Agostino Di Scipio is a composer, sound artist, music-theorist and scholar (born in Naples, 1962). As a high-school student, he started as a self-taught electric-guitar player, and also spent quite some time experimenting with programmable synthesizers. At about the same time, he became involved in computer programming. At Istituto Universitario Orientale, in Naples, he studied foreign languages, literature, and theatre theory (at that time, he was occasionally involved in sound for experimental theatre). Later he attended more formal music education programs, eventually graduating in Electronic Music (cum laude) as well as in Composition, from the Conservatorio di Musica in L'Aquila (where he studied with a.o. Michelangelo Lupone, Giancarlo Bizzi and Mauro Cardi). As a student, he also attended Computer Music classes at Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (University of Padova). Since the late 1980s his work has focussed on unconventional sound synthesis/processing methods, often connected to phenomena of noise and turbulence. In more recent years, he has initiated a seminal creative path researching the audible traces of the "man-machine-environment" feedback loop (e.g. the live electronics solo works Audible Ecosystemics and a number of room-dependent sound installations). Today Di Scipio works primarily in his own studio, in L'Aquila, and occasionally joins international production facilities and residency programs.

Larger scale works include Sound & Fury (2 actors, 2 percussionists, electronics, slide projection), staged first in Evora (Portugal, 2000) and then in Venezia (2002); and Tiresia, composed together with poet Giuliano Mesa, first presented in L'Aquila (2001) and later in Rome (2003) and Berlin (2005). A new larger-scale project is currently in progress (running title Risorse Umane, i.e. Human Resources).

Di Scipio is currently part of the UpSet project (a duo in radical electroacoustic improvisation, with saxophonist and political agitator Mario Gabola), and also works with pianist Ciro Longobardi (they realized a new, large-scale version of Cage's Electronic Music for Piano, released on Stradivarius Records).

residencies
- Centro di Sonologia Computazionale, Università di Padova (several times 1987 - 1992)
- Simon Fraser University (Dept. of Communication), Vancouver, 1993
- Sibelius Academy, Helsinki (1995)
- CCMIX Centre Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis, Paris (2001)
- resident composer at the Musica Viva Festival (Coimbra 2003)
- IMEB, Bourges (2003 and 2005)
- DAAD Künstlerprogramm, Berlin (2004-05)
- ZKM, Karlsruhe (2006)

monograph concerts (selection)
- Jornadas Internacionales de Musica Electroacustica (Cordoba, Argentina, 1997)
- Nuova Consonanza (Rome, 2003)
- Logos Foundation (Ghent, 2005)
- Kunst Hochschule für Medien, Köln (2005)
- Inventionen (Berlin, 2005)
- University of East Anglia (Norwich, 2006)
- Musikhochschule Freiburg (2006)
- Dissonanzen (Napoli, 2007)
- Contemporanea (Parco della Musica, Roma, 2008)
- Masque Teatro (Forlì, 2008)
- Elettrosensi (Como, 2009)
- Time-Out (Salerno, 2012)

solo installation exhibitions
- DAAD Galerie @ Zimmerstrasse (Berlin, July 2005)
- MLAC Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, "Modi di interferenza" (Roma, January-February 2008)
- Galerie Mario Mazzoli "sound. self. other" (Berlin, March-May 2011)

featured installations (selection)
- Nettuno Public School Gymansium (Nettuno, 1997)
- Poetronics (L'Aquila, 1997)
- Acquario Romano (Roma, 1998)
- Joahnnes Gutenberg Universität (Mainz, 2005)
- MUKHA (Musem of Contemporary Arts, Antwerpen, 2006)
- Dissonanzen (Napoli, 2007 and 2008)
- Linux Audio Conference (Berlin, 2007)
- Inventionen (Berlin, 2008)
- Fiera di Arte Contemporeanea (Bologna, 2009)

recordings
Two CDs of Di Scipio's music have been released, Hörbare Ökosysteme. Live-elektronische Kompositionen (RZ Edition) and Paysages Historiques (Chrisopee Electronique). Separate tracks are featured in CD and DVD anthologies released by labels including Wergo, Neuma, Capstone Records, Cavalli Records, and are circulated through CD releases of ZKM/Neue Zeitschriften fur Musik (Schott Edition), ORF-Ars Electronica (Linz), NoteWork (Köln), ICMC (Berlin/ICMA 2000, Barcelona/ICMA 2005), 12th Root (Toronto), Bug Records (Melbourne), and the Computer Music Journal Sound Anthologies (MIT Press),. The first CD issue of the UpSet project was recently released (on Viande Records).

writing and teaching activity
Di Scipio's writings are largely devoted to issues concerning the methods and the history of musical technologies, also in conjunction with broader socio-cultural and cognitive implications, and had a significant impact on many artists and researchers (his researh work has been mentioned and quoted in a wealth of scientific and technological publications worldwide). Articles and essays appeared in numerous conference proceedings and international journals such as Journal of New Music Research, Computer Music Journal, Contemporary Music Review, Leonardo, Perspectives of New Music, Organised Sound, Positionen, Intellectica, and many others. Italian journals featuring his writings include Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, Musica/Realtà, Il Saggiatore Musicale, Sonus, and others. Di Scipio contributed separate essays in volumes such as Electroacoustic Music Analytical Perspectives (Greenwood Press), Musica e tecnologia domani (LIM/Ricordi), and scholarly reviews devoted to cultural studies, notably Angelaki - Journal of theoretical humanities (Carfax Publishing), and La Revue d'Esthetique (Paris). He served as editor for the Italian translation of volumes such as Gottfried M. Koenig's Genesi e forma. Nascita e genesi dell'estetica musicale elettronica (Semar, 1995), Michael Eldred's Heidegger, Hölderlin & John Cage (Semar, 2000) and Iannis Xenakis’ Universi del suono (LIM/Ricordi, 2003). Editor of the volume Teoria e prassi della musica nell'era dell'informatica (G.Laterza, 1995). In 2004 he was guest editor of the Journal of New Music Research for a monograph issue on Xenakis.

teaching experience
Di Scipio has served as full-time Electronic Music Professor at the Conservatory of Naples, since 2001. Beside, he served as "visiting professor" and lectured in several international institutions, including
- Edgard-Varése professorship, Winter semester 2007-08, Technische Universität Berlin
- Electronic Music Professor at the Conservatory of L'Aquila (2010-11)
- Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Summer School "Media and Beyond" (2004)
- University of Illinois (Dept. of Music), Urbana (2004)
- Centre Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX), Paris (several times 2000 - 2007)
- Conservatory of Bari (yearly, 1994 - 2001)

lecture series & masterclasses (selection)
- Summer School in Computer Music, Zagreb Academy (1999)
- Technische Universität, Berlin (2004 and 2005)
- Conservatorio di Musica, Venezia (2005)
- Kunst Hochschule für Medien, Köln (2005)
- University of East Anglia, Norwich (2006)
- Conservatorio di Musica, Trieste (2008)
- Conservatorio di Musica, Como (2009)
- Conservatorie de Musique, Boulogne/Paris (2011)
- Orpheus Institut, Ghent (2012)

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  [photo Manilio Prignano]