Alessandro Cipriani

Composer and Music Critic Alessandro Cipriani, a member of the Editorial Board of “Organised Sound” (Cambridge University Press), has co-composed soundtracks for silent films such as “Metropolis” (Fritz Lang), “Blackmail” (Alfred Hitchcock), “Inferno” (1911), “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (Robert Wiene), and “Battleship Potemkin” (Sergei Eisenstein). The latter three were released in surround sound DVDs by Cineteca di Bologna. He also co-wrote the score for the 3D film “The Girl from Nagasaki” (Sundance Film Festival 2014) and co-wrote the musical operas “Faust” and “Turandot” with the National Beijing Opera Theatre. His works with Robyn Orlin were performed at the Venice Biennale Dance and Théâtre de la Ville, Paris. He is a tenured professor of Audiovisual Composition at the Conservatory of Music in Frosinone. Cipriani has lectured at institutions such as Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow), Sibelius Academy (Helsinki), Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, and CalArts (Los Angeles). His textbooks “Virtual Sound” and “Electronic Music and Sound Design” (co-authored with M. Giri and R. Bianchini) are widely used in Europe and the Americas. His music, including collaborations with oral tradition musicians, has been released by CNI and Computer Music Journal (MIT Press).