Festival

Davide Gagliardi live-electronics

 

Davide Gagliardi Music and Words (2025, world premiere)

Inspired by “Words and Music” by Samuel Beckett, this performance delves into the fragile boundary between language and sound, words and silence.

Blending theatre, music and technology Davide Gagliardi reinterprets Beckett’s work by enacting the delicate relationship between these two media on stage. As both characters and media they are presented not only as distinct but also as deeply intertwined forces, capable of dialogue, imitation, and tension.

 

Davide Gagliardi (*1988) is a composer, performer, electronic musician and sound director specialised in the interpretation of electroacoustic music. His works are the result of a continuous research applied to the development of relationships between acoustic and digital musical environments. His repertoire includes a variety of acousmatic pieces, live electronics performances for solo instruments, ensembles and musical theatre experiences. His artistic research is oriented towards the realisation of dynamic systems of mutual human-machine inter-action based on machine listening algorithms and complex feedback networks.

During his career he has collaborated with numerous artists and ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Marco Fusi, Karin Hellqvist, Mauro Lanza, Pierluigi Billone, Ensemble Prometeo, Quartetto Maurice, Agostino di Scipio, the Black Page Orchestra, Hannes Kerschbaumer and Marko Ciciliani, participating in various festivals such as Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Netherlands), Donaueschinger-Musiktage, Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), Wien Modern, Klangspuren, impuls, Elevate, Jeunesse, Signale (Austria), la Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Afekt (Estonia), Time of Music (Finland), BEASTFeaST (United Kinddom), and GLOBALE: next_generation (Germany) among others.

Graduated in Computer Music at the Institute für Elektronische Musik Graz and the Conservatory of Venice, he worked as director of the Studio für elektronische Musik at the HfMDK in Frankfurt and is currently professor of Multimedia at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan. Since 2016 he is the sound director of the Schallfeld Ensemble.