Simone Cardini - Composer

Milan becomes a double stage for my music this week.

It starts today in the stunning Sala Fontana at the Museo del Novecento, where the Dedalo Ensemble performs the absolute premiere of "Into an upstream river"
A sound that tries to move against the current, finding its own friction and flow.

On Sunday, the focus shifts to Slap Spazio Lambrate for the CD launch featuring the performing "VOM"

Two venues, one week of intense dialogue with the city.
Grateful to the SIMC and to all the musicians for giving voice to these scores and for the time and dedication they devote to my music.

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It’s kind of a strange feeling when your studio slowly stops looking like random gear and starts behaving like an instrument for your PhD project, just a few pieces missing...

It is a privilege to witness your own musical ideas come alive, echoing across borders and performed by extraordinary artists in Germany and Italy.

Tonight marks the premiere of “Barefoot,” a solo piano piece, at Cologne's Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, interpreted with nuance by Alberto Carnevale Ricci.
On Sunday, the remarkable Debus Telari Duo brings “Would you keep a secret?” once again to Italian audiences, offering their virtuosic and profound artistry.

Grateful, inspired, and excited for what lies ahead!

Why say it with words when your gestures compose half the conversation? 🤌🏻🎼

Between score and space, I keep exploring how performing can create new bridges between music and technology — through the sensing body.

Grateful to everyone who joined this dialogue of minds (and hands) in motion almost one month ago in Florence, within the inspiring frame of Villa Favard.

Last night, the streets of Madrid found new routes.

I re-imagined Boccherini’s "Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid" for cello, classical guitar and string quintet to navigate the original material as if scrolling through it.

A fragmented, interrupted feed, where the original melodies collide with the visceral suggestions of flamenco and the textures of the present.

"A night in Madrid. Rewired" is a nocturnal navigation: an invitation to lateral listening, where memory and invention blur into unstable architectures and open unexpected passageways.

Huge thanks to all the musicians for bringing it into being, to Opera InCanto for believing in this collision, and to for the cover image you’re seeing here.

Tell me you're Italian without telling me you're Italian... 👀👐🏻

What if the piano stopped being a piano, and the body became the score?

Between the digital and the acoustic, the discrete and the continuous, I search for a re-embodied electroacoustic praxis where technology extends gesture, genre and boundaries.

It’s about weaving new pathways through sound, space, and the sensing body. 🎹🎓

Three cities, one journey! Happy to announce that my piece "VOM" (inspired by Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio, Canto XII) will be performed by the brilliant Eccetera Saxophone in three upcoming concerts!
Huge thanks to Laura Chittolina and Andrea Carrozzo for their dedication.

Concert Dates:
📍 May 23, 2025 – Antwerp, Belgium – Festival MAGO SAX 25
📍 May 31, 2025 – Montecchio Emilia (RE), Italy – “Giugno Musicale” series, Sala del Consiglio, Castello Medievale
📍 June 3, 2025 – Mantua, Italy – Rotonda di San Lorenzo

The journey deepens! Thrilled to share that I'm now fully immersed in my PhD program in Milan, which began last December. This incredible opportunity continues to allow me to delve even deeper into my musical explorations, opening up exciting new avenues for my work. Looking forward to sharing these developments with you all soon!
PS: found a photographer amidst endless castle steps! Huge thanks to for capturing this moment.