Composer, musician and sound designer, Teho Teardo is a very skilled weaver of sound environments where electronic music meets traditional instruments. In the Live set Teardo, on stage with the cellist Martina Bertoni, presents some songs taken from his best-known albums and from the enveloping soundtracks composed for some of the most important films of the new Italian cinema (Il Divo and L'amico di famiglia by Paolo Sorrentino, La Ragazza del Lago and Il Gioiellino by Andrea Molaioli, Lavorare con lentezza by Guido Chiesa, Quo vadis, Baby? by Gabriele Salvatores). Teardo's music has a strong cinematic component, the result of an effective combination of electronics, guitar and cello. Resting on electronic textures with an almost chamber-like register, the compositional structures unfold with great refinement, demonstrating truly original timbral coloring and musical research.
Teho Teardo: Composer, musician and sound designer, Teho Teardo (1966) dedicates himself to concert and recording activity, publishing several albums that investigate the relationship between electronic music and traditional instruments. He began playing the clarinet at a very young age, but after years of studies, listening to the first Ramones album and that of the Sex Pistols marked the end of the clarinet and the beginning of a new phase with the electric guitar in a punk band. He has created soundtracks for important directors such as Gabriele Salvatores, Paolo Sorrentino, Andrea Molaioli, Guido Chiesa, Daniele Vicari, Stefano Incerti and Claudio Cupellini, becoming in the space of a few years a reference for music in cinema. It won the Ciak d'Oro for best soundtrack and obtained several nominations for the Nastro d'Argento and David di Donatello. In 2009 he won the Ennio Morricone award at the Italia Film Fest and the David di Donatello for the film Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino. With the Socìetas theater company Raffaello Sanzio creates the show Ingiuria in which the violinist Alexander Balanescu and Blixa Bargeld of Einturzende Neubauten also participate. With the latter he wrote and produced a song for the soundtrack of the film Una vita tranquilla by Claudio Cupellini. He collaborates with important musicians on the international scene such as Erik Friedlander, Lydia Lunch, Placebo, Mick Harris/Scorn, Girls Against Boys. With Mick Harris he gives life to the Matera project. With Jim Coleman of Cop Shoot Cop he created the Here project. With Martina Bertoni he creates the Modern Institute project. All albums from these projects were released both in Europe and America. With Scott McCloud of Birds Against Boys he created a new project: Operator, the debut album, Welcome to the Wonderful World was released in 2004 and brought the group numerous concerts throughout Europe as the opening act for Placebo. He is currently preparing an album of songs with Blixa Bargeld. With the actor Elio Germano he created the show Viaggio al termine della notte, based on Céline's masterpiece.