Paolo Castaldi

Castaldi attended the school of music at the Milan Conservatory, where he studied under Antonino Votto and Carlo Maria Giulini.

He also studied at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, where he attended lectures by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, and Mauricio Kagel.

His style often adopted artificial and grotesque mechanisms,[1] as he used landscapes, buildings, and castles in the scenography of his notes.

[2][3] Musicologist Renzo Cresti [it] wrote that "despite having attended the Ferienkurse he has always placed himself outside the constructivist tendency, indeed, he laughs at it; he takes materials taken from works of the past and subjects them to an ironic collage which de-subjectivizes the work; through the cyclical fixity of the iterations of these materials, the original meaning is emptied.

Lead composer, Castaldi plays iconoclastic games that reject the concept of novelty, the sound elements are objects that are recycled, between nostalgia for the past and the desire to make a scandal.