Domenico Sciajno was born in Torino and is now based in Palermo, Italy. He studied Double bass at the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag, Holland. Sciajno has been an active experimentalist in the field of digital music and arts for many years. Combining his passion for improvisation with an academic education, Sciajno’s research led him to explore the creative possibilities of interaction between acoustic and indeterminacy factors. These indeterminacy factors can be processed by computers or electronic devices. His wide experience allows him to be very close to performance. He uses electronics and texts in combination with choreography and projections of his own visuals. His performances and audiovisual compositions bring together visual and sonic material in a unique and personal way. Sciajno’s language combines field recording with computer-generated processes in synergetic relationships. This opens the door to an imaginary world in which complexity and simplicity coexist and are combined in a fascinating and abstract symbiosis. From 1992 he has been present as interpreter, improviser and composer in major international music and media arts festivals like, among others, Ars Electronica (Linz), Transmediale (Berlin), Donaueshingen Miziktagen (Germany), Musique Action (Nancy), Experimental Intermedia (New York), Electrofringe (Newcastle-Australia), Gaudeamus Music (Amsterdam), CalArts Festival (Los Angeles). He gave lectures and workshops in some of the most renowed and qualified faculties/institutions worldwide, among others: Ecole des beaux arts (Nantes), D.A.M.S. (Torino), Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY), Harvestwork(New York), SAIC school of art (Chicago), Sidney Conservatorium and RMIT Univ. (Melbourne), Royal College of Art, London, DMARK Univ. (Limerick), CalArts (Los Angeles). He has been a professor of Electronic Music at the Italian Conservatories for music teaching in Trapani, Roma, and Torino since 2004. Internationally established and independent labels of electronic and experimental music have documented his musical and audio recordings. He has developed Interactive Sound installations for art galleries and exhibitions and prestigious locations like: Gibellina Nuova (Italy), Museo Burri (Citta di Castello), Musee de Beaux-Arts (Nantes), Musee de Strasbourg, Atrio del Quirinale (Roma), Musei Capitolini (Roma), Piazza del Duomo (Siracusa), ExKea (Stuttgart), Valle dei Templi (Agrigento). He was active in the advancement of experimental art and founded Antitesi in 1995. From 1995 to 1998, he organized Folk it Out!, a concert series and festival. ’97, i(n)terazioni ’98, Inaudito! ’99). He was a part of the Fringes record labels’ birth in 1997. In 2003, he and other musicians founded Bowindo (italian eXperimental music) and the national collective iXem. From 2004 to 2012, he conceived and coordinated the nine editions Live!iXem festival of experimental electronic music mixed arts.
