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Lorenzo Romano
Composer

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31.05.2025
Winner of the

Köster Preis

for the Music theater piece “Pasta Diva - Preludio alla Norma” a production by Sondern Ensemble

Pubblication of my Dissertation
REWORK: EMBEDDING CREATIVE PROCESSES OF REMIX IN THE CHAMBER OPERA LA LUNA
by Wolke Verlag

The dissertation Rework: Embedding Creative Processes of Remix in the Chamber Opera La Luna uses methods of artistic research to develop a theoretical framework model for analyzing my compositional work. At the center is a comprehensive analysis of my chamber opera La Luna (premiere: 24.06.2022, Staatsoper Hamburg). The project represents a significant contribution to the German research landscape, in which artistic research within the framework of artistic-scientific doctoral programs (Doctor Scientiae Musicae) at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg has so far been underrepresented - despite its growing relevance in other disciplines and international contexts.

At the center of the work is the concept of rework - a paradigm that understands the creative process as the appropriation, transformation and recombination of existing material. Rework offers a practical model for applying the principles of remix culture in contemporary music composition. It examines how existing sound material can be reworked in the sense of a compositional tool through remixing. The central research question - How did I use ready-made sound material to compose the opera La Luna? - runs through all phases of the creative and analytical process.

The score of La Luna is the result of a practice-based investigation of this core question: the composition process serves as an opportunity to test and further develop the theoretical concepts. Following the completion of the score, the work will be analyzed within a new discursive-theoretical framework that combines remix methods with compositional procedures of Western art music.

Two central theoretical points of reference form the foundation of this model: Eduardo Navas' Remix Theory, which defines remix as a cultural practice of reconfiguring existing materials, and J. Peter Burkholder's Taxonomy of Musical Adaptation, which provides a methodological basis for analyzing appropriation and transformation within the classical music tradition. Both concepts prove to be essential for understanding the creative processes behind La Luna.

The analytical method, the aesthetic reflections on the reworking and the artistic component itself (the score of La Luna) are presented as equally valid research results. In essence, the work aims to make the author's creative process transparent and comprehensible through theoretical and cognitive reflection.

Wolke

01.10.2024

Lecture

On October 1st at 19:00, at Kunstpunkt Berlin Galerie Für Aktuelle Kunst, as part of the 25th anniversary of Edition Juliane Klein, I will be giving a lecture on Edible Music – a piece for video, soprano, and ensemble that I made with Jean Michael Sinisterra Munoz and Federica Marchese. The piece was premiered by Schallfeld Ensemble, featuring Ana Catarina Caseiro and Pia Davila.

Ein Remix der Realität.Erforschung der Interdisziplinarität verlagerter Kunstgattungen und Akteur*innen in Edible Music[Guest Lecture]In Edible Music erkunden der Komponist Lorenzo Romano und der Tänzer und Performer Michael J. Munoz neue Formen der performativen Kunst, die instrumentale und elektronische Musik, Film und kulinarische Künste miteinander verbinden. Anhand der zwei Fassungen von Edible Music - eine als experimentellen Kurzfilm, der an diesem Abend zu sehen sein wird, eine als multimediales Musikstück - wird Lorenzo Romano wird über die duale Natur des Stücks sprechen und die Verschiebung der Rollen von Komponist und Regisseur, Schauspieler und Musiker beleuchten.

01.10.2022
Francesco Dillon plays

Unreasonable Behavior

41st Thomas Edison Film Festival
Director Choice Award

Edible Music ︎ (2021-2022)

Video Concerto for Chef, Instruments and electronics

24.06.2022
premiere of

La Luna (2020) ︎

Chamber Opera in five Chapters for 7 Singers, 1 Actress, Ensemble and Electronics.
Subject by Giuliano Bracci.
Libretto by Giuliano Bracci and Johannes Blum.

A coproduction between the Hamburgische Staatsoper,
the Hochschule für Theater und Musik Hamburg and the
Claussen-Simon-Stiftung.

„La Luna“ ist eine der gelungensten Produktionen der Hamburgischen Staatsoper: intelligentes und unterhaltsames Musiktheater. (Elisabeth Richter, 27.06.2022, Hamburger Abendblatt)