Marco Scarassatti | 1971 | Campinas | Brazil

Sound Sculpture

Composer graduated by Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, where have had the following professors:
Livio Tragtenberg; Almeida Prado; J.A.Mannis.
Also were student of composer Florivaldo Menezes in Winter Festival of Campos de Jordão 1994, Brasil.
Master in Multimeans, also by Unicamp, has researched the creative process of composer Walter Smetak, builder of hybrids objects that join plasticity and sonorous production. In Process of achieving Doctor Degree by Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas – Unicamp, researching alquemic representations in music and preparing publishing of “Smetak e Suas Plásticas Sonoras”.
Cineast self-didactic, its short “A Terra do Silêncio” won 12 awards in 2002 and 2003.
At present, develops research, creation, and build of sonorous sculptures and environment, besides working as University Professor.
Trustee of exposition “Paisagens Plásticas e Sonoras”, that got together works of several composers, that in searching new sonorities came to new forms of conventional musical instruments.
In this exposition, have participated:
Tom Zé, Livio Tragtenberg, Wilson Sukorski, Chelpa Ferro, Marco Guimarães, Fernando Sardo, Paulo Nenflídio, Carusto Camargo, Marcelo Petraglia, besides the participation of 14 Sonorous Plastics of Walter Smetak, and for the first time in Brasil, the work of French brothers - Bernard and François Baschet.
(Mostra Sesc de Artes/ 2005 – Sesc Pinheiros Brasil)