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Frédéric Acquaviva

Frédéric Acquaviva (born France January 20, 1967) is an autodidact experimental composer and avant-garde sound artist since 1990 living between Paris, Berlin and London. He was awarded the Karl Sczuka Prize in 2020 for his composition "Antipodes". His music has been performed at Donaueschingen Festival, Palais de Tokyo, ZKM, Deep Listening Institute, Experimental Intermedia, Tate Modern, XP, Donjon de Maîtresse Cindy... and was the subject of many radiophonic monographic programs (BBC-Radio 3, France Culture, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Radio Libertaire, SWR2)... Acquaviva runs since 2014, along with english mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg, the artist space "La Plaque Tournante" which was awarded one of the best artist space in 2017 by the Senate of Berlin and directs the transmedia magazine "CRU".He has also orchestrated or directed the first recordings of the symphonies of the lettrists Isidore Isou, Gabriel Pomerand and Maurice Lemaître.

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