Cristiano Bocci - Live Electronics,
Tobia Bondesan - Tenor Sax

Special Guest: Diego Nencioni - Voice

Santa Barbara was written in memory of the forty-three workers who died, in the mine explosion at Ribolla  (Grosseto, Italy) on may 4, 1954, and was dedicated to  miners of all times and all over the world. 

Old Postcards

Santa Barbara

My first composition, in additive synthesis, using Max/MSP

Cromoplastica

just an experiment using mask techniques in additive synthesis, in Max/MSP

Masks of sadness

just an experiment of subtractive  synthesis using Max/MSP

La tranquilla superficialità di uno stato d'animo

Cristiano Bocci was born in Casteldepiano (GR) in 1975.

He was initiated  to music at the age of 6 when he started studying  guitar at the local music school and began a self-study of the bass guitar  at 14.
He studied classical guitar with Maestro Giuseppe Pedicels until 1993 and later with Danilo Minotti, at CPM Milan and Roberto Nannetti at the Siena Jazz Foundation.

In 1995 he took part in the Clinics of the Berklee School at the Umbria Jazz Festival, studying guitar with Jim Kelly and improvisation with Bruce Gertz.

He began to study doublebass with Ferruccio Spinetti, at the Fondazione Siena Jazz in 1998 and later worked with Ares Tavolazzi, Raffaello Pareti, Saverio Miele, Franco Fabbrini and Silvia Bolognesi.

He started to be interested in avant-garde music in 1993 under the guidance of Maestro Ugo Maccari.
In 2001, he held, at the University of Pavia,  a seminar on the algebraic analysis of the score of Nomos Alpha by Iannis Xenakis.

In 2006, he founded the collective "Corporazione dei Souni e dei rumori", a group of musicians bound together by a common interest in sound experimentation.

He has been a Biarnel Artist, a collaborator and developer of the double bass side, since 2009.

In 2010, he took part in the workshop at the Greycat Festival in Massa Marittima, following courses held by Stefano Cocco Cantini, Piero Borri, Ares Tavolazzi.

During repeated stays in the US, from 2002 to 2008, he discovered the theremin and deepened his competence in Computer Music, with particular attention to Live Electronics and Sound Synthesis.

In 2012, he followed a course of experimental music and free improvisation with Alessio Riccio.

In recent years, he has performed in important festivals and on prestigious stages: Premio Tenco (in 2012) in Sanremo (IM), Botteghe d'Autore (in 2011 and 2012) in Albanella (SA), Festival Resistente (in 2012) in Grosseto, Voci per la Libertà ( in 2011) in Villadose (RO), Zappa Day (in 2011) in Sarteano (SI), Alterazioni (in 2011) in Arcidosso (GR), RigoJazz Festival (in 2008) in Rigomagno (AR), Sarteano Jazz and Blues (in 2007) in Sarteano (SI), Live Rock Festival of Beer (in 2006) in Acquaviva (SI), Via Cava (in 2007) at Parco di Pietra di Roselle (GR), Teatro Ariston a Sanremo (IM), Teatro Poliziano di Montepulciano (SI), and Teatro degli Industri (GR). 

As a doublebass-player, he has played with Stefano Cocco Cantini, Piero Borri, Francesco Maccianti, Emanuele Bocci, Giacomo Dal Pra, Fabrizio Bai, Francesco Bucchioni and Mauro Perigozzo.

He has played -  using electronics - with "Compagnia Musicale Le Voci del Vicolo", "Miwa e i suoi Componenti", Buddha Combo Jazz Quartet and  Choobalooba Tireless Summit (with Andrea “Atreio” Marcucci”.
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He collaborates on theater/dance and visual arts projects and holds seminars on sound synthesis, and its applications to jazz, in various music schools (including the Fondazione Siena Jazz). 