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Born in Arona in 1953, Riccardo Sinigaglia is an architect as well as musician. He teaches electronic music at Milan Conservatory where he studied during the seventies with Angelo Paccagnini.

He collaborates with the video center of the Faculty of Architecture, Milan University, where he lectures on the relationship between music and image.

His musical productions also include music for documentaries, ballets and theatre spectacles.

His work is based on modes, mean tone, pythagorean scales and complex polyrhythmics: he is deeply involved in ethnomusicology, the elements of which are revisited and employed in his musical language.

In the 80s, together with Walter Maioli and Gabin Dabiré, he founded the group Futuro Antico, a cross between electronic and ethno shamanic music.

In 1985 he founded, together with Mario Canali, the audio-visual art group Correnti Magnetiche beginning to work with digital system.

Correnti Magnetiche uses computerized systems in order to create audio-visual compositions, and produces videotapes, installations and live-electronics concerts. In concert play with Maurizio Dehò (violin), Gabin Dabiré (balafon and percussions), Tommaso Leddi (violin, horn) and the soprano Rossana Maggia when Mario Canali paint on a graphic tablet with a big screen fellowing the music.

Correnti Magnetiche works have won many prizes at international demonstrations of computer art in Austria, Japan, U.S.A., Italy, Hungary and Switzerland, and they have been broadcast on TV and radio world-wide (see curriculum).

From 1986 he work with Doubling Riders a musical group with Pierluigi Andreoni.

They play in festivals like Time Zone in Bari.

He also work in world music project with the libic singer Ahmed Fakrun.

He works with Pietro Pirelli and his Ensamble de la Roue, with Corrado Colliard (Tbn.), Mauro Gino (perc.) and Maurizio Barbetti (Vla.).

He have also an improvisation group: "The swimmers" with the Bulgarian artist Alzek Misheff and Maurizio Barbetti (viola) and Rocco Parisi (bass clarinet).

With this group he plays only coda piano in performances like at Venice biennale.

• 1980 Futuro Antigo LP Son y luz (S. Paolo - Brasil)
• 1980 Futuro Antico K7 www.soundcenter.it
• 1985 Watertube Ringspiel K7 ADN (Milano)
• 1986 Riflessi LP ADN-Recommended Records Italia (Milano)
• 1987 Scorrevole 3 Fluttuazioni K7 Ladd-Frith Production (Eureka-CA-USA)
• 1987 The Doubling Riders 2LP ADN-Recommended Records Italia (Milano)
• 1989 Correnti Magnetiche LP ADN-Recommended Records Italia (Milano)
• 1989 The Doubling Riders "World" CD Supporti Fonografici (Milano)
• 1990 Futuro Antico LP (CGR) Schio (riedizione rimixata del disco del 1980)
• 1991 Correnti Magnetiche antologia VHS ADN Milano
• 1991 The Doubling Riders "Garama" CD Il museo immaginario (Piacenza)
• 1991 Concrete noises in "All Frontiers" CD Materiali Sonori (Valdarno)
• 1992 Evon in "Esorcismi e prove" CD Auditorium (Milano)
• 1992 Arm in "Studio ES" CD Edipan (Roma)
• 1998 Quicktime movies in "Marco Polo vol II" CD/CD ROM Materiali Sonori (Valdarno)
• 1999 Opal I° in "Music fof swimming across the Pacific" CD Alzek Misheff (Acqui Terme)
• 2001 "Proliferating truth of sentiment" The Swimmer Quintet CD Alga Marghen (Milano)
• 2002 Quert in "Musicas desde el abismo Vol.05" CD Margen Lugo (Spain)
• 2002 With Rossana Maggia "La Ballata della pulce" in compilation of independent electronic music magazine, issue 4 Nonexistence Moscow (Russia)