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