Ivan Iusco

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Ivan Iusco
Born (1970-09-04) September 4, 1970 (age 53)
Origin Bari, Italy
Genres
Occupation(s) Composer, music producer
Years active1987–present
Labels
Formerly ofNightmare Lodge, It
Website www.ivaniusco.com

Ivan Iusco (born September 4, 1970) is an Italian award-winning composer and record producer based in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Background

As a youth in the 1970s, Ivan was inspired by soundtracks and sound effects in Japanese animation and science fiction films. By age 15, Ivan began taking piano lessons and bought his first synthesizer for a small home studio. [1]

Career

Music

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  [ it ], 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]

Film soundtracks and scoring

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 Colpo D’Occhio (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 11th 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.

Movie soundtracks

YearTitleDirectorNotes
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
2009Feisbum!Dino Giarrusso
20126 Sull'AutobusVV.AA
2017Da Che Parte StaiFrancesco Lopez
2021Nicola: Cozze, Kebab & Coca ColaAntonio Palumbo
2021Tomato Soup in Skid Row,Alexo Wandael
2022State Of Consciousness Marcus Stokes

Videoart, short film and documentary soundtracks

YearTitleDirector
2002The Spy Inside MeMateria
2004LegamentoMateria
2005Impossible LoveLuca Curci
2006Impossible GardenLuca Curci & Fabiana Roscioli
2006Perotti Point Alessandro Piva
2006Zeleny MuzJack Wareing
2010The SynthIvan Iusco
2011The Empire Of R-EvolutionLuca Curci
2013Gioco Nel VentoFrancesco Lopez
2013Movimento 2Andreia Vigo (performed by AjAx)
2016Clown and GirlJack Wareing
2017EmoticonAntonio Palumbo
2018Transatlantico Rex Nave 296Maurizio Sciarra
2021A Woman Makes A Plan” with Maye Musk Alexo Wandael
2022376 Days, Nick Cave: ‘Keep it Movin’Claude-Aline Miller

Discography

Solo

YearTitleMusic Label
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
2012Water - AlbumMinus Habens Records
2015Transients - Album [7] Minus Habens Records
2020Synthagma - AlbumMinus Habens Records

With Nightmare Lodge

YearTitleMusic Label
1987Big Mother In The Strain - cassMinus Habens Records
1991Asylum - cassMinus Habens Records
1994Negative Planet - albumMinus Habens Records
1995Luminescence - albumMinus Habens Records
1997Nosferatu! - 7" Ant-Zen
1997The Enemy Within - albumMinus Habens Records
1999Syrena (with Paolo Bigazzi) - soundtrackMinus Habens Records
1999Blind Miniatures - albumRed Stream
2003Nexus - 7"SmallVoices

With Dive

YearTitleMusic Label
1993 Concrete Jungle - albumMinus Habens Records
1997 Snakedressed - album Daft/COP International
1999True Lies - albumDaft/COP International
2017Underneath - album [8] Out Of Line

As "It"

YearTitleMusic Label
1992Virtual Energy - 12"Disturbance
1996Era Vulgaris - albumDisturbance
1997Era Vulgaris (Ncoded) - albumDisturbance
1998Concubia Nocte (Drop 7.1) - albumMateriali Sonori
2003Displaced - 12"SmallVoices

Official remixes

YearTitleMusic Label
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 OSTJust Temptation
2016 Stephen Hilton - Kill Command (Ivan Iusco remix) - taken from Kill Command OSTGreat Temptation

Awards and nominations

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