Leo Cicala

Leo Cicala
Electroacoustic composer, acousmatic performer, live performer, teacher. He studied Band Instrumentation at the Conservatorio "Tito Schipa" in Lecce and graduated with honours in Electronic Music from the same institution; he also studied drums and jazz music and graduated in Biological Sciences.

He studied electroacoustic composition in Paris with Denis Dufour and sound projection on the acousmonium with Jonathan Prager. He has performed more than two hundred works from the classical and contemporary electroacoustic repertoire on the acousmonium, and has given numerous lectures both in Italy and abroad on various aspects of the spatialisation of acousmatic works. Very interested in the development of didactics, in 2015 he published the manual "Manuale di Interpretazione Acusmatica" for the Salatino Music Edition, and a series of related video tutorials are also available on the web (www.acusma.it).He published the CD "Rust" for the Apulian label "Art & classic", the CD "Punto di Accumulazione", the CD “Thauma” and “Terre Rare” for the Portuguese label "Creative Sources Recordings" and several pieces were selected and published by the Austro-American label "Ablaze Record". He composed the soundtrack for the short film "Io sono qui" directed by Pierluigi Ferrandini and "Storia di Valentina", “I.a.p.” directed by Antonio Palumbo. He set up the association "ACUSMA Teatro del Suono" in Bari (southern Italy), which encourages sound arts research by promoting activities of teaching, pedagogy and musical production. He has also created a sound diffusion system consisting of 44 loudspeakers, the acousmonium "Rhizome", with which he is carrying out a busy concert programme. Winner of the first prize in electroacoustic composition "Bangor Dylan Thomas Prize" in the UK, his compositions are performed in major festivals in Italy, France, Belgium, Sweden, Japan, UK, Germany, Cyprus, Montecarlo, Argentina, Chile and in the USA (Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New York). www.acusma.it