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Naples, February
8th 1980.
Italian composer
of electronic and experimental music,
extended techniques vocalist and performer, writer,
and blues singer.
Romina 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
by extended vocal techniques and construction
by new compositional
technologies
published in the 2010 by 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).
She
has been presenting
her work and research since 2005 at many
national and international festival like Arezzo
Wave, Electronika,
Aterforum, 5 Giornate per la Nuova Musica,
Intermidia Festival, Silence, Salone
Internazionale del Libro, London Hoxton Festival.
In 2010 e 2011, she
has been a finalist at ‘Premio Nazionale delle Arti' (Arts National
Award) for Electronic Music and
New
Technologies,
representing the Conservatorio di Milano.
In 2011 she has been awarded with the
Arci Award
for musical experimentation presenting
her new
work Spannung.
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[Photo by
Matteo Nieddu;
october-november
2007]
Notes from the Press
Deteiled chronology
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In the middle of 2013,
she founded the band with which mainly pays homage to the greatest women
of rhythm and blues, «to
bring back and bring up that unique and originary strength, passion and
pain, today forgotten especially in Europe; that is one thing with my
deeper work» (Romina Daniele, Il Giornale, april 2013,
Italian Press). The band has been performing since may 2013 all
over the Milan area. |