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Simon Scardanelli has been composing, creating and assembling musical and sound collages since the age of ten when he bought two Grundig TK20 reel-to-reel tape records in a jumble sale. On this page are four pieces commissioned during 1999/2001. Available as a CD for £10 including International postage

"The concert closed with some genuine industrial music. Simon Scardanelli's De(re)construction literally built up from Digbeth factory thrashings, clankings and clumpings, with true-life-of-a-foreman interviews rising up from the decibel crush, the participants very wary of the Millennium Point media-focused makeover driving out the old grimy factories. This was clearly the best fulfilment of the City Scape brief."
- Martin Longley, Birmingham Post.
Premiered 16th November CBSO Centre Birmingham.

Simon Scardanelli is of course better known as a singer-songwriter and songs can be heard at his other Myspace page.

FRAGMENTS OF DEMOCRACY (1999-2000) The final meeting of Birmingham City Council of 1999 was recorded in its 6 hour entirety. From fly-on-the-wall veritas to heavy digital processing of the day’s proceedings, Scardanelli’s electroacoustic composition juxtaposes tradition with a futuristic sonic commentary. A melee of political rhetoric, social comment and procedural banality, Fragments of Democracy is an intriguing political document; a sonic Hansard for the people.

de(re)construction (2000) The Digbeth area of Birmingham is known for its industrial heritage, soon to be swept away with the East Side development program. de(re)construction visits factories and workshops, some of which have operated in the area for decades, and talks to owners and workers about the future. Is there a place for manufacturing in the new media-based Digbeth? Will the grind of thread rolling machines and clack of steel stampers be forever lost, to be replaced by the hiss of the cappucino machine? de(re)construction is both a historical document of a vanishing industry and a celebration of a vision for the city of the future. A city where the currency of manufacturing is being replaced by one of ideas, knowledge and learning. Premiered November 16th 2000 at CBSO Centre as part of BEAST's 2000/2001 concert series. Also featured Installation at IKON Gallery Birmingham, 9/10 December 2000.

AQUALOGICA (2000) Sounds produced by the machinery at the splendidly Edwardian Moseley Baths, together with biological and environmental sound sources form the material used in the composition of Aqualogica. A site specific work composed for Immerse, part of the Metapod Expo held in October 2000.

A Sharp Intake of Breath Premiered at Birmingham's Symphony Hall. Featured on "SPIKE - Works from BEAST" , CD released on Sargasso (reviewed in The Wire, May 2001). This track available on iTunes.