Sandro Mussida

Balancing on the fine line between rigorous experimentation, innovation, and tradition, the work of Sandro Mussida fosters an active listening approach, exploring the relationship between sound, space, and context, form and force, visible and invisible. Moving across the acoustic, electric, and electronic fields, he composes for orchestra, ensembles, soloists, and electronics.

His compositions challenge the standardization of the Western ear (e.g., Musica Per Tre Sistemi Di Accordatura: EEEOOOSSS, Soave, 2019; Rueben, Die Schachtel, 2021), investigate space as an active participant in the musical experience (Still~, Room40, 2024), or explore traditional musical forms (Dare Voce, Sony Classical, 2017; What Remains, from Spazio Per Azioni Luminescenti, Osàre Editions, 2023).

Mussida has collaborated with artists such as Mark Fell, CURL, Lorenzo Senni, Oren Ambarchi, Alessandra Novaga, Nicola Ratti, and Coby Sey. Since 2014, alongside visual artist Rebecca Salvadori and soprano Olivia Salvadori, he curates and produces multidisciplinary events through the collective Tutto Questo Sentire.

His works have been released by Sony Classical, Boomkat, Tapeworm, Blume Editions, Metrica, Soave Records, Curl, and Die Schachtel, Room 40.

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Sandro Mussida, ph. Andre Delhave for Serralves Museum, Porto, Nov. 2024

Selected Works

Like A Flood, for pipe organ, percussion, electric and classical guitar, cellos, electronics, 2025. Original Score for: Adelita Husni Bey's Like a Flood, 2025, film installation, two-channel high-definition video, eighteen-channel audio, 45 min. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and made possible thanks to the Italian Council programme (2024), with Alserkal Arts Foundation, Dubai, and Museum of Civilisations, Rome; with additional support from LOCALES. Courtesy: Laveronica Arte Contemporanea

∞ Huit (Huit Images De La Région Intérieure), for surround sound, string quartet, electronics, for Serralves Museum, Porto, 2024

Sœur·s, for percussions, cellos, piano (theatre work, original commission by La Comedie Du Valence, on a text by Penda Djouf, regie: Silvia Costa), 2024

Albe, for cello, synthetic waveshapes, live electronics, webcam, 2023

Genius Loci, for modular synths in outdoor spaces, for Nicola Ratti, 2023

Still ~, for modular synths in outdoor spaces, for Francesco Fabris, 2022 (Room 40)

Campo, for 12 cellos, piano, quadraphonic audio, Norient Film Festival commission. live in Bern, 2022.

Prisma, for electric organ and tape, 2021

Rueben, Musica Per Tre Sistemi Di Intonazione (Music for Three Intonation Systems) for bass clarinet, electric guitar, cello samples (Die Schachtel), 2020

EEEOOOSSS, Musica Per Tre Sistemi Di Intonazione (Music for Three Intonation Systems) for bass clarinet, electric guitar, cello samples (Soave Editions), 2018

Ventuno Costellazioni Invisibili, clear vinyl, limited edition, for two sets of tuned metals (6 triangles, 2 glockenspiels, gong, tam), electric guitar, Bb clarinets and flute, piano, violin. (Metrica), 2017.

Object Relations, w/ Mark Fell, 7' inch vinyl. Sandro Mussida, cello; Mark Fell, computer (Object Relations, Boomkat), 2016

Dare Voce, with Olivia Salvadori / CD (Sony Classical Italy), 2016

Orchestrations

Vita Nuova, original score for 'B. o Vita Nuova', a film by Guy Massaux on Dante's Sonnets. Recordings at the BRN1 Studio Sofia w/ the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, June 2021

Interchange 2021 (Mark Fell), for 28 elements brass band (Alto Cornets, Cornets, Flugelhorns, Eb.Horns, Euphoniums, Baritones, Trombones, BsTrombones, Eb.Basses, Percussions). Premiered at Sheffield's No Bound Fest, October 2021

Protomusic#1, by Mark Fell, 45 speaker system piece at Gateshead Sage, Newcastle, UK, acoustic, folk, classical and popular instruments recording recreating the city soundscape, June 2018

Ondes, with Francesco Fabris @ EMS, Stockholm, on the qualities of acoustic and electric waves, for cello, Buchla 2000 synthesizers, August 2017

Time Diagram For Organ And Strings, by Mark Fell & London Contemporary, for Organ Reframed 2016, Composer: Mark Fell Organist: James McVinnie Orchestra: London Contemporary Orchestra Director: Robert Ames

Performances / Selected Venues (2016/18)

Het Hem, Amsterdam; Serralves Museum, Porto; Kremlin Theatre, Moscow; CCA Glasgow; Istanbul Congress Centre, Istanbul; Donizetti Opera Theatre, Bergamo; Gorki Theatre, Berlin; Cafe OTO, London; St.Mark Church, New York; Triennale Museum, Milan; Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice; Botanical Gardens, Rome; Regent Theatre, Toronto.