Narrating for the cinema with sound, noise and silence

Music can anticipate an emotion, build tension, give voice to what images don't tell. Pino Donaggio, composer, singer-songwriter, and violinist, brings over sixty years of experience in music and cinema to Romics 37 to explore the narrative power of sound.
Trained as a violinist between Venice and Milan, in the 1960s he established himself as a singer-songwriter with Io che non vivo (senza te), a song that became an international hit You Don't Have to Say You Love Me and performed, among others, by Dusty Springfield and Elvis Presley.
In the 1970s, cinema opened a new chapter in his career. After Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now, his meeting with Brian De Palma gave birth to a long artistic partnership, which began with Carrie and continued with Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double, Raising Cain, Passion and Domino.
With over one hundred film and television soundtracks, Donaggio has also collaborated with directors such as Dario Argento, Joe Dante, Liliana Cavani, Michele Placido and Sergio Rubini, spanning genres and generations.

At Romics 37, Pino Donaggio will talk about how music, sound, and silence participate in the construction of a film, defining its atmospheres, emotions, tensions, and identity.