Dino Bramanti lives in Pietrasanta (Italy) where he was born in 1969.
His cultural background is a mixed affair between classical humanistic education and mathematical and technical studies. In 1988 graduated at Liceo Classico in Viareggio and in 1996 took PhD in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Pisa, working on statistical noise modelling.
Being affected since his teens by an endless appetite for recorded sounds and musics (after being folgorated by listening to Dead Kennedy's "In God We Trust, INC" in early eighties), he soon started to explore and collect every kind record he was able to find and bring home.
Self-taught musician on bass and trumpet, during the 90's he's been working as DJ in several clubs and radio stations, mainly spinning jazz, black music, rock and what's in between. Firmly persuaded that noise is not such a bad thing as good engineers are used to depict it, he started moving towards electronic sound composition, digital signal manipulation and sample grinding, writing and playing his own processing applications in Csound, Supercollider and finally Max/MSP.
Current main work is focused on the concept of de-composition/improvisation applied to live performance for laptops and custom made music software. He's a ghost member and collaborator of broken-funk combo Sinistri and member of its cubist incarnation Sinistri++, representing a playground for further experimentations in the field of non-metric, non-linear music.
Additionally, he's carrying on "bonarosa" project with A. Borghi, is solo explorations as "ampang" and he's sharing his time between digital art works and the work as system/software designer in the field of IP related protocols for telecommunications industry.

Recent Works:
with Sinistri:
2005 - Timing The Instant C, track on Sonic Protest CD-R
2005 - Free Pulse CD, Hapna Records
2004 - Music for the DVD Mattino di T.Camaiani e G.P.Guerini
2004 - Norway Pulse, track on Cottage Industrial Vol.3 CD-R, Humbug Records
with Sinistri++:
2005 - live at Placard Festival, Bologna (Italy)
2004 - Black Pulse vs. White Space [for hidden musicians and real-time processing] - live project, Raum, Bologna (Italy) as part of Desco Music live series.
various:
2004 - Contribution in BAU - Contenitore di cultura (con)temporanea, #0
2003 - L'ospite ingrato, un'ossessione Medicea -- sound installation in Orizzonti-Belvedere dell'Arte, Forte Belvedere -Firenze (cat. Skira) (with TIMET, M. Di Rosa and A. Bosshard)
2003 - Sonic Pills on Compilatione, TIMET
2002 - quaalude, a quiet interlude - sound installation and natural sound generator -premiered in Pietrasanta, galleria c'Arte d'Identita'.

Dino Bramanti's current gear:
Laptop running custom made applications, Doepfer and Peavey fader boxes, Waldorf Pulse, Waldorf 4-pole, digital portable recorders, Wavetek analog signal generator, various disassembled/modified electronic equipments.