Ivan Iusco

Ivan Iusco (born September 4, 1970) is an Italian American award-winning composer and record producer based in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Background
As a youth in the 1970s, Ivan was inspired by Ennio Morricone's film scores, Japanese animation and science fiction film soundtracks. By age 7, Ivan began taking piano lessons. At 15 he bought his first synthesizer and started building a home studio.

Music
In 1987, he founded the pioneering Italian music label Minus Habens Records (involving artists such as Angelo Badalamenti, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin and Depeche Mode), through which he continues to explore and publish avant-garde and experimental music. Several years later he established the Disturbance label to focus on ambient electronic and techno music.

In 1987, Iusco also founded the dark ambient and industrial music group, Nightmare Lodge, whose music was primarily released through Minus Habens. By 1990, Iusco began recording under the name "IT" and released the first album under that name, Era Vulgaris, on his Disturbance imprint in 1996.

Film soundtracks and scoring
He debuted in the film industry in 1999, having composed the music for the Apulian cult movie LaCapaGira directed by Alessandro Piva, and went on to win Best Soundtrack at the 2000 Valencia Film Festival (Spain). In 2003 he composed the music for Mio Cognato, a movie by the same director, for which he received the 2004 Nastro d'Argento nomination for Best Soundtrack.

Iusco has partnered often with the well-known Italian director, Sergio Rubini, composing the main theme for the movie L’Anima Gemella (2002), the soundtrack of L’Amore Ritorna (2004), and an additional score for Colpo D’Occhio (2008) which complemented the music of Pino Donaggio.

His scoring career also includes Ho Voglia Di Te (2007) by the Spanish director Luis Prieto; Fesibum / Maledetto Tag episode (2009) by Dino Giarrusso; 6 Sull’Autobus (2012) a project by Sergio Rubini produced by the Accademia Nazionale D’Arte Drammatica Silvio D’Amico (selected at the 69th Venice Film Festival); and Da Che Parte Stai (2016) by Francesco Lopez.

The track "Mobili In Mobilis", taken from his album Transients (2015), was nominated for the Best Instrumental Song by the American Songwriting Awards 2016.

In 2015 he created two multimedia artworks titled Mirror Drones and Between with the Canadian artist Cassandra Cronenberg, daughter of the director David Cronenberg.

In 2018 he scored the pilot of Rex Starlight, a TV series written by the American scriptwriter Daniel Greenspan. It was presented on March 11, 2018, at Soho House West Hollywood.

His latest projects include: the original score for the psychological thriller “State of Consciousness” starring Emile Hirsch (“Into The Wild”) by the American director Marcus Stokes ("American Horror Story", “Criminal Minds”, “The Flash”, “Arrow”), the original score for the short film “A Woman Makes A Plan” by Alexo Wandael starring Maye Musk, two original songs for “Cyberpunk 2077”, the worldwide acclaimed Sci-Fi dystopian video game starring Keanu Reeves and the score for the documentary “376 Days, Nick Cave: Keep it Movin” by Claude-Aline Miller, recently screened at The Guggenheim Museums and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Awards and nominations

 * Outstanding Achievement Award (Original Somg) - “The Other Side” taken from the album “Synthagma” - IndieX Fest (Los Angeles), US 2021
 * Best Music Video Nomination - “Falling (Andante)” taken from the album “Transients” - Los Angeles CineFest, US 2017
 * Best Instrumental Track Nomination “ASA 2016” - “Mobilis In Mobili” taken from the album “Transients” - American Songwriting Awards, US 2016
 * Best Composer Award “Ombre Sonore Del Mediterraneo” - Teca del Mediterraneo/Consiglio Regionale della Puglia, Italy 2009
 * Best Original Soundtrack Nomination “Diamanti Al Cinema” - soundtrack of the movie “Ho Voglia Di Te” - Venice Film Festival, Italy 2007
 * Best Composer Special Award - Ragusa Film Festival, Italy 2004
 * Best Original Soundtrack Nomination “Nastro d'Argento” (Silver Ribbon) - soundtrack of the movie “Mio Cognato” - Nastri d’Argento, Italy 2004
 * Best Original Soundtrack Award - soundtrack of the movie “LaCapaGira” - Valencia Film Festival, Spain 2000