Simone Giacomini

Simone GiacominiMusician, Composer Born in Rome 2nd January 1974He starts soon the study of piano while he is also interested in approaching and going deeper with other instruments and particularly guitar. In 1990 he leaves the academicals scholarship to take up a personal research and exploration of the 20th century’s music in detail the works of Janacek, Skryabin and Satie. With a personal approach of the score reading he starts a new form of improvisation based on the geometrical lines that compose the score itself. In 1994 he discovers electronic music and under the alias of PIOTR he starts to release a long series of demotapes in which he works with overdubbed lines of homemade/toys instruments Since 1998 he attends the courses at the ACCADEMIA FILARMONICA of Bologna (department of movies sound- tracks). Since 1994 he plays with many groups, bands and artists, working with contemporary music, rock, experimental music, movies and videos. In the following years he collaborates with: Di Ciommo (soundtracks for two video works), the band Norma, the R.A.F.B. orchestra for the event “musiche dal mondo a Valle Giulia”, the composer Elio Polizzi (soundtrack for the movie SUMMERLOVE, 2001) and a lot of emergent talents from the Italian musical scene, such as: Elizabeth, Gianluca Melchiorri and Laura Tessarin.During the 2001 he creates, together with Riccardo Conti and Matteo Quintiliani, the group GENGHIS-KAR, that is an art-pop music project. With GK he realizes the concert-event “ variations on the spontaneity of the perception” where he puts in relation different aspects of creative languages exploring the possibility of breaking the roles of artist/audience. He has been playing in many locations in Italy (supperclub, metaverso, classico, associazione degli umbri, scuderie aldobrandini etc.). During 2003 he regurlary teaches “modern guitar” and “complementary piano” at the R.A.F.B.. Since 2004 he collaborates with choreographer Gabriella Maiorino for the dancepieces SCARTI (2004), ANARCHISTAS(2005), ZOO(2006-8) ,CRUEL(2007) and PRAYERS(2008) produced by both Italian and Dutch institutions and performed several times in theatres and festivals around Europe. In 2006 with the help of Alessio Castellacci he forms the band Très Lent a laboratory of minimal-electronic-fragile-pop music. They collaborates with differents artists in the fields of music, dance, video and performing acts. In 2007 he also makes the music for BREAKING THE CIRCLE a piece by dancer/choreograoher Ezequiel Sanucci. Since june 2007 he starts a collaboration with KORZO THEATER in Den Haag, that leads him to work with choreographer Abdel Sarrokh for the piece “BLEACH” and with theatre maker Mees Saskia (from ALBA THEATER) for the piece “JACK”. In 2008 he starts to collaborate with visual/theatre maker Judith Nab (Theatre Espace) for the installation/piece “All The People I Didn’t Meet”. He lives and works in Netherlands.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)