Daniel Portelli

Planetary Dispersion Planetary Dispersion is a procedural sound system for Unreal Engine that models dispersion, absorption, and temporal behaviour across speculative planetary atmospheres. It lets you explore how sound p...

My project is now available on the Fab Store for free. It's a complete procedural audio system for modeling atmospheric sound propagation across planetary environments. Audible dispersion occurs when different frequencies travel at different speeds due to atmospheric variations.
shorturl.at/Jt2LC

YouTube video by Daniel Portelli Memory Tape [video-score]

New video-score on YouTube
for cello, trombone and recorded media
Exploring fragile textures, tape noise, and instrumental whispering, crackling, and distortion, with dispersed speakers placed around the space.
youtu.be/SUvEKWanAKA

YouTube video by Daniel Portelli Sound Design and Audio Metering in Unreal Engine MetaSound

A walkthrough of my sound design process in Unreal Engine using MetaSound. A devlog that covers some workflows for audio metering, attenuation, 3D spatialisation, and routing game audio for LUFS meters and goniometers for mastering.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-kM...

YouTube video by Daniel Portelli Reverie/Repose

Reverie/Repose, a game set in a dark dystopian world. A generative sound art game, created by composer, sound artist Daniel Portelli.

YouTube video by Daniel Portelli Supralateral

New video-score of 'Supralateral' is now available.
Performed live with Vertixe Sonora ensemble in Vienna.
Music & video art by me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcAq...

Grow a cucumber from a seed and observe and notate its growth pattern, then when it has matured, assign the shape to a parameter in the music. Weave the music around the weave of the tendril.

The spiralling growth patterns of plant tendrils reframed as musical lines. Charles Darwin spent hours each day simply watching young cucumber plants grow from the pots on his windowsills, observing how they explored the world around them

YouTube video by Daniel Portelli 'Dream Recorder' for paetzold contrabass recorder and mirrors

Link to video: youtu.be/PoGlTB2oZuM?...

YouTube video by Daniel Portelli What the river doesn't say about itself

Link to video: youtu.be/Rttrt8evj0s?...

The premiere of my work Dream Recorder (waking life version) at the New England Regional Art Museum as part of the symposium Towards the Multimodal Sensorium: Experience, Wellbeing and Creativity (which I also gave a talk at). So great to be in Armidale, 6 and 1/2 drive and totally worth it.

My art music video essay ‘What the River Doesn’t Say About Itself’ won the award for best short music film (musical interpretation) at the INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FILM & VIDEO Festival URTIcanti in Bari, Italy.

The video recording of my piece Whale Fall is now available to watch online. You can also read about the project on this website as well. danielportelli.com.au/whale-fall/

Score layout redesign for a work back in 2015: Animal - for violin, ‘cello, percussion, keyboard, and choir with video score – 10′ [and video]. Premiered by Soundstream Collective and the Adelaide Philharmonic Choir. Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum, University of South Australia.

jwcm - マガジン出版 The Dialogue: Arts & Women

The magazine 'The Dialogue: Arts and Women' is now available, published by jwcm shorturl.at/LKEak
I proofread the English version, and it's a great read!
It's about gender discrimination, rewriting history/interviews with composers Shoko Shida In and Mieko Shiomi. Mieko.

Congrats to ADSR Zine for winning the award for Excellence in Experimental Music for their 2021 activities, which included my work 'Music in Impossible Spaces' shorturl.at/UwMvj

ADSR Zine exhibition at Sydenham International. Congrats to ADSR who were nominated for Art Music Award for experimental music excellence. shorturl.at/iqbhR

Here is an article that I wrote about the performance of 'Cosmic Time' co-created by percussionist/director Louise Devenish, composer Amanda Cole, and visual artist Michaela Gleave. shorturl.at/c8GFy

My video-essay was inspired by Varda's l’imagination des matières, a cinematic technique in which personality traits correspond to the material world. In 'La Pointe Courte' the character trait clashes are shown through the opposition of objects such as wood and steel. shorturl.at/6fYAY

Here is a video-essay published in 2020. I wasn't able to promote it then because of covid. It explores an area I felt was lacking in contemporary art music, that being the lack of engagement with ‘somatic video notation’ or ‘video gestural notation’ shorturl.at/W7AQG

connotative. I also dabbled in cryptography, encryption/decryption and nonsense ciphertext. This has consumed my life over the past couple of months and led to this new approach. Anyone open to a key change? It puts a new spin on playing in the home key. 🔑🔑🔑 🙂

situations. I came across Susanne Langer's 'Philosophy in a New Key', where 'the new key' or 'new way' is equivalent to 'the new epistemology', or ongoing key change in thinking, where she outlines our fundamental need for symbolic transformation, forming new concepts with objects, denotative and...

I developed a newfound obsession with keys. The intricate shape, styles, colours, and histories. The plethora of cuts, depths, and spacings, and how they resemble the patterns of waveforms, mountainous landscape horizons, or days filled with a multitude of tasks, deadlines, and rapidly changing...

My video-essay was published in the Journal of Embodied Research. A co-composition with mangroves and members of the music box project. See abstract: shorturl.at/Ewnki #experimentalmusic #soundart #videoart #academic #embodiment

The next Composer Series event will be on 20 July at Ashfield Library Wangal Country with the always brilliant Elizabeth Jigalin with her discussion on 'Composing the City'. Please come along to what will be a rememberable event. shorturl.at/og6bI

World premiere of ‘Supralateral’ by Vertixe Sonora Ensemble at the Alte Schmiede, in Vienna, June 21, 2024, for bayan accordion, microtonal e-guitar, baritone sax, video, lo-fi electronics, and a starling bird whistle.

I am curating this Composer Series of talks and performances for the Inner West Council. The first talk/performance is by Dr Paul Smith who will "discuss the toy piano and its rise in contemporary culture accompanied by a performance of the toy piano with invited musical guests”
shorturl.at/oyafO