Fabio Cifariello Ciardi (1960)
A composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music, over the years Fabio Cifariello Ciardi has developed an artistic approach focused on perception, music and the use of technology applied to various acoustic phenomena that tell of our present - such as the translation into sounds of the financial trends of the stock exchange. 
He studied composition, electronic music and musicology at Rome Conservatory of Music and Bologna University. He studied with Tristan Murail, Phillipe Manoury (IRCAM), Franco Donatoni (Accademia S.Cecilia). In 1991 he won the selection for the Cursus de Informatique Musicale at IRCAM. In 1995 he has been invited at EMS (Stockholm) as composer in residence.

His compositions have been awarded prizes at various international competitions: "Ennio Porrino 1989" (Cagliari) , "L. Russolo 1992" (Varese), "MusicaNova 1993" (Praha - Czech), "ICMC Cd selection 1993" (Tokyo - Japan), "Olympia 1993" (Athens - Greek), "Spectri Sonori93" (Tulane - USA), XXV Concours Int. de Musique Electroacoustique 1998 (Bourges - France), Valentino Bucchi 1999 (Roma), ICMC selection 2000 (Berlin - Germany), Premio Nuova Musica - 39° Concorso Internazionale di Canto Corale C.A.Seghizzi (Gorizia), "VideoEvento d'Arte 2000" (Torino), ICMC selection 2002 (Göteborg - Sweden), HK.5 Rimusicazioni Film Festival 2003. 
His music is published and recorded by Rai Trade (Rome), Edipan (Rome), RivoAlto-Casier (Treviso), Symposium-CAT (Trento), International Computer Music Association (San Francisco, USA), Unesco CIME-Cultures Electroniques (Bourges, France).

His works for orchestra have been commissioned and performed by Biennale di Venezia, Ravenna Festival, Fondazione ITeatri di Reggio Emilia, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi – Firenze, Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Orchestra MilanoClassica, Orchestra Sinfonica di Perugia , Orchestra di Roma e del Lazio, Orchestra Haydn di Trento e Bolzano. 
He has collaborated with performer such as Ivo Nilsson, Michele Lo Muto, Magnus Andersonn, Massimo Laura, Stefano Cardi, Guido Arbonelli, Roberta Gottardi, Corrado Canonici, Mario Caroli, Carin Levine, Diego Conti, Mari Kimura.

He has developed and patented softwares for dissonance calculation, sound spatialization, financial market data sonification, spoken voice transcription in music notation.
Cifariello Ciardi collaborated with the Department of Psychology of “La Sapienza” University in Rome and is a member of ECONA-Interuniversity Center for Research on Cognitive Processing in Natural and Artificial Systems. He has published several works dedicated to music analysis, psychology and policy of music. As a musicologist, he has collaborated with the Research Institute for Music Theatre, Rome and with RAI-Radio3.

He teaches composition and analysis at Perugia Conservatory and has founded, together with other composers, the Edison Studio for the production and the diffusion of electroacoustic music.

e-mail: f.cifariellociardi@edisonstudio.it 
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Fabio Cifariello Ciardi (1960) 
A composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music, over the years Fabio Cifariello Ciardi has developed an artistic approach focused on perception, music and the use of technology applied to various acoustic phenomena that tell of our present - such as the translation into sounds of the financial trends of the stock exchange. 

He studied composition, electronic music and musicology at Rome Conservatory of Music and Bologna University. He also studied with Tristain Murail, Phillipe Manoury (IRCAM) and Franco Donatoni (Accademia S.Cecilia). 

His compositions have been awarded prizes at various international competitions.
His music is published and recorded by Rai Trade (Rome), Edipan (Rome), RivoAlto-Casier (Treviso), Symposium-CAT (Trento), International Computer Music Association (San Francisco, USA) , Unesco CIME-Cultures Electroniques (Bourges, France).
He has developed and patented softwares for dissonance calculation, sound spatialization, financial market data sonification, spoken voice transcription in music notation.
Cifariello Ciardi collaborated with the Department of Psychology of “La Sapienza” University in Rome and is a member of ECONA-Interuniversity Center for Research on Cognitive Processing in Natural and Artificial Systems (http://studens.psi.uniroma1.it). He has published several works dedicated to music analysis, psychology and policy of music. As a musicologist, he has collaborated with the Research Institute for Music Theatre, Rome and with RAI-Radio3.

He teaches composition and analysis at Perugia Conservatory and has founded, together with other composers, the Edison Studio for producing and diffusing electroacoustic music.

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Fabio Cifariello Ciardi (1960) 
A composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music, over the years Fabio Cifariello Ciardi has developed an artistic approach focused on perception, music and the use of technology applied to various acoustic phenomena that tell of our present - such as the translation into sounds of the financial trends of the stock exchange. 
His music is published and recorded by Rai Trade (Rome), Edipan (Rome), RivoAlto-Casier (Treviso), Symposium-CAT (Trento), International Computer Music Association (San Francisco, USA) , Unesco CIME-Cultures Electroniques (Bourges, France).
He has developed and patented softwares for dissonance calculation, sound spatialization, financial market data sonification, spoken voice transcription in music notation.
Cifariello Ciardi has published several works dedicated to music analysis, psychology and policy of music. As a musicologist, he has collaborated with the Research Institute for Music Theatre, Rome and with RAI-Radio3.
He teaches composition and analysis at Perugia Conservatory and has founded, together with other composers, the Edison Studio for the production and the diffusion of electroacoustic music.