PROPOSTE SONORE

Researcher, performer and eco/acoustic composer.

He has been developing his multidisciplinary project Fragments of Extinction for nearly

15 years, conducting field research in the world’s last remaining areas of primary

equatorial rainforest in the Amazon, Africa and Borneo. Monacchi is pioneering a new

compositional approach based on 3D soundscape recordings of ecosystems to foster

discourse on the biodiversity crisis through music and sound-art installations.

His music has been broadcast internationally and performed in concerts and installations

since 1989, including at Kryptonale (Berlin), Nuova Consonanza, Tevereterno (Rome), La

Via Lattea (Lugano), Community Art Council (Vancouver), Nuit Blanche (Paris),

Dangerous Curve (Los Angeles), CNMAT (Berkeley), IEM (Graz), IMEB (Bourges),

Cinematek (Oslo), R. Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Ear to the Earth and the River to

River Festival (New York), Biennale (Venice), WFAE (Corfù), Balance-Unbalance

(Montreal), Palazzo Reale (Milano), Hochshule (Darmstadt).

Collaborations with visual artists include, Kristin Jones, Livia Cannella and Mimmo

Paladino. He has released 65 CDs as a recording engineer, performer and composer,

including: Prima Amazonia (Wild Sanctuary) and Eco-Acoustic Compositions (EMF Media).

Honors include prizes from the Multiple Sound Festival (Holland, 1993), Russolo-Pratella

Competition (Italy, 1996), Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland, 1996), Bourges

International Grand Prix of Electroacoustic Music (France, 2007 and 2008).

A Fulbright research fellow at UC-Berkeley in 2007 and an Erato-Farnesina fellow at the

World Soundscape Project in Vancouver in 1998, he has taught at the University of

Macerata for 10 years and is now professor of Electroacoustic Music at the Conservatorio

“G.Rossini” of Pesaro (Italy).

He is based in Italy and travels throughout the world for field research and for

presenting eco-acoustic composition and installation-art works, and gives lectures and

concerts in Europe and North America.