Agostino Di Scipio lives and works in his studio in L'Aquila (a medieval town in the mountains of the Italian pensinsula). His works include compositions for instrumentalists and elec-tronics and sound installations. Some of these explore non-conventional approaches on the generation and trasmission of sound, including a special focus on phenomena of noise, turbulence and emergence. Other works implement dynami-cal networks of live sonic interactions between performers, machines, and environments (e.g. his Audible Ecosystemics project). Samples of his work are included in two monograph CDs, Hörbare Ökosysteme. Live-elektronische Komposi-tionen (RZ Edition), and Paysages Historiques (Chrisopée Electronique), as well as in a variety of CDs and DVD anthologies featuring international artists. Larger scale works include Sound & Fury (actors, percussionists, electronics, slide projection), staged first in Evora (Portugal, 2000) and then in Venice (2002); and Tiresia, composed together with poet Giuliano Mesa, first presented in L'Aquila (2001) and later in Rome (2003) and Berlin (2005). A new larger-scale project is currently in progress, Risorse Umane (Human Resources), commissioned by Società dei Concerti L'Aquila (to be presented September 2009).


Artist-in-residence of DAAD in Berlin (2004-05), visiting composer at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, 1993), Sibelius Academy (Helsinki, 1995), ZKM (Karlsruhe, 2006-07), IMEB (Bourges, 2003 and 2005). Electronic Music professor at the Music Conservatory of Naples, in recent years he served as guest professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Tech-nische Universität Berlin (where he served as Edgar-Varèse professor, in the Wintersemester 2007-08), Centre Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (2001-07, Paris). Author of several essays and articles in the analysis and critical theory of music technologies. Editor of volumes, including the Italian translation of "Genesi e forma" by G.M. Koenig (Semar, 1995), "Heidegger, Hölderlin & John Cage" by M.Eldred (Semar, 2000) and "Universi del suono" by I. Xenakis (LIM/Ricordi, 2003). In 2004 he was guest-editor of the Journal of New Music Research, for a special issue on Xenakis' electronic music..

Di Scipio's works have been presented in numerous venues and festivals, including Wienersalle Salzburg. KonzertHaus Berlin, Podewil/Tesla Berlin, Dissonanzen Naples, MUHKA Antwerpen, the Warsaw Autumn, Inventionen (Berlin), Synthése (Bourges), SMC (Lausanne), the Int’l Computer Music Conference (Banff, Berlin, Thessaloniki, etc.), League of Composers (New York), Transit Festival (Leuven), Int'l Society of Electronic Arts (Montreal), MusikTriennale (Köln), Archipel (Geneva), MLAC (Rome), Foro Internacional de Música Nueva (Mexico City), and many more.