Massimo Marchi

Massimo Marchi

Born in Venice. Graduated in piano, in harpsichord at Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice.Post graduated in piano at Rome with Rodolfo Caporali. Graduated in Electronic Music with Alvise Vidolin in Venice Conservatorio di Musica.

Post graduated in Venice Biennale Musica in Luigi Nono’s live electronics with Andrè Richard and the Freiburg Experimental Studio of Electronic Music.

Members of AGON, center of electronic music and multimedia interactive performances and installations in Milan, as production manager, from 2012 also chairman. He develops the real time interactive programs for multimedia performance and he is a live electronics performer, as well as sound designer and engineer.

A brief list include: operas (Gesualdo considered as a murder by L. Francesconi, Amsterdam 2004) concerts with orchestra (Voiceless voice in Hiroshima di Hosokawa, Deserts di E. Varèse – l’Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, sala Verdi, Milan, 2007 e 2009) concerts with ensemble (Caminata di Vito von Thummel by F. Nieder, auditorium – Milan, 2006; Respondit by L. Francesconi, Brescia 2009; Una voce chiama e Quanta oscura selva trovai by G. Manzoni, Milan 2005, Treviso 2005; Angelus Novus by A. Melchiorre, Venice, S. Giorgio in Isola, Padova, Basilica di S. Giustina 2007; Kolot di Y. Avital, Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, Teatro Parma 2 di Parma, Festival REC di Reggio Emilia, 2008; Lefkara Moirai by Y. Avital, Lefkara, Cyprus 2009; Il tempo sullo sfondo by A. Gentilucci, Echo Kanyon by K. Tanaka, Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, 2009; Relief Statique e Stanza II by T. Takemitsu, Sala Puccini, Milan 2009). Technological/digital coordination for several productions (Saturne by H. Dufourt, Sala Verdi, Milan, 2010; Cassandre by M. Jarrell, Teatro Strelher, Milan, 2010; Kontakte, Stimmung and Hymnem by K. Stockhausen, Teatro dal Verme, Milan, 2008). Producrtion manager for the electronic part of several new productions, as the Fabio Vacchi’s soundtracks for Olmi’s movies Centochiodi eand Cantando dietro i paraventi.

In 2012 projected the digital and technological implementation and the sound direction of Turing, a staged case history interactive multimedial show, AGON production, Piccolo Teatro di Milano 20 to 25 november 2012. Implementatione of the sound direction and live electronics for 4 klang aktion by E. Demetz – Süd Tirol Award 2013, Teatro Comunale di Bolzano October 2013 and Paravis by E. Demetz, Klangspuren Festival, Schwaz, September 2014.

Regie del suono e live electronics in installazioni e spettacoli più rilevanti degli ultimi 5 anni:

  • L’età d’oro di Milano XV sec urban opera for music and images AGON e Castagna&Ravelli, prod. AGON – Palazzo Reale Milano, 2015
  • Duello multimedia show by M. Tadini, prod, AGON, Meran, Festival Transart, 2015
  • Notturno, audiovisual performance by G. Sancristoforo prod. AGON, first representation Teatro Valli, Festival Aperto, Reggio Emilia 2010 and Teatro Out-Off, Milano, Danae Festival 2015
  • Cosmo, i 4 elementi nell’universo di Leonardo da Vinci, opera by E. Flückiger and P. Pirelli, text by A. Felder, prod. AGON, Teatro Franco Parenti, Milano; Teatro San Materno, Ascona; Teatro Studio Foce, Lugano, 2015
  • Alle tacenti Stelle by L. Sammarchi, Sansepolcro, Festival delle Nazioni, 2017
  • …e immediatamente diventai sapiente, music by F. Paradiso, text by G. Barbieri, prod. AGON, Sansepolcro, Festival delle Nazioni 2017, Basilica di San Vitale, Ravenna Festival 2019
  • Espace Hybride,with the flutist M. Zurria, AGON 2018
  • Nibhodata by R. Nova, Palazzo Reale Milano, Ethno Music Festival 2018
  • 28° Festival Milano Musica, 2019 (Etymo II by L. Francesconi, Auditorium di Milano, Orchestra La Verdi, Hymnem by K. Stockhausen, Sala Verdi Milano, Uversa, Edentia e Paradies by K. Stockhausen, Planetario di Milano, Festival Milano Musica 2019, Quanta oscura selva trovai by G. Manzoni, Animus e Animus IIb by L. Francesconi, Teatro Franco Parenti)
  • Verso Nikà, by E. Flückiger, prod. AGON, Pantelleria 2019 – Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, Festival Vapore d’Estate, 2020
  • Grab them! with Icarus Ensemble. Schubert, M. Beil e Jacob TV, Reggio Emilia, Festival Aperto, ottobre 2021

From year 2000 teaches live electronics, interactive computer music, acoustics, psychoacoustics in the Padua, Venice, Ferrara Bozen and Milan Conservatoire.

www.agonarsmagnetica.it