daniele del monaco

music - 2018

psychoplum

Composer and keyboard player based in Rome, Daniele Del Monaco was born in 1977. He is the author of chamber music, symphonic music, operas, music for theatre, electronics, electro-acoustic, multimedia operas, music for films, song, and interactive installations. He’s also an interpreter, improviser, teacher, music producer, band-leader, and organizer. He works with artistic directors, institutions, ensembles, authors, and interpreters from all over the world. His music was performed in international festivals, broadcasted on the radio and tv, and published. It is known in academic and extra-academic contexts. In 2007 he started the activity of indipendent producer, thanks to the collaboration with classical musicians, improvisers, and experimental artists. The most representative works are: Guernica, 2007; Simurgh, 2007 (with Flavio Albanese); Prove di fuga dalla terra, 2008 (with Salvo Piro); Psicosusina Turboaccelerata 2013; Caligola, 2014 (with Vania Castelfranchi); The Zone, 2014 (with Blixa Bargeld and Theodosii Spassov). For most of them he wrote also the libretto. He collaborated with such artists as Flavio Albanese, Alea Nova, Marco Ariano, Tom Arthurs, Blixa Bargeld, Roberto Bellatalla, Ljuba Bergamelli, Andrea Biagioli, Gustavo Brinholi, Matteo Capogna, Marco Cappelli, Vania Castelfranchi, Anna Clementi, Gabriele Coen, Massimo Coen, Stefano Cogolo, Eugenio Colombo, Vocalia Consort, Bert Cornelis, Francesco Cusa, Errico De Fabritiis, Rocco De Rose, Zeno De Rossi, Barbara Di Lieto, Diaspora, Ken Filiano, Avrham Fever, FACha Quartet, Freon, Oliviero Giorgiutti, Giovanni Guaccero, Maura Guerrera, Yotam Haber, Quartetto Harmos , Roberto Herlitzka, Incanto, Nicholas Isherwood, Pape Kanoute, JT Lewis, Armando Lôbo , Fabio Maestri, Mark Malkovitch, Paolo Marchettini, Sabina Mayer, Sylvia Maynger, Luca Mereu, Giona Messina, Josè Mobilia, Claudio Montuori, Sandro Naglia, Sena Ndiaye, Alipio Neto, Nublast, Økapi, Benny Penazzi, Salvo Piro, Raiz, Ready Made Ensemble, Susanna Rigacci, Adam Rudolph, Gianluca Ruggeri, Sandro Satta, Alessandro Sbordoni, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Francesco Snoriguzzi, Theodosii Spassov, SPMT, Tabala, Satoshi Takeishi, Stomu Takeishi, Gianfranco Tedeschi, Pamela Toscano, VoxNova, Aldo Vio, Stefano Zorzanello, etc. He is an author of dramaturgy, poetry, small essays, and critical, polemic, & satirical articles. He is a member of Nuova Consonanzaand of the international collective Diaspora. He is artistic and musical director of LCP. He loves spearfishing.