Soundtrack

Jan Maio was born in Savona in 1972, artist and son of artists, he grew up next to a great master like his father, saxophonist and flutist who has transferred his passion for music and contributed to his formation as a transversal musician (he studied violin for ten years at a very young age). He is currently sound designer, composer, arranger, eclectic instrumentalist, Steinberg Educational teacher and music producer. Avantgarde musician of audiovisuals and multimedia, hopeless outsider in all forms of collaboration and contamination, he has spent most of his childhood abroad in Canada, England, Holland, Morocco and India. The core of his artistic research lies in the multifaceted passion for classical music and punk, which in the mid-eighties has approached with groups like Klasse Kriminale, FAR, FEM (Produced by Vox Pop) and MGZ for which he composed the single "Survive without Reason." Groove and sound design specialist (he worked for six years for the renowned magazine Cubase Magazine as groove maker) he has composed music for commercials, jingles, campaigns and social websites such as UNESCO, Mentadent, Carisbo, Sky, Poltrone & Sofa, BMW Serie One, Region Emilia-Romagna, Petrol Oil Avis.In the film industry, he collaborated on “Nirvana” by Gabriele Salvatores. Within the independent cinema scene, he has produced music, sound designing and postproduction audio for the movie "Fuorivena" by Tekla Taidelli, guest at Locarno Film Festival 2005 and winner of Sulmona Film Festival 2005.

• Prayer  
• Moving to the fields  
• Dakhla  

Bartolomeo Sailer a.k.a. Wang inc. was born in 1971 in Sterzing. Eclectic sound experimenter he has a selftaught musical preparation, although he has taken a few lessons in piano and bass. He started the first experiments with electronic sampling and digital recording in the early nineties. Since 1998, he produces music for short films, drama, series, tradeshow events, video art, commercials and documentaries. He has participated to various international festivals, winner of prestigious awards, quoted in magazines around the world, among the finalists of Iceberg competition. His passion for music experimentation and contamination leads him to perform as a DJ in clubs and as a conductor for some radio stations. For several years he has worked on many projects with major video artists such as Yuri Ancarani, Saul Saguatti, David Pepe and Mario Nanni. His music knows no national boundaries and in fact there are many international record labels who have chosen his name. Each artist has his mission, the challenge for Sailer is an attempt to bring the sounds of "concrete music" to the dance culture and vice versa. Starting from the concept of sound, noise and listening under all their aspects becomes the real research believing that borrowed everyday objects, can open new horizons in the universe of musical composition. In 1999 he released his first album with the label Sonig, directed by Mouse on Mars, one of the protagonists of the German electronic scene renewal at the turn of the century. He also publishes with Marseilles label Bip-Hop, Context.FM, Persitencebit, MicroLabel and 40033 Records. Among the most prestigious musical collaborations are some with Vincenzo Vasi, Fx Randomix, Lucio Morelli, Nicola Negrini, Dimitri from Nowhere, Amarcord, Roy Paci, Mathmos, Moltheni.

• One day I stepped on a land mine  
• The day after the sand storm  
• Polyfaces  

picture by Raffaella Santamaria Salvatore Arangio a.k.a. Ootchio lives and works in Bologna. Over the years he has gained experience in experimental electronic and electroacoustic music, computer music and subsequently in mixing and arrangement techniques. Currently he is dealing with sound editing, sound design and composition of original music for video games, documentaries and animated films. He also works as a sound operator for live theatrical performances, as microphones technician in several television productions and collaborated with Studio Arki Bologna as a supervisor for the recording sessions and editing of professional voices. Many are the special events and numerous music festivals to which he participated, performing in several live performances. There are also collaborations with Italian and international artists. This passion for music has opened his horizons as a driving force of his being the author and investigator in a variety of sound and performative contexts, which led him to compose original sounds for theater, readings, resetting of silent films, without renouncing to the oniric dimension of 'live' through installations, audio/video performance and electro live sets. Ootchio moves well not only in the underground scene of Bologna, ranging from music to film to audio performances and interventions, to be explored with the ears through the contamination of electronic sounds and rhythms strictly live. A personal approach to music, independent enough to deserve a review on Blow Up magazine and a publication on Wire about his cd "Phonorama. He is currently involved in the formation of a new musical project called "Auriga" with Massimo Carozzi, Luciano Vaccaro and Domenico Maggiore. With this project he has carried out live sound performances (see Zimmerfrei> On-Luci di Pubblica Piazza) and accompaniments to reading "Four Quartets" by TS Eliot, with the participation of Emidio Clementi as narrator.

• Desert Landing  

Andrea Martignoni is a sounds organizer and lover of stop-motion, after taking the opportunity of the university to write his dissertation on sound and music in Film Animation, he has spent a year in Montreal in the French-speaking province of Quebec in Canada. This experience has led to a radio project, later published in a CD, about the city of Montreal, its soundscapes and its voices, designed as a film imagined without pictures. "A chacun son Dépanneur" was made between 1997 and 1998 and broadcasted on Radio Tre and Radio Canada. Since then his musical creations are almost always conceived in relation to moving images, thus his passion as historical and theoretical of sound in Film Animation has become a practical act and leitmotif of his intense career. Developing soundscapes and conceiving within a structure, as well as an act of artistic creation, it is another way for Martignoni to avoid fighting "against wear and noise of modern life" and thus open a database made of infinite sounds of voices, common sounds, music business, TV spots, noises, immensely complex music, which are there anyway, waiting to be heard, recorded and processed. He has composed music for animated shorts in Italy and Canada, he has collaborated with many artists, he has participated in many musical projects, published on CDs for several labels in Italy and abroad. He then held several courses and workshops on experimental film and soundtrack, he wrote articles and his essays have appeared in magazines and publications specializing in film in Italy, United States and Canada. Since 2005, he is official selecter for animated films in the SediciCorto International Film Festival - Forli.

• Cacciatori di Nuvole (tempesta)  
• Sabbia Corrente (maratona dei bambini)  
• Orme  

Jon Hopkins - A composer, pianist and a self-taught studio wizard. Jon Hopkins makes big, bold electronic music using walls of synths, twinkling melodies and amorphous bass rumbles. As such his two albums have seen him labeled by the likes of ambient patriarch Brian Eno as an electronic innovator while an impressive sweep of artists from Herbie Hancock to David Holmes, not to mention contemporary choreographer Wayne McGregor, lo-fi folkster King Creosote and musical bluebloods Coldplay, have all called upon the Londoner’s handiwork as a producer and composer.

• Light through veins  listen