Massimiliano Cerioni (Italy, 1986) is an audiovisual composer, sound-art performer, sound designer and a native of Pomezia (Rome), currently living in Amsterdam. Since 2008 he writes electroacoustic music, sound-art and intermedia performances, audiovisual installations, music for dance, theatre and short movies. He leads independent research projects about music technology design, audio spatialization and physical modelling synthesis. His style focuses on primordial sound topoi, to be considered as evolving organisms that connect each other in a complex acoustic texture, which build-up a listening experience that has been described as immersive, reflective whereas engaging. This cinematic vision naturally flows into intermedia works such as audiovisuals and performances, in which gestures belonging to different semantic fields generate brand new perceptual events known as synchresis (Michel Chion 1990-1994).
In June 2019 he will be resident composer from EMS – Elektron Musik Studion in Stockholm, to write and record new music with his custom instrument Metastring. to be featured into audiovisual performances.
With Michelangelo Lupone he studied electronic music, and graduated from the A. Casella conservatory of music in L’Aquila (Italy). He has provided technical and artistic support for important societies and institutions from Italy and France (Agorà Srl, CRM, INA-GRM, GMEM). In 2014 he performed at the ICMC in Athens. In 2015 he placed 1st at the Italian national art prize Premio Abbado – category “electroacoustic music composition”. In 2014 and 2016 he received artistic commissions by the CRM – Centro Ricerche Musicali of Rome for writing original music to be featured in two dance choreographies made by the choreographer Valerio De Vita and the
breaker Niels Storm Robitzky respectively. He developed collective projects with several professionals: Andrea Alessi (Filmmaker), SaraBrown (performer), Manifesto Delle Visioni Parallele (artistic production collective) and Maurizio Palpacelli (sound designer and luthier).
Cerioni plays didgeridoo and custom-made instruments such as Metastring, a meta-instrument that first appeared in September 2017 at Tempo Reale in Florence, Italy. Metastring is an expanded electroacoustic monochord, which combines the piano string features with the electric transduction of sound, the diversified playing modes of the percussions and the live-electronics processing of the
signal. It is a meta-instrument that tends towards the polyphony in spite of its monophonic mechanics, and promotes an instrumental approach that is oriented to a stratified view of the sound; according to that, the quartet made-up by: “exciter-vibrating body-transducer-processor” actually becomes an organic acoustic source.