I've always been especially interested in imperfection and fragility. I like enveloping, faceted systems that evolve so subtly over time that every change makes for a drastic dramaturgical switch.

In my music, I like a balance between filigrane, detailed and loud, immersive soundscapes. 

I am interested in composition as a tool to pitch musical concepts for musicians to re-form and interpret rather than for them to reproduce my exact ideas, therefore I developed different graphic notations to achieve this.

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Samuele Giulio Ferrari (b. 2001, Milan) is an Italian composer currently based in Salzburg, Austria. 

His music has been performed at venues such as Limina Festival (Salzburg), [Con]tempo Festival (Salamanca), Biennial M++ Música Aumentada (Santiago de Chile), House Of Music Hungary (Budapest), ISCM Avant-Garde 100 (Vilnius). He has worked with ensembles such as NAMES, Cantando Admont, Oenm, Ensemble Wiener Collage, Twenty Fingers Duo, Oenm, Duo Strings&Noise and Duo Ovocutters. 

In 2024, he was awarded the Gustav Mahler Prize from Musikforum Viktring.​

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Alongside fellow colleagues Nicolas Speda and Tibor Victor Hugo Kovacs, he founded a collective for electroacoustic improvisation called “Bean$ Collective”, specialising on Noise and Drone music. Here, Samuele improvises on a modular system or an 8-string electric guitar with an array of FX pedals as well as live electronics.