Riccardo Marogna
Musician, improviser, composer, born in Verona (Italy), currently based in The Hague (NL). His research is focused on developing an improvisational language in the electro-acoustic scenario, where the electronic manipulations and the acoustic sounds merge seamlessly in the continuum of the sonic gesture. He is active in many projects, playing a range of reed instruments (alto and bass clarinet, clarinet, tenor saxophone) combined with live electronics. With drummer Riccardo La Foresta he founded Sho Shin Duo, with which he published three albums and toured extensively in Europe. His music has been published by El Gallo Rojo Records, Setola di Maiale Label, AUT Records. He toured in Italy, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Poland, United States. His works has been presented at MusLab 2016 - Muestra Internacional de Música Electroacústica (Mexico 2016), Matera Intermedia Festival (Italy, 2017), Colloqui di Informatica Musicale (Biennale Musica, Venice, 2008). He received a BD summa cum laude in Jazz Music & Improvisation by the Conservatoire “G. Frescobaldi” in Ferrara, Italy, a MD in Electronic Engineering by University of Padua (Italy) and then he specialized in Computer Music at IRCAM (Paris) with Mikhail Malt. He is currently doing his master research project at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. From 2005 to 2010 he worked within the Sound and Music Computing Group at the University of Padua, focusing his research on physically-based synthesis and multimodal interfaces.