About
Born and raised in Italy, Giorgio Magnanensi currently lives in 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
- Western Front, Nov 2019
- with Ilpo Väisänen
- TDU CLUSTER
- May 2021
- TDU CIRS
- G - Jay Schwartz
- MAGIK • Marina Hasselberg, Kenton Loewen & G
- Soundgarden, July 22, 2022
- with Marina Rosenfeld
- Spacemelt 2018 (photo by Alistair Henning)
- with Sammy Chien
- One-Page Score, January 2020
- with Spun Spectra
- rainbow g
- CLUSTER Festival
- @ VCMI 2005
- with Spencer and his Cadillac
- VNM Panorama
- with Franco Donatoni and Maria Isabella De Carli
- skate park
- g & Hayato Kubo @ Destroy Vancouver XI
- Massimo, Rita, Dave & G - Bologna 1997
- g @ CLUSTER
- with Veda Hille
- g • May 2018 (photo by Mark Mushet)
- TDU VCC
- TDU BANFF
- audio diffusion workshop at the Western Front, Oct 2022
- g @ 40
- with Hildegard Westerkamp
- with Emily Green and Mayor Gregor Robertson
- with Doug Schmidt
- With Stefan Maier @ Marina's place
- with Han Bennink, John Butcher and François Houle
- with Uri Caine
- Quasar rehearsal
- Brothers
- ITISYSM recording @ Afterlife Studios
- G @5
- calibrating oscilloscopes
- Still Life Continuum – Photo by Daniel Collins
- g @ 62
- with Paolo Angeli
- G by Tim Mc Laughlin
- Afterlife Studios with Marina Hasselberg, Jesse Zubot, Françoise Houle, John Raham and Kento Loewen (he's taking the pic...)
- Gulf Beach • Oct 24, 2020 (with Cole, Amelie & Heather)
- smearing pixels
- Siena 1992
- G @ mixtophonics - LanaLou's
- musicworks #117 (2013) cover
- with Hildegard
- with the Plastic Acid Orchestra
- CREATIVE MIX with Stevo
- listening
- Supercabin at the Roberts Creek Legion
- TED X Sechelt
- g 3D
- @ the Gumboot
- Shadbolt Centre • July 2015
- March 21, 2021
- new glasses ; )
- @ VCMI 2008
- Kenton & Giorgio
- teaching in Parma, circa 1992
- @ Red Gate with Dan McVeigh
- g & François
- g particle gif
- G @ Mayor's Arts Award 2017
- With Stefan Smulovitz, summer 2022
- g & souns @ nomadic streams
- conducting Orkestra Futura
- with Stefan Smulovitz, Gumboot Cafe, April 2022
- in Horseshoe Bay
- moshed gif
- with Tony Wilson
- conducting HRO
- supercabin 2006
- magnamixer
- URI RMX
- @ Red Gate
- Teatro Comunale, Bologna 1984, Lucrezia Borgia (Gabriele Bellini, Maurizio Benini, Franco Sebastiani)
- TDU CIRS
- @ spacemelt 2018
- the family
- circuit bending workshop
- Personum
- with the PAO & LGYO
- g & PAO
- with Kuniko Kato
- G by Lesley McCubbin