Mauro Remiddi is a composer, sound artist and performer working primarily with electronic music,
exploring and experimenting with the song format and the voice’s texture.
He’s main project is been Porcelain Raft, releasing two albums with renewed US label Secretly Canadian.
As Porcelain Raft he toured EU and US widely during 2010-19, headlining and supporting bands like Blonde Redhead, Beach House, M83 and many more.
Remiddi’s music is been used in the tv seires Messiah (Netflix) and Lucifer (Fox).
Collaboration highlights have been with media artist Ra di Martino in several of her video works and with film maker Derrick Belcham, performing for Belcham’s evening-length productions set in the sprawling 60, 000 sq. ft of the Knockdown Center in Brooklyn (Wilder Papers/2015, Debut /2017, Fable /2018).
In 2019 his sound installation ‘Callas In Wonderland’ was shown at the Engine Room international sound art exhibition in London.
In 2021 Mauro wrote the music for the documentary ‘À la recherche du jardin des Finzi Contini’, directed by Ra di Martino, commissioned by Arte’ France.
In 2022 he finished the libretto and the music of his first opera ‘Moonbird’, an hybrid piece that blends cinema, opera and video art.
The video version of the opera (directed by Ra Di Martino) will be shown from September 2022 at the Museum of Modern Art of Bologna (MAMBO).
Moonbird Variations is the live performance, which includes three musicians and video projections.
Remiddi is living between Rome and Los Angeles.
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