Graziano Lelli (Taxonomy) composed this incredible organized & acousmatic work from the musical theatre opera ANIMALi, with gestures and voices from Julio Cortazar's Rayuela.

"Born in Rome, graduate in astrophysics, self-taught bassist, Graziano Lella studies sax at the SMPT (Scuola di Musica Popolare di Testaccio, Rome).Always interested in avant-gardes in all artistic forms and expressive languages, he organizes, starting from 1992, many concerts and cultural events with the Cervello a Sonagli association.

After a first experience as bassist in a punk band, from 1997 he plays bass guitar in the art-rock group Dura Figura and takes part, as a saxophonist, in many performances which connected music and visual arts with the open collective Ask the Dust. Moreover he takes part in some workshops with important innovative musicians like Tim Hodgkinson, Ken Hyder, Amy Denio and others.

At the same time he dedicates himself to improvisation practice both with a consolidated formation, the radical improvised music Zic quartet, and with many musicians of experimental area. Fascinated by the timbre-dynamics possibilities of electric bass, with the Zic quartet he developes his own vocabulary through a prepared instrument. Subsequently he introduces in his work the use of self-made amplified objects supported by live electroacoustic treatments and pre-elaborated recorded materials.

Actually he works in a solo project called arg. With arg he carries out electroacoustic and concrete/acousmatic music compositions with a personal compositional approach which ‰ÛÏappropriates‰Û heterogeneous materials and put them in a dialectical relationship with the possibilities offered by new technologies. In October 2002 Sirr.ecords label (Portugal) releases his first solo cd: arg.

In 2003 he founds the electronic improvised music trio Taxonomy with Elio Martusciello e Roberto Fega. The first group's cd, A global taxonomical machine, is released by Ambiances Magnetiques (Canada) in 2005."-Graziano Lelli MySpace Profile

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