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I approached the piano aged 7 and since then I have never stopped playing anything \u2013 between instruments and musical genres \u2013 that allowed me to translate the emotion of my inner world into music, over time flowing into a great passion for cinema. Similarly, I\u2019m passionate about the non-canonical use of the voice and studied experimental singing, but also lyrical singing with the soprano Lucia Stanescu (Conservatory \u201cP. Mascagni\u201d, Leghorn). Starting from the early 90s, with \u201cF.ormal L.ogic D.ecay\u201d project I moved my sound research along parallel expressive channels; each represented by a specific solo project and characterized by sound \/ cultural references. E.g. as \u201cEn Velours Noir\u201d introduces a very personal introspective and melancholic reinterpretation of orchestral tango, credited by some as \u201cdark tango\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n I moved inside the underground music sector in other fields as well, both as a fan (e.g. music editor in the 90s), and as a professional, as a graphic-designer (specialized in Manchester in Adobe products), illustrator for some labels, small underground record producer or technical supervisor. <\/span><\/p>\n I attended specialization seminars in soundtracking \/ creating music for images with Maestro Riccardo Giagni, but in particular Stefano Caprioli and Leonardo Pieri (whom I thank) who encouraged me to move definitively towards cinematic \/ stage sounds. This part of my musical creativity increasingly present in my production, in recent years has emerged with greater force [eg. the recent \u201cAes Grave\u201d for the \u201cFurvus\u201d ancient \/ epic music project] to represent for me an ideal point of convergence and artistic fulfillment. From 2017, with the award-winning medium-length film \u201cUn Padre\u201d (by Roberto Gneo, with whom I had previously collaborated) my new activity of soundtracks composer officially begins. Inclined both to a \u2018traditional\u2019 and contemporary \/ experimental compositional approach, I also deal with sound design (with a preference for subtractive synthesis and the occasional use of self-built or modified electro-acoustic instruments) and vocal research aimed at overcoming Western vocal hypertrophy (frequent in my works poly-timbric singing and harmonic singing inserts, supraglottic sounds and other phonation techniques often masked by a mix careful to harmonize the voice as an instrument).<\/span><\/p>\n My artistic education is completed by the study of film direction (degree obtained at the historic School of Cinema Immagina in Florence) which I perceived as a decisive step both to broaden the spectrum of my expressive needs and to establish a more transparent and synergistic dialogue with any director you want to collaborate with me, united by a genuine love and now greater technical awareness of everything that gravitates around the creation of a film. At the same time, I began to move in this sector also in other fields of pre and post-production (sound engineer, boom operator, foley artist, sound edit, re-recording mixer, etc) and I returned after years to ‘officially’ deal with film criticism (reopening a blog with a somewhat personal and unconventional format and which is receiving visits from all over the world).<\/span><\/p>\n I work independently in my studio \u201cOpificio Entropico\u201d using both analog \/ acoustic \/ vintage and digital instruments, with particular attention to new emulation technologies. <\/span><\/p>\n My profile covers a range of plays \/ influences that today allow me to provide soundtracks for a fairly broad spectrum of musical tastes \/ orders; and my discography freely moves between musique concr\u00e9te and power-electronics, between ambient and krautrock, from rock to grindcore, passing through industrial music, synth pop, jazztronics, IDM, medieval music, folk, neoclassical, gothic \/ dark wave, ritual , music therapy and of course classical and jazz.<\/span><\/p>\n Simply\u2026 music is my life. Then, the life of a musician is not simple, but that\u2019s another story\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n Last but not least, \u201cL\u2019 Entropiste\u201d is the pseudonym I have chosen to channel all the energy spent on my artistic and communicative activities, almost as if to measure and control the disorder (emotional, intellectual, cognitive, etc) of me, a modern man inside an ancient system . It is precisely the entropy released from the physical sphere (think of Claude Shannon\u2019s information theory) or traced back to its semantic root (in ancient Greek <\/span>\u1f10<\/span>\u03bd\/\u2018en\u2019 \u2013 inside + \u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c0\u03ae\/\u2018trop\u00e8\u2019 \u2013 transformation) that this moniker is inspired by.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_section full_width=”stretch_row” el_id=”black-bg” css=”.vc_custom_1487603450953{background-color: #1a1b1c !important;background-position: 0 0 !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;}”][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_width=”narrow” css=”.vc_custom_1487252193428{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 10% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_video link=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/248310551″ align=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1513864012632{margin-bottom: 5px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”An extemporised vocal performance using 5 tracks of a loop station. From DVD “Solchi Sperimentali Italia – The Movie, disc 2“” font_container=”tag:div|font_size:16|text_align:left|color:%23999999|line_height:26px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1589371238638{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_separator][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T9_9nTwjsrU”][vc_custom_heading text=”A raw and knee jerk vocal improvisation inspired by Artaud’s lyrics. Very direct live recording without any kind of FX, only making an extreme use of voice and its expressive possibilities.” font_container=”tag:div|font_size:16|text_align:left|color:%23999999|line_height:26px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1589367811487{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_separator][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Znw8L3gZo8M”][vc_custom_heading text=”Gregorian chant structured on the harmonization of 9 + 1 polytimbric voices.” font_container=”tag:div|font_size:16|text_align:left|color:%23999999|line_height:26px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1589368620329{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1487252206151{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 10% !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”MUSIC COMPOSER \/ VOCAL RESEARCHER” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:22|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”main-heading” css=”.vc_custom_1589371474096{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”The current composition activity is divided between the occasional production of sectorial works signed with the various historical pseudonyms (F.ormal L.ogic D.ecay, Furvus and En Velours Noir), soundtracks composition for independent cinema (simply signed as “Luigi Maria Mennella“) and research publications based exclusively on the use of the voice or the human body as an instrument. Any collaboration activities were suspended due to occured organizational emergencies. [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_width=”narrow” css=”.vc_custom_1487189941809{padding-top: 10% !important;padding-bottom: 10% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] I approached the piano aged 7 and since then I have never stopped playing anything \u2013 between instruments and musical genres \u2013 that allowed me to translate the emotion of my inner world into music, over time flowing into a great passion for cinema. Similarly, I\u2019m passionate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wp_social_preview_title":"","wp_social_preview_description":"","wp_social_preview_image":0},"folder":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropiste.com\/entr%C3%A9e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropiste.com\/entr%C3%A9e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropiste.com\/entr%C3%A9e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropiste.com\/entr%C3%A9e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropiste.com\/entr%C3%A9e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/entropiste.com\/entr%C3%A9e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8447,"href":"https:\/\/entropiste.com\/entr%C3%A9e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/8447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropiste.com\/entr%C3%A9e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropiste.com\/entr%C3%A9e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ffolder&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMore information inside the specific website areas.” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:18|text_align:justify|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”main-heading” css=”.vc_custom_1600464807355{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”VISUAL ARTIST” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:23|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”main-heading” css=”.vc_custom_1589371729973{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Always a supporter of the sound + image combination, I\u2019ve also been the author of everything concerning the visual aspect of my publications (logos, illustrations, artworks, layouts, pre-print finalizations and in some cases the printing itself). Obviously there have been commissions for other artists productions and considering my official job (graphic designer with almost 30 years of expertise) the amount of material realized becomes difficult to group and to be selected for qualitative sorting.
\nThis is exactly why only works (those of which I kept track or a sample) in the musical field are included in the credits section.” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:18|text_align:justify|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”main-heading” css=”.vc_custom_1589476456182{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”FREETHINKER” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:23|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”main-heading” css=”.vc_custom_1595627384287{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”With a view to a Leonardian \u201dtotal work“, also the lyrics of each music composition are very often written by myself. Whether it’s urban raw prose or oneirical poetry suspended in time, my approach remains always the same in the written materials accompanying my songs. Over time this activity was joined by writing also for other editorial contexts.
\nMore information inside the specific website area.” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:18|text_align:justify|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”main-heading” css=”.vc_custom_1595627510887{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"