ICMC BOSTON 2025
Online Listening Room
Curiosity, Play, Innovation - A 50th Anniversary Celebration of Creativity in Music, Science, and Technology
June 8-14, 2025

ICMC BOSTON 2025: Online Listening Room #4
ID#: 604
Limbus (2008); 4:51
by Dante Tanzi
Independent Artist
Limbus develops through reiteration of striated and articulated sounds, almost all derived from just one sound object. The author’s aim was that of representing some changes in a condition oscillating between re-iteration and micro-variation. The piece is divided into two sections: the second is not a real development of the first, it is rather an elaboration of the memory of the preceding material. By indicating the future as a return or flashback, ‘Limbus’ intends to express a state of suspension, and the impossibility of making decisions.
Dante Tanzi
Dante Tanzi is a composer and performer of acousmatic music, holding a degree in Electronic Music and Sound Technologies from the G. Verdi Conservatory in Como. His compositions have been performed both in Italy and abroad, and he has released albums with the label obs, including Double Miroir (2014) and Into Another Space (2016). Since 2012, as a performer on the acousmonium, he has participated in various seasons of the Inner Spaces series (San Fedele Musica) and approximately fifty concerts featuring the mobile acousmonium AUDIOR, for which he oversees programming. In 2011, 2014, 2017, and 2018, he curated the program of acousmatic music concerts for the Festival 5 Giornate in Milan; additionally, he has organized acousmatic music programs for Vox Humana (2014, 2015), the Novaracusmonium series (2019, 2020), and the Filosofarti festival (2024). Since 2014, he has conducted sound spatialization workshops for CESMA (European Center for Musical Studies and Acoustics in Lugano) as well as for conservatories in Como, Turin, Genoa, Lugano, and Lecce (the latter as part of the MA/IN Festival). From 1985 to 2009, he worked at LIM – Laboratory of Musical Informatics at the University of Milan. He is also an author of essays published in Leonardo Music Journal, De Musica, Leonardo, Interface, CTheory, Organized Sound, Crossings, and Contemporary Music Review. He is a founding member of the association ‘Audior’ (www.audior.eu).
* winner, Berklee College of Music internal music composition competition for ICMC Boston 2025
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