A contemplative work commissioned by An Lanntair (Isle of Lewis), part of The Hebridean Dark Skies Festival 2021. Under Dark Blue Skies "Such a beautiful journey. [...] Every time I hear it the experience seems to change." Annalise F. "It’s lovely! So nice to listen with my headphones. Felt like I was bathing in icy audio. I love the delicate parts around 15:00. Chimes and water droplets. I was picturing the ice crystals we’ve had on our window in Helsinki - creeping up the glass as the sun goes down." Chris. B. Under Dark Blue Skies is an immersive and contemplative work inspired by periods of deep listening during certain times of the day. From the forewarnings of heavy rains to the still nights under clear skies, shades of dark blue often make me stop and listen to sonic events around me. For this composition I used a variety of sounds gleaned during winter on Shetland, from the most present to the minutest. Different atmospheric conditions, and the randomness of a plurality of sound events that reach my ears every time I am listening and recording, have inspired me to shape this composition. From lochs with creaking icy surfaces to windy nights, whooper swans and clacking pebbles, I sought to create a tapestry of sounds within which I interweaved sparsely employed delicate percussion instruments, vibraphone and electronics. I invite listeners to make themselves comfortable and, for twenty minutes, immerse themselves in this short journey under dark blue skies. Due to the nature of this work, the use of headphones/speakers/earphones is highly recommended. Under Dark Blue Skies was released in February 2021 and is available for streaming and download on all digital platforms including Bandcamp , Amazon Music, Apple Music, iTunes and Spotify. Project type Digital track Credits Created, recorded and produced by Renzo Spiteri at Orange Dot Studios, Shetland. Total time: 22:18 Cover photo: Renzo Spiteri Acknowledgements Under Dark Blue Skies was commissioned by An Lanntair as part of The Hebridean Dark Skies Festival 2021. Events Track released February 2021.

Audio production and sound design for the award winning exhibition Music in Malta: From Prehistory to Vinyl, a Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malta production. Music in Malta: From Prehistory to Vinyl Project Info Located between Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean has always been a melting pot of artistic expressions and ideas from the continents bordering it. In the process of moulding their own identity, the Maltese Islands, situated right in the centre of the Mediterranean Sea, have absorbed various influences from these diverse cultures. The project Music in Malta - From Prehistory to Vinyl was an exhibition that covered the history of music in Malta from prehistory to the early twentieth century. Through a display of musical instruments sourced from Maltese private and public collections, and through the use of multimedia technology, and sound and narration transmitted through wireless audio guides, this exhibition explored the music and musical instruments that have weaved their way through the Island’s rich history. Project type Multimedia Exhibition and Documentary Produced by Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malta , December 2018 - June 2019 Role in Project Member of the creative production team of the exhibition Field and Audio recordings, audio production and sound design Awards Production of The Year 2020, Malta Arts Award by Arts Council Malta Location Exhibited at Mdina Cathedral Museum (Malta) between 14 April and 16 June 2019 “An exhibition that celebrates the richness and diversity of music in Malta and its neighbouring countries merits that extra attention where the sonic aspect is involved. Together with the whole team, I am looking into making sure that each patron's experience will be enhanced with the particular treatment of sound, as the encounter with each section of the walk-through unfolds. The aim is to have different spaces charged with their own distinct identity and atmosphere and sound will surely play a very important role in the shaping of these spaces. Headphones, delivering sound-designed audio tracks, will weave the narrative of the exhibition in a particularly focused manner.” Renzo Spiteri, 2019 “Since its inception, Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti has always prided itself in being at the forefront of Malta’s exhibitions and their overall visitor experience. We have strived hard to reach uncompromising standards in the hope of putting the Maltese islands on the international map. Music in Malta – from Prehistory to Vinyl, FPM’s latest project, is to prove no different. With the use of multimedia technology this exhibition explores the music and musical instruments that have weaved their way through the Island’s rich history. Through wireless audio guides, sound and narration will lead you through this journey of musical artefacts. A feast for the senses, this exhibition hopes to evoke and provoke whilst remaining true to the context for which it was created." Michael Lowell CEO, Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti Production of The Year 2020 Music in Malta: From Prehistory to Vinyl Arts Council Malta's Il-Premju għall-Arti, are the national arts awards which celebrate the achievements of the cultural and creative sectors in Malta. The awards acknowledge excellence in artistic work premiered during the preceding year. Documentary A short documentary narrated by a series of short interviews by some of the team members behind the project; curator Dr Anna Borg Cardona, sound designer and composer Renzo Spiteri, as well as other music historians and musicians.

Commissioned composition for the contemporary dance work Je Teins La Reine by ŻfinMalta Dance Ensemble, Malta's National Contemporary Dance Company. Je Tiens La Reine Heiligenstadt – Another World Inside is a multi-disciplinary performance and contemporary solo dance work that celebrated Beethoven’s 250th anniversary. The work drew inspiration from Beethoven’s The Heiligenstadt Testament, a letter that Beethoven penned to his two brothers in 1802, the topic being his despair at his increasing deafness. "The music rages, deliberately discordant at times, with Spiteri’s flawless technique and an innate affinity for exalting contemporary sounds, revealing layers of beauty. The work as a whole, which is Spiteri’s composition, is pulsating and introspective at the same time. Spiteri is masterful in his craft and artistry, creating a work that is as powerful as what it is trying to convey." Ramona Depares, www.ramonadepares.com Beethoven’s The Hieligenstadt Testament acts as a framework for Beyond Sense , the music that I composed for the solo dance piece, Hieligenstadt - Another World Inside. It is a revealing testament, a first-hand experience by Beethoven, but it is also a reality that human beings go through even presently. The music that is heard in one’s head is muted on the outside. A longing to reach to the outside transforms into despair, in the knowledge that, in most cases, this is a perpetual hinderance. The music is an expression of the tensions between an inner and outer self, a within and without. The experiential self is in a divide, where the within can hear the music, can feel what the inner world is all about and can negotiate with that reality. On the outside, the experience is of suffering, of loss and of fragility. My music for this project conveys the emotions, the tensions and releases of a being in this state of loss, of isolation and desire. It’s very rhythmic and unsettling at times and there’s an element of aggression that comes as a result of the desire to release tensions that are building inside a person who is experiencing suffering, despair and loneliness. I also used filtering processes as a reflection of the auditory frequencies that we start losing in different stages of our lives but which, naturally, are more aggressive in someone who is becoming deaf. The filtering of sounds at times leaves us with very muted sound textures and this is a concept that I sought to develop in two of the three tracks, ‘Within Without’ and ‘You Wrong Me’. The major source of inspiration was the testament itself. Over the countless times that I read this letter, different layers, thoughts and inspirations emerged. Through a continuous level of engagement with the writing, I knew that I needed to commit myself to giving this writing a new life, a new perspective that although coming from the early 1800s, is relevant in this present age. In my head, the letter started morphing into a score. And like a music score, the printed notes can only become alive through interpretation and performance. This is exactly how I felt about the Hieligenstadt Testament, sonically conveyed in the particular treatment and the sculpturing of words and phrases from the text as sound within an inner headspace. The music is born out of these thought processes and is a journey of struggles and of disquiet until, at the end with ‘A Dark Sense’, the music conveys a reflection on the idea of surrender, of filtering emotional conflicts as a solution that would ‘free me from a state of endless suffering’. Photos: Emma Tranter Project type Multi-disciplinary, contemporary dance Created by Music Composition, Production & Sound Design: Renzo Spiteri Choreography and light design: Francesca Tranter Dancer: Zoe Camilleri Orchestral score and original concept: Michelle Castelletti Voice: Antony Edridge Filming: Jean-Paul Caruana, Emma Tranter Acknowledgements Premiere performance part of The Three Palaces Festival Malta, November 2020

A contemporary solo percussion performance inspired by prehistoric sites spread across The Maltese Islands. Silence Sounds and Spaces solo performance Silence, Sounds and Spaces is a contemporary concept project inspired by prehistoric sites spread across the Maltese Islands. What began as a commission by Heritage Malta (the Maltese national agency for Museums, Conservation Practice and Cultural Heritage) to score music to the visitors' audio guide of the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), developed into the release of a music album , and the presentation of a series of solo percussion performances in Malta, the United Kingdom and mainland Europe. "Silence Sounds and Spaces is about creating a painting in notes and sounds through a transparent and simple score. The music is a tapestry of sounds overlaying each other, weaving ideas together." Renzo Spiteri Photos: Nick Critien shot at St James Cavalier, Valletta (Malta). Project type Music | Solo percussion performance Created by Created, performed and produced by Renzo Spiteri Events Premiere performance and CD launch: November 2011, St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta (Malta). Other performances: Studio de l'Ermitage, Paris, France (November 2012), held in collaboration with The Embassy of Malta in Paris and the Cultural Diplomacy Fund Passionskirche, Berlin, Germany (November 2012), held in collaboration with the Embassy of Malta in Berlin and the Cultural Diplomacy Fund Chapel Arts Centre, Bath, UK (June 2012), supported by National Lottery Good Causes Fund Acorn Arts Centre, Penzance, UK (June 2012), supported by National Lottery Good Causes Fund John Moore Theatre, Worcester, UK (May 2012), supported by National Lottery Good Causes Fund European Graduate School Annual Conference, Malta (April 2012)

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A solo contemporary dance work that draws inspiration from Beethoven’s The Heiligenstadt Testament written in 1802. Heiligenstadt Another World Inside Heiligenstadt – Another World Inside is a multi-disciplinary performance and contemporary solo dance work that celebrated Beethoven’s 250th anniversary. The work drew inspiration from Beethoven’s The Heiligenstadt Testament, a letter that Beethoven penned to his two brothers in 1802, the topic being his despair at his increasing deafness. "The music rages, deliberately discordant at times, with Spiteri’s flawless technique and an innate affinity for exalting contemporary sounds, revealing layers of beauty. The work as a whole, which is Spiteri’s composition, is pulsating and introspective at the same time. Spiteri is masterful in his craft and artistry, creating a work that is as powerful as what it is trying to convey." Ramona Depares, www.ramonadepares.com Beethoven’s The Hieligenstadt Testament acts as a framework for Beyond Sense , the music that I composed for the solo dance piece, Hieligenstadt - Another World Inside. It is a revealing testament, a first-hand experience by Beethoven, but it is also a reality that human beings go through even presently. The music that is heard in one’s head is muted on the outside. A longing to reach to the outside transforms into despair, in the knowledge that, in most cases, this is a perpetual hinderance. The music is an expression of the tensions between an inner and outer self, a within and without. The experiential self is in a divide, where the within can hear the music, can feel what the inner world is all about and can negotiate with that reality. On the outside, the experience is of suffering, of loss and of fragility. My music for this project conveys the emotions, the tensions and releases of a being in this state of loss, of isolation and desire. It’s very rhythmic and unsettling at times and there’s an element of aggression that comes as a result of the desire to release tensions that are building inside a person who is experiencing suffering, despair and loneliness. I also used filtering processes as a reflection of the auditory frequencies that we start losing in different stages of our lives but which, naturally, are more aggressive in someone who is becoming deaf. The filtering of sounds at times leaves us with very muted sound textures and this is a concept that I sought to develop in two of the three tracks, ‘Within Without’ and ‘You Wrong Me’. The major source of inspiration was the testament itself. Over the countless times that I read this letter, different layers, thoughts and inspirations emerged. Through a continuous level of engagement with the writing, I knew that I needed to commit myself to giving this writing a new life, a new perspective that although coming from the early 1800s, is relevant in this present age. In my head, the letter started morphing into a score. And like a music score, the printed notes can only become alive through interpretation and performance. This is exactly how I felt about the Hieligenstadt Testament, sonically conveyed in the particular treatment and the sculpturing of words and phrases from the text as sound within an inner headspace. The music is born out of these thought processes and is a journey of struggles and of disquiet until, at the end with ‘A Dark Sense’, the music conveys a reflection on the idea of surrender, of filtering emotional conflicts as a solution that would ‘free me from a state of endless suffering’. Photos: Emma Tranter Project type Multi-disciplinary, contemporary dance Created by Music Composition, Production & Sound Design: Renzo Spiteri Choreography and light design: Francesca Tranter Dancer: Zoe Camilleri Orchestral score and original concept: Michelle Castelletti Voice: Antony Edridge Filming: Jean-Paul Caruana, Emma Tranter Acknowledgements Premiere performance part of The Three Palaces Festival Malta, November 2020

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 Role in project Sound recordist Awards for sound Renzo Spiteri, Winner: 2025 Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award (Sound- Non-Scripted) Renzo Spiteri, 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 commission by Heritage Malta to score music for the visitors' audio guide of the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum audio guide Project Info Creation of the visitors' audio guide for the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Project type Audioguide Produced by Heritage Malta, 2007 Role in Project Field recordings, composition, audio production and sound design Location Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta In 2007, I was commissioned by Heritage Malta (the national agency for museums, conservation practice and cultural heritage) to score music for the visitors' audio guide of the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Hypogeum is an underground burial complex which was in use between 4000 BC and 1500BC. Covering a remarkable 500 square metres, it is a unique monument, consisting of halls, chambers and passages hewn out of globigerina limestone. The complex is dug in three levels, with the site users digging deeper as space became limited. All the sounds heard during the introductory sequence and throughout the audio guide were recorded during a three-week period working and experimenting inside the Hypogeum. I had the opportunity to spend quite a few solitary nights enthralled by the mysteries that shroud this magnificent site. The unique space, the particular environment, the known and the unknown, chambers that vibrate and resonate so splendidly- these were all factors that have inspired me to put together this contemporary score. I have played the barest of ‘instrumentation’ using materials such as stone, clay, wood and voice in keeping with the particular soundscape that I wanted to create for this Hypogeum. The music heard at every stop of the guided tour has been recorded in that specific area. I felt that this would enhance the experience of each particular space. Part of the music of the audio guide is available on the CD SILENCE SOUNDS AND SPACES (2011) which also features music inspired by and recorded on site at the various archaeological sites spread across the Maltese Islands. This work also led to the creation of a solo percussion performance that toured the UK and mainland Europe. Photos: Gaby Giacchino shot at Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta.

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 Live Events Music performances and interdisciplinary collaborations Nordic Resonance Music | Experimental / Improvised Terra Verunt Contemporary Dance / Theatre Now Here | Nowhere Sound & Spoken Word Heiligenstadt Contemporary Dance Nordic Nights Music & Storytelling Silence Sounds & Spaces Music | Solo Percussion The Eyland Project Music | Folk/World

Storytelling and music performance inspired by the myth, magic and mystery of stories written and told in Nordic region. Nordic Nights Nordic Nights is an immersive storytelling and musical experience myth and music intertwine, where the flicker of northern lights illuminates ancient tales, and where the echoes of the sea and the wind shape stories that have stood the test of time. Inspired by the mystery, magic, and rugged beauty of the northern landscapes, Nordic Nights weaves together spoken word and live music in an evocative performance that celebrates Scotland’s rich storytelling heritage. Drawing from Nordic and Scottish folklore, this performance brings to life tales of witches and robbers, ghosts and seafarers, light and darkness - all infused with the wild spirit of the natural world. Renzo’s captivating soundscapes, blending percussion and atmospheric textures, enhance Jan’s spellbinding storytelling, transporting audiences to windswept shores, starlit skies and northern lights. Together, they create a deeply engaging and unforgettable journey, inviting listeners to soar into the skies and plunge into the depths of the sea, carried by stories of trickery, wonder, and hope. "Wonderful! Thank you." "I really enjoyed the immersive sounds that transported the words around the room in a warm manner." "Mesmerizing- thank you so very much." Photos: Gaby Giacchino shot at Bigton (Shetland). Project type Music & storytelling Created by Stories: Jan Bee Brown, Hilde Eskilde Music: Renzo Spiteri Performed by: Jan Bee Brown and Renzo Spiteri Acknowledgements Nordic Nights was presented in Shetland to celebrate 2022 as Scotland’s Year of Stories, delivered by Curious Pilgrims as part of its Reconnect! Programme supported by the Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund, with additional support from Shetland Arts. Events Nordic Nights was presented between February and March 2022 at various locations across Shetland, including Hoswick, Bigton and Hillswick.

A sound and spoken word multimedia collaborative project. Now Here | Nowhere A cross-artistic project that amalgamates sounds, spoken word and visuals, centring around the common terrain of the human and natural world, memory, time, love and lie/truth cycles. Now Here | Nowhere is a spoken word and music performance that takes on the shape of a personal journey, performed by three artists, three separate worlds that open up to each other to create emotional and artistic overlaps that centre around the common terrain of the human and natural world, memory, time, love and lie/truth cycles. The project is a product of reflections and resonances that stem and vibrate from the words of poet Giulia Privitelli. Renzo Spiteri, the project’s creative director, placed himself in between the poet’s poignant, powerful words and his personal interpretation of being lost in a ‘homeland’ that is no longer recognisable. Giulia writes that ‘words collide and break into letters, lines and dots, grains that ebb away’. So, beyond words, what are we left with? Through Now Here | Nowhere, Renzo sought to create a sonic world of spoken words and sounds to draw imagined places that exist in between light and darkness, in between life and death, in between hope and fear, in between sea and land. Audience Feedback “A huge well done once again to everyone... the performance was beautiful, touching and so inspiring.” "A performance from the heart of the Earth. Thanks to you all for the special moments put together so beautifully." "I saw your concert yesterday or I should rather say I experienced it. I just want to thank you for it. It was amazing! As a dancer and choreographer automatically I imagine movement to your piece and I am absolutely inspired by your work." “Experiencing you play has always been like watching an alchemist do his magic.” “Renzo with your experience and sensitivity I believe that your work can surely capture any one and take them into deeper realms; it took me to similar places yesterday but on a lighter level ... but still managed to capture me and show me certain truths and realities ... good or bad that is not the matter.” Photos: Lisa Attard shot at Valletta Campus Theatre (Malta) Project type Sound & spoken word Created by Sounds and percussion: Renzo Spiteri Guitar: Fabrizio Fedele Spoken word: Erica Muscat Text: Giulia Privitelli from Walking in Circles Visuals & light design: Renzo Spiteri Concept, artistic direction and creative production by Renzo Spiteri. 2019, Malta Acknowledgements The creation and launch of Now Here | Nowhere was supported by Arts Council Malta - Multi-Annual Support Grant (Malta Arts Fund). Events Premiere performance: May 2019, Vallletta Campus Theatre, Valletta (Malta).