marco scarassatti

Marco Scarassati (1971/ Campinas/ SP/Brasil) Composer graduated by Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp. Master in Multimeans, also by Unicamp, has researched the creative process of composer Walter Smetak, builder of hybrids objects that join plasticity and sonorous production. In Process of achieving Doctor Degree by Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas – Unicamp, researching alquemic representations in music and preparing publishing of “Smetak e Suas Plásticas Sonoras”. Cineast self-didactic, its short “A Terra do Silêncio” won 12 awards in 2002 and 2003. At present, develops research, creation, and build of sonorous sculptures and environment, besides working as University Professor. Trustee of exposition “Paisagens Plásticas e Sonoras”, that got together works of several composers, that in searching new sonorities came to new forms of conventional musical instruments. (Mostra Sesc de Artes/ 2005 – Sesc Pinheiros Brasil) It announced of the exhibition Invenções Sonoras, in the Sesc Consolação (2007) and of I Brazilian Journey of silent cinema, when there is setting the German movie to music to the living creature Die Sühne (1917), of Emerich Hanus, beside Nelson Pinton and Paul Hartmann. He is a composer of several tracks for dance, theater, video and cinema. He participates of the groups of experimental music, Sonax and OlhoCaligari. with last this one he touched in 2nd annual conference of the ISIM (international Society for improvised music) in Evanston, USA. (December 2007)