Born in Naples in 1962, during high-school Di Scipio started as a self-taught electric guitarist. At about the same time he became involved in computer programming. As a student of the Istituto Universitario Orientale, in Naples, he attended foreign languages, literature, and theatre theory (he was also
involved in sound for experimental theatre). Later he attended music education programs at the Music Conservatory of L'Aquila (with a.o. Michelangelo Lupone, Giancarlo Bizzi and Mauro Cardi), graduating in Electronic Music and in Composition, and also took part in the computer music summer workshops at Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (University of Padova).
Since 1990, Di Scipio works primarily in his own studio, in the town of L'Aquila, and occasionally joins larger production facilities in research centers and artist residency programs all over the world. Most of Di Scipio's artistic output is based on personal research in unconventional sound synthesis/processing methods, often inspired to phenomena of noise and turbulence. In recent years, he has been focussing on the "man-machine-environment" feedback loop (e.g. the live-electronics solo works Audible Ecosystemics and a number of site-specific and room-dependent sound installation). Despite the uncompromising and independent approach on technology and composing, his work has gradually gained international attention, and has been presented worldwide both in academic venues (e.g. Wiener Saal Salzburg, KonzertHaus Berlin, KonzertHaus Wien) and more experimental circles (Podewil/Tesla, Berlin; Dissonanzen, Naples; Independent Media Center, Champaign/Urbana, Illinois; Linux Audio Conference, ZKM Karlsruhe and TU Berlin; MUHKA Antwerpen), beside several international festivals - including the Warsaw Autumn, Inventionen (Berlin), Ultraschall (Berlin), Synthése (Bourges), SMC (Lausanne), the Int'l Computer Music Conference (Banff, Berlin, Thessaloniki, etc.), League of Composers (New York), Transit Festival (Leuven), Musica Viva (Coimbra and Oeiras, Portugal), Çağdaş Müziğin Ustalari (Istanbul), Int'l World
Music Days (Stuttgart), Int'l Society of Electronic Arts (Montreal), Ars Musica (Brussels), Dissonanzen (Naples), MusikTriennale (Köln), Archipel (Geneva), Contemporanea (Rome), Foro Internacional de Música Nueva (Mexico City), Primavera en L'Habana, Piano+ (ZKM Karlsruhe), Nuove Sincronie (Milan), Brugge Concertgebouw, Musica Electronica Nova Festival (Wraclaw), Fondazione Cini (Venice), Festival Milano Musica, etc. Larger scale works include Sound & Fury (2 actors, 2 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 still in
progress, Risorse Umane (Human Resources). Recent endeavours include commissions from DAAD (Berlin), Festival Harmoniques (Lausanne), CEMAT (Rome), Galerie Mario Mazzoli (Berlin), Elastic3 (Trieste-Wien-Bruxelles), Conservatoire de Lausanne, IMEB (Bourges), festival Milano Musica. In 2010 Di Scipio established a "radical electroacoustic impro" duo with saxophonist and political agitator Mario Gabola, and a duo with pianist Ciro Longobardi devoted to established and novel music repertoire for piano & electronics.
Di Scipio's efforts with "ecosystemic" installation and performance works, and the theoretical issues they raise, were recently the main subject of two small international conferences, first in Montpellier (Univ. Paul Valéry, in the context of the Turbulence Sonores festival, February 2010), then in Berlin (Universität der Kunste, March 2011).
Portrait Concerts
2010 Festival Crisalide (Forlì)
2010 Festival Turbulence Sonores (Montpellier)
2009 Festival Elettrosensi (Como)
2008 Parco della Musica (Rome)
2008 Bauhaus Universität und Franz Listz Hochschule für Musik (Weimar)
2007 Festival Dissonanzen (Naples)
2006 Freiburg Musikhochschule (Freiburg)
2006 University of East Anglia (Norwich)
2005 Inventionen (Berlin)
2005 Klanglabor Kunsthochschule für Medien (Cologne)
2005 Sala Benedetto Marcello (Venice)
2005 Tesla/Podewillsches Palais (Berlin)
2005 Logos Foundation (Ghent)
2004 Grande Salle du Conservatoire (Lausanne)
2003 Festival Nuova Consonanza (Rome)
1997 Jornadas Internacionales de Musica Electroacustica (Cordoba)
1995 Sibelius Academy Chamber Music Hall (Helsinki)
Residencies
2006 ZKM (Karlsruhe)
2004-2005 DAAD Künstlerprogramm (Berlin)
2003 and 2005 IMEB (Bourges)
2003 resident composer at the Musica Viva Festival (Coimbra)
2001 CCMIX Centre Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (Paris)
1995 Sibelius Academy (Helsinki)
1993 Simon Fraser University (Vancouver)
1987-1992 Centro di Sonologia Computazionale, University of Padova
Solo Exhibitions
2011 "Sound. Self. Other" Galerie Mario Mazzoli (Berlin)
2008 MLAC Museo Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea (Rome)
2005 DAAD Galerie (Berlin)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Festival Direct Digital (Modena)
2009 Galerie Mario Mazzoli (Berlin)
2008 Festival Inventionen (Berlin)
2008 Festival Dissonanzen (Naples)
2007 Linux Audio Conference, Technische Universität (Berlin)
2007 Festival Dissonanzen (Naples)
2006 MUHKA Museum for the Contemporary Arts (Antwerpen)
2005 J.Gutenberg Universität (Mainz)
1999 Itinerari Armonici (L'Aquila)
1998 Notaresco, Verde Utopia - Oggetti Sonori per Verde Utopia
1998 Acquario Romani (Rome)
1997 Nettuno Public Schools (Nettuno)
1997 Poetronics (L'Aquila)
