Carla Cisno (Italy/Germany)

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Italian musician | researcher | sound artist currently based in Germany.

Active in the fields of contemporary music, théâtre musical, performance and installation art, her work focuses primarily on electro-acoustic music and mixed media projects for the stage or in installations.

Besides her numerous collaborations with composers (A.Lucier, B.Mason, T.Hosokawa, D.Lang, M.Gordon, V.Globokar, H.Lachenmann) and institutions (Experimental Studio of Heinrich-Ströbel Institute, SWR, Freiburg i.Br.; Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology, ICST, Zürich; IRCAM, Paris), she has produced multimedia performances and interdisciplinary projects involving interactive design and new media at FABRICA ( Music Depart., Research and Communication Center, Treviso, Italy) as well as choreographic-composition pieces for the Schweizerische Ballet Berufsschule and the dance company TanzFabrik Berlin.

Considering space as an augmented instrument, her site-responsive sound environments, acoustically activating the given spaces and fusing listening with spatial narratives, create immersive sculptural presences, distint ‚felt volumes’ that carry color, weight, mass, and texture.

As a musician, she has performed throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada. Recent festivals include Triennale di Milano, Salzburger Festspiele, ART Basel, Klangspuren, Transart, Lucerne Festival and the Bang on Can Summer Festival at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA), among others.

A winner of 2007 ’Premio Ivano Becchi-Progetto Professionalità’ from the Italian foundation Banca del Monte di Lombardia, her work has been supported by grants including the Hegar-Preis for contemporary performance (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Zürich), the Freundeskreis Stipendium (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Zürich), as well as fellowships by The Banff Centre, Canada (Music and Sound Program, Winter Career Development Residency 2007), the Atlantic Center for the Arts, USA (Associate Artist, Artists in Residence Program 2006), the Internationales Musik Institut Darmstadt (IMD), Germany, and ,recently, the European Network of Performing Arts (ENPARTS) in order to attend the Campus 2010, experimental collaborative project supported by La Biennale di Venezia and the Bitef Theater, Belgrade, Serbia.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1976, Carla Cisno studied Bassoon in Italy (Prof. V.Bianchi) and Germany (Prof. K.-O. Hartmann, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Freiburg i.Br.), and holds a M.A. in Interpretation & Performance from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Zürich (Konzertklasse Prof. P.Gallois). She also studied Improvisation with Vinko Globokar (Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Italy), Composition et Théâtre Musical with Georges Aperghis (Hochschule der Künste Bern) as well as computer-assisted and electroacoustic composition with Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi (advanced studies, Conservatoire National de Montbéliard, France).