Luigi Porto

Luigi Porto (Cosenza, November 22nd, 1981) is an Italian composer, sound designer and music producer.
He has released albums of Art rock.https://rumoremag.com/2021/05/04/luigi-porto-video-anteprima-family/?fbclid=IwAR1s43BcfbRzYl-bSP5nFU4_fiFHf-FLfJmaKt9JSgJpGsRSgJ88vfRipVQ https://www.ondarock.it/interviste/luigiporto.htmhttp://www.exitwell.com/luigi-porto-il-nuovo-disco-tell-uric-ipnotizza-e-racconta-la-vita-vera-recensione/?fbclid=IwAR3xIfADBeJzHEM_DJtys9XWcRz5Nezj2odczfcrd2xsLtoQe2DQglDdLBEhttps://www.indygesto.com/indysounds/12482-tell-uric-luigi-porto-racconta-i-conflitti-sociali-in-notehttps://www.calabriadirettanews.com/2021/05/07/unartista-internazionale-luigi-porto-si-racconta-a-cdn-e-presenta-tell-uric/https://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2021-luigiporto-telluric.htm and Electroacoustic musichttps://www.rockambula.com/luigi-porto-esce-scimmie/https://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2014_luigiporto_scimmie.htmhttp://www.cineploit.com/?p=1335, has been a member of the Italian band Maisie and is an author of symphonic music and film soundtracks.
==Life==
Born in Cosenza, Italy, he started his career playing in local New wave bands and writing music for local theater companies. In the early 2000s his first full-length album "Look At Me" https://www.rockit.it/recensione/6211/appleyardcollege-look-at-me under the monicker Appleyard College was released by Cold Current Productions, a work poised between a psychedelic indie-folk and a sort of chamber ambient.
Later he joined the Italian art-rock band Maisie, collaborating on the albums Balera Metropolitana and Maledette Rockstar released on Snowdonia Dischi and playing bass, synthesizers and acoustic guitar in the band's national tours. 
In 2008 the cult horror director Romano Scavolini hired him to write the soundtrack to L'apocalisse delle scimmie, a very long experimental film that is still unreleased to this day. However the soundtrack, partially merged into the album Scimmiehttps://www.sentireascoltare.com/recensioni/luigi-porto-scimmie/https://lideamagazine.com/scimmie-first-soundtrack-italian-artist-luigi-porto-released-september/ published by the Austrian (Cineploit) label and by Snowdonia Dischi itself, was released with the permission of the director and the production. The album, defined "monumental" http://www.distorsioni.net/canali/dischi/dischi-it/scimmie
 "superlative"https://www.rockambula.com/luigi-porto-scimmie/ gathered attention from critics and being nominated among Best albums of 2014 by the Italian magazines Impatto Sonorohttp://www.impattosonoro.it/2014/12/15/speciali/classifica-album-2014-i-migliori-dischi-italiani/ Impatto Sonoro, Distorsionihttp://www.distorsioni.net/canali/dischi/dischi-it/scimmie, Indie-Zone.
In 2012 he moved to New York, where he co-founded with Joao MacDowellhttps://www.wqxr.org/story/sayao-saudade-brazils-contributions-opera/ the International Brazilian Opera Companyhttps://operamylove.com/2013/12/20/international-brazilian-opera-company-will-present-scenes-from-four-new-operas-in-new-york/https://lideamagazine.com/usa-international-brazilian-opera-company-will-present-scenes-four-new-operas-composers-joao-macdowell-thiago-tiberio-luigi-porto/https://insideart.eu/2014/03/07/il-debutto-di-anita/in 2012. His first opera is Anita di Laguna https://www.mauxa.com/intervista/intervista-a-luigi-porto-e-andrea-amoroso-autori-dell-opera-musicale-anita https://www.giornaledellamusica.it/news/anita-new-york5 https://brazilianopera.com/repertoire/anita-di-laguna/, http://data.carnegiehall.org/events/64295/about https://lavocedinewyork.com/arts/musica/2020/03/11/una-migrazione-di-suoni-internazionali-approda-a-carnegie-hall/, a work inspired by the life of the Brazilian revolutionary Anita Garibaldi. The orchestral Suite from the opera was commissioned in 2019 by the Orchestra di Sanremohttps://www.rivieratime.news/domani-il-concerto-dellorchestra-sinfonica-di-sanremo-il-grande-sinfonismo-francese-al-teatro-del-casino/.
In 2019 Porto scored the Italian film Arberia, the first film to be shot in Arbëreshë language, and the Indian social commentary thriller film The Knothttps://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_knot_2021, selected at Santa Barbara and Shanghai.
In 2021 he released Tell Uric https://www.indygesto.com/indysounds/11445-morningside-un-genio-italiano-made-in-usahttps://www.loudd.it/recensione/tellurico-di-terra-di-polvere-di-uomo/luigi-porto_6146?fbclid=IwAR2Yb3qImUAwMUGT2eAEl4e3MOtg2wPvQvcJJKvDnQnKBFFKRh9zdoUC1lUhttps://www.calabriadirettanews.com/2021/05/07/unartista-internazionale-luigi-porto-si-racconta-a-cdn-e-presenta-tell-uric/ https://calabria.gazzettadelsud.it/articoli/cultura/2021/04/30/musica-luigi-porto-cantautore-calabrese-racconta-lamerica-invisibile-381c86b2-080b-4a04-9d71-e825c787a26e/ https://www.paranoidpark.it/2021/05/18/tell-uric-luigi-porto/http://www.musicmap.it/recdischi/ordinaperr.asp?id=8456&fbclid=IwAR2idgKNTyBFJw0dfW099E1mN0H5e8lXEG9_V7PlHhD3Qdf2SMRN2tCudPs on his newborn label Respirano Records), an album that marks a return to the song form. For the same label, in 2023 Porto has curated the compilation No Need To Fearhttps://www.lacnews24.it/cultura-e-spettacolo/nasce-nella-grande-mela-la-factory-musicale-che-unisce-cosenza-e-new-york--video_172559/https://progrockjournal.com/news-respirano-records-released-the-compilation-no-need-to-fear/#google_vignette http://xtm.it/DettaglioNews.aspx?ID=23029#sthash.8t0t91UC.dpbs, that brings together artists from New York and his hometown of Cosenza.
==Discography==
==As Appleyard College==
* 2005 - Split Appleyard College/Andrew Think (Lallabbau Produzioni)
* 2006 - Look At Me (Cold Current/Masterpiece)
* 2008 - V.V.A.A. La Sonora Commedia (Kipple Edizioni)
== As Luigi Porto ==
* 2004 (ried. 2015) - My My After World (Respirano Records)
* 2007 (ried. 2016) - Respirano (EP) (Respirano Records)
* 2014 - Scimmie ((Cineploit)/https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowdonia_Dischi%7C Snowdonia Dischi/Light in the Attic)
* 2016 - V.V.A.A. Omaggio al Maestro Ennio Morricone (Cineploit)
* 2016 V.V.A.A.,Antonello Cresti , Solchi Sperimentali Italia - The Movie
* 2021 Tell Uric (Respirano Records/La Lumaca Dischi/Audioglobe)
* 2022 V.V.A.A. Post Punk: Genesis (Side-Line Magazine)
* 2023 V.V.A.A. No Need To Fear (Respirano Records)
== With Maisie ==
* 2009 - Balera metropolitana (Snowdonia Dischi/Bluscuro/Spoot Music)
* 2018 - Maledette Rockstar (Snowdonia Dischi/La Zona)
==Other collaborations==
2007 .gripweed. - The Unexpected EP (self, CD-R)
2009 Anima Virus - 'End of the Eden' (Decadance)
2013 Ernesto Orrico - 'The Cult of Fluxus'(Edizioni Erranti)
2019 KJÜMMÖ -'Angelina' (Duff Records)
2019 Jasna Popovic, 'Around the Piano World' (Serbian Airlines)
==Soundtracks==
Uljhan - The Knot (2020)
Master Puppeteers (documentary) (2020)
"Arbëria"(2019)
L'apocalisse delle Scimmie (2013)
Different Shades of Grey (2009)
==Symphonic works==
2010 Sei Cattedrali, for orchestra and electronics
2018 Anita di Laguna, opera
2019 Anita di Laguna Suite, for orchestra
2020 Naufragio, for piano and string orchestra
2022 Slow Birds of Prey, per orchestra
2023 Nebulosa, for accordion and string orchestra
==Chamber works==
2015 The Run-O'-The-Mill, song cycle for soprano, violoncello and piano
2016 Orme sul ghiaccio, for piano, violin and clarinet
2017 Aconito, for string quintet
2017 Tarantula, for string quartet
2018 Studio Naufrago, for piano solo
==Bibliography==
* https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonello_Cresti%7C Antonello Cresti, Solchi Sperimentali Italia. 50 anni di italiche musiche altre, Crac Edizioni, 2015, ISBN 978-88-97389-24-8
* Gianluca Testani (a cura di), Enciclopedia del rock italiano, Arcana Editrice, 2006, ISBN 88-7966-422-0
Category:1981 births
Category:Italian people
Category:Composers
Category:Sound designers
Category:Music producers