About
Born and raised in Italy, Giorgio Magnanensi currently lives in Xwesam (a.k.a. Roberts Creek) on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. His diverse artistic practice includes composition, conducting, improvisation, circuit bending, video art and sonic and spatial explorations. He is artistic director of Vancouver New Music and Laboratorio, and lecturer at the School of Music of the Vancouver Community College.
From the early 80’s to date I have been working as a composer, conductor, educator, artistic director, and performer in Europe, Japan and Canada. My views have developed gradually to my current belief that in today’s world of music, cultural studies and research, the most vital ideas and resources travel through many different channels. This has led me to work with a wide variety of musicians, artists, performers and researchers, local, national and international organizations and to test through technology, interactivity, free creative improvisation and conduction the possibilities of a varied approach to sound composition, performance and pedagogy. Through my work I want to emphasize the value of difference, communication and active participation in the creative process as a path towards a deeper availability to the dialogue and the encounter. The process is a generative one that leads towards the foundation of a meaningful social function of the musician composer in contemporary society while fostering higher level of knowledge transference. This process shows that art is a potentiality in a continuous becoming and that it takes form through the individual identity of each person existing as a manifestation of our multiplicity, we, existing as personæ – from the Latin word per sonum: “that through which sound can resonate”, according to our ability to regain the qualities of curiosity, interest and commitment, and experience them in communication, mutual exchange and caring.
Image Gallery
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- with Tony Wilson
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- with Hildegard
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- TDU CLUSTER
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- Soundgarden, July 22, 2022
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- G @ Mayor's Arts Award 2017
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- Teatro Comunale, Bologna 1984, Lucrezia Borgia (Gabriele Bellini, Maurizio Benini, Franco Sebastiani)
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- moshed gif
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- MAGIK • Marina Hasselberg, Kenton Loewen & G
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- Afterlife Studios with Marina Hasselberg, Jesse Zubot, Françoise Houle, John Raham and Kento Loewen (he's taking the pic...)
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- musicworks #117 (2013) cover
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- with the Plastic Acid Orchestra
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- @ VCMI 2005
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- with Dave
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- With Stefan Maier @ Marina's place
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- with Sammy Chien
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- G by Tim Mc Laughlin
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- with the PAO & LGYO
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- g particle gif
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- Western Front, Nov 2019
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- g @ 62
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- with Sara Gold
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- with Paolo Angeli
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- G @ mixtophonics - LanaLou's
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- with Peter Hatch
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- TDU VCC
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- teaching in Parma, circa 1992
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- with Lawrence English at Vox Organi
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- g @ 40
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- Kenton & Giorgio
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- Resonators in Salt Spring Island
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- conducting HRO
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- with Doug Schmidt
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- with Spun Spectra
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- Shadbolt Centre • July 2015
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- Siena 1992
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- conducting Orkestra Futura
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- @ VCMI 2008
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- Brothers
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- with Kuniko Kato
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- g & souns @ nomadic streams
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- VNM Panorama
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- @ spacemelt 2018
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- Personum
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- g • May 2018 (photo by Mark Mushet)
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- Still Life Continuum – Photo by Daniel Collins
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- calibrating oscilloscopes
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- CREATIVE MIX with Stevo
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- with Marina Rosenfeld
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- with Giulio Tosti, Lawrence English and Scott Morgan, Vox Organi 2023
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- with Franco Donatoni and Maria Isabella De Carli
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- circuit bending workshop
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- Massimo, Rita, Dave & G - Bologna 1997
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- with Ilpo Väisänen
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- G @5
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- Quasar rehearsal
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- with Stefan Smulovitz, Gumboot Cafe, April 2022
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- g & Hayato Kubo @ Destroy Vancouver XI
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- audio diffusion workshop at the Western Front, Oct 2022
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- with Hildegard Westerkamp
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- March 21, 2021
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- G - Jay Schwartz
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- g 3D
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- with Giulio Tosti
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- smearing pixels
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- One-Page Score, January 2020
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- TDU CIRS
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- the family
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- skate park
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- with Tina Pearson
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- With Stefan Smulovitz, summer 2022
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- with Silvia Mandolini
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- with Emily Green and Mayor Gregor Robertson
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- new glasses ; )
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- Spacemelt 2018 (photo by Alistair Henning)
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- @ the Gumboot
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- TED X Sechelt
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- with Uri Caine
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- supercabin 2006
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- Supercabin at the Roberts Creek Legion
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- rainbow g
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- ITISYSM recording @ Afterlife Studios
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- with a good pair of glasses!
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- with Han Bennink, John Butcher and François Houle
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- g & François
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- with Veda Hille
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- G by Lesley McCubbin
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- g & PAO
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- @ Red Gate with Dan McVeigh
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- g @ CLUSTER
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- with Spencer and his Cadillac
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- Gulf Beach • Oct 24, 2020 (with Cole, Amelie & Heather)
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- listening
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- TDU BANFF
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- g • Septemeber 2022
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- TDU CIRS
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- CLUSTER Festival
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- May 2021
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- @ Red Gate
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- in Horseshoe Bay
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- URI RMX
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- magnamixer