GetMusic's artist spotlight features Demiurgo, sharing the story behind the music, the latest work, and what comes next.
Introduction & Background
Please introduce yourself and share a bit about your background.
Demiurgo is the instrumental electronic music project of Paolo Di Pierdomenico, based in Italy. I compose music as if I were telling stories: imaginary worlds, ghosts, labyrinths, dystopian cities, diaries of places visited and moments lived are translated into synths, rhythms, glitches and atmospheric textures.
What's your musical origin story?
I started making music with computers when I was a young boy, entering raw numerical values into the sound engine of a Commodore 64. From that early experience originated a deep love of synthesizers and their seemingly limitless ability to shape and transform sound. Demiurgo was born in the late 1990s and remained active until the early 2000s, when I gradually set the project aside due to personal circumstances. Many years later, during the lockdown period in 2020, I rediscovered the desire to create music and decided to revive Demiurgo, bringing new ideas, experiences and a renewed visual identity.
What were the driving forces or pivotal moments that inspired you to pursue music?
What keeps me pursuing music is the possibility of giving life to my imagination. Music is a perfect medium for this, because it not only allows me to express ideas, images and visions, but also creates the conditions for the listener’s imagination to become active, shaping its own stories, landscapes and interpretations. I am interested in electronic music that can suggest places, characters, emotions and possibilities, not only moods or loops. Alongside these more explicitly narrative works, there is a second strand of compositions that may seem less story driven but are often more experimental. These pieces aim to evoke a place, a sensation or a moment through a more minimalist approach, while remaining firmly rooted in the Demiurgo aesthetic and creative vision.
Musical Identity
How would you describe your style of music?
My sound blends IDM, glitch, dark ambient, traces of synthwave, experimental approaches, and progressive electronic structures. I use melody as a guide, but I like to place it inside irregular rhythms, detailed sound design and atmospheres that suggest fictional or symbolic spaces. My music is like a soundtrack for your imagination.
How is your personality reflected in your work?
I always try to achieve something unexpected and original, pushing beyond my comfort zone and exploring new creative directions. I like structured compositions, harmonic detail and precise sound design, but I also need mystery, imperfection and unexpected turns. I also enjoy pure explorations of synth sounds and improvisations, sometimes with a minimal and more experimental approach.
Describe your creative process when you write new music.
Sometimes I begin with a concept, a narration or a fictional image. Other times I start from an improvisation, a place, or a small melodic sequence recorded in one take. Then I expand the material in the studio, adding layers, rhythms and textures until the piece finds its own shape. I also have a large collection of audio notes recorded over the years, which I occasionally revisit for ideas. Some tracks released in recent years began as sketches or fragments that I originally recorded maybe fifteen years earlier, before finally developing and completing them.
Current Work
What is the name of your latest release?
IMP, an evolving Bandcamp and Subvert only anthology of experimental electronic tracks.
What was the inspiration for that release?
IMP was born from a more instinctive side of my music. Each track starts from a place, a moment, a state of mind, or a small improvisation recorded before it disappears. The title plays with the word “imp” as a small unpredictable creature, but also as a declaration of method: improvised, impulsive and intentionally imperfect. It is an open project, so new tracks are added over time, and people who support it once receive the future additions at no extra cost.
What challenges or unexpected moments did you encounter during the writing/recording process?
The main challenge was allowing the pieces to remain alive and imperfect. Some of them began as one take recordings, field impressions or fragments captured with a small setup, so the work in the studio was not to make them too polished, but to preserve the first impulse while giving each track a clear shape. In a way, IMP is teaching me to trust instinct and accidents as part of the composition.
Promotion & Engagement
What strategies do you find most effective for promoting your music?
I think the best strategy is to find the right listeners, rather than trying to adapt the music to a larger but more generic audience. Demiurgo is not designed to fit every playlist or trend. It works better when it reaches people who enjoy electronic music as sound design, composition, atmosphere and imagination.
How do you engage with your fans online and offline?
I am present on the main streaming platforms, but I prefer building a more direct and less artificial relationship with listeners through places like Bandcamp and Subvert. Some of my latest releases have not even been published on Spotify, because I am more interested in creating a real listening space than simply feeding the streaming cycle.
What upcoming promotional activities or releases are you most excited about?
In June 2026, I will release two new tracks for IMP, my evolving anthology of experimental electronic pieces. I am also working on a new album based mainly on sonic explorations with modular synthesizers, conceived as a narration of the dystopian reality we are living in the present time, to be released in autumn. Alongside this, I am developing a new concept album that could be described as a sort of space opera.
How can folks contact you?
Website: https://www.demiurgo.it
All links: https://linktr.ee/demiurgo
Bandcamp: https://demiurgoproject.bandcamp.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@demiurgoproject
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/demiurgo.it
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/demiurgo_it
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DemiurgoProject
Any additional insights?
One way to get to know Demiurgo better is through its visual side. On my YouTube channel, I share music videos, visualizers, live jams, studio fragments, modular synth patches and sound design processes. Music and synthesizer sound are always at the centre of everything I do, so a visit to the channel is highly recommended.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@demiurgoproject
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