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.
GM CV
GM BIO
Image Gallery
- with Marina Rosenfeld
- with Tony Wilson
- May 2021
- skate park
- G - Jay Schwartz
- g particle gif
- with Han Bennink, John Butcher and François Houle
- CREATIVE MIX with Stevo
- g & François
- Quasar rehearsal
- with Peter Hatch
- conducting HRO
- with the PAO & LGYO
- VNM Panorama
- with Doug Schmidt
- @ Red Gate with Dan McVeigh
- with Stefan Smulovitz, Gumboot Cafe, April 2022
- TDU CIRS
- With Stefan Maier @ Marina's place
- magnamixer
- MAGIK • Marina Hasselberg, Kenton Loewen & G
- moshed gif
- Spacemelt 2018 (photo by Alistair Henning)
- Personum
- smearing pixels
- with Giulio Tosti, Lawrence English and Scott Morgan, Vox Organi 2023
- g & Hayato Kubo @ Destroy Vancouver XI
- circuit bending workshop
- @ spacemelt 2018
- with Hildegard
- with Ilpo Väisänen
- Brothers
- with Uri Caine
- with Tina Pearson
- new glasses ; )
- g 3D
- the family
- with Spencer and his Cadillac
- in Horseshoe Bay
- listening
- calibrating oscilloscopes
- rainbow g
- with Hildegard Westerkamp
- g @ 62
- With Stefan Smulovitz, summer 2022
- g • May 2018 (photo by Mark Mushet)
- with Silvia Mandolini
- with a good pair of glasses!
- Kenton & Giorgio
- Resonators in Salt Spring Island
- G by Lesley McCubbin
- g @ CLUSTER
- TDU CIRS
- G @5
- @ VCMI 2005
- TDU VCC
- G @ Mayor's Arts Award 2017
- with Sammy Chien
- musicworks #117 (2013) cover
- URI RMX
- @ VCMI 2008
- g & souns @ nomadic streams
- with Paolo Angeli
- Gulf Beach • Oct 24, 2020 (with Cole, Amelie & Heather)
- @ the Gumboot
- Soundgarden, July 22, 2022
- ITISYSM recording @ Afterlife Studios
- TED X Sechelt
- with the Plastic Acid Orchestra
- TDU BANFF
- with Veda Hille
- Teatro Comunale, Bologna 1984, Lucrezia Borgia (Gabriele Bellini, Maurizio Benini, Franco Sebastiani)
- G @ mixtophonics - LanaLou's
- with Dave
- One-Page Score, January 2020
- CLUSTER Festival
- with Franco Donatoni and Maria Isabella De Carli
- with Lawrence English at Vox Organi
- audio diffusion workshop at the Western Front, Oct 2022
- with Emily Green and Mayor Gregor Robertson
- G by Tim Mc Laughlin
- Western Front, Nov 2019
- TDU CLUSTER
- g • Septemeber 2022
- Massimo, Rita, Dave & G - Bologna 1997
- g & PAO
- with Kuniko Kato
- g @ 40
- Supercabin at the Roberts Creek Legion
- Siena 1992
- conducting Orkestra Futura
- Afterlife Studios with Marina Hasselberg, Jesse Zubot, Françoise Houle, John Raham and Kenton Loewen (he's taking the pic...)
- with Giulio Tosti
- @ Red Gate
- with Spun Spectra
- supercabin 2006
- teaching in Parma, circa 1992
- Shadbolt Centre • July 2015
- with Sara Gold
- Still Life Continuum – Photo by Daniel Collins
- March 21, 2021