Born in Palermo, Italy (1977). Lives and works in Berlin.
Valerio Tricoli is a composer of electro acoustic music, radical improviser on analogue electronic instrument. Member of the avant-rock group “3/4HadBeenEliminated; promoter of concerts and collaboration; sound engineer; Tricoli is considered one of the most influential member of the Italian nouvelle vague.
His compositions are situated in a space of encounter between the musique concrète forms and more conceptual ones (eg radical interest in the relationship between reality, virtuality, memory in the acousmatic event): music, recorded sound or sounds elaborated synthetically, the sound remain in between the actuality of the event and the domain of the memory – far from here but at the same time present, as in the experience of deja-vu.
He plays live electronic instruments mostly of which are analogue (reel recorders, tuner, speakers, microphones, …), but the structure of the device is mutating endless. Tricoli prefers a kind if approach that privileges a multiple relationships between the performer, the device and the space. That relation takes place during the event. He is founding member of the collective label “Bowindo! ( “arguably the best thing to come out of Italy since Luigi Nono” Dan Warburton, The Wire), and the group 3/4HadBeenEliminated (with Stefano Pilia and Claudio Rocchetti) .
His composition “Did they? Did I?” was described by Andrew Cullera as “one of the more substantial musique concrète works I’ve heard in quite a while”.
In 2006 was published , after three years of intense work, his masterpiece “Metaprogramming From Within The Eye of The Storm.”
DISCOGRAPHY
Valerio Tricoli – Giuseppe Ielasi: “Untitled Tape” (Freedom From, USA 2000)
Valerio Tricoli: “Did They? Did I?” (Bowindo, Italia 2002)
3/4HadBeenEliminated : “s/t” (Bowindo, Italia 2003)
3/4HadBeenEliminated: “a year of the aural gauge operation” (Hapna, Svezia 2005)
3/4HadBeenEliminated: “DimethyAtonalCalcine” (a/p 2006)
Valerio Tricoli: “Metaprogramming From Within The Eye of The Storm” (Bowindo, Italia 2006)
Valerio Tricoli – John Duncan “The Garden” (Provincia di Torino / The Wire, UK, 2006)
3/4HadBeenEliminated: “Theology” (Soleilmoon, USA 2007)
3/4HadBeenEliminated: “The Religious Experience” (Soleilmoon, USA 2007)
PHONORAMA “PHONORAMA” (XING/The Wire Magazine, UK, 2008)
