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Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì is a composer and sound designer based in Turin. He has collaborated with various musicians and artists in the fields of music, video art, and cinema. His approach is influenced by his main project, "MVRGN," which explores a contemporary, hybrid, and electronic compositional language. In his most recent works, he collaborated with artist and friend dariya trubina on the visual and sound installation "[threaded or shredded] une fois de plus, sans": a four-channel structure of contemporary composed music and sound design installed for the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

[threaded or shredded] une fois de plus, sans

on tenter hooks [threaded or shredded] une fois de plus, sans. She uses the plain weave, the strongest, simplest and most ancient of weaving techniques. She occasionally intervenes in it, pulling at the threads, un-evening the pattern and adjusting the shape in a way that is both patient and slightly violent, challenging its pre-determined form. Treating material as language and language as material, she is interested in translation, taking systems of organisation and shifting them just slightly, lightly curving their learned meaning. Tenter hooks [from Medieval Latin tentōrium, from Latin tendere to stretch] were used in the process of making woollen or linen cloth which needed to be washed, stretched and dried under tension, to retain its shape and size. The wet cloth was stretched over a wooden frame - a tenter - using the hooks (nails), and left to dry. Over the centuries of using this method of controlled drying, the expression 'to be on tenterhooks' acquired a figurative meaning in English. It is used to describe a state of uneasiness, anxiety, pressure, or suspense. This expression is often misinterpreted as "tender hooks", creating an eggcorn — a substitution of an element as people try to make sense of a phrase that uses a term unfamiliar to them. In double weaving one layer covers another, preventing access to a part of the process. Tension, errors, gaps can be checked by using a small mirror, placed in the opening between the upper and the lower layers of the weave. An indirect ingress: a material and temporal reflection of the process. A rear view. A translation. dariya likes to rearrange glossaries, grids and gaps in her close readings of architecture and built environments. She indicates the performative potential of space, working with object-based compositions, voice, sound and movement. Stretching the codes of repetition.

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[threaded or shredded] une fois de plus, sans - Music Composer & Sound Designer 2024

Night Shift - Music Composer & Sound Designer 2024

Zanskar 6000 - Music Composer & Sound Designer2024

Unrelible Object - Music Composer & Sound Designer 2023

Suspended Lives - Music Composer 2023

Sleeping Close - Music Composer 2023

Burden Of Proof - Music Composer 2022

Once And For All - Music Composer 2022

A Little Order, A Little Grace - Music Composer 2022

Despite The Facts - Music Composer 2022

Donne che viaggiano sole - Music Composer & Sound Designer 2019

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[threaded or shredded] une fois de plus, sans

Projects by: dariya trubina

Music Composed and Sound Designer by Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì

Exhibition at Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Amsterdam, 2024

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Night Shift

Nino works the night shift as a receptionist in a 2-star hotel. He is torn between insomnia, a harmful routine, and nostalgia for easier times. Besides brief and eerie encounters with customers, he spends the night trying to find ways to stay awake. When he is not lost in scrolling, binge-watching, or drinking coffee, he walks around the hotel experiencing the nocturnal oddities that flow through rooms and corridors. Grey walls, rotten interiors, and empty spaces seem to translate the palette of emotions shared by all the inhabitants of the hotel. Using the very same digital tools that force him into alienation, Nino records and listens to his most intimate confessions. This acoustic diary will be his only lighthouse in a hazy and lonely dimension.

A film by Patrick Frunzio

Music Composer & Sound Designer by Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì

Italy,2024

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Zanskar 6000

“Zanskar 6000” Italy, 2024, 19’15’’, 16:9, Full HD, stereo sound v.o. Italian/English, with english subtitles

A film by Giada Ripa

Expedition concept by Aimone Ripa Di Meana Coordination by Aimone Ripa Di Meana, Rimo Expedition Agency With Edward Cooper, Adriano Ferrero, Simon Lorenz, Aimone Ripa Di Meana, Giada Ripa, Ollie Ullrich Sherpas Dorjee, Norbu & their team Liason Officer Amresh Kumar Jha

Editing by Virginia Garra

Music and Sound Design by Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì

VFX and Animation by Thomas Pilani

Durung Durung Glacier, Zanskar Valley, India. Peak reached: Mt. Aiseo 6028 m

Shoot in 2008, released in 2024.

2024

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Unrelible Object

Otters holding hands is curated by Ambra Viviani and co-production Lumpen Station Unreliable Object by Federico Pozuelo has been released in may 2023

"Unreliable Object is a radio drama that explores our perception of reality through a story of love, contraband, and science fiction."

Narrated by Francesca Flora

Original soundtrack and sound design by MVRGN

2023

Italian, English

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Suspended Lives

Written by Chiara Valenti

Directed By Chiara Valenti & Patrick Frunzio

Executive Production by Eccetera SaS

Music Composer Tommaso Massimiliano Alfi

Italy,2023

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Sleeping Close

"Sleeping Close" Italy, France 2023, 109', 2:1, Full HD, stereo sound, v.o Italian, with english subtitles

In human adversities, there are 'topoi' that recur like variations of the same melody. Growth, pain, sacrifice, choices and, above all, love, are present in everyone's existence in a thousand forms, similar and yet unique. With the fragments of many lives, it would be possible to compose a single one in which to find the echo of all the others. In the chapters of 'Sleeping close', a woman experiences the stages of her own evolution through the changing features of fourteen female protagonists. She dies a symbolic death, only to be resurrected at the end with all those women who have gone before. A poetic journey into the inner world of the human being, in which seemingly insignificant reveal to us the submerged stream of a fragile humanity in search of itfself.

A film by Giulio Pereno

Produced by Giulio Pereno & Olivia Paola Longoni

Music Composed by Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì

2023

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Burden Of Proof

Looped Video HD and photo series- 2022

Through a video shot in a disused Oscar Niemeyer building, "Burden of Proof" reflects on the relationship between science and political violence using a circular narrative structure. The project also includes a series of photographs that explore forensic languages and the imaginary of crime cinema.

2022

Director: Federico Pozuelo

Music Composed by Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì

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Once And For All

“Once And For All” Italy, 2022, 19’15’’, 16:9, Full HD,

A film by Federico Pozuelo & Javier Ruiz

Written By Federico Pozuelo & Javier Ruiz

Music Composed by Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì

2022

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A Little Order, A Little Grace

Project and video's by Germana Frattini

Music Composed by Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì

Exhibition at Como Contemporanea

Como, 2022

2024

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Despite The Facts

Through the narrative of a fictional political crime, the project explores the construction of the cultural, political and historical narratives in northen Italy during the Years of Lead.

A film by Fedirico Pozuelo

Music Composed by Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì

2022

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Donne che viaggiano sole

Written, edited and directed by Giulio Pereno

with dariya trubina

Music Composed and Sound Designer by Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì

Cinematography: Jalal Albess 2nd Cinematography: Moreno Elia Hebling, Giulio Pereno, Claudio Pereno (final scene)

75', ITA-DE-FRA, 2019, 2:1, 16:9, Full HD, stereo sound, v.o italian, english, with english and italiansubtitles

2019

Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì

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Donne Che Viaggiano Sole

75', ITA-DE-FRA, 2019, 2:1, 16:9, Full HD, stereo sound, v.o italian, english, with english and italiansubtitles. A Film By Giulio Pereno

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Burden Of Proof

Burden Of Proof Looped Video HD and photo series- 2022 Italy A Film by Federico Pozuelo

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Despite The Facts

Despite The Facts, Short Movie 2022 Italy A Film by Federico Pozuelo

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Once And For All

Once And For All, Short Movie 2022 Italy A Film by Federico Pozuelo & Javier Ruiz

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Zanskar 6000

"“Zanskar 6000” Italy, 2024, 19’15’’, 16:9, Full HD, stereo sound v.o. Italian/English, with english subtitles. A film by Giada Ripa

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Suspended Lives

"Suspended Lives" Italy, 2023, 29', 2:1, Full HD, stereo sound, v.o Italian, with english subtitles. A Film by Chiara Valenti & Patrick Frunzio

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