London International Festival of Exploratory Music [SEP] inception
London International Festival of Exploratory Music
The London International Festival of Exploratory Music (LIFEM) is an annual music festival established in 2009 staged at the beginning of November in London, England, United Kingdom. It brings together musicians from across the world, in what the festival defines as exploratory music. Acts that have appeared at the festival include: Terry Riley, Talvin Singh, George Brooks, Wim Mertens, Bruno Sanfilippo, Sylvain Chauveau, Pascal Comelade, Gavin Bryars, Hortus Musicus, Tanya Tagaq, Andrew Poppy, Lonely
2015, or the London International Festival of Exploratory Music, was an opportunity for Sanfilippo to participate in the Minimalism Unwrapped series with fellow composers, Wim Mertens, Sylvain Chauveau and Greg Haines.
He has been lauded as an “exceptionally refined sound-sculptor” and his work has been compared to Max Richter, Arvo Pärt, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Harold Budd, and many more in the area of contemporary classical.
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A sample of Sanfilippo’s “Ambessence Piano & Drones 1” was used in