Draft:Luigi Porto

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  • Comment: Although the article has undergone significant changes, it still suffers from significant WP:REFBOMBING (for instance, right in the first paragraph of the "Music career" section: sources 6 and 8 don't corroborate the preceding text and are just references to something that's been cited in it). The sources, including the WP:THREE (plus two) in the talk page are not enough to establish notability. Also worth noting, although not definitive to my assessment, is the possibility of WP:COI and the fact that the article has been deleted 6 times from Italian Wikipedia, most recently after being created on the same day as this draft. Rkieferbaum (talk) 13:37, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: This one is marginal, but I'm leaning decline for now. Too many citations to primary sources for documenting his work, and the most detailed sources on Porto himself are non-independent intervivews. Mach61 (talk) 16:49, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Hi! Can you put the WP:THREE best sources on the talk page? It will make it easier for me to assess the notability of this composer. It's OK if they're not in English btw, just as long as they meet the criteria for good sources. BuySomeApples (talk) 11:03, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
  • Comment: I have added "citation needed" tags at the end of sentences that need citations. Since this is a biography of a living person, the citation requirements are stricter. Please resolve these before resubmitting. Z1720 (talk) 15:40, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
  • Comment: I'm also not sure that the subject meets the notability guidelines. If you need help with anything, please let me know on my talk page! Actualcpscm (talk) 18:39, 8 August 2023 (UTC)


Luigi Porto
Also known asAppleyard College, Mond
GenresArt rock, Electronics, Contemporary, Film music
Years active2006–present
LabelsCineploit Records, Snowdonia_Dischi, Cold Current Productions, Light in the Attic Records, Respirano Records
Formerly ofMaisie
Websitewww.luigiporto.com

Luigi Porto (born 22 November 1981, Cosenza) is an Italian composer, sound designer and music producer.

He has released albums of Art rock and Electroacoustic music, [1] often covering social philosophy [2] and political topics [3] [4] has been a member of the Italian band Maisie [it] and is an author of symphonic music and film soundtracks.

Music career[edit]

Born in Cosenza, Italy, he started his career playing in local New Wave music bands and writing music for local theater companies. In the early 2000s Porto produced a number of self-released works that circulated locally and among the Italian experimental underground scene, like the electronic album My My After World signed with the pseudonym Mond [5] and in 2006 the Italian label Cold Current Productions released the concept album Look At Me[6] under the monicker Appleyard College, that merged a slacker, lo-fi songwriting [7]with chamber arrangements and electronic music.[8]

In 2006 he joined the Italian band Maisie [it] as a multi-instrumentalist and arranger, collaborating on the albums Balera Metropolitana [it] and especially Maledette Rockstar [it] released on Snowdonia Dischi [it][9] where he composed and produced several songs and played bass, synthesizers and acoustic guitar in the band's national tours. The album was declared Best Italian Progressive Rock album for the decade 2000-2020 by Rolling Stone.[10]

In 2008 Porto wrote the soundtrack to Romano Scavolini's L'apocalisse delle scimmie, [11] an experimental film in three parts that is still unreleased to this day. The soundtrack, partially merged into the album Scimmie [12] was released without the film by the Austrian label Cineploit along with Snowdonia Dischi and distributed in the US by Light in the Attic[13]. The album contains chamber ensembles and Renaissance choirs subsequently processed, hip-hop and electronics. Scimmie gathered attention from critics in Italy[14][15] [16]and its tracks Distaste and Cecilia o la Danza Spinata (that features the folk singer Rudi Assuntino [it] on vocals) got featured by Stuart Maconie on his Freak Zone on BBC Radio[17] helping to spread the album in the European experimental music scene.

In the meanwhile Porto had moved to New York[18]. In 2012, after performing as a keyboardist on Joao MacDowell 's opera Plastic Flowers[19][20], the International Brazilian Opera Company commissioned his first opera is Anita di Laguna[21], a work inspired by the life of the Brazilian revolutionary Anita Garibaldi[22]. The orchestral Suite from the opera was commissioned in 2019 by the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo[23] in Europe, and in the US scenes from the opera were performed at Carnegie Hall, [24], Baruch's Engelmann Recital Hall.[25]

In 2018 Porto collaborated with Angelo Badalamenti for the score of Between Worlds[26]. In 2019 he curated both score and sound design to Arberia, a film shot in Arbëresh language[27], and to the Indian film Uljhan-The Knot [28], premièred in 2020 at Santa Barbara [29] and Shanghai.[30]

In 2021 he released Tell Uric[31] on his own label Respirano Records, a return to the song form with a rock lineup core, that applies the instrumental eclecticism of Scimmie to a songwriting[32] inspired by the author's personal reflections on the concept of predestination applied to social class[33] and spiritual caste [34]. Preceded by the single Morningside[35], the album also features the theme from Uljhan-The Knot for piano trio and synth.[36]

In 2023 Porto founded the band Manicburg [37]in New York City, with composer Ray Lustig [38] , a Juilliard professor and former Pulitzer Prize juror.

Besides music, Porto is also a film sound designer.[39][40]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Antonello Cresti, Solchi Sperimentali Italia. 50 anni di italiche musiche altre, Crac Edizioni, 2015, ISBN 978-88-97389-24-8
  • Gianluca Testani (a cura di), Enciclopedia del rock italiano, Arcana Editrice, 2006, ISBN 88-7966-422-0

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Luigi Porto - Biografia". OndaRock (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-01-17.
  2. ^ "Musica: Luigi Porto, cantautore calabrese, racconta l'America invisibile - Gazzetta del Sud". calabria.gazzettadelsud.it. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
  3. ^ "Tell Uric, Luigi Porto racconta i conflitti sociali in note". Indygesto. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
  4. ^ Daneluzzo, Giacomo (2021-10-11). "Luigi Porto, il nuovo disco "Tell Uric ipnotizza e racconta la vita vera | Recensione". ExitWell (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-01-17.
  5. ^ "Luigi Porto - My My After World". ImpattoSonoro - Webzine musicale e culturale indipendente (in Italian). 2016-09-08. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  6. ^ Ferraris, Andrea (2007-06-20). "Appleyard College - Look at Me (Cold Current, 2007)". Sodapop. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  7. ^ Wood, Mike (March 19, 2009). "Appleyard College - Look At Me (Cold Current)". Foxy Digitalis. Archived from the original on May 10, 2020. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  8. ^ "Appleyard College: "Look At Me" recensione". Rockit.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  9. ^ Pizzica, Silvio Don (February 2, 2018). "Maisie – Maledette Rockstar".
  10. ^ "I 10 migliori dischi di gruppi prog italiani usciti negli ultimi 20 anni | Rolling Stone Italia". September 30, 2020.
  11. ^ Merolli, Riccardo (2014-10-25). "Luigi Porto - Scimmie". Rockambula (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-01-17.
  12. ^ "Luigi Porto - Scimmie - Recensioni". SENTIREASCOLTARE (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-01-17.
  13. ^ "Scimmie - Original Soundtrack | Release Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
  14. ^ "Classifica album 2014: i migliori dischi e brani italiani". ImpattoSonoro - Webzine musicale e culturale indipendente (in Italian). 2014-12-15. Archived from the original on 16 December 2023. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  15. ^ "Luigi Porto | SCIMMIE 2014 (Cineploit, Snowdonia, Audioglobe) | di Romina Baldoni". October 24, 2014.
  16. ^ "°Scimmie° di Luigi Porto nell'inedito di Scavolini". Il Garantista. 2014-08-12. p. 17.
  17. ^ "BBC Radio 6 Music - Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone, 15/03/2015". BBC.
  18. ^ D'Onofrio, Valerio. "Luigi Porto :: Le interviste di OndaRock". OndaRock.
  19. ^ "From Sayão to Saudade: Brazil's Contributions to Opera | Operavore". WQXR. August 17, 2016.
  20. ^ "Arte Institute | Opera: Plastic Flowers". Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  21. ^ "Giornale della Musica - Anita a New York". Giornale della musica. 5 March 2014.
  22. ^ "Anita Garibaldi, una vita che diventa opera (brasiliana)". La Voce di New York. 2014-03-09. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  23. ^ "Domani il concerto dell'Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo "Il Grande Sinfonismo Francese" al Teatro del Casinò". November 20, 2019.
  24. ^ "Una migrazione di suoni internazionali approda a Carnegie Hall". La Voce di New York. 2020-03-11. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  25. ^ editoreusa (2013-12-20). "International Brazilian Opera Company will present scenes from four new operas in New York". Opera, My Love Magazine. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  26. ^ "Luigi Porto". www.metacritic.com. 1984. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
  27. ^ ""Arbëria"/ Të veçantat e filmit për takimin mes kulturave, nesër del në 'Netflix' - Bota".
  28. ^ "The Knot - Rotten Tomatoes". www.rottentomatoes.com.
  29. ^ Buttitta, Joe (2021-04-05). "'The Knot' becomes first Indian film at SBIFF in five years". News Channel 3-12. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  30. ^ "Ashish Pant's 'Uljhan/The Knot' to have Asia premiere at Shanghai International Film Festival". The Times of India. 2021-06-14. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  31. ^ "Working class e gentrificazione nel video di Family di Luigi Porto, in anteprima - Rumore". May 4, 2021.
  32. ^ Caesar (2021-05-11). "Luigi Porto: Tell Uric". Ver Sacrum (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  33. ^ "[Recensione] Tell Uric: la working class nel nuovo album di Luigi Porto - Piu o Meno POP". www.piuomenopop.it (in Italian). 2021-05-09. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  34. ^ Colombo, Samantha (2021-09-06). "Luigi Porto, "Tell Uric" è il nuovo disco | Scribacchina". Scribacchina.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  35. ^ "Morningside, un genio italiano made in Usa". Indygesto. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  36. ^ "Tell Uric, Luigi Porto racconta i conflitti sociali in note". Indygesto. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  37. ^ "Manicburg, Buddhababy, Heathmonger, Lu Carter at Gold Sounds Brooklyn".
  38. ^ "Lustig, Raymond | The Juilliard School". www.juilliard.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
  39. ^ Dapo (2021-03-07). "Case Study: The Making of It's Always Been You! by Andrew McCardle". indieactivity. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  40. ^ ""Vivo (e suono) a New York, dove è nato il mio nuovo disco"". Corriere della Calabria (in Italian). 2021-06-26. Retrieved 2023-12-10.

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