Renzo's artistic journey and career highlights Career Highlights Artistic Practice Multiple Disciplines Renzo Spiteri is a multi-percussionist, drummer, field recordist, sound artist, composer and improviser whose work sits at the intersection of performance, sound art and multimedia installation. His creative practice is a journey into the heart of sound, where the boundaries between the human, the cultural, and the natural blur. Over the years, he has developed a deeply immersive practice that blends acoustic instrumentation, field recordings, and electronic processing into richly textured, multi-sensory environments, bringing about deeper sensorial engagements between listeners and his work, be it in public spaces, performance venues, film and art galleries. Awards International Recognition Winner of the 2025 Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award (Sound- Non-Scripted) and a 2025 Emmy® Nominee (Outstanding Sound - Documentary) for the film Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story, produced by Silverback Films for National Geographic and Disney+. His contributions to the arts have earned him recognition as one of Malta's leading contemporary artists, with a passion for pushing the boundaries of creative expression. Renzo was artistic director and creative producer of the Malta World Music Festival (2016-2018) with a remit leading to Valletta Capital of Culture 2018, and in 2008 he was appointed Malta’s national ambassador for the EU’s Year for Intercultural Dialogue. Performance Live Events An acclaimed musician and performer with over three decades of international performance experience, Renzo has performed as a soloist, collaborator and improviser across genres ranging from world music, jazz and free improv, to classical, and experimental work. He has performed on stages and festivals in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including Royal Festival Hall (London), United Nations Headquarters (Geneva), Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast), Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington DC), SOTA (Singapore), Nordic Music Days (Faroe), Festival of the Desert, PASIC, amongst others. Collaborations Artistic Partnerships Beyond the concert stage, Renzo's collaborative spirit has brought him into creative interdisciplinary partnerships with contemporary dancers and choreographers, visual artists, spoken word artists, film directors and theatre professionals across the globe, creating immersive sonic environments. His ability to adapt and respond to various art forms has made him a sought-after collaborator in multidisciplinary projects, where music and movement, sound and visual art intersect. Production Specialisation in Sound Renzo specialises in field recording, sound collection, composition and sound design, and their application in installations, live performances and sonic material for film/moving image. He has a profound engagement with natural phenomena, particularly with the sea and coastlines, and his work often involves a symbiotic relationship with the natural world, turning landscapes and seascapes into co-creators in his artistic process. Education Outreach Events With a Master of Arts (with distinction) in Sound Arts and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Music, Renzo has cultivated a rich and diverse foundation in the world of sound and music. As an educator and mentor, Renzo leads outreach programmes, workshops and masterclasses that inspire young musicians and artists to explore sound in unconventional ways. Explore Renzo's Work

Explore Renzo Spiteri's projects, collaborations and outreach programmes Portfolio "Awaiting a performance by Renzo is always like waiting to turn round the next corner in expectation of what a new, hitherto unknown landscape will reveal. The sounds lead to new sights and then to insights. And as one wanders around this vibrant landscape there seems to emerge a sense of deep soulful familiarity as if it comes to rest in the realisation that it was never really unknown.” Annalise F., audience member Live Events Music performances & interdisciplinary collaborations Production & Sound Installations Ambient sound composition, field recordings, sound design & sound installations

Music performances and interdisciplinary performances by Renzo Spiteri Live Events Music performances and interdisciplinary collaborations Nordic Resonance Music | Experimental

Welcome to Renzo Spiteri's official website that documents his artistic journey through sound. Artistic Journey Sound Migrations documents the sound journey and artistic practice of RTS Craft and Design Award Winner, and Emmy®️ award nominated sound artist, field recordist, sound designer, composer and arts collaborator, Renzo Spiteri . Featured News WINNER: Royal Television Society's Craft & Design Award (Sound - Non-Scripted) for National Geographic's film Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story . "The sound design was magical, helping to keep you truly in the moment. The sounds were gentle and subtle and challenging to capture, yet everything came through with authenticity, clarity and beauty. This was a sound recordist's dream of a project and that delight comes across in the work." RTS Craft and Design Awards jury

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Work as sound recordist for the award-winning National Geographic film, Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story (2023) Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story Project Info A man forms an unlikely friendship with a wild otter while living in the remote Shetland Islands Project role Sound recordist Awards for sound Winner: 2025 Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award (Sound- Non-Scripted) Nominee: 2025 News and Documentary Emmy® Award (Outstanding Sound - Documentary) Produced by Silverback Films for National Geographic and Disney+, 2023 Sound recordist: Billy & Molly: An otter love story (2023) When a wild otter in desperate need of help washes up on his jetty in the remote Scottish islands of Shetland, Billy, his wife Susan, and their devoted sheepdog Jade find themselves with a unique new member of their family. From National Geographic and Silverback Films, “Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story” is a heart-warming story directed by Charlie Hamilton James and shot in 4K. This documentary film shows us how love can reawaken us to the beauty of nature. Video ©: Royal Television Society Sound - Non-scripted WINNER - Kate Hopkins, Graham Wild, Renzo Spiteri, Paul Ackerman & Ellie Bowler Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story Silverback Films for National Geographic and Disney+ "The sound design was magical, helping to keep you truly in the moment. The sounds were gentle and subtle and challenging to capture, yet everything came through with authenticity, clarity and beauty. This was a sound recordist's dream of a project and that delight comes across in the work." Nominees: Gary Kelly, Michal Maletz & Daniel Nolan Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy Grain Media for Netflix Gerrit Swanepoel, Jay Price, Tom Foster, Maggy Apodaca & Sound Team Surviving Black Hawk Down Ridley Scott Associates for Netfix Poster Emmy nominations Renzo Spiteri with Emmy plaque Emmy plaque 1/1 Behind the scenes... Recording during peat cutting Recording during Up Helly Aa 2023 Chatting at the end of a long day! Recording during peat cutting 1/7 1/1

A series of four audio and video works ​that explore new forms of composition, installation and performance aesthetics as responses to rural environmental atmospheres of Shetland. Sonic Interactions Project Info Sonic Interactions is a series of four audio and video works created in outdoor sites across Shetland that explore new forms of composition, installation and performance aesthetics as responses to rural environmental atmospheres of Shetland. Project type Audio / video work Created by Renzo Spiteri, 2021, Shetland (UK) Acknowledgements Commissioned by Shetland Arts as part of Refresh Now, and supported by Creative Scotland and Shetland Charitable Trust. Locations Launched: online in April 2021. Exhibited: Music and/as Process Conference, University of Glasgow, June 2024. "I feel that it is the distinct atmospheres that some places transmit - the particular scenario of stillness, quietness and the predominance of the natural environment - that resonate with me in a unique manner. The ruggedness, the presence of the sea, the minimal presence of humans and of man-made sounds are attributes and qualities that stimulate my creative processes. I am equally fascinated by the sonic possibilities of found objects and everyday materials that I like to re-image and re-use as creative tools that expand my musical language." Renzo Spiteri Sonic Interactions Loch of Brough Sonic Interactions Loch of Brough Sonic Interactions Wester Ayre Burravoe Sonic Interactions Loch of Brough 1/40 I love the sea. The more time I spend with it, the more I feel the need to engage with it, be with it, live with it. The sea speaks a language that resonates with me in a manner quite hard to articulate. So rather than string words together to express myself, I create work centred around it and around shorelines. Sonic Interactions is a series of four audio and video works, filmed and recorded on Bressay, Shetland and Yell. The works celebrate phenomena that are mundane in nature but which, through emphasis on the detail of materiality and movement, are the agents of complex events. I find a particular fascination in engaging with the visual and sonic possibilities that lie therein, in taking the time to observe the richness in the natural environments that I am surrounded by. The video and field recordings that I glean become my colouring palette, combining found sounds and everyday objects and materials that I like to re-image and re-use. In two of the four works I have also added my interventions on small percussive instruments or found objects, like wire fences, pebbles and metal gates. The experiences that emerge from time spent listening, observing and engaging with my surroundings have a strong influence on how I conceive and design site-responsive works like Sonic Interactions. Such sensorial elements quite often are part and parcel of my work as a live performer, and the particular atmospheres that I seek to generate are part of a journey that I share with audiences wherever and however I present my work. Sonic Interactions #1: Loch of Brough, Bressay In Winter 2020/2021 Shetland experienced a significant amount of snow and ice. For days and days on end, I visited various lochs around Bressay, monitoring the changes in condition of the frozen waters. I waited, knowing that at some point, these solidified water surfaces will start to crack and melt. That’s the moment I wanted to capture on my sound and video recording devices, an event that I had not yet experienced first-hand. On a bitterly cold February afternoon, Loch of Brough turned into a spectacle of movement and sound events and, with camera, microphones and hydrophones, I focused on a particular area of the loch to glean these occurrences. Ice plates moved like a giant muted chime, an instrument of immense proportions excited by strong winds and a-rhythmic waves. The sum of such events was, in my view, so sonically rich that the invitation was to sit back, record and listen. Sonic Interactions: Loch of Brough is a work based on field recordings and video as the result of my personal experience of the contrast between the water’s solidity and stillness while the loch was frozen, and its transitional state to fluidity. Sonic Interactions #2: Burn at Cullingsburgh, Bressay This burn, with its gentle flow of water down trenches, stones, cobbles and pebbles, is the right mood-setter for the rest of the wonderful walk at Voe of Cullingsburgh. This setting inspired me to create Sonic Interactions: Burn at Cullingsburgh that incorporates field recordings, visuals and my own intervention on found materials by striking pebbles, playing fence wire with a double-bass bow and recording a small metal gate which I resampled to create a drone effect for the piece. Sonic Interactions #3: Sumburgh Head I find that there is something quite stimulating and inspiring in the combination of strong winds and the sea, feeling the force of these natural elements while struggling to stand still on one spot. It was the particular orchestration of various aeolian sounds around the lighthouse that I based the sonic texture on, while I was drawn to the constantly shifting patterns of crushing waves and swelling sea contrasting with the immobility of rock and structures. Metal is a predominate exciter of sonic textures in the field recordings I made and to these I added my own on-site interventions of resonating metal gates, Chinese cymbals and long sustaining metal sound discs. Sonic Interactions #4: Wester Ayre, Burravoe, Yell One of the many wonderful things about the creative journey of Sonic Interactions is the balance between planned work and serendipitous encounters. The chance discovery of Wester Ayre at Burravoe offered a plurality of events that contrasted with the stillness of the coastline so close to where I was standing. I often think about how privileged I am to be able to experience places and their sounds through field recording equipment, to be able to listen to, see and share what might not be so easily accessible. Wading around the shingle beach at Wester Ayre as the water from the burn gurgled and gushed down to meet the sea, I listened and looked for different angles, features and sounds that I could capture with the only recording device that I had at hand – my GoPro. All sounds are therefore from the on-board microphone of the camera.

Music performances and interdisciplinary performances by Renzo Spiteri Production & Sound Installations Ambient sound composition, field recordings, sound design & sound installations As a freelance sound recordist, ambient sound composer and sound designer, I have developed my craft over years of experience in the field and have a passion for capturing the essence of environments around the globe. Location sound is my primary focus, and I am available to record sounds that are specific to a production - whether capturing wildlife in their natural habitats or the vibrant pulse of cultural festivities, I strive to convey the true essence of each location with authenticity and depth. My portfolio spans a diverse range of projects, including film soundtracks, nature documentaries, sound installations and immersive audio experiences, in which I have been commissioned as composer, sound recordist, and/or sound designer. Working from my own professionally-equipped studio, I approach each project with a creative vision and can have meaningful and productive conversations with production companies and commissioning agencies to deliver bespoke end-products and rich palettes of audio textures to enhance projects. I have spent several years travelling to diverse landscapes and cultures, meticulously documenting natural and urban soundscapes. As a result I have amassed a vast collection of high-quality audio recordings that span a wide spectrum of environments and atmospheres and that are readily available for purchase. Contact me for kit list and rates. Billy & Molly Film | Sound Recordist Sonic Interactions Audio / Video Works

Experimental improvised music shaped by nature and performed by Renzo Spiteri and Richard Craig. Nordic Resonance Project Info Shaped by the elemental forces of Shetland, Nordic Resonance is an immersive sonic exploration, a quiet invocation of place through unique, moment-to-moment dialogues between environment, artist, and sound. Project type Experimental, improvised music Created by Renzo Spiteri (percussion, field recordings, electronics) Richard Craig (flutes, electronics) 2025, Shetland (UK) Acknowledgements Performances of Nordic Resonance in Malta, Shetland and Glasgow are supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland . Events Launch performance: The Old Hairdressers (Glasgow), June 2025 Performed at: Spazju Kreattiv (Malta), January 2026, part of Spazju Kreattiv programme 2025/2026. Mareel (Shetland, UK), February 2026 Glasgow (UK, February 2026 Nordic Resonance invites audiences into an immersive sound world shaped by Shetland’s windswept landscape and the delicate interplay of natural, human, and environmental sonic layers at the crossroads between Scotland and Scandinavia. Co-created by percussionist and sound artist Renzo Spiteri and flautist Richard Craig , Nordic Resonance invites deep listening and intuitive response, unfolding through free improvisation and layered interplay where instruments, found sounds, and live processing blur the lines between the human and the elemental. Shetland's diverse soundscapes, wind-carved coastlines, shifting weather, birdsong, and silence provide both source material and inspiration, resonating through acoustic and electronic textures. Nordic Resonance unfolds as a dialogue; between environment and artist, between sound and sensation, between what is heard and what lies just beneath. Each presentation becomes a unique encounter where structure meets spontaneity, presence meets memory. Performances are immersive and attuned to the moment - a quiet invocation of place through sound, presence, and listening, offering an alternative listening experience; an invitation to pause, attune, and reconnect with the sonic environments we inhabit. In an increasingly noisy world, Nordic Resonance becomes a moment of grounding, awareness, and resonance across geographies.

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