Alessandro Cipriani

A fundamental piece by Cipriani in this context is the trilogy concerning Islamic, Jewish and Gregorian religious chants, composed by the author from 2001 to 2007 in various stereo, quadraphonic and 5.1 versions, both acousmatic and live.

[5][6][7][8] In these works Cipriani re-elaborates some traditional chants of these three monotheistic religions, while maintaining a strong connection between the original voice, its comprehensibility and its electronic processing.

[11] These reflections were documented in a special issue of the magazine "Organised Sound", edited by Cipriani[12] and they were followed by further collaborations with musicians representing various cultures such as the Sami singer Tuuni Lansman,[13] the Iranian percussionist Mahammad Ghavi-Helm,[14] the Chinese musicians Song Fei and Fan Wei Qing,[15] the Berber performer Nour Eddine Fatty.,[16] the South African performers Ann Masina and Dudu Yende, the Ghanaian actress Dorothée Munyaneza, the Korean singer Min Ji Kim, and the Japanese singer Matsutoyo Sato (in the soundtrack of the movie "The Girl from Nagasaki"[17] directed by Michel Comte, which was selected for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in the "New Frontier" section.

[1][20] After a period during which he concentrated on making soundtracks for various documentaries[21] and videos[22] by Giulio Latini and Silvia Di Domenico, in 2001 Cipriani began a long collaboration with the composers of Edison Studio, which led to a variety of collective compositions, in particular the soundtracks of The Last Days of Pompeii, Blackmail by Alfred Hitchcock, Metropolis (1927 film)[23] by Fritz Lang, En Dirigeable sur le Champs de Bataille, L'Inferno, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Robert Wiene and Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein.

In 2023 Cipriani and Latini, in collaboration with Alessandro Sbordoni created a multiscreen concert-installation in surround 5.1 titled "Memoria d'Utopie" (Memory of Utopias)[2] first screened at the 60th Nuova Consonanza Festival on 8 December 2023.