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Born in the VCO, Alberto still lives there.In 2014, after his degree in Media Studies at Cattolica in Milan and the master in music composition for the cinema at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, he completed his bachelor in Electronic Music and Sound Technologies at the Como Conservatory.
His thesis was 'New Musical Forms: The Remix, aesthetic, techniques, instruments'.
He also took courses in MaxMSP programming with TOBOR EXPERIMENT, and piano and composition with Roberto Olzer.
He teaches live electronics performance and synthesis at IED Milano.
In 2014, he's been in Tokyo with Red Bull Music Academy.
He collaborated as Artistic co-Director at the first edition of NeXTones festival, and as Cultural Manager Assistant at Club TO Club 2015.
As Bienoise, he performed his live shows in festivals such Club TO Club festival, RedBull, RoBOt, Spring Attitude, NeXTones, Musical Zoo and many others. See the main page for a complete list.
He's one of the founders of FLOATING FOREST, an improvised music label based in northern Italy, publishing artists such as Davide Merlino, Achille Succi, Pasquale Mirra, Sabir Mateen, Garrison Fewell and many others.
He curates a selection of sounds that are music if you want them to be, called NON MUSICA, on Radio Raheem.
In 2018, he authored with Annamaria Ajmone his first contemporary dance performance, TO BE BANNED FROM ROME - the Main Theme from the show is the iconic "changeover anthem" released by C2C Festival; he frequently collaborates with the movement research project Parini Secondo; see below for more infos about other dance projects, releases, coding efforts and other works.
His productions sits between contemplation and clubbing, with a deep fetishism for mashing together and pushing the limits of instruments, aesthetics, narrative devices.
He's not a dj.
mail me[at]bienoise[dot]com
_______PRESS________________________________________________________
Interview on Clotmag (2022)
Intervista su T-Mag (2022)
Interview on TRAX (2016)
Interview on Rockit (2015)
Interview on DLSO (2015)
Interview on Vix
Interview on Jazzit
Interview on Soundwall
'This Meaning Today' reviews: The Wire 462 | Rumore luglio 2022 | Rockerilla luglio 2022 | Groove.de | Soundwall | CultMTL | Recorder | Radioaktiv | Silence and Sound
'Most Beautiful Design' reviews: The Wire 420 | The Wire Best of 2019 | Rumore 323 | Toneshift | Crack Magazine
'Sharawadji III' reviews: Mucchio Selvaggio
'Meanwhile, Tomorrow' reviews: Mucchio Selvaggio | Rumore | Soundwall | SentireAscoltare | PTWSCHOOL | RedBull
'Small Hopes of Common People' on PTWSCHOOL
'Merchants': Mucchio Selvaggio | Rumore | Rockerilla | DLSO | PTWSCHOOL | RedBull | Tsinoshi Bar | Rolling Stone | Frequencies
Floating Forest on Battiti Radio3: 01.03.16 | 07.09.16
Drone mix for #C2C16 on Soundwall
Noisey Mix
Mixology
THE ITALIAN NEW WAVE doc on THUMP
__MAIN RELEASES____________________________________________________
THIS MEANING TODAY (2022) (Mille Plateaux) [Essay on NON] [OOO videoclip]
TO BE BANNED FROM ROME - MAIN THEME (2020) (C2C Festival) [CONTEMPLATION, , POST-INTERNET, MINIMALISM]
SONO UNA TEIERA TONDA TONDA\IL MIO BECCUCCIO E' A FORMA D'ONDA (2020 HD REMASTER) [DADAISTIC BREAKCORE DEATH METAL]
Most Beautiful Design (2019) (Mille Plateaux) [LOFI, MP3, GLITCH, FLOPPY DISK]
Sharawadji III (2017) (Enklav) [ANALOG\DIGITAL, LONGFORM, FAST]
Merchants - Merchants (2016) (Yerevan Tapes) [POSTWORLD, AFROFUTURISM, DUO]
Meanwhile, Tomorrow (2015) [CD] (White Forest Records) [SHORT MOVIE] [ALBUM]
Small Hopes of Common People (2015) (Concrete Records) [Lo res Ro man ce videoclip] [SOUNDTRACK, UNFINISHED MOVIES]
Alberi (Floating Forest Records, 2014) [IMPROVISED, ELECTROACOUSTIC]
History of Fake Music: L (TheBoxx, 2014) [Lottery videoclip] [POSTJAZZ]
Five Dance Songs for Mammals (2012) (MagmatiQ Records) [FIRSTEP]
SONO UNA TEIERA TONDA TONDA\IL MIO BECCUCCIO E' A FORMA D'ONDA (2010) (Bitcrusher records) [BREAKCORE, DADAISM]
Tiny objects are afraid in wide rooms videoclip by Riccardo Pittaluga
__OTHER WORKS______________________________________________________
TO BE BANNED FROM ROME (2018) by Annamaria Ajmone and Alberto Ricca investigates the web's virtual spaces, inhabited by people that share the same passions and obsessions, the ambivalent effect that the web exerts over people that use it as an instrument to build a clique of ideal contacts around them.
Lights are by Giulia Pastore, costumes by Julia Goldsmith.
[CONTEMPORARY DANCE, CONTEMPLATION, HIVEMIND]
Performed live at Contemporanea Festival Prato, Short Theatre Roma, Inteatro Polverigi, Triennale Danza Milano, Teatro Grande Brescia, Cango Firenze, TorinoDanza\Club To Club Torino
BIENOISE X ALLARME ROSSO [live at Teatro Carignano] live rework of the MAIN THEME from TO BE BANNED FROM ROME, performed at the quarantine edition of C2C Festival in support of #RedAlert (2020)
[CONTEMPLATION, MINIMALISM]
MEANWHILE, TOMORROW short illustrated movie by Bienoise and Giovanni Nava (2016)
[SCIFI, ANIMATION, DUBSTEP]
Lo Res Ro Man Ce videoclip by Alberto Ricca (2015)
[LOFI, 90s PORN]
ALBERI by Alberto Barberis (classical and prepared guitar, live electronics) and Alberto Ricca (live electronics, objects). [IMPROVISATION, LIVE ELECTRONICS, ELECTROACOUSTIC]
Performed live at LAC Lugano, Superbudda Torino, Chiedi alla Polvere Chiasso and more
SPEEED (2020) Parapara dance performance with car soundsystems and eurobeat music - w\ Parini Secondo
[Get the music][EUROBEAT, CAFFEINE, PARAPARA, TOKYO, ROMAGNA]
FRAMES (2020) graphical spectral processor and resynthesizer for Max For Live by Alberto Ricca and Alberto Barberis.
[MAXFORLIVE, SOUND DESIGN, RESYNTHESIS]
HIC SUNT DRACONES (2019) 360 VR Ambisonic audio exploration - w\ Recipient.cc
[LAMPEDUSA, VIRTUAL REALITY, AMBISONIC, MIGRANTS WELCOME]
ROMEGNA MIA (2019) is an episode of ROCCO by PARSEC, a live rendition of YouTube video tutorials of the famous 'hully gully' line dance.
[HULLY GULLY, TUTORIAL, HARDCORE, PIADINA]
BIENOISE live at Club TO Club 2018
UTOPIA ROBOTZ video by Paul Simon Heyduck (2018)