daniela fantechi

www.danielafantechi.eu
Italy °1984
research interests: experimentation, microphones, materiality, DIY, composition process, live electronics, drone music, instrumental technique, Instrumentality
affiliation: Orpheus Instituut
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Daniela Fantechi is a composer and artistic researcher with a strong interest in the materiality of sound in relation to compositional processes.
She is active as composer, ad as music performer, collaborating mainly with two ensembles: Blutwurst and Azione_Improvvisa.
She is a doctoral student (docARTES program) at the University of Antwerp, and part of the research cluster Music, Thought and Technology, directed by Jonathan Impett at the Orpheus Instituut in Ghent. Her research focuses on the exploitation of piezo-electric microphones in the context of composition for acoustic instruments.

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  • COMPOSING with PIEZO (2022) author(s): daniela fantechi published in: Research Catalogue
    "Composing with piezo" is the title of my doctoral research which concerns the composition of instrumental music implemented with a specific use of piezoelectric microphones. During the research process, I explored a peculiar use of this technology not only to disclose and amplify the instrumental sound but also to produce otherwise unheard sounds, through a reinterpretation of some instrumental gestures, such as glissando, tapping, scraping, etc, produced by playing with the microphone directly on the instrument. Mainly because of the non-linear quality of unprocessed piezoelectric microphones, which thus present limits and different degrees of controllability and predictability - their introduction in my compositional work changed the relationships with the instrumental sound matter, bringing to question different aspects of my compositional approach. Therefore, during the whole research process, I looked for frameworks, theories, and examples, to understand and bring focus to my evolving compositional practice.
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