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Fabio Cifariello Ciardi (Roma, 1960) studied composition and electronic music at the conservatory S. Cecilia of Rome and musicology at the University of Bologna. As post-graduated he studied with Giacomo Manzoni, with Tristain Murail and Phillipe Manoury in Paris at IRCAM and with Franco Donatoni at Accademia Nazionale di S.Cecilia in Rome. In 1991 he won the selection for the Cursus de Informatique Musicale at IRCAM. In 1995 he has been invited at EMS (Stockholm) as composer in residence. His compositions have been awarded in several International competitions ["Ennio Porrino 1989" (Cagliari — Italy) , "L. Russolo 1992" (Varese — Italy), "MusicaNova 1993" (Praha — Czech), "ICMC CD-selection 1993" (Tokyo — Japan), "Olympia 1993" (Athens — Greek), "Spectri Sonori93" (Tulane — USA), XXV Concours Int. de Musique Electroacoustique 1998 (Bourges - France)Valentino Bucchi 1999 (Roma)] and are published and recorded by EDIPAN-Rome, Rivo Alto-Casier (Treviso) and Computer Music Association — San Francisco, AIMI — Associazione Italiana d’Informatica Musicale (Gorizia), Unesco CIME — Cultures Électroniques (Bourges — France).

Since 1989 he is involved in the study of the processes of memorization and recognition of sonic events and the aesthetic and ethical role of a "sonic common memory" in the post-modern age. On these topics he collaborate with the Psychology Dep. of Rome University "La Sapienza". He is member of ECONA, Interuniversity Centre for the Research on Cognitive Processing in natural and artificial systems.

Fabio Cifariello Ciardi teaches composition at the conservatorium of Perugia. He is president of MUSICA’85 Concerts Association and member of Edison Studio, an Association of composers for the production and diffusion of computer music (http://www.edisonstudio.it) Since 1999 he is the director of http://www.nuovaconsonanza.it