Fragment “Adele Hugo” (2019)
This is one page from the multimedia opera Adele Hugo, that I performed, among others, in Plein Theater for the Fringe Festival in 2019. The score is for voice and electronics that I was operating. My sketches are usually multipmediatic rather than written notes (I often make little videoclips /notes where I imitate the sounds I want 😁 and that I will recreate in a polished version when I’m composing)
Link to Cinzia Nistico’s website:
Cinzia is a multidisciplinary artist who stretches the boundaries of conventional formats and likes to explore unfamiliar territories. Her performances and art works, pose existential questions about reality and Identity. She looks at human beings as a mere natural manifestation, to expose the very essence of existing. In her performances, Cinzia places mankind on the same existential level of any other living (or not living) being, but also enhance the singularity of each individual by stripping them of their attachments.
Cinzia has a strong background in music and she is an active composer. Since 2019, Cinzia started integrating analog film in her performances and in 2022 she became herself a filmmaker/film artist.
Her music and multimedia performances has been programmed in Festivals such as Gaudeamus, Uitmarkt, Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Dag Van De Componist, Back to the Future Festival, Museumnacht Rotterdam, Grachten festival, ADE festival, Open Monumentendag in Delft, WORM Rotterdam, Korzo, Cinetol, Plein Theater; Orgelpark, 4bid Gallery, Theatre De Generator Leiden, Het Veem Werkgebouw for Toets des Tijds. In Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ, Bimhuis Amsterdam, TAC Eindhoven, Nieuwe Vide Haarlem, Brutus Rotterdam.
Her music has been programmed in Festivals such as Gaudeamus Vertolkers concours & week van de Kamermuziek, Uitmarkt Festival, Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Grachten festival, ADE festival, Open Monumentendag in Delft, Worm Rotterdam for the Back to the Future festival, Korzo, Cinetol, Plein Theater; Festival Milano Musica, in the Czech Republic (Ostrava Music Days), Bartok Festival (Hungary); Festival Open Days (Denmark), Inner Sound festival (Romania), Sync’d, Innersound (Bucharest), Rainy Days Festival, in Luxembourg, the Internationale Saxofoondag festival (Barneveld) and Festival del Sassofono Fermo (Italy). Among others my music was performed at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Amsterdam, Alte Schmiede in Vienna and Neue Musik in St. Ruprecht (Vienna)., Het Veem Werkgebouw for the Nederland-Ruslandjaar celebrations and again fro Toets des Tijds concert series. In Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ, Bimhuis Amsterdam, and in Reykjavik, several times in China, Uzbekistan, Russia.
She was awarded the Honorary Mention at the Prix Annelie De Man in Amsterdam (2018).
In 2023, AFK awarded her an annual stipendium for her research TRANSFE/\R and has been offered a residency at Het Huis Utrecht where she also exhibited an installation based on the same project.
During the Nederlands Film Festival she was invited to present her work.
Her multimedia projects and research are/ have been supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Fonds Podiumkunsten.
In 2023 she curated the reenactment of Horror Film 1, by Malcolm Le Grice for Back to the Future Festival (NL) and EMAF festival in Osnabruck (DE).
Cinzia has been invited to a residency in Het Huis Utrecht on April 2023. Cinzia is a member of the Filmwerkplaats in Worm Rotterdam and Nieuw Geneco
Her music has been programmed in Festivals such as Gaudeamus Vertolkers concours & week van de Kamermuziek, Uitmarkt Festival, Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Grachten festival, ADE festival, Open Monumentendag in Delft, Worm Rotterdam for the Back to the Future festival, Korzo, Cinetol, Plein Theater; Festival Milano Musica, in the Czech Republic (Ostrava Music Days), Bartok Festival (Hungary); Festival Open Days (Denmark), Inner Sound festival (Romania), Sync’d, Innersound (Bucharest), Rainy Days Festival, in Luxembourg, the Internationale Saxofoondag festival (Barneveld) and Festival del Sassofono Fermo (Italy). Among others my music was performed at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Amsterdam, Alte Schmiede in Vienna and Neue Musik in St. Ruprecht (Vienna)., Het Veem Werkgebouw for the Nederland-Ruslandjaar celebrations and again fro Toets des Tijds concert series. In Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ, Bimhuis Amsterdam, and in Reykjavik, several times in China, Uzbekistan, Russia.