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Johannes Malfatti (born 1976) is a German composer, sound designer and multi instrumentalist from Berlin. He releases music under his own name and various monikers and writes music for film, theatre, art installations and advertisement. He studied sound design at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg and graduated with a degree in Sound Design for Audio-Visual Media.

Career
In 2003 he joined Olivier Alary and his project Ensemble , first as orchestral arranger and sound mixer for Ensemble´s second studio album that features vocal performances by Chan Marshall (Cat Power), Lou Barlow, Mileece and drums by Adam Pierce. His arrangements were recorded with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg.

Malfatti also wrote the orchestral arrangements for Ensemble´s remix of Björk`s Mouth's Cradle.

He co-wrote and produced Ensemble´s third studio album Excerpts that was released in 2011 on FatCat Records and features vocalist Darcy Conroy. The album is “..an evocative, sophisticated and charming record, awash with imaginative atmospheres, that looks back to the past for inspiration without ever wallowing in sentiment” (BBC Music).

Malfatti released his first solo album on Italian ambient label Glacial Movements in 2017. The album features extremely slow-moving drone music that explores themes such as deep time and deep listening. Malfatti quotes the music of John Cage, John Luther Adams and Radu Malfatti as being inspiration for the album.

His follow up album 달빛백조의노래 Moonlight Swan Songs was released under the moniker 요유시 yoyush on Japanese Vaporwave label Seikomart and was available as limited cassette edition.

With u, i Malfatti and Alary released the first joined album under their own names in 2020. The album was produced using Voice over IP technology such as Skype or Facetime. By sending audio material back and forth between theirs studios and by manipulating the network bandwidth they obtained various degrees of sonic artefacts that make up the sonic layout of the album. It is an exploration of contemporary mediated communication and is “an odyssey into the fragile, global communicative state, fusing found sound, drone and chamber instrumentation.“ (Backseat Mafia)

Over the years Malfatti has written numerous scores for feature-length fiction and documentary films that have recieved Awards and Nominations at festivals worldwide such as Sundance Film Festival, Canadian Screen Awards, Hof International Film Festival, Prix Iris, Golden Horse Film Festival, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, Genie Awards, Gopo Awards among others.

His work also includes music for theatre, dance productions and art installations notably with Emanuele Soavi, Laurie Young, Grayson Millwood, Gerhard Falkner, Jim Rakete, Candice Breitz, Arno Coenen and Benny Nemer.

Personal life
Malfatti is the nephew of reductionist composer Radu Malfatti.

Albums

 * 2020 u, i (as Johannes Malfatti, with Olivier Alary) (130701)
 * 2020 A splendid ornament (as Johannes Malfatti)
 * 2018 달빛백조의노래 Moonlight Swan Songs (as 요유시 yoyush) (Seikomart)
 * 2017 surge (as Johannes Malfatti) (Glacial Movements)
 * 2011 Excerpts (as Ensemble) (FatCat Records)
 * 2006 Ensemble (as Ensemble) (FatCat Records)
 * 2004 Unyoga (as Chlorgeschlecht) (Deco) (Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica 2004)
 * 2003 Alles will los 2 (as Dånzen jetzt) (Klangkrieg)

Eps

 * 2003 Metal Kings (as Transformer di Roboter) (Deco)
 * 2002 Transformer Hits (as Transformer di Roboter) (WMF Records)

Singles

 * 2021 Cloud Sketches II
 * 2021 Cloud Sketches I
 * 2020 I can´t even see myself
 * 2020 Drifting

Contributions

 * 2005 Mouth's Cradle - Remix (with Ensemble)
 * 2002 µ allstars criminal `02 (as Transformer di Roboter, compilation on Planet Mu)

Selected film soundtracks

 * 2021 Twist à Bamako, fiction film directed by Robert Guédiguian
 * 2020 Softie, documentary directed by Sam Soko
 * 2018 The Great Darkened Days, fiction film directed by Maxime Giroux
 * 2018 Colossus, documentary directed by Jonathan Schienberg
 * 2015 Ville-Marie, fiction film directed by Guy Édoin, starring Monica Bellucci
 * 2015 Glutnester, fiction film directed by Katja Sambeth
 * 2013 Millionen, fiction film directed by Fabian Möhrke
 * 2012 The Fruit Hunters, documentary directed by Yung Chang
 * 2012 China Heavyweight, documentary directed by Yung Chang
 * 2011 The Phantom Father, fiction film directed by Lucian Georgescu, screenplay by Barry Gifford (Score nominated for Best Music at the Gopo Awards 2013)
 * 2011 Mein Prinz, mein König, fiction film directed by Ciril Tscheligi
 * 2009 The Coca Cola Case, documentary directed by Carmen Garcia & German Gutierrez
 * 2007 Up the Yangtze, documentary directed by Yung Chang
 * 2007 Roots Germania, documentary directed by Mo Asumang

Awards

 * 2014 Red Dot Grand Prix for the sound of Fascinating Gases