Here's some of the people who influenced me during my musical evolution through their works:
John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Erik Satie, Fred Frith, Autechre, Bela Bartók, The Contortions, Anthony Braxton, Iannis Xenakis, Derek Bailey, Thomas Brinkmann, John Coltrane, Doctor Nerve, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Arnold Schoenberg, Evan Parker, Orb, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sunny Murray, Vladimír Václavek, Steve Lacy, Cassiber, Sylvano Bussotti, Pop Group, Albert Ayler, Ferdinand Richard, Mauricio Kagel, Pan Sonic, Paul Lytton, Edgard Varèse, Peter Brötzmann, Black Flag, Peter Kowald, Birthday Party, Jerome Cooper, J. S. Bach, AACM, Olivier Messiaen, Throbbing Gristle, Gerry Hemingway, MCH Band, Robert Ashley, Can, Dimitri Shostakovich, Suicide, Paul Lovens, Brian Eno, Ganelin Trio, Sonic Youth, Rashied Ali, Patrizia Oliva, Harry Partch, Mothers of Invention, Luciano Berio, John Zorn, Aphex Twin, Giacinto Scelsi, Chris Cutler, The Work, Louis Hardin aka Moondog, Chrome, Tuxedomoon, Elvin Jones, Pierre Schaeffer, Sven-Åke Johansson, Terry Riley, Globe Unity, No Means No, Claude Debussy, Han Bennink, Mouse on Mars, Luigi Nono, Blurt, Archie Shepp, Henry Cow, Marcello Magliocchi, Paul Hindemith, The Stooges, John Stevens, Pierre Boulez, This Heat, FMP, Kraftwerk, EN, Stu Martin, Primus, Sam Rivers, Iva Bittová, Anton Webern, Luis Moholo, Public Image Ltd, Beatles, Amon Tobin, Charles Ives, Andrew Cyrille, Arto Lindsay, Soft Machine, Pere Ubu, György Ligeti, Clock Dva, Misha Mengelberg, Velvet Underground, Taraf De Haidouks, Henry Cowell, Swans, Billie Holiday, DNA, Bruno Maderna, Eugene Chadbourne, Rock in Opposition, Morton Feldman, The Ex, Barry Guy, Captain Beefheart, Negativland, Roger Turner, David Tudor, Franco Battiato, Gunther Sommer, Dj Krush, Igor Stravinsky, Plastic People of the Universe, Charlie Parker, Mark Stewart and Maffia, Tom Waits, Steve Reich, Lol Coxhill, Germs, Roger Tessier, Carsten Nicolai, Jaki Liebezeit, AMM, Ernest Bloch, Ken Hyder, Richie Hawtin, Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Ryoji Ikeda, Bad Brains, Keith Leblanc, Sun Ra, Jealousy Party, Laurie Anderson, Tony Oxley, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tom Cora, Cecil Taylor, Rhythm'n'Sound, Lounge Lizards, Charles Mingus, David Moss, Glenn Gould, Thelonious Monk, and many good friends.
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Other/besides music here some of my favourite:
William S. Burroughs, Jackson Pollock, Theodor W. Adorno, Vincent Van Gogh, Joseph Beuys, Dante Alighieri, George Orwell, Giovanni Di Stefano, Carmelo Bene, Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Wim Wenders, Jean-Paul Sartre, Francis Bacon, Arthur Rimbaud, Walter Benjamin, Graphic Design, Lab12, Bruno Munari, Federico Maddalozzo, Laboratorio Saccardi, David Carson, Jim Jarmusch, A. G. Fronzoni, Edgard Allan Poe, Marcel Duchamp, Emilio Vedova, Luigi de Bellis, Vasilij Kandinskij, Milorad Krstic, Ciprì e Maresco, Henry Miller, Maurizio Cattelan, Musiche, Bauhaus Kulturkritik, Enrico Ghezzi, Egon Schiele, Massimo Mila, David Icke, Armando Gentilucci, Dada, Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, Merce Cunningham, Albert Camus, Sodagraphx, Hieronymus Bosch, La Fura Dels Baus, Luigi Pestalozza, Paul Klee, Michele Bazzana, Survival Research Laboratory, Nikola Tesla, Federico Tavan, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Andy Warhol, Arrigo Polillo, Living Theater, Franz Kafka, Federico Fellini, Bruce Neuman, Frank O. Gehry, Neville Brody, Pina Bausch, Fluxus, Noisefour/Attik, Stanley Kubrick, Blu, J. M. Basquiat, too many to mention.
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Sounds Like
Complete discography compilations excluded
1. Solo works
2007 Stefano Giust MKUltra SM1000/Chew-Z Netlabel
2004 Stefano Giust Stanze Battute 6.4 SM740
2001 Stefano Giust Linked SM570
2000 Stefano Giust New Vexations SM540
2000 Stefano Giust Pezzi Circolari SM530
1995 Stefano Giust Musiche delle Circostanze SM090
2000 Maisie Do you still remember when... Snowdonia
1999 Setoladimaiale Unit (A.Cartolari, D.Gawara, P.Caleo, M.Suppo, I.Pilat, D.Pagliero, L.Cartolari, M.Brieda, S.Giust) Live 48th Biennale di Venezia SMVID002 (video)
1999 Setoladimaiale Unit (A.Cartolari, D.Gawara, P.Caleo, M.Suppo, I.Pilat, D.Pagliero, L.Cartolari, M.Brieda, S.Giust) Live 48th Biennale di Venezia SM470
Greetings and thank you for visiting this page. I am a musician living and working in North-Eastern Italy. This page is like my personal website, here I update my projects and so on. Peace and freedom. Vivi e lascia vivere.
My work develops into many different experimental achievements, in which improvisation and indeterminate music hold a central role. I look upon contemporary improvisation as an open process compatible with any idiom and musical situation. I work on these subjects in their many variants — languages, instrumentation, methods, spatiality; into an acoustic, electric, electronic and audio/video surrounding —.
Full-length bio:
Stefano Giust is an improviser musician, drummer, electronic/acousmatic music composer, performer and producer.
Born in Unterseen, Switzerland, in March 1968, currently he lives in Pordenone, Italy. He is a self-taught musician and he has started recording his music when he was 14 in a solo-project named Opera, for Italian label OEC.
He has recorded 70 albums with his own main projects or as co-leader, mainly improvised music, avant-jazz and electronic music.
As drummer he has played with Dominik Gawara, Gianni Gebbia, Daniele Pagliero, Vincenzo Vasi, Roy Paci, Xabier Iriondo, Roberto Bellatalla, Luc Ex, Edoardo Marraffa, Chris Iemulo, Andy Diagram, Sakis Papadimitriou, Patrizia Oliva aka Madame P, Edoardo Ricci, Giorgia Sylleou, Luca Miti, Carlo Actis Dato, Mat Pogo, Luigi Lullo Mosso, Renato Ciunfrini, Vincenzo Ramaglia, Massimo Ceccarelli, IoIoI, Andrej Bako, Karen O'Brien, Gianni Lenoci, Gareth Mitchell, Bruno Romani, Michel Le Maigne, Stefano Bartolini, Tiziana Lo Conte, Bartolomeo Sailer aka Wang Inc., Teho Teardo, Norontako Bagus Kentus, Marcello Magliocchi, Luca Vortex, Roberto Ottaviano, Bart Maris, Domenico Caliri, Fred Casadei, Jonas Kocher, Luca Cartolari, Alessandro Cartolari, Andrea Biondello, Victor L. P. Young, Jacopo Andreini, Federico De Pizzol, Alessandro Boscolo, Marco Crestani, Walter Belloni, Valeria Merlini, Claudia Cancellotti, Marino José Malagnino, Marco Tabellini, Ivan Pilat, João Filipe, André Coelho, Patrizio Pica aka Ben Presto, Giorgio Pacorig, Fabio Sfregola, Sergio Fedele, Vito Maria Laforgia, Giuseppe Mariani, Fulvia De Colle, Sergio Cacherano Staropoli, Luciano Caruso, Mauro Costalonga, Vito Ciampa, Igor Alban Chevalier, Maurizio Suppo, Michele Brieda, Paolo De Piaggi, Paolo Caleo, Vonneumann, Marco Carcasi, Lorenzo Commisso, Cristiano Luciani, Dario Fariello, Filippo Giuffrè, Antonio D'Intino, Enrico Malatesta, Daniele Giannotta, Nicola Guazzaloca, Lendormin and many others; poets Federico Tavan, Bruno Clocchiatti; with groups Le Bambine, Orbitale Trio, Gbur, Margine, Kongrosian Trio, Babelis Project, Nudocrudo, Maisie, Bologna Improvisers Orchestra, Black Taper Taiga, Trio Solzenicyn, Suonimmagine, DIN-Collective (UK), Rediffusion (UK), Roy Paci’s Furious Alchemy Collective, Sektor 304 (PT), Skinstrings, Squame, Papiers Collés, Ipersensity, L'Amorth Duo, Camusi.
He has toured Italy, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenja.
He has played at improvised music festivals like Italian Jazz Rebels (Bologna '03), Fonomanie (directed by Roberto Ottaviano and Marcello Magliocchi, Bari '03), Pre Sonar Event (London '05), Scatole Sonore at Rialtosantambrogio (Roma '07, '08); artistic contexts like the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), B.I.G. Biennale Internazionale Arte Giovane (Torino '02), Hic Et Nunc-Contemporary Art (Udine '02, '03, '04), AD'A-Area D'Azione (Rocca Sforzesca, Imola '04), Torture Garden (Buttrio '05); art galleries like Neon Campobase (Bologna '05), Villa Manin-Contemporary Art (Udine '02, '05, '06), Galleria Contemporaneo (Venezia '07), Illuseum (Amsterdam '07); theaters like Teatro Miela (Trieste '04); cultural centers like Leoncavallo (Milano), CPA (Firenze), The Foundry (London '07), Galeria Zé Dos Bois ZDB (Lisboa '07), La Centrale (Bordeaux '07); University like Academy of Fine Arts (Bologna '05), Dams (Torino '06); live performance at radio broadcasters like Resonance 104.4FM by London Musicians' Collective (London '05).
As composer of acousmatic, electronic and creative music, some of his works have been used by experimental film director Giovanni Andreotta and video-installations by Gorazd Krnc, Toni Mestrovic, Alessandro Amaducci, Sammlerfamilie/Filoart, Tullio De Gennaro, Renzo Cevro-Vukovic, Lorenzo Commisso, Alan De Cecco aka Sodagraphx, Sguardi Sonori '08 festival of media and time based art. The multimedia project Papiers Collés has been rewarded by Italian Ministry of Instruction - Department of Arts and Research ('05). He has realized, together with Patrizia Oliva, a sound-piece for the exhibition Destillaat 10, by artist Iris Ollschewski, Nijmegen (NL) '07.
In 1993 he has founded the underground record label Setola di Maiale - musiche non convenzionali, a network/catalogue of avant-garde musicians: up to now he has produced more than 130 albums involving about 200 musicians.
He has organized festivals of contemporary music connected to Setola di Maiale's productions (1997, 1998, 2003).
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Il mio lavoro come musicista si rivolge in più direzioni sperimentali, nelle quali l'improvvisazione e l'alea ricoprono un ruolo centrale. Considero l'improvvisazione contemporanea un processo aperto e compatibile con ogni idioma e situazione musicale. Indago questi aspetti nelle loro varianti — linguaggi, strumentazione, modalità, spazialità; in campo acustico, elettrico, elettronico, audio/video —.
Bio:
Stefano Giust è un musicista improvvisatore, batterista, compositore di musica elettronica/acusmatica, performer e produttore.
Nato a Unterseen, in Svizzera, nel 1968; vive a Pordenone. Da autodidatta poco ortodosso, a 14 anni inizia a registrare la sua musica con il progetto sperimentale Opera, lavori pubblicati in quegli anni da OEC.
Ad oggi ha registrato 70 albums a suo nome e come co-leader, in ambito improvvisativo, avant-jazz e musica elettronica.
Come batterista ha suonato con Dominik Gawara, Gianni Gebbia, Daniele Pagliero, Vincenzo Vasi, Roy Paci, Xabier Iriondo, Roberto Bellatalla, Luc Ex, Edoardo Marraffa, Chris Iemulo, Andy Diagram, Sakis Papadimitriou, Patrizia Oliva aka Madame P, Edoardo Ricci, Giorgia Sylleou, Luca Miti, Carlo Actis Dato, Mat Pogo, Luigi Lullo Mosso, Renato Ciunfrini, Vincenzo Ramaglia, Massimo Ceccarelli, IoIoI, Andrej Bako, Karen O'Brien, Gianni Lenoci, Gareth Mitchell, Bruno Romani, Michel Le Maigne, Stefano Bartolini, Tiziana Lo Conte, Bartolomeo Sailer aka Wang Inc., Teho Teardo, Norontako Bagus Kentus, Marcello Magliocchi, Luca Vortex, Roberto Ottaviano, Bart Maris, Domenico Caliri, Fred Casadei, Jonas Kocher, Luca Cartolari, Alessandro Cartolari, Andrea Biondello, Victor L. P. Young, Jacopo Andreini, Federico De Pizzol, Alessandro Boscolo, Marco Crestani, Walter Belloni, Valeria Merlini, Claudia Cancellotti, Marino José Malagnino, Marco Tabellini, Ivan Pilat, João Filipe, André Coelho, Patrizio Pica aka Ben Presto, Giorgio Pacorig, Fabio Sfregola, Sergio Fedele, Vito Maria Laforgia, Giuseppe Mariani, Fulvia De Colle, Sergio Cacherano Staropoli, Luciano Caruso, Mauro Costalonga, Vito Ciampa, Igor Alban Chevalier, Maurizio Suppo, Michele Brieda, Paolo De Piaggi, Paolo Caleo, Vonneumann, Marco Carcasi, Lorenzo Commisso, Cristiano Luciani, Dario Fariello, Filippo Giuffrè, Antonio D'Intino, Enrico Malatesta, Daniele Giannotta, Nicola Guazzaloca, Lendormin ed altri; i poeti Federico Tavan e Bruno Clocchiatti; con i gruppi Le Bambine, Orbitale Trio, Gbur, Margine, Kongrosian Trio, Babelis Project, Nudocrudo, Maisie, Bologna Improvisers Orchestra, Black Taper Taiga, Trio Solzenicyn, Suonimmagine, i londinesi Rediffusion e DIN-Collective, Roy Paci’s Furious Alchemy Collective, i portoghesi Sektor 304, Skinstrings, Squame, Papiers Collés, Ipersensity, L'Amorth Duo, Camusi.
Ha tenuto concerti in Italia, Inghilterra, Paesi Bassi, Francia, Germania, Spagna, Portogallo, Svizzera, Austria, Slovenja.
Ha suonato in festivals di musica improvvisata tra cui l’Italian Jazz Rebels (Bologna '03), Fonomanie (diretto da Roberto Ottaviano e Marcello Magliocchi, Bari '03), Pre Sonar Event (Londra '05), Scatole Sonore al Rialtosantambrogio (Roma '07, '08); rassegne d'arte contemporanea tra cui la 48ma Biennale di Venezia (1999), la Biennale Internazionale Arte Giovane (Torino '02), Hic Et Nunc (Udine '02, '03, '04), AD'A-Area D'Azione (Rocca Sforzesca, Imola '04), Torture Garden (Buttrio '06); gallerie d'arte come la Galleria Neon Campobase (Bologna '05), Villa Manin-Centro d'Arte Contemporanea (Udine '02, '05, '06), Galleria Contemporaneo (Venezia '07), Illuseum (Amsterdam '07); teatri come il Teatro Miela (Trieste '04); centri sociali come il Leoncavallo (Milano), il CPA (Firenze); centri culturali come The Foundry (Londra '07), Galeria Zé Dos Bois ZDB (Lisbona '07), La Centrale (Bordeaux '07); Università come l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ('04), il Dams di Torino ('06); performance presso stazioni radiofoniche come la storica radio sperimentale del London Musicians' Collective, Resonance 104.4FM (Londra '05) dove ha presentato anche l’attività e la musica di Setola di Maiale.
Come compositore di musiche creative, acusmatiche ed elettroniche, suoi lavori sono stati utilizzati dal regista sperimentale Giovanni Andreotta e per videoinstallazioni di Gorazd Krnc, Toni Mestrovic, Alessandro Amaducci, Sammlerfamilie/Filoart, Tullio De Gennaro, Renzo Cevro-Vukovic, Lorenzo Commisso, Alan De Cecco aka Sodagraphx, Sguardi Sonori '08. Nel 2005 il progetto audio/video Papiers Collés è segnalato e in mostra a Roma al Premio Nazionale delle Arti Multimediali del Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca bla bla bla. Insieme a Patrizia Oliva, ha realizzato alcuni suoni per la mostra Destillaat 10, dell'artista Iris Ollschewski, Nijmegen (NL) '07.
Nel 1993 ha fondato Setola di Maiale - musiche non convenzionali, un network/catalogo di musicisti d'avanguardia che ad oggi ha prodotto oltre 130 albums e coinvolto circa 200 musicisti.
Ha organizzato festivals di musiche creative legate a Setola di Maiale, negli anni 1997, 1998 e 2003.
MKUltra — my last solo album of electronic music. An extreme remix and recomposition for a long suite of minimal techno, based on a live solo concert of free improvised music, played with drumsticks on electronic percussion pads. Original sounds by Andrej Bako and Karen O’Brien. The concert was recorded in Reggio Calabria, Italy, July the 15th 2004. Produced by Setola di Maiale with Chew-Z Netlabel, 2007.
Live at Scatole Sonore 2007 — live album by Mariani/Laforgia/Giust. Free improvised trio music, recorded in concert during Scatole Sonore Festival at Rialtosantambrogio, Rome, Italy, March the 1st 2007. Produced by Rudimentale Records, 2008.
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Other MySpace in which I’m involved:
Camusi improv duo music with singer/electronic musician Madame P
L’Amorth Duo improv duo music with Marino José Malagnino
Papiers Collés audio/video project with Lorenzo Commisso and Alan De Cecco
Ipersensity improv duo electronic music with Daniele Pagliero
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