Bruno Sanfilippo is an argentinian musician composer (blended electronic/acoustic ambient/orchestral).
I was born on September 1965 in San Isidro, the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
My father was Italian from the Mediterranean Sea, and my mother an Argentinean \mate\ drinker.
My interest in music became clear since I was very little: there was a "Pleyel" piano at home and I used to spend hours playing it. Since I was seven till eleven, I had different piano professors.
My first keyboard was a "Siel" organ; though it was a rudimentary model, I kept playing it all the time. When I got to my 20´s, I decided to improve the technique on the piano and the pentagram reading.
I met Patricio Migliazzo, who became my teacher for about three years and was already an audacious experimental composer; he prepared me for the final exam to get my degree as a Music Superior Professor in the Galvani Conservatory, at San Telmo’s port neighbourhood (Buenos Aires). I remember that on that exam, I couldn’t stop the sol-fa and I played, a bit nervous, a Clementi´s sonata at the piano’s hall room. My professors prized it with a piece of \cartoon\ on December the 18th, 1988.
I also took guitar classes with another cool guy: Mario Nielsen. He taught me what I wanted to know: the basic aspects of instruments, and that motivated me to write simple compositions in a rather baroque style.
By that time, I used to listen to the old music, Wendy Carlos and his Bach and discs of Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, Peter Gabriel, symphonic rock and things of the sort. It was then that I felt attracted to the programming of synthesizers and samplers and I decided to create my own studio at home.
At the beginning of the 90´s, I studied programming sampler and synthesizer, MIDI and some
audio aspects with Jorge Haro.
Later on, I took a course on music composition applied to theatre, cinema, ballet and audio visual media in Arte11.
In 1991, I composed my first album "Sons of the Light", this album was later edited by EPSA Music and then distributed in Argentina and some other South American countries.
In August of the same year, "Sons of the Light" was presented at the \XXI Snow National Festival\, a concert at the base of Cerro Catedral in Bariloche where I shared stage with Lito Vitale Quinteto, as in other occasions.
With the passing of time, I searched for new sounds and experimented every electronic bug that could have been plugged. I composed "The New Kingdom" in 1995.
Three years later, I created ad21music, exclusively designed for the edition and on-line order of my solo and collaborative projects. I then released "Solemnis", a new work, and simultaneously my two previous productions.
On June 2000, my fourth album "Suite Patagonia" was edited; it was a tribute to the Argentine Patagonia in which I used indigenous instruments, aboriginal chants and sounds from the southern fauna.
I think I’ve always been exposed to a great variety of musical influences,
especially since I moved to Barcelona in the year 2000, when I started a close artistic collaboration with Max Corbacho, a Spanish musician.
From 2001, my albums began to be distributed by Groove.nl [Holland], Synth Music Direct [Benelux] Musea [France], Shopsonic [UK] in Europe, and by Backroadsmusic in the United States.
Max Corbacho joined the initiative ad21music in 2003.
Neuronium Records released Visualia on October 18th, 2003.
It is an intimate piece of work in which every composition matches one of the images of the American artist Janet Parke’s.
On July 2004, ad21music released Indalo, the first collaboration work with Max Corbacho.
In September 2004, ad21music released ad libitum.
Max and I are working together in a series of concerts scheduled for 2005, the first of them on February 18th opening the II Insolit Music Forum of Barcelona, Spain.
July 2005 Neuronium Records released Anthology Essence 91 04.
Compiles the finest recordings made from 1991 through 2004
In July 2006, ad21music released InTRO, my most recent solo work... |
