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Biography
Chiara Costanza is a music composer, producer, and DJ, born in Italy and now based in Australia.
Career
Chiara Costanza was born in Torino, Italy, where she trained as a classical pianist and played in punk bands. In 2004 she moved to Melbourne, Australia where she became exposed to electronic music.
After starting DJing in 2013, Constanza was invited to perform at Meredith Music Festival in 2016 under her alias Chiara Kickdrum.
In 2018, she performed a live soundtrack to Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1932 silent film Vampyr for the National Film and Sound Archive, and has continued composing live soundtracks, such as to Sergio Leone's 1964 film A Fistful of Dollars in 2020 and 2021, and Vampyr again at in 2022.
She composed the soundtrack for the short film All These Creatures that was then awarded the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. This was followed by soundtracks for film and TV series Long Story Short, Heartbreak High, The Other Guy , The Unusual Suspects and Preppers, as well as a soundscape for the 2023 ACMI exhibition Goddess: Power Glamour Rebellion.