Matteo Silva is an Italian composer, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. Born in Ulm, Germany, he grew up in Bologna and Lugano, Switzerland, studied experimental composition at Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan with Niccolò Castiglioni and philosophy in Venice with Emanuele Severino. Founder of the independent record...
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Matteo Silva is an Italian composer, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. Born in Ulm, Germany, he grew up in Bologna and Lugano, Switzerland, studied experimental composition at Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan with Niccolò Castiglioni and philosophy in Venice with Emanuele Severino. Founder of the independent record label Amiata Records he produced more than 130 contemporary and ethnic music CDs in the USA, Germany, France and Italy.
As a visual artist, he is mainly self-taught.
In the '90 's with his friend Michael Vetter, a German musician and multimedia artist he deepens the art of sound and oriental calligraphic art which will then take him to Korea, Taiwan and Japan where he develops his own personal style which he will then integrate in many works.
With regards to spiritual and artistic growth, Matteo Silva travelled extensively through Asia, particularly in the Himalayan regions, where he documented and recorded several musical ceremonies of endangered ethnic groups such as the Bön and Gurung, and where he committed himself to the documentation of numerous Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies and of the traditional songs of the nomads of the Kham region (eastern Tibet). During this period he also studied philosophy and practiced meditation with few Tibetan masters and frequented the Tibetan community in exile in Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh, India) in particular Lamas and artists.Back in Europe he settled in Tuscany, then in Rome. Since 2016 Matteo Silva lives and works in the countryside near Todi in Umbria.
