Valerio Murat

Valerio Murat is a composer and audiovisual researcher. His work explores the cognitive structures of perception and the dialogue between sound, image, and movement.He practices expanded musical composition, in which music becomes space, gesture, and vision, integrating with other art forms into a single intermedial experience.Winner of major international awards such as the Gaudeamus Prize, the IRCAM Reading Panel, the Giga-Hertz Prize at ZKM, and the Concours de Bourges, he has presented his works in renowned venues such as the Concertgebouw, the Venice Biennale, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston, the Maison de Radio France, Paris and among other international venues.In recent years, he has worked as a freelance video producer and post-producer. He is Professor of Multimedia Studies at the Conservatorio “Licinio Refice” in Frosinone, where he coordinates the CREA KLAB, a laboratory dedicated to intermedial and audiovisual processes.

Awards and Recognitions

Gaudeamus Prize – Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Reading Panel IRCAM – Ensemble Intercontemporain – Paris (France)
Giga-Hertz Prize – ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Concours International de Musique et d’Art Sonore Électroacoustiques – Bourges (France)

Flash Opera

The most radical part of Valerio Murat’s artistic path is embodied in the Flash Opera, a form of intermedial composition developed with Hermes Intermedia, the collective he co-founded with Giovanni Fontana, Giampiero Gemini, and Antonio Poce. It is neither theatre, nor video art, nor concert: it is a living score that inhabits the boundary between languages. Here, sound and image intersect until they generate a third perceptual dimension — unstable, sensorial, alive. Every visual element is rhythm. Every frequency of light is sound. Every silence is space. The work does not represent — it acts. Murat conceives its dramaturgy as an architecture of perception, where light, voice, and sound become the performers of a single event.

Labòra Studio and MITO

In 2024, together with Antonio Poce, Murat founded Labòra Studio — a production and research platform that brings together art, technology, and critical thought. Labòra is the place where vision becomes method and technique becomes language.
Here, Murat defines the artistic and conceptual direction, leading immersive works, audiovisual projects, and interdisciplinary experiments. From this experience emerged MITO – Memory and Imagination in the Time of Opportunities, a production structure dedicated to films, documentaries, and audiovisual works, where production itself becomes an extension of composition.

Main Venues (2000–2024)

Europe

Biennale di Venezia – Venezia, Gaudeamus Muziek Week – Amsterdam / Utrecht, Concertgebouw – Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum – Amsterdam, Teatro Felix Meretis – Amsterdam, Theaterkikker – Utrecht, Theater Lantaren-Venster – Rotterdam, Gigant Theater – Apeldoorn, De Witte Dame – Eindhoven, Impakt Festival – Utrecht, IRCAM – Ensemble Intercontemporain Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique – Parigi, Festival Présence – Maison de Radio France – Parigi, Traverse Vidéo – Tolosa, Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques – Marsiglia, Galerie 13 Sévigné – Parigi, Festival Novelum – Tolosa, Festival du Film d’Animation d’Annecy – Annecy, Centre d’Art Le LAIT (Le Laboratoire Artistique International du Tarn) – Albi, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie – Karlsruhe, GLOBALE: Virtual Sound Gallery (2015–2016), European Media Art Festival (EMAF) – OsnabrückZEBRA Poetry Film Festival – Berlino, International Sound Art Festival – Berlino, CologneOFF – Cologne International Videoart Festival – Colonia , Stuttgart Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media – Stoccarda, Ton:art / Galerie Margit Haupt – Karlsruhe, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa – Venezia, Fondazione Bonotto – Molvena (Vicenza), Museo Hermann Nitsch – Napoli, Museo Pecci per l’Arte Contemporanea – Prato, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma – Roma, Museo Archeologico Nazionale – Napoli, Sagra Musicale Malatestiana – Rimini, Visionaria – Festival Internazionale di Videoarte – Siena, Nuova Consonanza – Roma, Doctor Clip Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma, RomaPoesia – Cinema L'Aquila, Roma, MA/IN – Matera Intermedia Festival – Matera, Emufest – Festival Internazionale di Musica Elettroacustica – Roma, Asolo Art Film Festival – Asolo, ComputerArt Festival – Padova, Culture Video Festival – Lecce / Spoleto, EcoVision Festival – Palermo, Festival Exitime – Bologna, FilmVideo Montecatini – Montecatini, ARES International Film and Media Arts Festival – Siracusa, ICMC International Computer Music Conference 2005 – L’Auditori – Barcellona, LOOP 8 Barcelona – Barcellona, Madatac – Festival Internacional de Arte Audiovisual Contemporáneo – Madrid, Kosmopolis Festival – CCCB – Barcellona, Barbican Cinema – Londra, Liberated Words Poetry Film Festival – Bristol, University of Wolverhampton – Faculty of Media and Art – Wolverhampton, Sibelius Academy – University of the Arts Helsinki – Helsinki, Magasiniit Media Space – Helsinki, Loikka Dance & Media Festival – Helsinki, Verkligheten – “Borders” Exhibition – Umeå (Svezia), ICMC International Computer Music Conference 2012 – University of Ljubljana – Slovenia, Festival Two Riversides – Kazimierz Dolny (Polonia), Lublin Festival – Lublino (Polonia), Short Waves Festival – Poznań (Polonia), Poezijos Festivalis TARP – Vilnius / Klaipėda (Lituania)World Prague Book Fair & Literary Festival – Praga (Repubblica Ceca), Leipzig Book Fair – Lipsia (Germania Est), Cinema Perpetuum Mobile Festival – Minsk (Bielorussia), National University / Municipal Gallery Kharkiv – Kharkiv (Ucraina), National House of Cinema / Say by Body Art Festival – Kiev (Ucraina), Athens Video Art Festival – Atene

Americas

ICMC International Computer Music Conference 2006 – Loyola University – New Orleans (Louisiana, USA), ICMC International Computer Music Conference 2009 – McGill University – Montréal (Canada), ICMC International Computer Music Conference 2010 – NYU / EMF – New York (USA)
NYCEMF – New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival – New York (2017, 2021), Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) – Boston (USA), Brandeis University – Boston (USA), Columbia College – Chicago (USA), Mills College – Center for Contemporary Music – Oakland (USA), Victoria Theatre – San Francisco (USA), Torrance Art Museum – Los Angeles (USA) (Meine Heimat, CologneOFF X – Total Art, 2014), FIU Wertheim Performing Arts Center – Miami (USA), CMMAS – Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras – Morelia (Messico) (Visiones Sonoras X, 2014), Ex Teresa Arte Actual – Città del Messico (Messico), Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Città del Messico (Messico), Centro de las Artes San Luis Potosí – San Luis Potosí (Messico), Festival Internacional de la Imagen – Universidad de Caldas – Manizales (Colombia), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Washington D.C. (USA) (Shoah Film Collection), Festival Internacional de Video Poésie – Buenos Aires (Argentina), OI Futuro – Centro Cultural de Arte y Tecnología – Rio de Janeiro (Brasile), Bienal Música Hoje, Curitiba, (Brasile), International Videoart Festival Camagüey – Camagüey (Cuba), noDOCS – Videoart Festival / WOW.08 – Caracas (Venezuela)

Asia / Middle East / Oceania

ICMC International Computer Music Conference 2023 – Shenzhen Conservatory of Music – Shenzhen (Cina), Digital Video Art Exhibition – Pechino (Cina), Bigscreen International Film Festival – Kunming (Cina), EXiS Experimental Video Festival – Seoul (Corea del Sud), Seco Lounge / The Ballroom – Tokyo (Giappone), Museum of Music – Teheran (Iran), ISOA – Islamic School of Art – Qom (Iran), Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) – Beirut (Libano), Victoria University / Nelson School of Music – Wellington (Nuova Zelanda), CeC – Carnival of e-Creativity – Shillong, Meghalaya (India), Alliance Française du Bengale – #videoGination aRt xiBition – Kolkata (India), The South-Asian Fringe – Mountain India Edition – Dharamsala (India), 4th International Motion Festival – Nicosia (Cipro), Metu Video Festival – Ankara