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Luciano Chessa

The following videos are two extracts from Louganis (2007), the composition for piano and TV/VCR combo by Luciano Chessa, whose program notes you can read as part of his contribution to What Matters Now? (What Can't You Hear?).

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Luciano Chessa is an Italian composer and conductor based in California since 1998. His recent compositions include Squeeze! Squeeze! Squeeze!, Quartetto no. 2 'Delle bomboniere', the opera A Heavenly Act, and the orchestral Ragazzi incoscienti scarabocchiano sulla porta di un negozio fallito an.1902. He curates and conducts the Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners and is the author of Luigi Russolo, Futurist. Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult (2012).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Chessa