Aiv Puglielli
Besen Family Artist
As an Italian-Australian dual national, LGBTQIA+, multidisciplinary artist, Aiv works as a composer (both in fixed notation and via improvisation-based techniques), voice artist, producer, and actor. Recent credits include Binary Coalescence Project, The House on Fire at the Edge of the World, and Lady Moon and the Gondolier. Aiv Puglielli has also composed Radiation Language (StoryBursts/Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery UWA), Astronomy on Country (StoryBursts/International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research), and Refraction of Winds, Mechanical (Swan Festival of Lights—Reignited). Aiv has been commissioned by National Science Week, awarded City of Melbourne Arts Grants funding, received a mentorship with the Australian Art Orchestra Mentorship Program, and invited to workshop with the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.
Besen Family Artist Program Placement, 2021, Sound Design & Composition, S.S. Metaphor, Looking for Alibrandi, Monsters