Michele Di Dio © 2022
Composition
| Starting with a timpani-piano dialogue the piece finds a non-traditional concerto sound between electro-acoustic clusters, chamber music, improvisations and grand orchestral accents. |
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| Written | 2018 |
| Duration | 35’ |
| Details | augmented piano, symphony orchestra |
| Premiere | Musikschule Lüneburg |
| Musicians | Thomas Klug (conductor), ensemble reflektor, Kaan Bulak (augmented piano) |
| Notable performances | Konzerthaus Berlin, Halle 424 Hamburg, ZKM Karlsruhe |
| Recording | ZKM Karlsruhe, 2018 | Watch |
| “Seven Last Words” in seven movements, inspired by early Middle-Eastern Christian hymns and Haydn’s version. Commissioned by Bayerischer Rundfunk. | |
| Written | 2020 |
| Duration | 35’ |
| Details | violin, violin, viola, cello, electronics |
| Premiere | The premiere with BRSO Quartet was cancelled because of the lockdown in Spring 2020. |
| In five movements exterior chaotic influences cause hallucinations and challenge the inner being. Disturbing voices become friends and find a fulfilled harmony. | |
| Written | 2019 |
| Duration | 23’ |
| Details | violin, violin, viola, cello |
| Premiere | 19.06.2019, Mozartfest Würzburg |
| Musicians | Alex Jussow (violin), Aoife Ní Bhriain (violin), Friedemann Slenczka (viola), Stefan Hadjiev (cello) |
| Notable performances | Philharmonie Berlin, Beethovenfest Bonn |
| Four electronic edits derived from strings phrases. | |
| Written | 2019 |
| Duration | 8′ |
| Details: | violin, viola, cello, doublebass, electronics |
| Premiere: | 02.03.2019, ZKM Karlsruhe |
| Musicians: | Moritz Ter-Nedden (violin), Friedemann Slenczka (viola), |
| Recording | ZKM Karlsruhe, 2019 | Watch |
| In three movements, exploring the dream state of chamber music. The piano is augmented with the radial loudspeaker Lynch, designed and custom built specifically for this work. | |
| Written: | 2020 |
| Duration: | 14′ |
| Details: | augmented piano, violin, viola, cello, doublebass |
| Premiere: | 18.08.2018, Kloster Bebenhausen |
| Musicians: | Moritz Ter-Nedden (violin), Nora Schwarzberg (viola), Simone Drescher (cello), Kristina Edin (doublebass) Kaan Bulak (augmented piano) |
| Notable performances: | Philharmonie Berlin, Schloss Elmau, Beethovenfest Bonn |
| Recording: | Feral Note, ZKM Karlsruhe, 2020 | Listen |
| A ritual with sounds derived from the piano and live electronics, composition in blocks that encourage an improvised performance. | |
| Written: | 2018 |
| Duration: | 45′ |
| Details: | piano, electronics |
| Premiere: | 27.07.2018, Verbier Festival |
| Musicians: | Julian Quentin (piano), Kaan Bulak (electronics, piano) |
| Commissioned by Podium Festival | |
| Written: | 2017 |
| Duration: | 11′ |
| Details: | organ, trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba, electronics |
| Premiere: | 27.04.2018, Podium Festival, Esslingen |
| Musicians: | Peter Schleicher (organ), Kaan Bulak (electronics), Podium Festival ensemble |
| Three movements (Allegro – Scherzo – Adagio) between Turkish classical music and grotesque composers like Shostakovich. Commissioned by ‘Ton & Erklärung’ cello competition. | |
| Written: | 2017 |
| Duration: | 16′ |
| Details: | cello, cello, electronics |
| Premiere: | 07.10.2017, Prinzregententheater, Munich |
| Musicians: | Friedrich Thiele (cello), Laura Moinian (cello), Kaan Bulak (electronics) |
| Notable performances: | Orania Berlin (Anastasia Kobekina, Johannes Przygodda), Marburger Schloss (Santiago Cañón Valencia, Erica Piccotti) UBS Opernturm Frankfurt (Friedrich Thiele, Laura Moinian) |
| Rewritten version of Orgelwerk I for string quartet and electronics. Also available for low string quartet. Commissioned by Classical Beat Festival. | |
| Written: | 2017 |
| Duration: | 15′ |
| Details: | violin, violin, viola, cello, electronics |
| Premiere: | 30.05.2017, Campus Center, Lübeck |
| Musicians: | DeLia Quartet |
| Notable performances: | Silent Green Berlin, Beethovenfest Bonn, Schloss Elmau, Podium Festival |
| Recording: | Feral Note, 2018 | Listen |
| Commissioned by Podium Festival | |
| Written: | 2017 |
| Duration: | 11′ |
| Details: | organ, trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba, electronics |
| Premiere: | 27.04.2018, Podium Festival, Esslingen |
| Musicians: | Peter Schleicher (organ), Kaan Bulak (electronics), Podium Festival ensemble |
| Three movements showing expressive and introvert sides of the violin, accompanied by a piano that turns into percussion in the second movement. Commissioned by Johan Dalene & Julien Quentin. | |
| Written: | 2021 |
| Duration: | 10′ |
| Details: | violin, piano |
| Premiere: | 18.07.2021, Verbier Festival, Verbier |
| Musicians: | Johan Dalene (violin), Julien Quentin (piano) |
| Notable performances: | Frederiksværk Music Festival (Johan Dalene) |
| Electronically glitched solo performance for trumpet. Also available for bass clarinet. | |
| Written: | 2019 |
| Duration: | 8′ |
| Details: | trumpet, electronics |
| Premiere: | 13.04.2019, BBC Radio 3, LSO St. Luke’s, London |
| Musicians: | Simon Höfele (trumpet, electronics) |
| Recording: | Feral Note, 2018 | Watch |
| In six short pieces the piano evolves from an async heartbeat into a cluster of nightmares that dissolve in a tender movement, leading back to the percussive rhythm. | |
| Written: | 2018 |
| Duration: | 10′ |
| Details: | piano (prepared) |
| Premiere: | 02.03.2019, ZKM Karlsruhe |
| Musicians: | Kaan Bulak (piano) |
| From 16 improvised pieces that were recorded in a single take. Diffused clusters, atonal polyphony, resulting in melodic harmonies with an oriental touch. Recorded at ZKM Karlsruhe. | |
| Written: | 2018 |
| Duration: | 31′ |
| Details: | piano |
| Premiere: | 29.09.2018, Radialsystem Berlin |
| Musicians: | Kaan Bulak (piano) |
| Recording: | Feral Note, ZKM Karlsruhe, 2018 | Listen |
| A philosophical installation work on the act of composing and performing with readymade instruments. Commissioned by Goethe Institute for the Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale | |
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| Written: | 2021 |
| Duration: | 10′ |
| Details: | participative installation |
| Premiere: | 17.06.2021, 14th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale |
| Site-specific acousmatic composition for the 360° loudspeaker setup in the courtyard of Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg. Seven movements of time transcending sounds, harmonies and rhythms. Commissioned by Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele. | |
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| Written: | 2021 |
| Duration: | 40′ |
| Details: | violin, baroque harp, piano, electronics, field recordings |
| Premiere: | 12.06.2021, Klangkreis der Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Ludwigsburg |
| A sonic hommage to the book market that keeps the artist healthy. Focused augmented piano sounds. Commissioned by Eufonia Berlin. | |
| Written: | 2020 |
| Duration: | 3′ |
| Details: | field composition |
| Premiere: | 05.10.2020, Am Kupfergraben, Berlin |
| Interactive composition for the binaural installation ‘Sacrophonie’ by Anton Kossjanenko. Commissioned by ZKM Karlsruhe. | |
| Written: | 2018 |
| Duration: | 8′ |
| Details: | binaural composition, interactive samples |
| Premiere: | 01.09.2018, ZKM Karlsruhe |
| Spatial electronic composition utilising field recordings and polyrhythmic synth patterns. Commissioned by Montforter Zwischentöne | |
| Written: | 2017 |
| Duration: | 10′ |
| Details: | quadrophonic electronics |
| Premiere: | 25.02.2018, Montforter Zwischentöne, Feldkirch |
| Ottoman court music inspired five movements, composition with sounds from an upright piano symbolizing a 17th century ensemble. Graduation composition for Sound Studies at University of Arts Berlin. | |
| Written: | 2016 |
| Duration: | 24′ |
| Details: | piano samples on quadrophonic loudspeakers |
| Premiere: | 05.02.2017, Kesselhaus, Berlin |
| Music for the short film of conceptual artist Ahmet Öğüt. | |
| Release: | 05.11.2019, Amsterdam Art Weekend IDFA, Amsterdam |
| Composition and production of original soundtrack. | |
| Production: | Perfect Shot Films, Misereor |
| Release: | 31.10.2014 |
| Composition and production of original soundtrack. Feature-length documentary film directed by Katharina von Schroeder and Florian Schewe. | |
| Production: | Perfect Shot Films, ZDF – Das kleine Fernsehspiel |
| Premiere: | 25.06.2014, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain, Berlin |
| Release: | 14.07.2014, ZDF |
| Awards: | Grimme Preis 2015, Brooklyn Film Festival 2015 (Best Documentary), Festival International du Film de Droits de l’Homme 2016 (Grand Prize of the Jury), International Human Rights Film Festival Guadeloupe 2016 (Grand Prix), AGON Film Festival 2016 (Award for Historical Film) |
| Composition and production of original soundtrack. Short documentary film by Katharina von Schroeder. |
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| Production: | Al Jazeera Artscape |
| Release: | 08.05.2013, Al Jazeera |
| Composition and production of original soundtrack. Short documentary film by Katharina von Schroeder. |
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| Production: | Al Jazeera Artscape |
| Release: | 30.04.2013, Al Jazeera |
| Guest piano performance on ’22:00′ | |
| Release: | 21.09.2019, Hôtel Costes |
| Recording: | Vinyl |
| Experimental house record with guest musicians Julien Quentin (piano), Adrien Boisseau (viola). | |
| Release: | 27.08.2018, Contexterrior Records |
| Recording: | Listen |
| Self-produced songwriting record. Including the poems Aşık by Omar Khayyam and Sevgilerde by Behçet Necatigil. | |
| Release: | 17.03.2017, Universal Music |
| Self-produced songwriting record. The single Moving Leaves is made of only vocal recordings and manipulations. Guest musician Contrapunct (violin). | |
| Release: | 10.02.2017, Kabak & Lin Records |
| Recording: | Listen |
Sound & Production
| Mixing and mastering at Feral Note Salon, focus on electro-acoustic productions. | |
| References: | Robert Lippok, Magna Pia, Sarah Aristidou, Karpov Not Kasparov, Mehmet Aslan, Luise Enzian & Moritz Eggert, Hagar Sharvit & Daniel Gerzenberg, Rothko String Quartet, OMG Schubert |
| Studio and broadcast recording work, preparation of speaker tracks for multi-channel concerts. | |
| References: | European Music Council, Académie Francis Poulenc, Podium Esslingen & Philharmonie Köln, BBC Radio 3, ZDF |
| 360° loudspeaker for electro-acoustic chamber music Designed in collaboration with Martion Audiosysteme. Funded by #bebeethoven, Kulturstiftung des Bundes. |
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| Date: | 2018 – 2020 |
| Info: | Martion |
| Instrument research project at ZKM Karlsruhe. Extending the acoustic grand piano for new phrasing possibilities. Funded by #bebeethoven, Kulturstiftung des Bundes. | |
| Date: | 2018 – 2020 |
| Extendable modular synthesizer case with a single power supply in the mother case. Pristine audio quality through low noise ACL power supply. Implemented and built by NumNum Cases. | |
| Date: | 2020 |
| Info: | ACL | NumNum Cases |
| Guest lectures for sound art, electro-acoustic production, mixing and mastering in the class of Robert Lippok. | |
| Date: | 2018 – 2022 |
| Info: | NYU Berlin Clive Davis Institute |
| Workshop on the interplay of audio and visual elements with Ali M. Demirel. Focus on the live audiovisual performance ‘Impromptu / Rockforms’. | |
| Date: | 2019 |
| Info: | Sónar Istanbul |
| Lecture on perception of art and duration within the series ‘Music & Medicine’. | |
| Date: | 2019 |
| Selection of a Steinway B grand piano and consulting for audio live setup including loudspeakers, monitors, microphones, stage setup. Supervision of Kirsch Audio PA System order and delivery. | |
| Date: | 2017 |