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Emanuele Errante
Emanuele Errante is a Neapolitan musician. After a long experience in a local band, he started his soloist carrier under the pseudonymous Mais. In 2004 the netlabel Maetrixsolution published his first album "Stand", that earned a certain interest among work attachés. After the publication of the album he started to experiment with ambient sonorities joining acoustic elements and electronic soundscapes. From this work, arose "Absolute", EP that was published by Maetrixsolution in May 2005 and later printed on Cd-Rs under his real name. In the wake of "Absolute" he started working to the EP "Incipit" . Among various live-sets at his active, we must mention the Hefty Records Action Night with L'Altra (Hefty) and Retina.it (Hefty/Mousikelab), a liveset with the Frame (Mousikelab) and the Lab30 Festival in Germany with Khonnor, Lackluster, Marsen Jules, Ulrich Schnauss, Xela, A&E. He is the founder of netlabel OpenLab Records and the creator of NetstockFest, the first netaudio festival completely online whose first edition was in March 2005 and received the attention of great medias, among whom the French magazine Liberation. In his productions, Ego and Nature join in an unique element generating visionary and evocative plots. His works are the result of the sound research in an interior state free from any artificial conditioning. He turns his attention particularly to a sound choice, studied for letting people perceive like natural also the more complex electronic alchemies. After "Absolute", EP published by the netlabel Maetrixsolution, the CD "Migrations", produced by the Canadian label Apegenine Recordings, is being bublished.
Mattia Casalegno
Mattia Casalegno was born in Naples the 1st of May 1991; since 1999 he has been living in Rome where he works like vj and live-media artist. In 2001 he founded the project Kinotek, a vj crew that is very active in Roman territory and one of the most well-known at in Italy. As Kinotek, he took part in the greatest national vjing and live media festival, like the Italian Live Media 04, the Elettrowave/ArezzoWave 2003 in Arezzo, Dis.lab./Dissonanze 2004 in Rome, Club To Club'02 in Torin, PEAM - Pescara Electronic Arts Meeting. Since 2002, as integral part of the trio of electronic research Metaxu, he takes care of the visual part of various audio-video performances: in 2004, the last work by Metaxu 'Rumours of war' published by the Canadian No-type and distributed by RisonanzaMagnetica in Italy, includes also his 8mm video abstract. In the same period he started a very profitable cooperation with the electronic composer Maurizio Martusciello, with whom he was present at a festival of international fame like Batofar Recherche l'Italie in Paris, Sintesi, festival of electronic arts in Naples, JazzFestival 2004 in Rome and, first Italian artist in the poster for Mutek 2005 with the audiovisual project 'X-Scape', presented also at the festival of electronic arts IXEM (Venezia) in December 2005. In the same year, he took care of the video part of the project '2001 A Space Odyssey Revisited', an audiovisual performance of the Avatar41 Audiovisual Orchestra, during the exhibition Sensoralia at the Palladium theatre in Rome. In January 2005, he presented at the live media international festival Netmage05 (Bologna) the audiovisual project "Grainscapes I" with the musicians S. Roux e G. Davis.
Emanuele Errante and Mattia Casalegno are going to perform at Interferenze 2006 "Info_naturae 1.0", an experimental audio-visual performance based on digital soundscapes and acoustic carpets resulting in a continuously changing pixelled matrix and in zoomorphic shapes moving in organic and inorganic, animated and inanimate, natural and abstract environments. Frames of analogic experiences and digital creations are mixed together in real time with evocative and striking effects. Inspired by Plato's myth of the Cave, this performance creates illusions and sets the audience free from those illusions, just like arts do. Illusions are the chains tieing the prisoners of the cave but at the same time they are their own projections and those chains identify their sensitiveness. "Our world was inhabited by anthropomorphic shadows and shapes projected on the rocks. We believed those shapes and those echoed sounds were real. We kept on believing it until we got to break the chains".