Music maker coined the definition ‘media dramaturgy’
Roberto Paci Dalò has composed and directed more than 30 groundbreaking music-theatre works |
Paci Dalò is the co-founder and director of the performing arts ensemble Giardini Pensili and has composed music for theatre, radio, television and film.
After completing musical, visual and architectural studies in Fiesole, Faenza and Ravenna, Paci Dalò focused on sound and design and their use in film, theatre and collaborative projects.
He has been a pioneer in the use of digital technologies and telecommunication systems in art and has been particularly interested in performing arts as a meeting point of languages.
Since 1985 he has written, composed and directed more than 30 groundbreaking music-theatre works which have been presented worldwide.
Roberto Paci Dalò has worked at some of Italy's leading universities |
His films and videos have been regularly presented in international festivals.
Paci Dalò taught Media Dramaturgy at the University of Siena and collaborates with institutions such as the University of Bologna, University of Rome, University of Ascoli Piceno and the Brera Fine Arts Academy in Milan, where he develops projects in collaboration with designers, architects, planners, artists, programmers and hackers.
He coined the term ‘media dramaturgy’ - an extension of the study of composition of drama and adapting stories to actable form to cover not only the theatre but radio, television and film - in describing his own work.
He has been internationally acclaimed for leading the way in multimedia.
As a performer he has also developed extended techniques on the clarinet and with electronics.
Paci Dalò currently lives and works in the hills above Rimini.
The 13th century Tempio Maletestiano in Rimini has frescoes by Piero della Francesca and works by Giotto |
With wide sandy beaches and plenty of hotels and restaurants, Rimini is one of the most popular seaside resorts in Europe, but it is also a historic town with many interesting things to see. The Tempio Maletestiano is a 13th century Gothic church originally built for the Fransiscans that was transformed on the outside in the 15th century and decorated inside with frescoes by Piero della Francesca and works by Giotto and many other artists. In 1993 Paci Dalò conceived the project Publiphono for his native town, using the public address system of the beach at Rimini to create environmental audio performances along 15km (9 miles) of the coast.
The Piazza della Libertà in the centre of Faenza, the city in Emilia Romagna where Paci Dalò studied |
Paci Dalò studied at Faenza, a city about 72km (45 miles) kilometres northwest of Rimini, which is famous for the manufacture of a type of decorative majolica-ware known as faience. It is also home to the International Museum of Ceramics, which has examples of ceramics from ancient times, the Middle Ages and the 18th and 19th centuries as well as displaying work by important contemporary artists. The museum is in Viale Baccarini in Faenza. For more information visit www.micfaenza.org
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