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Fausto Romitelli

Fausto Romitelli
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About

Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004) was an Italian composer and one of the key figures of spectral music at the turn of the millennium. He trained at the Milan Conservatory and with Franco Donatoni in Siena, later studying in Paris at IRCAM and alongside the founders of Ensemble L'Itinéraire (Grisey, Murail, Dufourt). His music fuses spectral sound analysis with the aesthetics of psychedelic rock, noise and electronics. He died of cancer at 41, shortly after completing his defining work, the video-opera An Index of Metals.

2004
year of completion of the work Index of Metals and the composer's death
41
age of the composer's death

What's new

  • 2026-10

    The opera Index of Metals was premiered on October 3, 2026 in Brno by the Brno Contemporary Orchestra in the underground garages near Bobycentra.

  • 2026-02

    The American music magazine The Tonearm described new recordings of the work Index of Metals as evidence that Romitelli's music has definitively become part of the contemporary classical repertoire.

  • 2025

    A new live recording of Index of Metals was released on the Kairos label, performed by the AltreVoci Ensemble with singer Livvia Rado under the direction of Marco Angia.

  • 2026-09/10

    The work Index of Metals was also studied by the Roman ensemble PMCE Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble under the direction of Tonino Battista for performance at Auditorium Parco della Musica.

  • 2023

    The French label B Records released a new recording of Index of Metals performed by the Ensemble Miroirs Étendus with singer Linda Oláh.

Tracks

An Index of Metalsvideo-opera from 2003, the peak and most famous work of the composer
Professor Bad Trip (I-III)cycle from 1998-2000 inspired by texts by Henri Michaux written under the influence of hallucinogens
EnTrancecomposition from 1995 working with a mantra from the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Dead City Radio. Audiodromeorchestral work from 2003
Trash TV Trancesolo composition for electric guitar from 2002

😴 Nothing scheduled with this artist in the near future.

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