L'ACEPHALE

black metal / abstractism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / folk / ritual dark ambient / conceptual art

Their name is taken from an early 20th Century European philosophical movement but accusations of intellectual or fake metal may be the least of L'ACEPHALE's worries. Portland, Oregon's L'ACEPHALE's sound draws on influences including neo-folk band Death in June and the Ukraine's Hate Forest, both of whom are allegedly "Ripped on Fascist Ideas". Add to that choral passages appropriated from Orthodox Christian composers like Gorecki and Arvo Part, and you can see why they are a more intriguing proposition than the ideologically confused caustic mush that passes for much modern Black Metal. Founding Member Set Sothis Nox La guides us through his complex project.

LAIBACH

abstract symbolism / gothic / martial noise / industrial music

Laibach [ˈlaɪbax] is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with industrial, martial, and neo-classical musical styles. Laibach formed June 1, 1980 in Trbovlje, Slovenia (then Yugoslavia). Laibach represents the music wing of the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) art collective, of which it was a founding member in 1984. The name "Laibach" is the German name for Slovenia's capital city, Ljubljana.

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LEIF ELGGREN

Leif Elggren
Visual and recording artist.

His work has been shown in Venice (Nordic Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia 2001), Stockholm (Fargfabriken), Berlin (Podevil), Johannesburg (2nd Biennial), Siena (Palazzo delle Papesse), Tokyo, Osaka, Marugame, Gothenburg, Los Angeles etc. His music has been released through labels such as Ash International (London), Firework Edition Records (Stockholm), Anckarström Stockholm), [Invalid Label] (Amsterdam) and Insofar Vapour Bulk (Moscow). Over the years, he has collaborated with artists such as Thomas Liljenberg (Firework), Kent Tankred (Guds Söner), and Erik Pauser. On the 27th of May 1992 at 12 noon GMT, alongside Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, he proclaimed the Kingdom of Elgaland-Vargaland, a new country established as a work of art.

LIEUTENAT MURNAU

Alias: TRAX 0982 / TRAX 0983 / VITTORE BARONI

musique concrete / abstractism / sound art / anti records / collage art / concrete turntablism / noise / contemporary art / fluxus

Vittore Baroni is an Italian journalist who was among the first to write about industrial music and the new experimental frontiers. He recorded some experiments on his own which appeared on different compilations, then towards the end of the 80s' he founded the odd experimental band Le Forbici Di Manitù. 'Lieutenant Murnau' was a pioneering musical project from Vittore Baroni (Italy) operating in the field of "plagiarism", known in Italy as an obscure act it became a cult afterwards. When he first got involved in Mail-Art around 1977, artists like Genesis P. Orridge (1), Richard H. Kirk (2), Monte Cazazza (3) and Nigel Ayers (4) were among Baroni's early contacts. He began to be involved in what at that time was called the "tape network", with his own audio experiments. After a few years of experiments in sound-poetry he began with his project 'Lieutenant Murnau' in 1980. His experiments as 'Lieutenant Murnau' were much more ironical then the industrial music which had at that time its evolution since the mid seventies. It was a little step beyond industrial, Baroni was mostly interested in that area of audio collage which in a few years took the name of "plunderphonics" or "plagiarism". He did not want to play a single note or instrument but to recycle and transform the record releases of other musicians to create new sounds. His sleeping room was his studio where he created his music with the help of only a few tape decks, old record players, prepared vinyl records, tape loops made on a old Geloso reel-to-reel tape recorder, some toy instruments, … he created his music.

LIMBO

Alias: GIANLUCA BECUZZI

ambient music / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / abstract surrealism / ritual dark ambient / industrial music / drone music

LIMBO was an influential eclectic music project created in January 1984 by the Tuscan artist Gianluca Becuzzi - still one of the most important personalities on the Italian electronic / electro-acoustic and experimental scenes. Since 1984 LIMBO has released twelve full length and four mini-albums. They also appeared on various compilations and performed live many times in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Over the years, LIMBO frequently changed record labels, line-ups and musical styles, but always maintained strong dark and electronic elements. Characteristic of the band’s whole artistic approach was its exploration of rhythm / timbre, as well as the highly dramatic mood created by both the sound and the themes examined (i.e. technology and mysticism, science and neo-primitivism, thanatology and extreme erotic practices). The aesthetic quality, its conceptual and formal coherence and the continuity of its developed languages, all helped to create the “cult” status that still surrounds the name LIMBO on the international underground circuit. In September 2006 the re-born Spittle Records (the Tuscan label which originally released the debut mini-LP "IN LIMBO" back in 1986) asked the disbanded LIMBO if they could release all the band’s early material, including its first demo-tape, its first mini-LP and a small collection of tracks that have resurfaced from within the label’s vaults. Spittle's inquiry results in "Early Works (1984-1987)", a double-CD including a digitally re-mastered and polished version of the the whole musical production of LIMBO in its early years.

LORENZO PICINALI

Dr Picinali is a Senior Lecturer in Music/Audio Technology in the Department of Media Technology at DMU and an active researcher in the Virtual Reality and Assisted Living (ViR.AL) and Interactive and Media Technologies (IMT) research groups. After graduation from the Computer Science Department of the Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy, in July 2005, he moved to DMU to start a PhD in Music and Technology titled "The Creation of a Binaural Spatialization Tool". In June 2007 he moved to take up a full-time research position in Paris, but continued his PhD studies in his own time, having re-registered as a part-time student at DMU. In Paris he worked as a researcher for LIMSI-CNRS and IRCAM on various projects linked to data sonification, binaural auralization and VR environments for the blind (see following section). In January 2009 he moved back to DMU to work as a full-time lecturer in the Faculty of Technology, and in May 2010 he successfully completed his PhD. The collaboration with IRCAM and LIMSI-CNRS is still active with projects in audio-haptic interaction and data sonification. Between September 2005 and December 2008 Dr Picinali has also been employed as an external consultant in various research projects with GNReSound Italia, LIM (Universita degli Studi di Milano) and the Audiology Department of the University of Ferrara. This research has focused upon the objective and subjective audio quality evaluation of hearing aids, spatial hearing perception, and 3D sound algorithms for hearing aids. Over the past 6 years, Dr. Picinali published various international and international conference papers, international journal papers and two book chapters, and has been invited to present his work in various national and international venues.

LUCIANO CHESSA

LUCIANO MAGGIORE

abstractism / ambient music / avant-garde / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / noise / drone music

LUCIANO SCHERER

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Luciano Scherer
Visual and Multimedia Artsit

Luciano Scherer was born in 1987, in Santa Vitória do Palmar, a small city in Southern Brasil. Multidimensions, encounters in different levels, invocations of created deities, trance and ritual as a challenge to represent what cannot be represented, what is beyond visual consciousness.

LUIGI GARLASCHELLI

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Luigi Garlaschelli
Professor at Dep. of Organic Chemistry - University of Padova
and member of CICAP (Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sul Paranormale)

Ricercatore presso il Dipartimento di chimica organica dell’Università di Pavia, si occupa di ricerca e di  didattica. Prima  che all’Università, ha lavorato presso il Politecnico di Milano, negli Stati Uniti e  per la Società Montedison. E’ autore di diverse decine di lavori scientifici e brevetti.  Dal 2001 al 2004 è stato  professore a contratto per l’insegnamento di Chimica Organica per  il corso di laurea in Biotecnologie presso l’Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele di Milano. Dal 2007 è professore aggregato presso l'Università di Pavia. A fianco delle sue occupazioni ufficiali, si interessa da diversi anni di, anomalie, pseudoscienze e fenomeni paranormali e misteriosi. E' socio dal 1991 del C.I.C.A.P. (Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sul Paranormale), nel quale riveste l'incarico di responsabile delle sperimentazioni.   Il C.I.C.A.P. è un comitato scientifico senza fini di lucro, di cui fanno parte personalità famose della scienza e della cultura (Piero Angela, Silvio Garattini, Margherita Hack, Tullio Regge, Roberto Vacca ecc.) Sui risultati di alcune indagini ha pubblicato articoli su riviste nazionali e internazionali dedicate alle pseudoscienze, alla parapsicologia e al paranormale. E' stato (nel 1999-2000) correlatore di tesi di psicologia sperimentale presso il Dipartimento di Psicologia generale dell'Università di Padova: una sull'illusione percettiva delle "Salite stregate" e una sulle esperienze di premorte;  nel 2005-2006 di una tesi Erasmus sui metodi dei "pietrificatori di cadaveri".  E’ stato nel 2001 coordinatore di un programma di indagini e analisi scientifiche dedicate alla figura di San Galgano e alla sua “Spada nella roccia” del XII secolo.  Questa iniziativa ha avuto il patrocinio di vari comuni della provincia di Siena, della Region Toscana, della Sovrintendenza Archeologica toscana, e del Ministero dei Beni culturali. Ha partecipato a indagini scientifiche su reliquie di San Guglielmo di Malavalle.  Persegue anche un'attiva opera di divulgazione scientifica. E' comparso numerose volte alla televisioni italiane e straniere (BBC, National Geographic, etc.), e tiene spesso conferenze su questi argomenti, anche nelle scuole e presso Università. Collabora alla rivista del Comitato, Scienza & Paranormale, alla rivista Magia e ha pubblicato articoli riguardanti il paranormale anche su quotidiani e altre riviste (Sapere, Liberal , Micromega, ecc.). Ha tenuto per diversi anni una rubrica  (Chimica e... misteri) sulla rivista della Società Chimica Italiana, La Chimica e l'Industria. Garlaschelli ha pubblicato vari libri, esiti delle sue ricerche: I Segreti dei fachiri e Investigatori dell’occulto (con Massimo Polidoro), Rabdomanzia (con Andrea Albini) e Processo alla Sindone.(Avverbi Ed) Nel 2006 ha pubblicato un'opera di narrativa, il mystery  Corpi di pietra (Neftasia Ed.). Nel 2009 è stato curatore del Quaderno Cicap n 10 (Indagatori del Mistero) e del Quaderno Cicap n. 11 (In cerca di miracoli) e nel 2011 del volume LOURDES - I dossier sconosciuti  (Italian university Press)  Nel dicembre 2009  è stato  nominato Fellow del C.S.I. (Center for Skeptical Inquiry)
 

LUIGI PRESICCE

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Luigi Presicce
Visual and Multimedia Artsit

He was born in Porto Cesareo (Lecce) in 1976, and lives and works in Milan and Porto Cesareo. He attended the Fine Arts Academy in Lecce, but his work has been decisively influenced by his independent studies. In 2007 he took part in the Advanced Course in Visual Arts (CSAV) at the Antonio Ratti Foundation in Como with the American artist Joan Jonas. In 2008, as part of the Artist in Residence initiative, he took part in the workshop at Viafarini in Milan with the American artist Kim Jones. In Milan in 2008 he also founded (with Luca Francesconi and Valentina Suma) the magazine Brownmagazine followed by the Brown Project Space, for which he acts as curator. In 2011 with Giusy Checola and Salvatore Baldi he started running “Archiviazioni” (research and discussion activities regarding contemporary culture in southern Italy) in Lecce. In 2012 he took part in Artists in Residence at MACRO, Rome. With Luigi Negro, Emilio Fantin, Giancarlo Norese and Cesare Pietroiusti he is involved in the Lu Cafausu project, which has been invited by AND AND AND at dOCUMENTA13, Kassel. He performed at Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venice (2010), Performance Festival Thessaloniki Biennale 3, Greece (2011), Festival Reims Scènes d'Europe, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, France (2011), MADRE, Neaples (2012), We Folk - Drodesera Festival, Centrale Fies, Dro (2012). He won Epson Art Prize, Antonio Ratti Foundation, Como (2007), Emerging Talents Prize, CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (2011), Long Play, MAGA, Gallarate (2012).

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