>> how did you get into music production?
i learned classical piano from my mum when i was a kid and from a very young age i used to spend a lot of time with the headphones on recording any sort of strange sound with a cheap microphone.  i got my first synth at the age of 16 and i am still very much in love with filters and LFOs.  i have been part of various bands and projects in the nineties, touring live all over europe until i started a solo adventure that lead me to become a professional producer for the music industry (a near death experience).  i dropped out from the music business 10 years ago, selling all my equipment and going for a long nomadic adventure.  i only came back to my love for making music 3 years ago.

>> what inspired you in the creation of viceversa?
the verse and the reverse side of things...there isn't a right and a wrong verse...they both exist simultaneously. a few years ago i would never think that i was going back to do an album and work solid on music and spending 18 hours a day on the computer...and here i am again. this album is the distillation of music i did mostly while moving around in the last 3 years. it has many different influences...it's a diary.

it’s definetly electronic music but it is not just electronic music...there are few collaraborations i would like to mention: master margherita from peak records in switzerland - we met on the net in a forum and we had a great instant connection and we will do more stuff together; greg hunter - i love his music and truly respect him. we finally met in gaudi's studio a couple of years ago...a real honor for me to do some music with him.

craig from organismic, a really cool london duo...i love their tunes and their kitchen studio where we recorded.

boris housemaker, a friend of mine living in amsterdam. we had a mad session doing sounds with any sort of objects laying around in his messy one room flat.

shiranami from italy, a very interesting ambient-glitch project...we have been good friends for very long time.

and last but not least robywan, she played the electric bass in a few tracks...she was a professional musician once but now she lives on the formentera island working as a gardener.

>> what gear do you use?
once i used to work in an analog enviroment - a room full of gear with many knobs and LEDs, now i am working inside the box...a cold computer...very practical and cheap...but a bit boring. i love to use free software and not just because it's free but because most of the time these programs are doing the more unusual stuff...probably because they’re made for the love of it.

>> mac or pc?
i've used a mac for a long time but i am not so proud of it anymore.  in fact after 20 years of apples i am stuffed and also very disappointed with their new marketing strategies so i will soon switch to pc (cheaper and less cool) and hopefully moving to linux as soon as the open source software for audio production is solid.

>> what interests you the most these days in the world of music?
music is pure magic, a very concentrated power, moving milions of people every day (even the crappiest tune has some sort of "spirit" in it).
it is spreading very fast and is seeding the soil of very different cultures. music is exploring new technologies, techniques and territories faster than any other language. i think that music will be more and more depersonalized...anonymous - it is not a good or a bad thing but interesting for sure.

>> what musicians past and present do you respect and why?
from the past: can and fela kuti.

can were a german psychedelic combo in the early seventies who made mad albums with very long tunes, i love "future days”.
they were true innovators and pioneers who inspired a very wide spectrum of musicians from nirvana to depeche mode.

fela kuti was not just a great musician (his music is still so hot) but a great revolutionary who really gave his life to the dream of a free africa.

from the present:
i really respect the job done by non place records, like burnt friedmann and flanger. their music is sometimes a bit cold but they found a very interesting way of using electronics with live jazz musicians. i really respect all those ones who mantain an independent spirit in this corporate reality, doing their thing regardeless - tipper, monolake and greg hunter for example. all those ones who are spreading their clicky, glitchy and bumping message through the internet with countless net labels and free downloads...that is the real thing now. and, not to forget, all those computer programmers who are doing amazing free (or very cheap) software.

>> where would you build your dream visuals and audio studio?
on a mountain not far from the sea...with some beautiful neighbour at least 10 km. away since i would love to check the mixes on a big resident pa.

>> can you suggest some good reading?
- ubik by philip k. dick (the book that changed my point of view about many things.)
- holy fire by bruce sterling
- empire by antonio negri and michael hardt (the das kapital of the cyber age).

>> someone once told me that in order to be a true artist, you need to also be into cooking  -  can you give us a good recipe?
i actually think that there is not such a thing as an artist.  or maybe better to say that i believe that everyone should be an artist as everybody should be able to cook nice food.  anyway, like when i do music, i tend to not follow any recipe when i cook...and it's very rare that the same dish will have the same taste twice.