Ivan Iusco | |
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Born | September 4, 1970 |
Origin | Bari, Italy |
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Occupation(s) | Composer, music producer |
Years active | 1987–present |
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Formerly of | Nightmare Lodge, It |
Website | www |
Ivan Iusco (born September 4, 1970) is an Italian American award-winning composer and record producer based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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. [1]
In 1987, he founded the pioneering Italian music label Minus Habens Records [1] (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. [2]
In 1987, Iusco also founded the dark ambient and industrial music group, Nightmare Lodge , whose music was primarily released through Minus Habens. [1] 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. [3]
He debuted in the film industry in 1999, having composed the music for the Apulian cult movie LaCapaGira directed by Alessandro Piva, [4] and went on to win Best Soundtrack at the 2000 Valencia Film Festival (Spain). In 2003 he composed the music for Mio Cognato, [5] 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), [6] and an additional score for At a Glance (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.
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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1999 | Lacapagira | Alessandro Piva | |
2001 | Giorni | Laura Muscardin | |
2002 | Soul Mate | Sergio Rubini | main theme |
2003 | Mio cognato | Alessandro Piva | |
2004 | L'amore ritorna | Sergio Rubini | |
2006 | Checosamanca | Alice Rohrwacher | |
2007 | Ho voglia di te (film) | Luis Prieto (director) | |
2008 | Colpo d'occhio | Sergio Rubini | additional music |
2009 | Feisbum! | Dino Giarrusso | |
2012 | 6 Sull'Autobus | VV.AA | |
2017 | Da Che Parte Stai | Francesco Lopez | |
2021 | Nicola: Cozze, Kebab & Coca Cola | Antonio Palumbo | |
2021 | Tomato Soup in Skid Row, | Alexo Wandael | |
2022 | State Of Consciousness | Marcus Stokes |
Year | Title | Director |
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2002 | The Spy Inside Me | Materia |
2004 | Legamento | Materia |
2005 | Impossible Love | Luca Curci |
2006 | Impossible Garden | Luca Curci & Fabiana Roscioli |
2006 | Perotti Point | Alessandro Piva |
2006 | Zeleny Muz | Jack Wareing |
2010 | The Synth | Ivan Iusco |
2011 | The Empire Of R-Evolution | Luca Curci |
2013 | Gioco Nel Vento | Francesco Lopez |
2013 | Movimento 2 | Andreia Vigo (performed by AjAx) |
2016 | Clown and Girl | Jack Wareing |
2017 | Emoticon | Antonio Palumbo |
2018 | Transatlantico Rex Nave 296 | Maurizio Sciarra |
2021 | A Woman Makes A Plan” with Maye Musk | Alexo Wandael |
2022 | 376 Days, Nick Cave: ‘Keep it Movin’ | Claude-Aline Miller |
Year | Title | Music Label |
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2000 | Lacapagira - Original Soundtrack | Virgin Records |
2003 | Mio Cognato - Original Soundtrack | Minus Habens Records/Emi Records |
2004 | L'amore ritorna - Original Soundtrack | Warner Chappell Music |
2007 | Ho voglia di te (film) - Original Soundtrack | EMI Records |
2012 | Water - Album | Minus Habens Records |
2015 | Transients - Album [7] | Minus Habens Records |
2020 | Synthagma - Album | Minus Habens Records |
Year | Title | Music Label |
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1987 | Big Mother In The Strain - cass | Minus Habens Records |
1991 | Asylum - cass | Minus Habens Records |
1994 | Negative Planet - album | Minus Habens Records |
1995 | Luminescence - album | Minus Habens Records |
1997 | Nosferatu! - 7" | Ant-Zen |
1997 | The Enemy Within - album | Minus Habens Records |
1999 | Syrena (with Paolo Bigazzi) - soundtrack | Minus Habens Records |
1999 | Blind Miniatures - album | Red Stream |
2003 | Nexus - 7" | SmallVoices |
Year | Title | Music Label |
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1993 | Concrete Jungle - album | Minus Habens Records |
1997 | Snakedressed - album | Daft/COP International |
1999 | True Lies - album | Daft/COP International |
2017 | Underneath - album [8] | Out Of Line |
Year | Title | Music Label |
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1992 | Virtual Energy - 12" | Disturbance |
1996 | Era Vulgaris - album | Disturbance |
1997 | Era Vulgaris (Ncoded) - album | Disturbance |
1998 | Concubia Nocte (Drop 7.1) - album | Materiali Sonori |
2003 | Displaced - 12" | SmallVoices |
Year | Title | Music Label |
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2013 | Peter Von Poehl - Aurora (Ivan Iusco remix) - taken from Vanishing Waves OST | Ici, d'ailleurs... |
2014 | Paul Leonard-Morgan - Search for the Cave (Ivan Iusco remix) - taken from Legendary OST | Just Temptation |
2016 | Stephen Hilton - Kill Command (Ivan Iusco remix) - taken from Kill Command OST | Great Temptation |
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