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Born in Torino Italy in 1965, double bass player and composer, studyed 'Instrumental and Electronic Composition' with Gilius Van Bergeijk and Double bass in the 'Royal Conservatory' of Den Haag in Holland. His interest for improvisation and the influence of accademic education, bring his research to the creative possibilities given by the interaction between acoustic instruments, indeterminacy factors and their live processing by electronic devices or computers. From 1992 he has been present in some of the most important festival as musician improviser or composer in the contemporary and experimental music scene and some of his work is documented by worldwide independent labels of experimental and electronic music. The wide spectrum of his experiences brings him very close to the concept of performance, where he use texts and electronics in combination with a coreografic use of the scene space and the projection of visuals made by himself. In 1994 he became assistant and collaborator of the american composer of electro-acoustic music Alvin Curran, nowaday this relation developed in an intense artistic collaboration. Since 1999 he lives in Palermo. In 2002 Steim (center for developement of interactive systems for the performance located in amsterdam, Holland) commissioned him a composition for a multi channel spazialization system offering him a composition residency. He made Interactive Sound installations for art galleries and exhibitions (among these the remarkable Espiral premiered at the Stuttugart FilmWinter festival 2004). Activist in the developement of experimental arts, in 1995 founded the association Antitesi, from 1995 and 1998 organized concerts and little festivals (Antitesi in musica ‘95/‘96, Folk it out! ‘97, i(n)terazioni ‘98, Inaudito! ‘99), in 1997 he collaborated to give birth to the Fringes record label, in 2003 started toghether with other musicians the label Bowindo and founded the national collective iXem (italian eXperimental electronic music). In the edition 2004 of Prix Ars Electronica his work OUR UR in collaboration with Alvin Curran has been prized with an honorary mention.