Artist description At 40+, I'm not exactly a young composer. Actually I'm not even a composer, but an M.D. and a hardware/software developer. My "masters": Messiaen, Zappa, Villa-Lobos, Kagel, Satie. I'm not interested in Romantic music and generally in what happened between Bach and Debussy (with the exception of the late Beethoven). You see, I'm not a true musician ;-) I think that the history of Western music has ended with the death of John Cage. [This requires that you define "history" as a collection of events having also some metatemporal ordering extending in the future, like "progress". Feldman said something similar, that Cage was a boundary between different periods of music history]. I have not yet a style of my own, maybe I will never find it or, worse, it will be too similar to someone else's. So, as a kind of self-defense, I write odd or comic music which steals its materials from other sources. I say that actually I am more a transformer than a composer. By the way: I don't play guitar. I don't have a guitar. I HATE guitars. I have a viola. I'm a loser. My dream: finding enough spare time to make the ultimate MIDI rendering of "Gruppen"...

Music Style Contemporary

Musical Influences Messiaen, Zappa, Villa-Lobos, Kagel, Satie, Berio

Artist History My first contact with 20th Century music happened at the age of 12, and my first "compositions" on paper and tape followed shortly. From 1973 to 1980 I worked in the Electronic Music Studio at the Turin Conservatory with Enore Zaffiri; later I was a member of the group Musik-Film-Dia-Licht-Galerie based in Munich and directed by Josef Anton Riedl, together with the composer Lorenzo Ferrero. No personal computer was yet on sight, and digital machines simply were not up to the task, or required too much time and money for me. I switched to hardware and DSP development in the hope of getting something useful, but, again, actually using the stuff to get sounds took a lot of resources. From 1993 to 1998 I made "fractal" music with a special PC card based on Transputers I designed and built by myself. As technology finally reached an useful price/performance ratio I bought a Creamware Pulsar card and started working with hardware and software samplers. I have explored unusual scales and frequency settings, and now I'm playing with granular MIDI resynthesis and elaborations of materials coming from algorithmic composition programs, always in search of the perfect Virtual Players. (tsk tsk.. I'll never get time and money enough)

Instruments PC, Creamware Pulsar, sound modules, samplers

Albums 6 CDs: Concerto per Eleonora, Miroirs 1, Miroirs 2, Jean-Loup Garou, Third-Hand Music, Tales from the Mist

Location Torino, TO - Italy

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