User:Federico.giorgi/sandbox

Career
Luigi Porto was born in Cosenza, Italy. As a teenager, he plays in several bands of the Calabria region, mainly as guitarist and keyboardist. In 2006 he releases his first full-length album with the Cold Current Productions labels, named "Appleyard College", a collection of songs and instrumentals, with strong influences from the cut-up art. In 2007 he moves to Rome and starts working as a composer and sound editor. In 2008 he joins the Indie rock band Maisie, co-writing two albums with them: "Balera Metropolitana" and "Maledette Rockstar".

In 2010, he writes the score to Romano Scavolini's "L'Apocalisse delle Scimmie", a movie in three parts. In 2011, he collaborates on the production of several movies, such as Basilicata coast to coast, East West East, and Il mondo perduto.

In 2012, he moves to New York, where he co-founds the International Brazilian Opera Company with the composer Joao MacDowell, initially working on the projects "Plastic Flowers" and "Cries and Whispers".

Starting in 2014, he works with American and Italian movie makers, designing the sound of Rapid Eye Movement by Peter Bishai and Se quel guerrier io fossi by Valerio Ciriaci, winner of the 2015 "Globo d'oro".

In 2015, he releases Mond My After World, an electronic instrumental ("electroacoustic") album.

In 2021, he founds the music company Respirano Records. Also in 2021, in collaboration with La Lumaca Dischi, he publishes the album Tell Uric, which expands on themes from the Uljhan-The Knot movie by Ashish Pant, also presented in the same year at the Santa Barbara Film Festival and at the Shanghai International Film Fest.