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Meg (Maria Di Donna) was born in Napoli, in a family where music is an important part of the emotional and sentimental education. Her parents listen to any kind of music, and this thing, together with the study of the pianoforte since she was a child, will inevitably influence her following artistic production. In 1994 , during the national occupation of italian universities and students demonstrations, she joins the band 99 Posse. This is a real tourningpoint for her and for the band's life. So she takes part in the writing of four among the most fundamental albums of the italian avantguard music panorama ( "Cerco tiempo", "Corto Circuito", "La vida que vendrà", "NA_99_10" ). Embracing with non-chalanche the underground music moviment and the top charts at the same time. In 2001 she works with Marco Messina on the soundtrack for the theatre show of Krypton's experimental company "Dentro la tempesta", based on "The tempest" by William Shakespeare. The duo was called Nous. They play live the soundtrack during the shows and Meg performes in the play the role of Ariel. In 2002 the cd by Nous "La Tempesta" was published. Throughout the years, many are the collaborations with various musicians, such as Subsonica, Tiro Mancino, Roy Paci, Pino Daniele, Speaker Cenzou, Retina.it, Technophonic Chamber Orchestra. In 2004 she gives birth to her first solo homonym album, "Meg". Here, she has fun in composing, writing and playing and programming, creating her own audioworld, exploring all the deep emotional parts of herself , in a fresh, experimental, "multiformis" way. New collaborations in 2006: with ZU, Gnu Quartet and Katia Labeque. Today, 2007, she has just finished her new album co-produced with Stefano Fontana - a.k.a Stylophonic - out after summer!
Multiformis is the name I wanted for my label. To make this choice I looked inside myself, checking all over, with the determination and leisure of a snail turning the soil and giving oxygen to the roots. I wanted a name that represented me in the best possible way, a key word made to measure. I came up with an infinite number of possibilities, but always felt the chosen word only partially represented who I am, highlighting one aspect, but inevitably hiding another, leaving me inconsolably dissatisfied. Until, last summer, reading "Memoirs of Hadrian" by that genius Marguerite Yourcenar, the second chapter sent a shiver down my spine. The title stated: "Varius multiplex multiformis". Three words acting as a mirror to describe the nature of the main character. It was like when you are amazed by your own reflection in a mirror, then suddenly recognise yourself: those words perfectly described me, and what I like most about myself, grouping all my parts together, leaving none out. It couldnt have been better Of the three I chose "multiformis", undoubtedly the most musical sounding, and as enveloping as a silk scarf. Then, over the months, I realised that I had chosen a sort of mother-word, as around this word there slowly branched, like winding plants, a whole series of unexpected meanings. Multiforms gives the idea of something unclosed, unlimited, undefined by outlines, which can be interpreted and reread on various levels. It could also hide some remains of an infantile omnipotence: multiforms is anything which is not just one, but many things at the same time! Multiforms like reality, which is an inextricable and complex tangle, where the most heterogeneous elements exist simultaneously. Multiformis like my musical roots: multi-layered.
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