We had the pleasure of speaking with Italian artist Panoram, a trailblazing musician who has spent more than a decade crafting unique sounds that blur the boundaries between genres, earning a spot amongst contemporary music’s most innovative figures. His work has been released on renowned labels such as Firecracker, Running Back, and his own imprint, Wandering Eye, and he has collaborated with notable artists, including contributing to Amen Dunes’ forthcoming Sub Pop album, Death Jokes. Known for traversing a broad spectrum of styles, Panoram’s catalog spans abstract pop, experimental library music, classical-inspired  compositions, and cyborg funk, consistently pushing the limits of sound and structure. 

His projects are as bold in concept as they are rich in music; for instance, one release featured a cannabis leaf encased in clear wax, while his 2021 album, Pianosequenza Vol.1, showcased groundbreaking experiments with the Yamaha Disklavier. With his latest release, Great Times, Panoram offers a defining body of work that encapsulates his career-long exploration of sound, presenting a vision of music that defies convention while capturing fleeting moments of beauty and complexity. 

What was your first entry into music appreciation? And music production?

I remember having records from Sepultura and Rancid growing up. My brother used to study electric bass guitar back then. I would hear him practicing from my room.Those are my very first music related memories.I started making music with a free tracker called Buzz made by a guy called Oskari Tammelin. A friend of mine taught me how to use it. We would make tracks separately at home and then play them to one another. We would also make tracks together sometimes. I remember staying up the whole night on new years eve working on a song…we were really young. 

What led you to the styles and sounds you work with today?

I guess electronic music was really appealing for someone without musical training like me when I started…it looked more like a blank canvas in a way. As a teenager I would listen to a lot of electronic music from Detroit such as Clarence G, Drexciya, Balance Of Terror, Doppereffekt… that sound had a really strong impact on me.

What key pieces of gear/software are you using to define your sound?

I like to define my sound through the atmosphere and the colors I channel in my music rather than by using particular gears

How has your arsenal of equipment changed since you first started?

It changes all the time.i started moving a lot some years ago, changed a lot of apartments and went back and forth between Europe and the United States so it’s hard to keep my equipment consistent in time. I think the process of making music right now it’s something that lives more in my head and then gets finalized through different gears and instruments depending on the situation… I like it this way, it keeps my focus on pure ideas.

What inspires you outside of music?

Inspiration always comes outside of music for me. Most of the time is more feeling driven rather than experience driven. other time is about a single concept and then music becomes a pretext to me to flesh out an idea

When you compose and produce tracks, do you make music for yourself or do you make it with others in mind?

I think it’s more like pulling off the ideas that are lingering in my head. I need to get them out of my system, I don’t really think about me or others when I do it.

What can we expect from you in the near future? Any upcoming projects or releases in the pipeline that you would like to tell us about?

I am finishing the second chapter of my Pianosequenza series. It’s a series of records I am making using only automated pianos. It’s coming out on the roman imprint Union Editions. 

Famous last words?

“I Can Only Repeat Your Love”

Listen to ‘What it Means’ below: 

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