as a particular vibrational mode of an elementary microscopic string. A musical analogy is very apt. Just as a violin string can vibrate in different modes and each mode corresponds to a different sound, the modes of vibrations of a fundamental string can be recognized as the different particles we know.”
(Barton Zwiebach, A First Course in String Theory)
Pythagoras with monochord discovered the relation between the length of strings and their perceived pitch when plucked and attempted to explain the cosmos with this mathematical-musical model in his Harmony of the Spheres. Today in string theory a one-dimensional string with particular mode of vibration corresponds to an elementary particle like a sound. The strings can interact by splitting and joining. It seems that everything in the universe is made out of oscillating strings. A sort of twenty-first century Harmony of the Spheres comes to mind. Musical metaphors seem to me to offer the opportunity to provide the imagination to those processes in multidimensional space-time with the creation of various and complex interacting sonic spectra that originate only from concrète sounds of the open E sixth string of the electric guitar. The harmonic field of the composition comes from the overtone series of this string and its subharmonic and inharmonic modulations. All partials, their sonic aggregates and gestures are obtained form digital processing of the original E pitch sounds with custom softwares.
Mobilis In Mobili
For electric guitar and laptop [2018]
The work, a live performance for electric guitar and laptop, is an acoustic force field made-up of microsounds, texture and pattern generated from real time digital signal processing of the electric guitar. Small audio buffers are constantly recorded and processed by a SuperCollider program developed by the composer. The form is the result of a continuous process of composition and improvisation modulated by the feedback of the sonic material generated by the computer (magical machine). Mobilis In Mobili (trans. moving within the moving element) takes its title from the Captain Nemo’s motto in Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). As the Nautilus, our aural perception can fluctuates in sonic spaces and interacts with the acoustic force field.
VIDEO
A/V
./orbis_magnus/.
The first three postulates of Copernicus De Hypothesibus Motuum Caelestium a se Constitutis Commentariolus.
A/V [2021]
Some years before Copernicus consented to the publication of his large work “De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium”, he wrote a brief sketch (Commentariolus) of his astronomical system. The “Commentariolus” was not printed; a number of handwritten copies circulated for a time among students of the science, and the disappeared from view for three centuries.
(1). There is no one center of all the celestial orbs or spheres.
(2). The center of the earth is the center, not of the universe, but only of gravity and of the lunar sphere.
(3). All the spheres encircle the sun, which is as it were in the middle of them all, so that the center of the universe is near the sun.
./orbis_magnus/. from Maurizo Rinaldi on Vimeo.
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
Your Subtitle Here
Abstract landscape
SONICOSMOS
A SONIFICATION OF THE ZCOSMOS GALAXY DATASET
PAST
[ 2024 ]
+ VIta di Galileo (B. Brecht)
25/02/2024 @Convegno Confindustria Brescia, Villa Fenaroli, Brescia (BS)
Music for theatre.
+ Sonicosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset
01/05/06/07/09.12.2024 @Duende Festival di arti perfoprmative e nuove tecnologie, Teatro Borsoni, Brescia (IT)
Audio installation with light design
+ Plutone esploso
28.10.24 @Isadora danza, Mendrisio (CH)
Music for choreography workshop by Elisabetta Consonni.
[ 2023 ]
+ INorchestra. Dvorak symphony n.9 + live electronics
24.09.2023 @RAAA Festival, Fiera, Bergamo (IT) Maurizio Rinaldi :: electric guitar + laptop
+ SoniCosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset
07.09 - 10.09 2023 @RAAAFestival, Bunkervik, Brescia (IT) Audio installation with light design.
+ INorchestra. Dvorak symphony n.9 + live electronics
09.09.2023 @RAAA Festival, Teatro Sociale, Brescia (IT)
Maurizio Rinaldi :: electric guitar + laptop
+ Quantum Fields Live performance
15.07.23 21:00 @Fucin3 Sp3rim3ntali. Bienno (IT)
Maurizio Rinaldi :: electric guitar + laptop
+I Suoni del Lavoro. Solo live performance.
20.05.23 @Chiostro Santa Maria degli Angeli, Gardone Val Trompia.
Terre Alte | Echi Suoni Visioni Fondazione Comunità Bresciana, Call Cultura 2022 Brescia Bergamo Capitale della Cultura 2022-2023. Con la collaborazione della Collezione Paolo VI (Concesio, BS), CIVITAS Valle Trompia.
Maurizio Rinaldi :: electronics
+Love-Matter
25.03.22 @Lubelski Teatr Tańca e Materia / Łódź, Łódź, Poland. Music for dance. Choreografia: Elisabetta Consonni; taniec: Mikołaj Karczewski, Beata Mysiak; światła: Grzegorz Polak; dramaturgia: Konrad Kurowski; muzyka: Maurizio Rinaldi; produkcja: Anna Kalita, Konrad Kurowski.
+Lucy Railton (cello) / Maurizio Rinaldi (elettric guitar | electronics)
11.02.2023 @INDICA MAD festival, MO.CA. Brescia (IT).
BSBG23.
[2022]
+Love-Matter
22.12.22 @Lubelski Teatr Tańca e Materia / Łódź, Łódź, Poland.
Music for dance. Choreografia: Elisabetta Consonni; taniec: Mikołaj Karczewski, Beata Mysiak; światła: Grzegorz Polak; dramaturgia: Konrad Kurowski; muzyka: Maurizio Rinaldi; produkcja: Anna Kalita, Konrad Kurowski.
+ SoniCosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset
16.12.22 @Giornata Nazionale dello Spazio, MUSE Museo delle Scienze, Trento (IT)
Sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset.
+ SoniCosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset
12-16.12.22 @The Audible Universe 2, Lorentz Center, Netherlands, on-line.
Sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset.
+ SoniCosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset
17.11.22 @United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), on-line.
Sonification: a tool for research, outreach and inclusion . Space for Persons with Disabilities, Sonification Projects in Space Sciences. Video talk.
+ Quantum Fields Live performance
13.11.22 18:00 @house-concert InAscolto, Bergamo (IT)
Maurizio Rinaldi :: electric guitar + laptop
+ SoniCosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset // POSTPONED -- RAAA 2023
11.11 - 13.11.22 @RAAA Festival, Bunkervik, Brescia (IT)
Audio installation with light design. Sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset.
+ Love-Matter
06.11.22 @Sala Widowiskowa Centrum Kultury w Lublinie, Lublin, Poland
Music for dance. Choreografia: Elisabetta Consonni; taniec: Mikołaj Karczewski, Beata Mysiak; światła: Grzegorz Polak; dramaturgia: Konrad Kurowski; muzyka: Maurizio Rinaldi; produkcja: Anna Kalita, Konrad Kurowski.
+ SoniCosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset
30.09.22 @III Giornata della Tecnologia Musicale, Conservatorio Luca Marenzio, Brescia (IT)
Talk. Sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset.
+ Quantum Fields Live performance
15.10.22 18:00@Salotto in Prova, Milano (IT)
Maurizio Rinaldi :: electric guitar + laptop
+ Plutone esploso
09.09.22 @Shall We Dance?, Milano Piazza Adriano Olivetti (IT)
Music for choreography workshop by Elisabetta Consonni.
+ Plutone esploso
22.06 - 26.06 2022 @Giornate del respiro, Flumini Maggiore, Sardegna (IT)
Music for choreography workshop by Elisabetta Consonni.
+ The City and the Stars :: viDEO sAVant + LIGATURA
16.06.22 @Circolo Dev, Bologna (IT)
Charles Woodman :: video Andrea Lamacchia, Maurizio Rinaldi, Fabrizio Saiu :: electronics
Audiovisual performance.
+ The City and the Stars :: viDEO sAVant + LIGATURA
15.06.22 @Museo Pecci, Prato (IT)
Charles Woodman :: video Andrea Lamacchia, Maurizio Rinaldi, Fabrizio Saiu :: electronics
Audiovisual performance.
+ Plutone esploso
17.05 - 21.05 2022 @Spazio Nova, Novara (IT)
Music for choreography workshop by Elisabetta Consonni.
[ 2021 ]
+ SoniCosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset
17.11.21 @II Workshop on Astronomy Beyond the Common Senses for Accessibility and Inclusion (Mexico). [streaming]
Conference
+ SoniCosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset. Un viaggio nel cosmo narrato dal suono
28.10.21 21:00 @Festival della Scienza, Genova (IT), Palazzo Ducale, Sala del Maggior Consiglio.
Sound event and science outreach show
+ SoniCosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset. Un viaggio nel cosmo narrato dal suono
07.10.21 21:30 @Bergamo Scienza, Bergamo (IT). [streaming]
Sound event and science outreach show
+ Opere sonore. Un’esperienza di composizione acusmatica per gli studenti dell'accademia di belle arti.
24.09.21 @Conservatorio Luca Marenzio, Brescia (IT).
Notte Europea dei Ricercatori. Talk.
+ SoniCosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset. Un viaggio nel cosmo narrato dal suono
21.08.21 21:30 @Planetarium Alto Adige, Bolzano (IT).
Sound event and science outreach show
+ SoniCosmos. Sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset.
27.07.21 @Human Computer Interaction International, Washington (USA). [streaming]
+ Equilibri - 47° Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte Live performance
22.07.21 21:00 @Lago di Montepulciano (IT)
Site-specific performance. Maurizio Rinaldi :: electric guitar :: laptop :: field-recordings
+ SoniCosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset. Un viaggio nel cosmo narrato dal suono
12.07.21 21:30 @San Lazzaro Bologna (IT)
Sound event and science outreach show
+ Quantum Fields - Between Us: cantiere delle arti Live performance
03.07.21 21:45 @Carme Brescia (IT)
Maurizio Rinaldi :: electric guitar + laptop
+ Take Off
05.06.21 16:00 @Teatro Grande di Brescia (IT)
La Grande Notte del Jazz. Fondazione Teatro Grande.
[ 2020 ]
+ Take Off
28.12.20 21:40 @SKY CLASSICAHD
Streaming concert. SKY ClassicaHD channel. Recorded at Fondazione Teatro Grande.
+ Take Off
02.12.20 18:00 & 21:00 @Teatro Grande Brescia (IT)
Canceled (COVID-19 restrictions)
+ La città e le stelle :: viDEO sAVant vs ɸ4
27.09.20 7:00 pm PST @Shapeshifercinema Oakland, California (USA)
Audiovisual performance
Charles Woodman :: video Maurizio Rinaldi :: electronics Fabrizio Saiu :: electronics
+ VIRTUAL SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference 2020 (XXIII)
25.06.20 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Torino (IT). [streaming]
Music program :: Monokhordon :: fixed media :: 2019
+ Quantum Fields - Vocoder Festival di musica elettronica Live performance
17.01.20 @primo piano Brescia (IT)
Maurizio Rinaldi :: electric guitar + laptop
+ Connessioni - Banksy Takes Franciacorta
15.01.20 - 08.03.2020 @Galleria Deodato Franciacorta (IT)
Connessioni. Soundscape composition for the exhibition Banksy Takes Franciacorta.
[ 2019 ]
+ Mobilis In Mobili Live performance
16.11.19 @movente Brescia (IT)
Maurizio Rinaldi :: electric guitar + laptop
+ La città e le stelle :: viDEO sAVant vs ɸ4
11.10.19 @spettro Brescia (IT)
Audiovisual performance
Charles Woodman :: video Maurizio Rinaldi :: electronics Fabrizio Saiu :: electronics
[ 2018 ]
+ Conforme - Spettri di Luce
16.09.18 - 02.09.2018 @Palazzo Martinengo Brescia (IT)
Music for the exhibition Spettri di Luce.
+ Mobilis In Mobili - WAV venice audio visual show
01-09.02.18 @Palazzo Michel Venezia (IT)
Mobilis in Mobili for electric guitar and laptop selected for the WAV – Venice Audio Visual Show. The event is organized in Venice by Moving Lab in partnership with the European Cultural Centre (Venice) .
+ Mobilis In Mobili - Bushwick Open Studios 2018.
29.09.18 @Bushwick Brooklyn New York (USA)
Mobilis in Mobili for electric guitar and laptop selected for the MISE-EN_PLACE Bushwick Open Studios 2018, Brooklyn, New York. US premiere.
+ Spazi Sonori del Contemporaneo. Luigi Nono.
15.04.18 @Associazione Culturale Movente Brescia (IT)
Spazi sonori del contemporaneo Visite guidate attraverso l'immaginario aurale.
+ Luigi Nono. La musica elettronica degli anni Sessanta. Talk. Luigi Nono.
18.02.18 @spazio aref Brescia (IT) Luigi Nono.
La musica elettronica degli anni Sessanta. Talk.
[ 2017 ]
+ Take Off 01.04.17 @Teatro Grande Brescia (IT)
La Grande Notte del Jazz. Fondazione Teatro Grande.
[ 2016 ]
+ Take Off 12.10.16 @Teatro Grande Brescia (IT) Take Off.
Fondazione Teatro Grande
[ ... ]
2015 Great Ring Road. Audiovisual performance. Spazio Contemporanea. Brescia.
2015 La Création Du... Audiovisual performance. Spazio Aità. Brescia
2015 La Création Du... Audiovisual performance. Associazione Culturale Movente. Brescia.
2014 Quantum Fields. Solo. Electric guitar and live electronics. VillaNO. Brescia.
2014 Contaminazioni. Bando SPOT. Performance. Brescia.
2013 Natura e Cultura, Mostra. Sound design. Brescia.
2012 Fèr. Storie di Ferro, Lavoro, Arte. Teatro. Musiche di scena. Brescia.
2012 3NO d IA (for John Cage). Solo performance. Innerplay In A Cage. Spazio Aref, Brescia.
2012 La Scienza dell’Uomo e l’Uomo della Scienza. Mostra collettiva. Sound design. Brescia.
2011 Phi4. Tango Tangles (C. Chaplin, 1914) Strade del Cinema. Teatro Romano, Aosta.
2011 Phi4. A Film Johnnie (C. Chaplin, 1914) Strade del Cinema. Teatro Romano, Aosta.
2011 Conforme. Mostra fotografica. Sound design. Svizzera.
2011 Improvvisazione e Ricerca. Talk. Spazio Aref. Brescia.
2010 Ligatura. Audiovisiva 06. Palaghiaccio. Milano.
2010 Short Sleeve (M. Montalbetti). Piattaforma. Casa del Teatro e Giovani. Torino.
2010 Innerplay. Cage Party. Spazio Aref. Brescia.
2010 Stefano Battaglia Theatrum. Rivoli Musica. Istituto Musicale. Rivoli.
2010 Pasceri Rinaldi Saiu Trio plays G. Kanchely, R. Strauss, J.S. Bach, improvisations. Brescia.
2010 Pasceri Rinaldi Saiu Trio plays G. Kanchely, R. Strauss, J.S. Bach, improvisations. Teatro del Lavoro. Pinerolo. Torino.
Phi4. Raggio di Sole (S. Ambrosio, 1912). Musicazione dal vivo. Restauri in Musica. Cinema Massimo Museo del Cinema. Torino.
2009 Short Sleeve (M. Montalbetti). Musica e Spazi. Sala Cavallerizza Teatro Stabile. Torino
2009 Stefano Battaglia Theatrum. Museo Santa Maria della Scala. Siena.
2009 Phi4. A-Trane, Berlino, Germania.
2009 Phi4. Cenere (F. Mari, 1916). Musicazione dal vivo. Luci ed Ombre. Brescia.
2008 Phi4. The Frozen North (B. Keaton, 1922). Strade del Cinema. Teatro Romano. Aosta.
2008 Aurora (F. W. Murnau, 1927). Musicazione dal vivo. Silenziose Donne Perdute. Brescia.
2007 La Terra (A. Dovzenko, 1930). Musicazione dal vivo. Piccolo Cinema Paradiso. Brescia.
2007 Sonosfera. ZTS Zona Traffico Sonoro. Festival di musica elettronica, Brescia.
2007 Phi4. La Guerra e il Sogno di Momi (S. de Chomón, 1917). Arena Sonica. Brescia.
2007 Phi4. Cretinetti e la Paura degli Aeromobili Nemici (A. Deed, 1915). Arena Sonica. Brescia.
2006 Il Gobbo di Notre Dame (W. Worsley, 1923). Oltre L'Immagine. Brescia.
2005 Architetture Loop. Solo. Electric guitar and electronics. Castello Bonoris. Montichiari. Brescia.
2005 Architetture Loop. Solo. Electric guitar and electronics. Moira. Brescia.
2005 Architetture Loop. Solo. Electric guitar and electronics. Limone e Cioccolato Festival. Brescia,
2005 Pagliacci. Musiche di scena per adattamento teatrale. Nodo Teatro. Brescia.
