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Alessandro Camnasio - Composer and Sound Designer

Alessandro Camnasio
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Sound can change everything. It profoundly alters perception, behavior and human physiological states, influencing emotions, cognitive focus and even memory. This belief fuels a passion for sonic exploration that finds expression across a variety of fields:

  • Sonic creations featured in numerous Hollywood movie trailers, TV and high-end video game campaigns for Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, Disney, Marvel Studios, NBCUniversal, DreamWorks, Apple TV, Amazon Studios, Netflix, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, A24 and others.
  • Sound design for television, promos and music videos, including projects for Lufthansa, BMW, Mercedes, Audi, DAZN, Campari, OBI, Replay and Universal Music.
  • Commissioned art and electroacoustic music, awards in composition competitions and projects connected to institutions, festivals and venues such as Triennale Milano, Festival Vuotociclo, PAN – Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Festival MiTo, Orchestre de Flûtes Français – Salle Cortot in Paris, the Conservatory of Milan – Puccini Hall, Orchestra Milano Classica, AGON, Fondazione Dragoni, Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan, Brera Academy, Ensemble Risognanze, the RTSI Auditorium in Switzerland, the International Composition Competition – City of Como, and Festival Sound Ways in Saint Petersburg.
  • Soundscapes for branded installations with multi-channel audio (e.g. Firefly Glow Rod Garage, Milan Design Week).
  • Sound design and Sound ID for electric vehicles, including AVAS, ADAS, UI/UX sounds (NIO, firefly).
  • Virtual instruments, sample libraries and advanced sound content for companies such as Zero-G and Gothic Instruments.
  • University teaching, including a professorship in Sound Design at the Academy of Arts of Urbino and lectures on Audio Branding and Sound Logo at IED.
  • Artistic supervision, recording and editing of contemporary classical and electroacoustic music albums, including unreleased material by composers such as John Cage and collaborations with performers from La Scala in Milan. These works have been published by Da Vinci Classics, Gruenrekorder, Leo Records, Rugginenti and Dodicilune, and have received praise from several audiophile magazines.
  • Interviews and features in music technology magazines such as Sound On Sound, Electronic Musician, MIT Press Computer Music Journal, MusicTech, Future Music and Audiofader.

I graduated with highest honors from the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory of Milan in Composition, Electronic Music, and Sound Technology applied to music creation, presenting a thesis on Sound Design and earning the 2nd Level Academic Diploma with distinction. During my studies, I was awarded three scholarships and appointed assistant in the Department of Electronic Music and in the Live Electronics courses of the Conservatory. I have been repeatedly appointed State Commissioner for Electronic Music diplomas and served as a professor of Sound Design at university level, before focusing exclusively on international professional commitments.

I explore the creative applications of sound, drawing on the knowledge gained through my academic background and the integration of advanced technologies, such as audio convolution, morphing, cross-synthesis, psychoacoustics, and 3D/VR audio spatialization.

In this journey, I am inspired by the legacy of composers who elevated timbre to an unprecedented role: from the Futurist manifesto The Art of Noises to Edgard Varèse's definition of music as organized sound; to Pierre Schaeffer's notions of the sound object and reduced listening, through the concepts of open form and controlled aleatorism; through the aesthetic revolution and sonic explorations of John Cage, the conceptual contaminations of Marcel Duchamp, Dennis Smalley's Spectromorphology, and the contemporary and more popular developments of these and further visions.

From this perspective, my explorations extend into micro-composition, shaping and sculpting sound as autonomous musical material, inspired by the discovers of pioneers like Stockhausen, Risset, Chowning, Xenakis, Ligeti, Bayle, and Vaggione, who conceived the creation of sound as a compositional act in itself, expanding the concept of Music and demonstrating how new technologies enable new creative approaches and wider aesthetic dimensions.

My works are published by Warner Chappell PM, BMG PM, and other specialized independent labels.

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