Luciano Azzigotti’s work investigates the invention of systems as aesthetic devices, exploring zones of estrangement where instruments, beings, and environments enter unstable relations. His pieces are conceived as mutable constellations of sound, gesture, and mediated perception, unfolding through amplified instruments, installation-objects, dynamic and interactive notation, feedback systems, and expanded performance situations. Drawing from instrumental writing while continuously deforming it, his practice constructs ambiguous sonic worlds in which lyrical intensity emerges from fragile balances between control and indeterminacy, material behavior and algorithmic form. These works invite listeners into environments where time, agency, and musical form remain in constant negotiation, sharpening attention to subtle transformations and emergent behaviors.
selected awards and supports
2022 Silver Condor Award for Best Original Music Score (The Intruder)
2021 Berlinale Talents, selected composer
2019 National Art Fund grant for apomixis
2018 Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung support (for the TACEC Festival)
2017 Juan Carlos Paz National Composition Prize, Chamber Music (aquenios)
2011–2015 Buenos Aires Mecenazgo Program support for conDiT
2010 National Art Fund grant for kimi
2010 Melos / Gandini Scholarship (with Gerardo Gandini)
2007 Interactivos Program, Fundación Telefónica
studies
studies between 1995 and 2002 at Facultad de Artes, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, electronic music at LIMP (with Francisco Colasanto and Julio Viera), Master in Composition at Hochschule der Künste Bern (with Simon Steen-Andersen and Xavier Dayer). Mentors: Mariano Etkin, Gerardo Gandini, and encounters with Pierluigi Billone, Rebecca Saunders, Gilbert Nouno.
recent collaborations
Symphonic Orchestra Teatro Municipal São Paulo; Ensembles reConvert, neo, 4tetlaboratoire; Jack Adler-McKean, Gunnildur Eisnadottir; choreographer Luis Garay; film directors Natalia Meta and Lucrecia Martel; media artists Juan Pablo Ferlat, Teresa Pereda, and Silvia Rivas.
curatorial
2025– founder of Zictra ensemble
2018 artistic director of TACEC (Teatro Argentino de La Plata)
2016–2023 founder of Container CH
2012 editor of Espiral Magazine
2010–2015 founder of conDiT
teaching
Instruments, UNTREF University
Science & Music, UNTREF University
Composition Seminars, UNTREF University
Internet Music, Haute école de Musique de Genève (HEM)
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