Marco Scarassatti


Marco Scarassatti (1971) Sound artist and composer, undertakes research into musical education and researches and constructs sculptures, installations and sound emblems. He is a lecturer at the Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG.
He has composed musical pieces which were performed at the following festivals: ISIM Conference (EUA, 2007), 3rd Bienal Patagônica (2007), Encuentro de Arte Sonoro Tsonami (Chile, 2007), Buenos Aires 2009 and 2011, Festival Zeppelin 2008 (Espanha), Encontro de Música Improvisada de Atouguia da Baleia, MIA (Portugal 2013 and 2014). Created and participated in the Stracs Harampálaga group, which was dedicated to creating sound interventions in public spaces, Olhocaligari, comprising of a fusion of poetry and experimental music and participation in the Sonax Group, with whom he still currently performs. With this group Marco recorded Sonax (2008) which was released on CD by the European label Creative Sources Recordings. With a Master's Degree in Multimedia and a PhD in Education, he has published articles in the areas of Soundtrack composition, Music Education and the Curation of Contemporary Music. Marco was also a Curator of the Paisagens Plásticas Sonoras exhibition (2005), the First Meeting of Improvised Music, held at Unicamp in December 2007 and creator of the Encontro de Costas, meeting with Portuguese and Brazilian experimental musicians. He is the composer of the CD’s Novelo Elétrico (Electric Clew, Creative Sources Recordings, 2014) and Rios Enclausurados (Cloistered Rivers, Seminal Records, 2015) and author of the book Walter Smetak, the alchemist of sounds, published by Perspective / SESC (2008).


Selected Works

Sendungen im ORF-Kunstradio

19. 07. 2015: curated by Lilian Zaremba





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