Bruno Sanfilippo
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Bruno Sanfilippo has been a musician and producer of ambient music since 1991.
He was born in Buenos Aires
, Argentina
in 1965. Later, he moved to Barcelona
, Spain
. There, Sanfilippo became a professor for music at the Galvani Conservatory in 1988. Ten years later, he founded the label ad21music. Since then he has contributed to several compilations and also collaborated on projects with Byron Metcalf, Mathias Grassow, Max Corbacho and Alio Die (Stefano Musso).
Through his contemplative music the intention is to transmit something other than emotional stimulus or simple entertainment.
In dreams, there’s no imagined thing that’s too absurd, too strange. Sanfilippo's music comes from that inexhaustible source. It has been broadcast on radio shows such as Hearts of Space
, Star's End
, Echoes
, Soma, Ultima Thule Ambient Music
and StillStream.
He was born in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
in 1965. Later, he moved to Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, Spain
Spain
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. There, Sanfilippo became a professor for music at the Galvani Conservatory in 1988. Ten years later, he founded the label ad21music. Since then he has contributed to several compilations and also collaborated on projects with Byron Metcalf, Mathias Grassow, Max Corbacho and Alio Die (Stefano Musso).
Through his contemplative music the intention is to transmit something other than emotional stimulus or simple entertainment.
In dreams, there’s no imagined thing that’s too absurd, too strange. Sanfilippo's music comes from that inexhaustible source. It has been broadcast on radio shows such as Hearts of Space
Hearts of Space
Hearts of Space is a United States weekly syndicated public radio show featuring music of a contemplative nature drawn largely from the ambient, New Age and electronic genres, while also including classical, world, Celtic, experimental, and other music selections...
, Star's End
Star's End
Star's End is a weekly, five-hour-long New Age music radio show broadcast by 88.5 WXPN, the University of Pennsylvania's radio station, in Philadelphia. It is the second longest-running show of its type in the world, after Hearts of Space.-History:...
, Echoes
Echoes (radio program)
Echoes is a daily two-hour music radio program hosted by John Diliberto featuring a soundscape of ambient, space, electronica, and New Age music. The program features in-depth artist interviews and intimate "living room" performances. Interview subjects have included Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel,...
, Soma, Ultima Thule Ambient Music
Ultima Thule Ambient Music
Ultima Thule Ambient Music is a long-running, specialist ambient music radio show which has been broadcast on Australian community radio since 1989. The show has been described as one of the leading alternative music programmes on Australian radio. It is also available as a webcast and as a podcast...
and StillStream.
Discography
- Sons of the Light (1991), ad21music
- The New Kingdom (1995), ad21music
- Solemnis (1998), ad21music
- Suite Patagonia (2000), ad21music
- Visualia (2003), Neuronium Records
- Indalo with Max Corbacho (2004), ad21music
- Ad Libitum (2004), ad21music
- Anthology 91-04 (2005), Neuronium Records
- InTRO (2006), ad21music
- Piano Textures (2007), ad21music
- Ambessence Piano & DronesAmbessence Piano & DronesAmbessence Piano & Drones is a collaborative ambient music album by Bruno Sanfilippo and Mathias Grassow. All of the tracks on the album are untitled, however, they each share the same name as the album's name including their track number.-Track listing:...
(with Mathias Grassow) (2008), ad21music - Auralspace (April 2009), ad21music
- Piano Textures 2 (2009), ad21music
- Cromo piano & drones (with Mathias Grassow) (2010), ad21music
- Subliminal Pulse (2011), Spotted Peccary