Corrado Saija is a composer, musician and sound artist from Italy. He started learning the piano, percussion and computer music by himself, followed by a professional musical education at conservatory of music in Milan where he graduated in „Music with New Technologies“.
Since 1999 he is a poly-instrumentalist working in the fields of electronic music composition as well as sound design. His musical home lies between experimental music, free jazz and electro-acoustic improvisations.
Corrado composes music for multimedia installations in contemporary theater, for historic black and white movies, art performances and other audiovisual work like documentary films.
He was selected as a semi-finalist at the „Italian National Prize of Arts 2010“ in the category „Electronic Music“.
Discography
- Settembre EP, Lemongrass music, digital distribution/ Germany 2013
- High Times EP, Lemongrass music, digital distribution/ Germany 2013
- Bougainville EP, Lemongrass music, digital distribution/ Germany 2014
- Vortice scapes EP, Ancient language records, digital distribution/ Romany 2013
- Noise studies EP, Lemongrass music, digital distribution/ Germany 2014
- Un doux sommeil EP, Lemongrass music, digital distribution/ Germany 2016
Live Performances / Installations
- Rossini theater, Bari/Italy 2014
- Nichelino theater, Torino/Italy
- Cavallerizza Reale theater, Torino/Italy
- Stalker kunsthouse, Biella/Italy
- Ken Damy Art&photo museum, Brescia/Italy
- A+B art gallery, Brescia/Italy
- Distanze festival Catania’s University, Catania/Italy
- Stromboli’s museum of Cinema, Eolian Islands/Italy
- Paolo Grassi theater academy, Milano/Italy
- Cattolica university, Brescia/Italy
- AAB gallery, Brescia/Italy
- Dars studio, Milano/Italy
- Conservatory “Nicola Sala”, Benevento/Italy
- Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi”, Milano/italy
- “Centro stabile di cultura” associations for culture & arts, Vicenza/Italy
- Leonesia Foundation for Arts, Garda Lake/Italy
- S-blu gallery, Milano/Italy
- San Fedele theater, Milano/Italy
- Open lab gallery, Genova/Italy
- “Studio voce” theater, Lugano/Swiss
- “Piccolo Cinema Paradiso” cultural association, Brecia/Italy
- “Centro Lucia” theater, Brescia/Italy