Riccardo Sinigaglia

Who is Riccardo Sinigaglia?

Born in Arona in 1953, Riccardo Sinigaglia is an architect as well as musician. He teaches electronic music at Milan Conservatory where he studied during the seventies with Angelo Paccagnini.

He collaborates with the video center of the Faculty of Architecture, Milan University, where he lectures on the relationship between music and image.

His musical productions also include music for documentaries, ballets and theatre spectacles.

His work is based on modes, mean tone, pythagorean scales and complex polyrhythmics: he is deeply involved in ethnomusicology, the elements of which are revisited and employed in his musical language.

In the 80s, together with Walter Maioli and Gabin Dabiré, he founded the group Futuro Antico, a cross between electronic and ethno-shamanic music.

In 1985 he founded, together with Mario Canali, the audio-visual art group Correnti Magnetiche beginning to work with digital system.

Correnti Magnetiche uses computerized systems in order to create audio-visual compositions, and produces videotapes, installations and live-electronics concerts. In concert play with Maurizio Dehò, Gabin Dabiré, Tommaso Leddi and the soprano Rossana Maggia when Mario Canali paint on a graphic tablet with a big screen fellowing the music.