WELCOME TO THE VISCERAL RADIO FAMILY, CHIARA KICKDRUM!

Chiara is a music composer and producer born and raised in Torino, Italy and now based in Australia.

Chiara has recently composed the original soundtrack for Georgian feature film Panopticon (Look at Me), for MIFF and ABC’s The Slam, for STAN Original Series Totally Completely Fine and for Netflix’s series Heartbreak High (2022). She has also composed the original score for ‘All These Creatures‘, winner of the Palme D’Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2018, as well as for many other film & TV projects for ABC and SBS.

In 2022, she composed for contemporary dance company Chunky Move’s Yung Lung which premiered at Sydney Festival. This is a collaboration with choreographer Antony Hamilton, artist Callum Morton and LA based visual artist Kris Moyes.

Classically trained in piano in Italy and later exposed to electronic music after moving to Melbourne in 2004, Chiara has since moved into a well respected position in the Melbourne electronic music movement through her dedication to a refined DJing technique and production of electronic music. This eventually led to extra studies in sound art and design at RMIT University, extending her interests into composition and sound design for screen.

Chiara’s work now ranges across composing and producing music and sound design for film and TV commercials, creating electronic music for live performance, composing soundscapes for immersive environments and art installations, and the experimental use of field recordings with analogue and digital synthesis.

As a composer, Chiara has also worked with Electric Dreams Studios in Melbourne and Melodie in Sydney. She is also part of New York’s Free The Bid.

In the few years, Chiara has been a sessional lecturer and tutor at JMC Academy and at the Melbourne University Conservatorium of Music in the Interactive Composition department.

DJing under the moniker Chiara Kickdrum, she has performed at a range of venues across Australia and overseas, supporting international acts such as Kiasmos, Marcel Dettmann, Nina Kraviz, Dopplereffekt, DJ Stingray and Underground Resistance, as well as appearing at Pitch Music Festival, Melbourne Music Week, Meredith Music Festival and Dark Mofo in Hobart, and composing music for fashion designer Dion Lee at Melbourne Fashion Week.

In 2020, Chiara was the recipient of the APRA Mentorship program for Women in Screen Composition with Melbourne composer Bryony Marks.

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