1998 - 2000
Sergio Calzoni (electronics) formed ACT NOIR together with Stefano Nieri (guitars). Soon afterwards the newborn band found in Michele Gozzi (bass) and Claudio Pilati (drums) the right rhythmic complement. The music trajectories of Act Noir focus on dark-rock, electro, with psychedelic and ambient elements...
2001 - 2002
Sergio moved to Copenhagen/Denmark. Thanks to his home-studio and to the broadband connection, he managed to continue collaborating with his Italian friends/musicians. Through an ad on a local newspaper Sergio met Nicholas Hill (vocals), the singer of the space-rock band The Universals .
During the "danish exile" Sergio started a side-project called arTra, by means of which he composed a sonorization for the performance/installation "Nika Is Dead" based in Copenhagen. The proposed music was an almost two hours assemblage of brand new experimental-ambient pieces, and several unfinished tracks taken from the Act Noir archive.
2003 - 2004
Act Noir released the CD-demo "Cosmo Minimized E.P." in April, 2003.
In autumn of the same year, Act Noir remixed "Distance" a track composed by the Italian cult band MonumentuM. The remix is featured in "Metastasi" album containing rarities and remixes by MonumentuM.
2005 - 2006
In December 2005 Act Noir signed a record deal with My Kingdom Music , for releasing the debut CD Automatisme Psychique . On March, the 3rd the album was issued world-wide.
At beginning 2006 the new singer Mark Benoit joined Act Noir, showing the right attitude both as frontman during live shows and as creative mind to lyric the new unreleased material.
In the same year Sergio started working with Colloquio ’s mastermind Gianni Pedretti, for the production of the new album "Si Muove e Ride"
2007 - to present...
In April the band was honoured to play as open-act for the Italian tour of John Foxx, while in June they were invited to play in London at club Slimelight with Clan Of Xymox and Violet Stigmata.
In July "Si Muove e Ride" , Colloquio’s new opus, was released by Eibon Records .
In the same year contemporary artist Francesco Arena commissioned to Act Noir a fifteen minutes soundtrack, for a video-installation included in his project "Respiri/Breath".
At the present Act Noir are working on new material, for the still-untitled forthcoming album.
Excerpt of Francesco Arena’s video installation RESPIRI/BREATH featuring "Drag Me Away (extendmix)", a fifteen minutes soundtrack composed by Act Noir.