Flavio Michele (*1987, Zapponeta - IT) is a music composer and researcher.

He holds a Ph.D. from La Sapienza University of Rome and was visiting researcher in the Comparative Literature Dept. of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

He studied Art, Politics and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School, with Prof. Giorgio Agamben, and electroacoustic composition at Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome, with M° Giorgio Nottoli.

He participated in two visiting periods at IRCAM Centre Pompidou in Paris, exploring audio-text and human-machine interaction.

Currently, he is adjunct professor of Ethics in the Department of Economics of Luiss Guido Carli, and co-director of the artistic research platform 10 documents. He is founding member of the artistic collectives Vieni Fortuna and Grosso Sonno Viola. 

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“His compositional process is fundamentally archivistic: a continuous accumulation of recorded instrumental material that is never fixed, but perpetually recombined, drawn from an understanding of the music studio as an instrument. In live performances, this archive is continuously reshaped through instrumental improvisation. The result is music that carries the latent energy of its own becoming — precise yet open, authored yet contingent.

Sonically, he draws from the lucid, weightless sound palette of the early 2000, decostructed and rebuild through digital transformation, until it becomes a living research environment. Text enters this ecosystem not as annotation but as compositional material in its own right — language treated with timbral and structural attention, bending meaning through context, repetition and grain. The result is a rarefied downtempo production, both dark and sensual, that opens up to a layered and relational dimension of listening.”

G.L.