Benjamin de la Fuente
Composer, improviser
After studying composition at the CNSM in Paris with Gérard Grisey and improvisation with Alain Savouret, he completed the composition course at Ircam. In 2001-02, he was a resident at the Villa Medicis in Rome.
In 2000, he founded the Sphota company with Samuel Sighicelli, with whom he staged seven multidisciplinary shows throughout Europe (Musica festival, Tage fur neue musik, Traiettorie, Agora, Berliner Festspiel, San Sebastian, Roma Europa...). In 2004, he also co-founded the experimental rock group Caravaggio, with whom he performs regularly in France and abroad (Pori Jazz Festival, Moers, Berlin, Jeunesse à Vienne, Graz, Rome, Jazz à la Villette, Centre Pompidou in Paris...), and with whom he has recorded 3 albums.
He works as a composer, improviser and show designer. His work is characterized by the quest for a physical and dramaturgical experience of sound, with the aim of inventing an original listening context for each project. He relies on both live experimentation and meticulous writing. He collaborates with other arts to create new ways of hearing.
He writes instrumental pieces with or without electronics for various ensembles and orchestras, musical performances and occasionally works for film. He is regularly invited to give master-classes on improvisation and composition.

Samuel Sighicelli
Composer, improviser, director
A graduate of the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris, Samuel Sighicelli is an improvising pianist and instrumental, vocal and electroacoustic composer. He was a resident at the Villa Médicis in 2003-2004.
His musical works, ranging from soloist to large orchestra, have been performed and/or commissioned by such organizations as Ina-GRM, Radio France, ensembles Court-circuit, Ictus, 2e2m, Cairn, Decoder, Quatuor Arditti, Collegium Novum Zürich, Percussions de Strasbourg, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France...
In 2000, with Benjamin de la Fuente, he founded the Sphota company, with whom he staged seven shows that toured Europe (Musica festival, Tage fur neue musik, Traiettorie, Agora, Berliner Festspiel, San Sebastian, Roma Europa...). In 2004, he also co-founded the experimental rock band Caravaggio, with whom he performs regularly in France and abroad (Pori Jazz Festival, Moers, Berlin, Jeunesse à Vienne, Graz, Rome, Jazz à la Villette, Centre Pompidou in Paris...) and with whom he has recorded 4 albums.
His artistic activity revolves around three axes: instrumental, vocal and electronic composition, group work (Caravaggio), and the realization of scenic or immersive projects ("L'île solaire", "Marée noire", "The Need For Cosmos", "Chant d'hiver", "Spirale"...). In these projects, he extends his role as composer to that of director, or "listener" as he prefers to say. What's more, his self-taught relationship with images, which he has been developing since adolescence, finds its place in these augmented musical projects.
In 2012-2015 he was composer-in-residence at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Oullins (Lyon) and in 2017-2019 at the Espace Malraux - scène nationale de Chambéry et de la Savoie - and at Bonlieu - scène nationale d'Annecy supported by the DGCA/SACEM scheme. In 2014-2019, he is an associate composer at the CRR in Annecy and Chambéry.
In 2022-2023, he is preparing an Opera in Rennes with a group of young musicians and singers from the Pont Supérieur de Bretagne, supported by the "Mondes Nouveaux" call for expressions of interest
In autumn 2022, Musica Falsa Editions will publish an interview by Samuel Sighicelli with musicologist and journalist Guillaume Kosmicki, entitled "la musique en prise directe".