Omar Dodaro
*22 June 1976
Works by Omar Dodaro
Biography
Omar Dodaro is graduated in music theory and composition (MAS/MA), electronic music (MA), music pedagogy (MA) and psychology (MA) in Padua (Uni PD), Como, Milan (Conservatories) and Lugano (CSI SUPSI). His works were selected in festival, competitions and calls as «Art keys Prize» (Agropoli), «Musica nel Tennis» (Milan), «Minikino» (Bali), «NYCEMF» (USA), «Los Angels CineFestival» (USA), «Boomtown Film and Music Festival» (USA), «Mus Lab» (Mexico), «Today’s music» (Rome), «Mauricio Kagel» (Wien), «Crisis and Rebirth» (Genoa), «Feeding the music» (Milan), «ICMC 2015» (USA), «Concerti di Mezzogiorno» (Orta S. Giulio), «Synchresis» (Valencia and Granada), «Sergio Dragoni» (1t prize, Milan), «Punti di ascolto 6» (Rome), «Vuoto ciclo IV» (Naples), «Apocalypse project» (Milan), «Pierre Schaeffer» (3rd prize, Pescara). He composed the original soundtrack of movie The Merchant of Dreams, awarded at «Moving Picture Film Contest» (USA). He’s teaching composition and music technologies. He's nowadays teaching electronic music composition, interpretation and multimedia art in «Bellini» Conservatory of Music (Catania).
About the music
My approach is aimed for a music may recall and tell about human experiences. My music is characterized by explorations through gestures, articulations, vectors and symbolical representation of space and time (life cycle, storytelling, relations between inner and outer). My interest is focused on two fields, the first technical and mechanical (tensions and fragmentations), the second anthropological and symbolical (memory, belonging, sharing and communication). I can call the first dimension «cold»: it conceives the musical phrase as a container of tensions' are going to reach balance points among single components. The second one is «warm» and it's focused on telling, functions and gesture towards a syncretic "body-instrument-sound-image" language. All ideas are redefined according to these guidelines.