Toxic Garden
After three years immersed in the idea that I had to develop a visual layer for my work, find the path to express myself and my vision in ways that aren't only sonic ways, music started to call me back again. I spent most of the year cooling down the urge to dive back in the composition world and the live coding practice was a good way to do it. But this year brought me also a big surprise in this side of me and suddenly I saw myself composing, orchestrating and mastering again.
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I was lucky enough to be invited by Kamilia Kard to compose the soundtrack of her last work, Toxic Garden - Dance Dance Dance, a participatory dance virtual performance made in Rblox by the artist herself and with sound design by Cristina Katja Angeloro.
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The virtual worlds created by Kamilia are amazingly fun and the performance such a unique experience. Virtual reality is only in its beginning and I confess it still makes me dizzy when putting up an immersive device in front of my eyes. But to dance with Kamilia and other digital friends elsewhere in the world under my own composition was such a big moment.
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This wor(ld)k is available in Roblox depository for whoever wanting to experience it and was lauched as part of the project #ResidenzeDigitali by the Roma Europa Festival, Kilowatt Festival and Lavanderia a Vapore, in Rome (IT) november 2022. Later on it was exhibited in the VRAL program by the Milan Machinima Festival, curated by Gemma Fantacci.