Among the emerging names on the Italian compositional scene, Teho Teardo has profoundly marked the contemporary film and music scene with his symphonic lyricism steeped in electronics. Fiercely hostile to the use of the soundtrack intended as a "commentary" on the images, he made more than one purist turn up their noses but he established himself for his original and engaging musical writing. But if film music does not serve to accompany images, what is its linguistic status? And how is the sound architecture called upon to support cinematic narration constructed? Do you start composing from the script or from the images?
“I like having the freedom to write before seeing the images, it gives me an edge at work. I hate commentary music, traditional soundtracks, musical accompaniment. I believe that this type of soundtrack has already made its way by now. For me, film music must travel in a self-sufficient manner, because precisely thanks to this self-sufficiency a dramaturgical parallel between images and sound can be triggered. The film begins to come to life when music and images are together, otherwise it would be just images or just music." (Teho Teardo)
Enrico Magrelli: Journalist and film critic, Enrico Magrelli has been, since the first episode, one of the authors and hosts of the Rai 3 daily program Hollywood Party. He was director of cinema news at Tele+. From 1979 to 1982 he was part of Carlo Lizzani's creative and organizational staff at the Venice Film Festival. From 1988 to 1990 he was Director of the Critics' Week of the Venetian festival. In 1991 he was Guglielmo Biraghi's right-hand man at the Venice Film Festival. His monographs dedicated to Robert Altman, Roman Polanski, Nanni Moretti. He has edited a dozen volumes including: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marilyn Monroe, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Nagisa Oshima, Satyajt Ray. Since 2004, he has been part of the Selection Commission of the Venice International Film Festival, an event in which he works side by side with director Marco Müller. Since 2009 he has been Curator of the National Film Library. He is the author and host of Ciakpoint, a Rai Movie program dedicated to cinema.
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.