About

Matteo Franceschini, aka TOVEL, is an Paris-based Italian experimental electronic music composer, poly-instrumentalist (electric bass, piano, clarinet) and performer. Silver Lion for Music at the 2019 Venice Biennale, he produces electro performances and writes film music, symphonic works and operas.

TOVEL’s music takes us into a real timeless universe shaking up the codes of classical and electronic, in a jubilant encounter between written creation (the score) and performance.

Dreamlike, pulsing, explosive music that never stops changing. In Gravity, his first album, the acoustic sounds of piano, saxophone and strings, woven with the explosions of modular synthesizers. On stage, TOVEL delivers an unprecedented and intense live performance, a hypnotic, transfigured and dazzling musical tale.

BIOGRAPHY

LIVE

01.12.22

GRAVITY [live]

Tovel | live electronics
Corigliano d’Otranto (IT)
Castello de ‘Monti

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12.01.23

OPUS

Tovel | live electronics
1024 architecture | live video
Eric-Maria Couturier | cello
Paris (FR), IRCAM

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24/26.02.23

GRAVITY [live]

Tovel | live electronics
Aigle (CH), Théâtre Waouw

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23.09.23

TABULÆ

performance
Tovel | live electronics
Jacopo Mazzonelli, Eleonora Wegher | performers
Verona (IT), Castelvecchio
Hybrida Festival

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06.10.23

THE CIRCLE [Verdi Edition]

live set
Parma (IT), Festival Verdi OFF

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11.11.23

GRAVITY [live]

Tovel | live electronics
Antonino Siringo | piano
Eudes Bernstein | saxophone
Rome (IT), Auditorium
RomaEuropa Festival

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01.03.24

GRAVITY [live]

Tovel | live electronics
Como (IT), Teatro Sociale

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Discography

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GRAVITY

all tracks composed and performed by TOVEL

piano (Gravity) | Bertrand Chamayou
tenor saxophone (Long playing) | Eudes Bernstein

Gravity is a commission of Muse&Piano Festival – Louvre-Lens
Long Playing has been realized with the support of Proarti, Sacem and Fondation Banque Populaire
scores of Gravity and Long Playing published by Casa Ricordi-Universal Music Publishing Classical

produced by Scala Music (Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier, Jason Wiels, Roxane Brut) and TOVEL

Bertrand Chamayou appears courtesy of Warner Classics/Erato

tenor saxophone (on Long Playing) recorded by Oscar Ferran assisted by Léo Aubry, at Midilive studio, Villetaneuse
piano (on Gravity) recorded by Baptiste Chouquet at musée du Louvre-Lens, Lens
mixed by Oscar Ferran at Studio Ferber and Les Studios Saint Germain, Paris
mastered by Simon Lancelot at Studios Ferber, Paris

front cover | Jacopo Mazzonelli, Flags, 2018 (black varnish on silver mirror). Courtesy of the artist and Studio G7 gallery, Bologna
back cover | photo by Amandine Lauriol

graphic design | Mathilde&Geoffrey

Videos

Gravity

Album release promo video

music composed and performed by TOVEL
piano | Bertrand Chamayou

produced by Scala Music and TOVEL

Video directed and produced by Transfuges

Gravity

Liveset trailer

music composed and performed by TOVEL

Scenography and lighting design | Dan Azzopardi (Second design)
Sound engineer | Jean-Damien Juille

Directed by Loris Lombardo
Video producer | Seconde design

OPUS

Audiovisual performance for amplified string quartet and electronics

Music and live electronics | TOVEL
visual design, live video and scenography | 1024 architecture

Quartetto Maurice
Ircam computer music achievement | Manuel Poletti

Production | Ircam-Centre Pompidou, La Scala Paris – Les Petites Heures, 1024 architecture
Score commissioned by Ircam-Centre Pompidou and ProQuartet

TABULÆ

Performance based on Jacopo Mazzonelli’s sculpture TABULÆ for two performers and live electronics

Music and live concept | TOVEL
Artworks and live concept | Jacopo Mazzonelli

Live electronics | TOVEL
Performers | Jacopo Mazzonelli and Eleonora Wegher

SONGBOOK

for rock quartet, amplified ensemble and live electronics

theorbo and electric guitar | Bruno Helstroffer
piano and keyboards | Antonino Siringo
live electronics and electric bass | TOVEL
drum and percussions | Stefano Pisetta

Icarus Ensemble / Cantus Ensemble
conductor | Francesco Bossaglia

Production | La Biennale di Venezia, Fondazione I Teatri Reggio Emilia
Score commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia

THE ACT OF TOUCH

Performance based on Jacopo Mazzonelli’s sculpture ABCDEFG for two performers and live electronics

Music and live concept | TOVEL
Artworks and live concept | Jacopo Mazzonelli

Live electronics | TOVEL
Performers | Jacopo Mazzonelli and Eleonora Wegher

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Contact

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booking@tovelmusic.com