Experimental electronic musician, improviser, and composer.
Instruments builder and programmer for performance. She has been working on sound sculptures since 4 years, in order to unify gesture, sound and fine arts not only for installation purpose but also for live performances.

Electronics and amplified objects are used to create and compose a personal sound experience. She has began her piano study at six. She has studied istantaneous composition and improvisation with Tristan Honsinger and Phil Minton.

Composer for theater (prepared piano and electronics) in many differents projects ("Il requiem di Adelchi", "Majakovsky Pictures" directed by Giovanni Sarti and "Vedentinonvedenti", a multimedia opera sponsorized by City of Bologna for "Bologna 2000" cultural european capital). She has composed for movies ("Perdersi di vista" directed by Nico Maccentelli and "Madreperla" directed by Daniela Stara).
Fheral Choir with Phil Minton (Angelica Festival 2004).

TRIALOGO festival 2007 within a residence at CITTADELLARTE (Biella), a Michelangelo Pistoletto funded project.
TRIALOGO is a project focused on building cultural bridges using music as a poweful connection tool between different backgrounds.
UNIDEE artists transform the concert in a multi-media artistic experience, with video projections, installations and performances.
Performers:
Wisam M. Gibran (Israele/Palestina), (oud, violino) Yuval Avital (Israele) (chitarra classica / preparata, voce), Anna Troisi (strumenti autocostruiti, sintetizzatore, elettronica) Mariano Nocito (contrabasso), Federico Puppi (violoncello)

“Intimate Acquaintance” solo. An electroacoustic concert for tape, live electronics and improvisation. It was performed for “EME festival 2008” in Lisboa .
This composition is divided in 3 macro sections that explore different sensorial and concrete landscape, part of the performance is improvised into defined structures. Musicians are encouraged to enjoy in this sections. The improvised part of this composition involves objects and equipement I usually find around into the space that host the performance.
Used live instruments: Synthesizer, Laptop, Effects, Mixer, Piezoelectric
Microphones, Toys, selfmade theremin.

Late 2008 She has joint the italian improvisers collective “Improvvisatore Involontario”.

During 2009 she has worked for “Electroshop” project, a performance dedicated to the uniqueness of music performance.
Performers:
Anna Troisi: sounding sculptures, theremin and electronics.
Antonino Chiaramonte: live electronics and audio sequencing.
Giorgio Distante: trumpet and electronics.
Roberto Paci Dalò: bass clarinet and electronics.
Music by:
Antonino Chiaramonte, Roberto Paci Dalò, Giorgio Distante, Eduardo Reck Miranda,
Cesare Saldicco, Anna Troisi.
Sounding sculptures created by Anna Troisi.
Abstract: “Electroshop”, involves open scores consisting of functional patterns subdivided into blocks (performative/operational score). These blocks contains informations about predetermined rhythmic-melodic-gestural modules and notation of any composer-determined performative and interpretative features. Scores are intended as guidelines for the performers, who are free to improvise within the boundaries of the
modules (controlled improvisation).
Live electronics processes and elaboration typologies are established as well as real time changeable parameters are notated; performative actions on sounding pieces can be manage musical events fixed on score.
During development and rehearsal, musicians are encouraged to experiment interaction with pre-existent sound material played by an audio sequencing software. Real-time processing of chosen sections of instrumental performance are obtained by combined use of plug-ins (e.g. reverberations, delays, filters, pitch shifting, spectral transforming) and original Max/MSP patches.
Aesthetics: “Electroshop” is a “sounding pieces shop” that suggest a selling of original and unique pieces (sounding pieces/musical pieces), through an auction (public sale – performance).
Pieces (sounding piece of art) spectro-morphological features are a binding part of musical piece score, contribuiting to composition and musical language discourse, creating a correspondence between piece (sounding piece of art) and musical piece. In this way the piece agrees to concept of “piece of art uniqueness”.
It is also implied the uniqueness of musical performance: when the piece (sounding piece of art) has been sold it will be impossible to perform again the related musical piece unless “Electroshop” will borrow the sounding piece of art.
Partners: “Nuova Consonanza”, ICCMR (Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research) - University of Plymouth and Electroshop.

Piero Bittolo Bon is an almost forty years old perennial new talent struggling in the italian and international jazz scene. He mainly plays alto saxophone but is also at ease on baritone, bass and alto clarinet and flute. Piero has also had a long-standing affair going on with the electric bass, which he played at the beginning of his musical journey in funk, reggae, and rock bands, before committing himself to wind intruments and improvised music. Passionate and vibrant, his music, densely composed or totally improvised, reverberates with echoes of the best of free jazz, fire music, torrid improvisations, sharp attacks and continuous inventions bar after bar.

Member of the fresh and much regarded italian collective/record label El Gallo Rojo Records, he's currently leading his own sextet "Jümp The Shark", an ironic blend of compositon, freeform and hard groove, with Gerhard Gschloessl on tuba and trombone, Domenico Caliri on guitars, Pasquale Mirra on vibes, Danilo Gallo on bass and Federico Scettri on drums, and co-leads "Rollerball", a rock-oriented jazz quintet with Beppe Scardino on bari sax, Enrico Terragnoli on guitar, Danilo Gallo on bass and Massimiliano Sorrentini on drums, not mentioning the many other bands he's involved in, mainly with his Gallo Rojo fellows and with other major italian musicians. Recently he was called to be part of a new Uri Caine project, "Pulse". His most recent  project, "Original Pigneto Stompers", features giant of electric bass Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Simone Massaron on guitars and Federico Scettri and Massimiliano Sorrentini on double drums. 

He performed an recorded with italian artists such as Danilo Gallo, Zeno de Rossi, Beppe Scardino, Enrico Terragnoli, Stefano Senni, Francesco Bigoni, Massimiliano Sorrentini, Achille Succi,Tiziana Ghiglioni, Tiziano Tononi, Daniele Cavallanti, Francesco Cusa,  Domenico Caliri,  Giovanni Maier, U.T. Gandhi, Simone Massaron, Silvia Bolognesi, and with musicians like Anthony Braxton, Uri Caine, John Tchicai, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Jessica Lurie, Andrew Drury, Neil Leonard, Ernest Dawkins, Vincent Davis, Craig J. Green, Tristan Honsinger, Gerhard Gschloessl, Christian Lillinger, Tobias Delius, Mark Solbor, Marc Lohr, Lisa Mezzacappa, Jason Levis and many others.

In 2011 Piero founded his own netlabel, R'Ufo Records.

He recorded for labels such as El Gallo Rojo Records, Clean Feed Records, Splasch Records, Improvvisatore Involontario, NuBop Records, Materiali Sonori, Psychonavigation Records, Caligola Records.

Piero Bittolo Bon is a FORESTONE REEDS endorser

for info & booking:
ropie@hotmail.com
+39 3478680974
skype: ropiez

Improvvisatore Involontario is a collective of alternative Italian artists and a record label. A review by Jazzit, a leading Italian jazz magazine, described the collective as:
 
"The most talked about record label of this moment in the Italian jazz scene"(Jazzit, dec. 2006).

 Improvvisatore Involontario has soon become one of the most innovative and relevant artists collectives in Europe.
 
Drawing inspiration and enrichment through every day events, its' members source a great deal of their organizational and improvisational capability from their roots in their mother country, Italy - with respect and deference to the characteristics of the Sicilians, whom, as a people, the collective admire greatly.

The story of this collective originates beneath the Catania sun in 2004, when long time friends and collaborators Francesco Cusa and Paolo Sorge meet up with fellow Involuntaries;  an assortment of musicians, visual artists and photographers who start to work together as a whole. A rich and fertile field is thus laid down and from this potent soil emerge reams of ideas, differences in position, alternative methods of obtaining a shared goal and these highly individualized paths converge to form the first shoots of a collaborative artistic concept.

 Considering one of the most popular Sicilian dishes, the highly renowned Caponata - a mix of many ingredients in a sweet-and-sour sauce - that you can eat all day long, Improvvisatore Involontario' s philosophy has the same feel: blending a multitude of elements to create a unique and addictive flavour.  Improvvisatore Involontario moves towards the next decade with vigour!

“Improvvisatore Involontario” has given proof that Italy has still something to say. Creativity is not dead, as many want us to think. It is the room for it that is missing, perhaps. We are still capable to invent and to create and Francesco Cusa and his group of talented artists are here to remind us.

Francesco Cusa

Drummer, composer and writer, Francesco Cusa was born in Catania in 1966. Performed with well-known musicians such as: Paolo Fresu, Tino Tracanna, Attilio Zanchi, Marco Micheli, Bruno Tommaso, Larry Smith, Walter Schmocker, Lauro Rossi, Gianni Gebbia, Fabrizio Puglisi, Stefano De Bonis, Guglielmo Pagnozzi, Domenico Caliri, Luigi Mosso, Edoardo Marraffa, Cristina Zavalloni, Lelio Giannetto, Alberto Capelli, Riccardo Pittau, Mirko Sabatini , Jay Rodriguez, Butch Morris, Jon Rose, Michel Godard, Kenny Wheeler, Garbis Dedeian, Steve Lacy, Tim Berne, Stefano D’Anna, Pietro Ciancaglini, Paolino Dalla Porta, Roy Paci, Elliot Sharp, Saadet Türköz, Flying Luttembachers, Andy Sheppard, Michael Riessler, Yves Robert, Giorgio Conte, Fred Giuliani, Zu, Mohammed El Bawi, E. Glerum, Assif Tsahar, Natalia M.King, Lionel Rolland , Dj.Pushy, Christophe Monniot, Tanja Feichtmair, Manu Codjia, Emil Spany, Arrington De Dionyso, Gianluca Petrella, Claudio Lugo, Marco Cappelli, Jean Marc Montera, Ab Baars, Ig Henneman, Danilo Gallo, Beppe Scardino, Francesco Bigoni, Stefano Senni, Piero Bittolo Bon, i Robotobibok, Giovanni Falzone, Tito Magialajo, Enrico Terragnoli, Carlos Zingaro, John Tilbury, Gianni Lenoci, Billy Bang, Antono Borghini, Pasquale Mirra, Francesco Bearzatti, Carlo Atti, Amy Denio, Vincenzo Vasi, Mike Cooper, Giorgio Pacorig, Paolo Sorge, Pasquale Innarella, Tony Cattano, Silvia Bolognesi, Leila Adu, Marta Raviglia, Henry Cook, Giacomo Ancillotto, Roberto Raciti, Federico Squassabia, Gaia Mattiuzzi, Dean Bowman, Don Byron, Peter van Bergen, Jan Willem Van Der Ham, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Michael Occhipinti, Giovanni Mayer, Eyal Mayoz, Jim Pugliese, Nicole Federici, Mauro Pagani, Ron Anderson, Francesco Cafiso, Dan Kinzelman, Emilio Galante, Simone Zanchini, LIisa Mezzacappa, Kyoko Kitamura, Gabriele Mirabassi, Tellef Ogrim, Trevor Brown, Alessandro Vicard, Michael Fisher, Heinrich von Calnein, Oscar Noriega, Peter Zummo, Gregory Burk, Antonello Salis, Carlo Atti, Tom Arthurs, Daniele Del Monaco, Yotam Haber, Raiz (Almamegretta), Gabriele Coen, Luca Aquino, Francesco Ponticelli,Valeria Sturba, the dancers Roberto Zappalà, Cinzia Scordia, Melaku Belay, Jennifer Cabrera and Florence La Porte , the visual artist Fred Gautnier, the writers collectif Wu Ming, the writer Andrea Inglese, and many others.
He was promoting member of Bassesfere Collective and is currently involved in an association for promoting improvised and avant-garde music, the project/label "Improvvisatore Involontario". He performed in several international music festivals in France, Rumania, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Serbia, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Norway, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Usa, Ethiopia, Japan, China, Turkey.
He leads : FCT TRIO,  FRANCESCO CUSA & THE ASSASSINS, the ensembles "THE NAKED MUSICIANS", F. CUSA”SKRUNCH”, and of the live soundtracking project for the movies “SOLOMOVIE” plays Buster Keaton. He is also co-leader of: WET CATS (Gianni Lenoci, Francesco Cusa), MANCUSA (Giovanni Mancuso, Francesco Cusa) FRANK SINAPSI (Cusa/Merlin), THE MACHINE (Cusa/Lenoci/Martino). He performs with the following groups: PAOLO SORGE “Trio" (Sorge, Evangelista, Cusa), HOMAGE A STANLEY KUBRICK (Manzoni, Campobasso, Senni, Cusa), ITALIAN SURF ACADEMY (Marco Cappelli, Luca Lo Bianco, Cusa).
He is also a writer of books of novels (“Novelle Crudeli”, “Ridetti e Ricontraddetti”, “Racconti Molesti” for "Eris Edizioni" and “Carthago") . 
He write also about cinema for the rewiews: "Lapis" and "Cultura Commestibile”.

Mauro Campobasso, guitarist, composer and arranger 


DISCOGRAPHY

1999. A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing, Cecilia Finotti, featuring Maurizio Giammarco © Splasc(H) records
2000. Love And Lies, Mauro Campobasso Image © DDQ records
2000. Missa, Alfredo Impullitti, featuring Paolo Fresu, Pierre Favre, Gianluigi Trovesi © Soul Note records
2004. Tant de belles choses, Francoise Hardy. © EMI / VIRGIN records - France
2004. Punto Zero, Mauro Manzoni / Mauro Campobasso © DDQ records
2004. Nevermore, Cecilia Finotti © Soul Note records
2005. Jazz Magazine, Compilation March 2005, Editrice EmmeK
2007. V. Merlo / M.Guerzoni, Aicha.it, TLM 
2007. Jazz Magazine n°55, Compilation, Editrice EmmeK
2007. Transitions, Mauro Campobasso & Mauro Manzoni, Dodicilune JazzLe 
2008. Jazzfriends for Emergency – Philology 
2008. Cecilia Finotti, Novella, Koinè/Dodicilune 
2009. Naked Musicians in Emiliano Culastrisce - Improvvisatore Involontario Records
2010. Marcello Murru, La mia vita galleggia su un petalo di giglio, Universal
2011. Ears Wide Shut ( An Homage to Stanley Kubrick), Mauro Campobasso & Mauro Manzoni, Parco della musica Records
2012, Elisabetta Guido, Let Your Voice dance, Koinè
2014, Piero Delle Monache, Aurum, Parco della Musica Records


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