Paolo Gatti is a composer, performer and teacher in the field of electronic and electroacoustic music. He studied electric guitar with V. Grieco, classical guitar with M. Bonesi and piano with R. Magni. He graduated in environmental engineering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (with a thesis titled: polymeric membranes for application in fuel cells, supervisor M.L. Di Vona), sound engineering at the same University (with a thesis titled: automatic music transcription based on Elman neural networks, supervisor G. Costantini) and computer music at the Conservatory of Rome Santa Cecilia (B.A. degree with a thesis titled: laptop music, history and evolution of a language, supervisor G. Nottoli; M.A. degree with a thesis titled: where the conscious atomism mediates between unpredictability and structure, supervisors M. Lupone, N. Bernardini). During his academic experience, he also studied computer music with C.E. Cella, S. Petrarca, R. Santoboni. He attended Centro Tempo Reale (Florence) as visiting scholar. Some of his compositions have been performed in venues such as Teatro Argentina (Rome), MAXXI (museum of Arts of the XXI Century, Rome), Cariplo Factory (Milan), Palazzetto dei Nobili (L’ Aquila), Museo della Mente (Rome), Accademia di San Luca (Rome), Conservatory of Avellino, Conservatory of Rome, Conservatory of Latina, Auditorium Ennio Morricone (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Teatro India (Rome), Teatro Tor Bella Monaca (Rome), St. James Cavalier Theatre (Valletta, Malta); Paolo Gatti music has been performed also within the programs of events and festival worldwide: Festival R.Bianchini (Rome), Emufest (Electronic Music Festival, Conservatory of Rome), De Natura Sonorum Festival (Ex-Mattatoio, Rome), Spring Time Study Concerts (University of Rome, Tor Vergata), IFIMPAC 2016 (Leeds, UK), NYCEMF 2016 (New York, USA), ISSTA 2017, (Dundalk, Ireland), Science in the city 2017 and 2018 (Valletta, Malta), Malta International Arts Festival (Valletta, Malta), Muslab 2016 and 2017 (Mexico City, Mexico), Circle 2021 (CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea), Circuits 2021 (Malta, Valletta), MatDot Art Center (Bangkok, Thailand). In 2015 his work for violin and electronics called Poltergeist was one of the awarded compositions at Premio Nazionale delle Arti Claudio Abbado, category electroacoustic music. In 2017 his composition Senhalte earned a special mention at the Forum Wallis, Swiss Contemporary Music Festival. He recorded for Video Radio, Studiololaps, Neuma Records, for the label of the Conservatory of Avellino D. Cimarosa, for Folderol Records and for Senhalte Productions. As a performer of electroacoustic music, he played during events and festival such as: Arte e Scienza (Rome), Emufest(Rome), Slaps Pourri (Rome), Aggregator Festival (Stochastic Resonance, Rome), For Your Ears Only (Gzira, Malta). From 2008 to 2009 he collaborates with 24 Gradi Recording Studio (Rome) as assistant sound engineer. He has collaborated with Fondazione Mondo Digitale (Rome), leading computer music courses in various public schools and from 2011 to 2017 he worked as music teacher in various academies and training centers in the field of music (such as Euterpe, Absonant, Scuola Popolare di Musica del Tiburtino). From 2015 to 2016 he collaborated as writer and editor for the webzine Nucleo Artzine. In 2016, at Spazio Attivo Viterbo and in collaboration with F. Bianco, he developed system Eledu, a prototype of an hardware dedicated to music education. Since 2018, he is the coordinator of the Master in Sonic Arts (english, on-line version) handled by the University of Rome, Tor Vergata; within the formative offering of the Master in Sonic Arts, Paolo Gatti teaches Electronic Music Composition and Technologies and Techniques for Live Electronics. From 2018 to 2024, he taught Music Technology in public schools. From 2020 to 2024 he taught Progettazione Spazi Sonori and Video Music at AFAM academy Istituto Pantheon Design and Technology. He collaborates as teacher with Ogami Music and Fonderie Sonore. Paolo Gatti has delivered lectures in the field of electronic music composition at the University of Malta (School of Performing Arts, Department of Music Studies), Dundalk Institute of Technology (Ireland), MatDot Art Center (Bangkok, Thailand). In 2019 he taught classes in music composition during the Festival De Natura Sonorum which has taken place at Ex-Mattatoio (Rome). Throughout is music career, Paolo Gatti has collaborated with many musicians, music producers and multimedia artists. He has composed music for theatre shows (such as S.P.E.M., in collaboration with the National Academy of Drama S. D’Amico and Friefet Bojod, written by Lizzie Elridge and produced by the company More or Less Theatre) , dance performances (such as EXT, in collaboration with the Department of Dance Studies, University of Malta), poetry performances and festivals ( such as the festival Palabra en El Mundo), short movies. In 2020, Paolo Gatti created the netlabel Senhalte Productions. Currently, he is also working on the production of a new album of electronic compositions and he is involved in various projects related to electronic music ( such as Gawtarks, EpixHon, K-AT, Broken Bench, Volcanism). In 2022, he collaborated in the organization of Spring Time Study Concerts. Since 2022 he organizes the format Mixture, a music performance linking art and pop music; the format Mixture has been hosted in various Venues in Rome and also at the Auditorium Ennio Morricone of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. In 2023 he organized the concert series Ambienti in Evoluzione. After winning a scholarship in 2016, Paolo Gatti has been based in Malta for 8 months during 2017, doing an internship at PBS, the national radio of Malta, whereby he has been involved as music composer. During August 2024 he went to Thailand as artist in residence at MatDot Art Center (Bangkok, Thailand) presenting the Artwork From 8 to Infinity, curated by Sarana Wiriyaprasit and in collaboration with Carlos Delgado and Trinnapat Chaisitthisak. Paolo Gatti musical and artistic research is focused on micro-sampling based music composition. Since years he developed micro-editing techniques based on a concept of consciousness: creation of complex multilayered textures originates from conscious juxtaposition of etherogeneous micro-samples; therefore due to these aggregation of sound grains occurring inside the pieces, the formal architecture might contain a certain amount of unpredictability. In this process, synthesis algorithms are bypassed; moreover this method avoids usage of automatic or generative systems as the primary sources in the composition process; conversely it is given space to forms characterized by micro-transitions, articulations and structural gestures which are built brick by brick in a gradual and intrinsically surprising procedure of sound sculpting. Paolo Gatti current interest is also the application of the above mentioned micro-sampling techniques to different music genres.
