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Maurizio Martusciello, also known by the pseudonym Martux_m (Naples, September 2, 1961), is an Italian musician, composer, and record producer of electronic music.

'Il Gesto Sospeso' by Maurizio Martusciello and Mattia Casalegno, Hadrian Temple, Rome, 2010

Biography

Born in Napoli in 1961, in the early 1980s he studied percussion at the Liceo Musicale in Naples. In 1995 he released the CD Meta-Harmonies, a tribute to Swiss visual artist Jean Tinguely, in duo with Elio Martusciello.

In 2000, he published his first solo work, entitled "Unsettled Line" a work by Musica concreta inspired by the poetic work of Claudio Mutini. The same year he founded with Filippo Paolini aka Økapi the duo Metaxu and released the CD Metaxu, which was followed in 2003 by the concept-album on the atrocity of war entitled "Rumors of War".

In 2001, he was invited to France for a Composer in Residence at the Research Center of Albi (G.M.E.A., Groupe de Musique Electro-Acoustique in Albi). In the French studios of the GMEA he composed "Dissectio," a work of concrete music .

In 2001 he founded the duo Z.E.L.L.E. with Nicola Catalano, a duo of electronic digital minimalism, releasing the CD "Nth" followed in 2003 by the second Cd entitled "Rjctd".

In 2002 he founded with Filippo Paolini aka Økapi and Massimo Pupillothe Dogon group, releasing the CD "Before and after Dogon" which was followed in 2003 by "Who is playing shadow of whom?".Participates in the record project "Koiné" with Rita Marcotulli, Join the group along with Arto Tuncboyaciyan percussion, Andy Sheppard to saxophones, Anders Jormin on double bass, Philippe Garcia on drums and a Gianmaria Testa.

From 2003 to 2005, he was curator and artistic director of Sensoralia, an audiovisual electronic art exhibition of the Romaeuropa Festival, at the Teatro Palladium in Roma.

In 2003, he designed two audiovisual installations: "Exceptio" commissioned by the City of Rome, in the evocative site of the Terme di Diocleziano, and "Front of the Wave" for the Armellini Foundation. Numerous collaborations with audiovisual art groups, with the experimental film group Canecapovolto and Atelier MTK (Marseille) and Metamkine and Skoltz_Kolgen. Composes works for the Italian National Radio RAI RadioTre, for Journees Electro-Radio Days Canadian and for television playing on the show Mediamente.

In 2004 he is invited to the Biennale Musica Venice presenting the X-Scape project. With contemporary music composer Giorgio Battistelli was born the work "Experimentum Mundi Remix," which was premiered at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome in the electronic evening of the 2004 RomaEuropa Festival. In the same year he is invited to the Sonar Barcelona.

In 2005 he released the CD "Exceptio," the soundtrack of the installation of the same name. In 2006, a collaboration with Enrico Ghezzi resulted in an audio-visual performance project titled "Fuorioraria: D(r)rive Out Of Time," a performance realized in a classic "Blob Style."

In 2007 in duo with Mario Masullo under the pseudonym XM he released an LP of aesthetic, minimal techno entitled “Woy Out Lines” which was followed in the same year by the vinyl entitled "Gimme Some Truth".

Also in 2007, he returned to collaborate with visual artist Mattia Casalegno with whom he created the audiovisual work entitled: "X-SCAPE" which was first presented as a multi-screen installation at the Auditorium Parco della Musica Rome and of which a DVD is subsequently .

The same year he created the electroacoustic project Gazelab , an Auditorium Parco della Musica production, a live project in tribute to the prestigious German label ECM. Complementing the live project are some of the best musicians from the ECM area Jon Hassell, Terje Rypdal,Jon Balke, Anja Lechner, Miki N'Doye.

Again in 2007 he elaborates the CD Strade: soundscapes, attached to Tommaso Ottonieri's narrative work Le strade che portano al Fùcino (ed. Le Lettere Fuoriformato, introduction by Enrico Ghezzi), which includes samplings of the author's voice; "four-handed" performances especially from this material took place, between 2005 and 2007, at the Fondazione Morra in Naples, and at the Teatro Comunale in Monfalcone as part of the international "Absolute Poetry - October Poetry Festival."

His first duo project with pianist Danilo Rea, with whom he produced the CD "Reminiscence," dates back to 2008, in which the two, starting from the contaminations between jazz, opera, and electronics, manage to create music governed only by lyricism and pure inspiration.

In 2009 he created and released under his own name the project "About in a Silent way," an original electronic reinterpretation of Miles Davis famous album. Four musicians accompany him on this project: trumpeter Fabrizio Bosso, saxophonist Francesco Bearzatti, guitarist Eivind Aarset, and double bassist Aldo Vigorito.

In 2010, he participated as the only Italian artist in the first edition of the international digital art exhibition DigitalLife together with international artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto.

He produced, again together with Mattia Casalegno, an audiovisual installation for the Roberto Capucci Foundation entitled "The Suspended Gesture" at Tempio di Adriano in Rome. The installation explored the theme of metamorphosis.

With the Martux_m Crew (with Enzo Varriale - AKA Zeno and Gianpasquale Rina - AKA Kocleo) he released the CD "Imagine" in 2013. A concept album of sounds designed on the lyrics of John Lennon's famous song and conceived as a eulogy of imagination and an act of love towards one of the greatest peace anthems of the last century. Electronic and acoustic sounds intersect in this musical project. Playing with him are Fabrizio Bosso (trumpet), Francesco Bearzatti (saxophone) and Eivind Aarset (guitar).

In 2015, again with the Martux_m Crew, he made a collaboration with German trumpeter and composer Markus Stockhausen with whom he released the electronic music Ep "Atlas". The same year also sees the release of the CD "My Love Supreme" with the Martux_m Crew and Francesco Bearzatti. An album of electronic New Jazz, a tribute to John Coltrane 's famous album of “A Love Supreme” that follows the tribute to Miles Davis released in 2009.

In 2017 he realized, together with Mattia Casalegno, the audivisual project "Intervallo" in collaboration with the Ambassador of Italy in Sofia, Stefano Baldi. Intervallo is a tribute to the history and culture of Italy through a sequence of images, landscapes and Italian monuments that served as a background for an original electronic music composition.

In 2019 he produced the project "Apollo 11 Reloaded," an electronic orchestration for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the space mission that first allowed humans to set foot on the moon. The related record was produced by Parco della Musica Records and supported by ASI, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. and also includes an electronic reinterpretation of two songs that most internalized the years of early spaceflight; Pink Floyd 's Us and Them from The Dark Side of the Moon and David Bowie's Space Oddity.

In 2019 with the participation of the Ambasciata della Comunità Europea in Ruanda, he realized in collaboration with Danilo Rea the commercial "Listen to coffee" for Illy Caffè. The spot was made during a month-long stay in Rwanda, where all the sounds related to the different stages of coffee production were sampled, and was presented with a live concert on the occasion of international Coffeee Day at the Lincoln Center in New York.

Maurizio Martusciello has played and collaborated with such musicians and groups as Michiko Hrayama, Wolfgang Fuchs, Fernando Grillo, MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva), Dagmar Krause, Tim Hodgkinson, Chris Cutler, Yoshihide Otomo, Giorgio Battistelli, Danilo Rea, Markus Stockhausen.

He played at Villette Numérique in 2004 in Paris and at the Biennale Musica in Venice. He has participated in the MUTEK Festival, Sonar Festival, Romaeuropa Festival and AltaRoma Festival.