RominaDaniele.com Biography and Reviews

Italian electronics studio composer, vocalist and performer, writer. Daniele's solo artist career started in 2005, awarding the Demetrio Stratos International Award for musical experimentation for the emerging artist best project. In the same year, Daniele released Diffrazioni Sonore, a complex album project focused on the relationship between improvisation and construction made with the "voice as instrument" and vocal and new compositional technologies published in the 2010 by the new Italian Label RDM Records. During the last years, the award has been given for the Career to the artists Diamanda Galàs e Meredith Monk, Fred Frith, Fatima Miranda.
In the 2008 she released the second record Aisthànomai, il Dramma della Coscienza (cd, 2008), for voice and electronics, in which the sound research and the sonic composition, as in the field of vocalism as in that of electronics music, are the main elements.

She has also published in

the 2010 for the book

publishing label RDM

Records the collected poems Poesie

1995-2005 (e-book/book; Italian and

English bilingual Edition) and the

essayes Il dialogo con la materia

disintegrata e ricomposta, un'analisi di Thema (Omaggio a

Joyce) di Luciano Berio and Il luogo della musica nell'audio-

visione (e-book/books, Italian).

Born in Naples and living in Milan, Romina Daniele has carried on studies about history, methodology of art, cinema, photography and aesthetics, and has gone through

different musical and didactic experiences.

All the studies carried on in poetry, music, vocalism, theatre

and art, have been fundamental for the production of the

records.The main elements are: the sound research and

the sonic composition, as in the field of vocalism as in

that of electronics music composition, the exploration

of the sound waves in frequency and time domain.

The voice in its differing, unexpected and sudden shades, dominates a sign universe, in which faraway melodies and ancient calls meet contemporaneous technologies of composition; weaving the way to explore the perception territories and its processes.

Between construction and dismantling, composition and instinct, Romina Daniele performs the tragedy of consciousness in an open comparison with the listener.

To find the human awareness (by man on man), or the reasons for its absence.

Romina Daniele has been working on her new album since 2009. The record will be released on RDM Records, with which she started a collaboration in January 2010.

The project «Spannung», from the term with which Heidegger indicates the opening, the space, the tension (and the yearning) of being in the size of the authenticity of existence.

The size, never properly discussed, requires close and new ways each time, away from clichés and intellect and compositional schemes. In the concreteness and temporality of the human existence, the being fighting is force itself: "tension of force itself." (J. Derrida).

At all levels of the conceptual and thinking, artistic, literary and poetic, musical, composition, vocal and aesthetic work: not the accomplishment but the opening, not the system nor its negation today system itself, but the tension, is always action, force in action.

press

NOTES FROM THE PRESS

«The voice and the sound are so pure are so well performed that literally take the breath away.» (M. Marchini)

«Romina is able skinning the skin from the emotions until it comes to the bare flesh, destabilizing the listener who will be undoubtedly marked by the experience.» (L. Rapetti).

«Romina Daniele stands in front of the audience stimulating it and creating fascinating and shivering sounds, throwing the listener in a "lyrics-voice-music" spiral that oblige us to confront with ourselves.» (A. Arena)

BLOW UP MAGAZINE 119. [about Aisthànomai, il Dramma della Coscienza]

Romina Daniele has been awarded with the Demetrio Stratos International Award and in her new album we can notice not only a great vocal ability - power and versatility – but a great talent interpreting the sense of music and composing abilities as well. You can listen/read ‘Aisthànomai’ like a theoretical work, an organized anthology and a poetical-musical form. First, it is necessary to read the booklet texts where the aesthetics topics are discussed. ‘Voice-Matter-Nature. ‘Electronics-Suond-Technique. Language-Text-Concept’. These are the territories in which

Aisthànomai takes shape… and where my cognitive non-condition law is placed as an expressive aim freely pursued. In a second point of view, the work offers a charming performance/interpretation. The transfiguration of the song form through the organic changing of the voice (Materia), vocals-electronics assimilation (Echo, Vero Remake II), the dramatic experimentation on the text-vocals (Dix ans, vingt ans), sound poetry (Vero Remake I) and the total theatre-song (Poesis I). (...) Finally, almost in despite of her theoretic will (which can enjoy the total fruition), ‘Aisthànomai’ is mainly a sensory experience (if not sensual) with the vibrating woman body, into urgency (impact) of the reunification. "I do not enjoy all the happiness, remember, it is divided in two parts, and both include emptiness’, it seems Emily Dickinson. But it is necessary to get into the voice labyrinth. [D. Capuano]

bio

DetaileD CHRONOLOGical Biography

1987-1993. Classical dance lessons.

1993-2000. Classical guitar lessons with composer Antonio Sozio.

1995-2005. She devotes her self to poetry, writing of tales and songs, painting and photography.

1997. Diploma in Solfeggio, musical theory and dictation.

1998-2005. History and methodology of art studies.

2000-2003. Singing lessons with Auli Kokko.

2000-2005. She occasionally takes part in various bands (rock, blues, jazz, experimental).

2005. She produces Diffrazioni Sonore.

November - wins Demetrio Stratos International Award for musical experimentation, 2005 edition, theme: “vocalism and research”. She receives the award at MEI – Faenza (Ravenna) during a meeting/seminar with Diamanda Galas.

[During the last years the award has been given for the Career to the artists Diamanda Galàs (2005), Meredith Monk (2006-2007), Fred Frith (2008), Fatima Miranda (2009); not given for the new artists.]

2006-2007. She devotes herself to the study and the research of vocal production ability. Works on Aisthànomai, il Dramma della Coscienza.

Experimental vocal laboratories and individual lessons at Crams School of Music.

2006. July - she plays at Arezzo Wave Love Festival, presented by Insound magazine.

2007. March – takes part in the Electronika Festival promoted by Fondazione MM&T of Milan. June - during ATERFORUM Festival (Ferrara) is ideally awarded for the second edition of Demetrio Stratos Award; career award given to Meredith Monk.

2008. Degree in history of cinema presenting a thesis with the title of "Music in audiovision".

March – presents her vocal research at "Milano: 5 days for the new music” festival.

April - presents her vocal research at "intermidia" festival in Banskà Bystrica and Žilina.

2009. March – presents her vocal research at "Milano: 5 days for the new music” festival.

New Technologies and Music studies at the Milan Conservatory.

2010. She starts a collaboration with RDM Records publishing where all her works are available.

She publishes for the book publishing label RDM Records the "Poesie 1995-2005" and the essayes "Il dialogo con la materia disintegrata e ricomposta, un'analisi di Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) di Luciano Berio".

She ranks among the eight finalists at ‘Premio Nazionale delle Arti' for Electronic Music and New Technologies, with the compositin La Prova, taken from Aisthànomai, il Dramma della Coscienza (cd, RD/RDM Records, 2008).

2010-2011. Works on the new record Spannung, and on the essay Voce Sola (Solo Voice).

2011. Wins the Arci Award for Musical Experimentation promoted by Centro Musica Contemporanea in collaboration with Arci.

a kind of biography (essential autobiography)