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Francesco Canavese

Francesco Canavese – Conservatorio di Musica Giovan Battista Martini Bologna, Italy

 

Graduated in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering (ETL) at the University of Florence.
Since 2000 he began an intense collaboration with the Tempo Reale production, research and teaching center of Music in Florence founded by Luciano Berio, working with the music production staff with national and international composers.
In 2001 he curated the live electronics of the J.S.Bach’s rewriting project of the Escape Art, conceived by Luciano Berio and performed in Spoleto, Lyon, The Hague and London. In 2002 he joined the production team for the work “Il Principe Costante” (Teatro Metastasio di Prato) with music by Battistelli and directed by Pier’Alli. He also participates in the realization of the large sound installation “Tempo Libero” designed for the inauguration of the Auditorium in Rome. In 2004 he participated in the realization of Ofanìm, by Luciano Berio, performed at the Verdi theater in Florence.
In 2005 he worked with Stefano Bollani and Ugo Chiti for the realization of “La casa immediately after the bridge”; moreover, he follows the production of the Compagnia Virgilio Sieni Danza for the show “Osso”, staged in the season of Sant’Arcangelo dei Teatri, at the Forum Neues Musikteather in Stuttgart, in Florence (Teatro degli Artigiagianelli) and in the season of the Vie Festival ’06 in Modena.
Also together with the production team, he worked with Uri Caine, Ralph Alessi, Jim Black and Julie Patton at the realization of the “Berio Project” (executed in the Ravenna Festival 2005 and resumed in November 2006, at the Auditorium “Parco della Musica” in Rome), in Vienna at the Wiener Konzerthaus (in 2008), in Florence (Teatro della Pergola, 2009) and in Monfalcone (Gorizia, 2010).
He also participates in the making of the original piece “ FLRFLR”/ Jim Black vs. Real time performed for the first time in December 2006, in the check-in area of Florence Airport.
In 2007 he followed the realization and performance of two original compositions by Lelio Camilleri and Andrea Saba at the Festiva Rai Nuova Musica. He also curates the resumption and staging of “Osso” in Marseille (Le Merlan Scène Nationale), Brussels (La Biennale Charleroi-Danses) and at the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara.
In 2009 he curated the live-electronics for the show “Esse” of Salomé with Sonia Bergamasco, produced by Tempo Reale and performed for the first time in the Tempo Reale Festival ’09.
In 2010 he followed the production of David Moss’ new show “The Table of Earth”.
He constantly supports the Center for the realization of concerts, dance performances, sound installations, training courses, recording and editing in the studio (collaborating among the many with Micha van Hoecke, Adriano Guarnieri, Alvise Vidolin, Fabrizio De Rossi Re, Laurie Swartz, Francois Bayle, Jonathan Faralli, Jonathan Harvey, Patrizio Barontini, Lelio Camilleri, Andrea Saba).

In 2007, thanks to a first commission of the Fondazione Musicale Santa Cecilia in Portogruaro (VE), a form – together with Francesco Giomi- SDENG, a duo of live electronics performers who later performs in several festivals including Economia3 (September 2008, Prato), Fosfeni 2009 (April 2009, Cascina PI), and at the Logos Foundation in Belgium (October 2009, Ghent). SDENG’s first performance was included in the CD “ MUSICA FUTURISTA 5/W Russolo” (Edizioni Mudima, 2010)

He has worked on the creation of soundtracks for shows and theatrical essays for Gaddo Bagnoli and “binario16”; he collaborates with a Milanese theater company “Stude Monkeys” realizing with Sebastiano Bon the music for “Amleto” and “Pauraedesiderio”. Since 2010 he collaborates occasionally with the theater company Teatro Sotterraneo for the music of some theatrical performances.

Since 2009 he has been a professor of Informatics Musicale first at the Conservatory G.B.Martini in Bologna, from 2015 to 2019 at the Conservatory of Cuneo, in 2020-21 at the Conservatory “F. Morlacchi” of Perugia, from 2021 he is in role at the Bologna Conservatory.