Federico Placidi
Biography
EXECUTIVE AND CONTROL ENVIRONMENTS FOR LIVE ELECTRONICS, COMPOSITION AND ELECTROACOUSTIC PRACTICE, EXECUTION AND INTERPRETATION OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC, IMPROVISATION AND INTERACTIVE COMPOSITION LABORATORY, LIVE ELECTRONICS, LIVE ELECTRONICS FOR JAZZ COMPOSITION, LIVE ELECTRONICS FOR PIANISTS (JAZZ), INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS AND ART INSTALLATIONS
Federico Placidi studied Double Bass at the Conservatory of St. Cecilia, Composition and Electronic Music at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna.
He studied in Paris at the Center de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX), with Agostino Di Scipio, Trevor Wishart and Curtis Roads.
Together with Matteo Milani, he is the founder of U.S.O. Project aka Unidentified Sound Object.
He has been "artist in residence" at several electronic music institutes in Europe including the Centre de Création Musicale- Iannis Xenakis- (CCMIX) in Paris and the EMS (ElektroMusikStudion) in Stockholm.
He divides his activity between teaching, the composition and live performance.
He has collaborated as a composer and electroacoustic performer with various artists including: Ana Topalovic, Domenico Sciajno, Todd Barton, Andrea Young, Agostino Di Scipio, Alvin Curran, Thoranna Bjornsdottir, Andrea Valle, Natasha Barrett and many others.
He currently lives and works in Rome.
