Nicola Giannini Nicola Giannini Montréal Nicola Giannini is a Sound Artist and an Electroacoustic Music Composer based in Montreal, Canada. His practice focuses on immersive music, both acousmatic and performed. His works have been presented at the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (TIES), San Francisco Tape Festival, Cube Fest, ICMC, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (USA), TEDxLondon, Sound-Image Colloquium, Serge Postgraduate Conference (UK), Sound Spaces (Sweden), File Festival (Brazil), Electroacoustic Music International Exhibition (Mexico), Palazzo Strozzi Museum, Audior and Tempo Reale (Italy), among others. In July 2017 he has been a guest composer at the EMS in Stockholm. His piece “Eyes Draw Circles of Light” obtained the first prize at the Jeux de Temps / Times Play (JTTP) 2019 competition organized by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, and an Honorable Mention at the XII° Fundación Destellos (Argentina) Electroacoustic Competition 2019. His piece “For Hannah” was chosen as finalist at the International composition competition Città di Udine 2018 and it was performed at the festival “Contemporanea”. Originally from Italy, Nicola has a master degree in Electroacoustic Composition from the Conservatory of Florence. Nicola is a doctoral student (D.Mus) at the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Robert Normandeau, and he is presently a research assistant with the Groupe de recherche en immersion spatiale (GRIS). His academic research focuses on immersive music composition, exploring from an artistic perspective the contribution of the spatial auditory perception field to sound spatialization strategies. Nicola is one of the student coordinators at CIRMMT for the Research Axis on Expanded musical practice. Nicola Giannini’s tracks For Hannah - Binaural by Nicola Giannini published on 2020-09-04T16:42:35Z For Hannah (stereo version) by Nicola Giannini published on 2020-09-04T16:36:54Z Eyes Draw Circles Of Light (Binaural version) by Nicola Giannini published on 2020-09-04T16:20:56Z Eyes Draw Circles of Light - Stereo by Nicola Giannini published on 2020-09-04T16:18:25Z