My studio is my laboratory of perception. Not a comfort zone, but a thinking space where sound, doubt, structure, and desire collide.
What I do in one sentence: I compose music that confronts desire, illusion, and power without pretending to resolve them.
Why I didn’t get a proper 9–5 job: I don’t want to live for stability — I want to live for intensity, joy and freedom.
An artwork I would get accomplished if space, time and money were abundant: Make a music theater on other planets.
Why I do what I do: Music is the most precise medium I know for holding tension without turning it into moral simplification.
Artists I have on my watch list (and why): Abbas Kiarostami — for his radical reduction and the way he makes silence and absence structurally meaningful. Orson Welles — for his sense of scale, perspective, and the architecture of power within form. Giacomo Puccini — for his unapologetic emotional directness and instinct for dramatic timing. Gérard Grisey — for his treatment of sound as a physical phenomenon and time as a living material.
I am afraid of Mediocrity. And becoming comfortable to the point of artistic or physical softness.
I know that a piece is finished when I no longer need to explain it.
How I imagine my life in old age: I look forward to: a quieter but sharper life of thought and creation. Caution: intellectual rigidity.
What role does work play in my life as you grow older? Less output, more essence.
How I want to be buried resp. words I want to be written on my tombstone: Simple.
Sina Fani Sani, Villa Massimo Fellow 2025/26. Studio visit in Sina’s studio at Villa Massimo in Rome.
My studio is my laboratory of perception. Not a comfort zone, but a thinking space where sound, doubt, structure, and desire collide.
What I do in one sentence: I compose music that confronts desire, illusion, and power without pretending to resolve them.
Why I didn’t get a proper 9–5 job: I don’t want to live for stability — I want to live for intensity, joy and freedom.
An artwork I would get accomplished if space, time and money were abundant: Make a music theater on other planets.
Why I do what I do: Music is the most precise medium I know for holding tension without turning it into moral simplification.
Artists I have on my watch list (and why): Abbas Kiarostami — for his radical reduction and the way he makes silence and absence structurally meaningful. Orson Welles — for his sense of scale, perspective, and the architecture of power within form. Giacomo Puccini — for his unapologetic emotional directness and instinct for dramatic timing. Gérard Grisey — for his treatment of sound as a physical phenomenon and time as a living material.
I am afraid of Mediocrity. And becoming comfortable to the point of artistic or physical softness.
I know that a piece is finished when I no longer need to explain it.
How I imagine my life in old age: I look forward to: a quieter but sharper life of thought and creation. Caution: intellectual rigidity.
What role does work play in my life as you grow older? Less output, more essence.
How I want to be buried resp. words I want to be written on my tombstone: Simple.
Sina Fani Sani, Villa Massimo Fellow 2025/26. Studio visit in Sina’s studio at Villa Massimo in Rome.