Daniel Portelli
@danport0.bsky.social
composer, intermedia/sound artist Ph.D, Gadigal Country (Sydney) lecturer researcher writer he/him https://danielportelli.com.au/
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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
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
Memory Tape [video-score]
YouTube video by Daniel Portelli
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September 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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
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
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-kM...
Sound Design and Audio Metering in Unreal Engine MetaSound
YouTube video by Daniel Portelli
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August 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-kM...
Reverie/Repose, a game set in a dark dystopian world. A generative sound art game, created by composer, sound artist Daniel Portelli.
Reverie/Repose
YouTube video by Daniel Portelli
youtu.be
July 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Reverie/Repose, a game set in a dark dystopian world. A generative sound art game, created by composer, sound artist Daniel Portelli.
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...
Performed live with Vertixe Sonora ensemble in Vienna.
Music & video art by me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcAq...
Supralateral
YouTube video by Daniel Portelli
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June 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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...
Performed live with Vertixe Sonora ensemble in Vienna.
Music & video art by me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcAq...
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
January 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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
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.
November 28, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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.
November 28, 2024 at 10:31 AM
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/
Whale Fall | Daniel Portelli
danielportelli.com.au
November 28, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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.
November 28, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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.
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.
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.
jwcm - マガジン出版
The Dialogue: Arts & Women
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November 28, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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.
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
Music In Impossible Spaces | Daniel Portelli
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November 28, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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
November 28, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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
Mutual entanglements in collaboration: a journey in Cosmic Time : Feature Article : Australian Music Centre
Mutual entanglements in collaboration: a journey in Cosmic Time by Daniel Portelli, Resonate Magazine, 8 Nov 2022. Dr Daniel Portelli delves into the richness and complexity of Cosmic Time, a wor...
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November 28, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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
November 28, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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
November 28, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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
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...
November 28, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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
November 28, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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
November 28, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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.
November 28, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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
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What's on - Inner West Council
Inner West Council warmly welcomes you to this event.
www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au
November 28, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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
shorturl.at/oyafO