Sinistri++
Manuele Giannini (guitar, electronics), Roberto Bertacchini (drums, percussion), Alessandro Bocci (electronics), Dino Bramanti (realtime processing).
Sinistri++ is a live collaboration project carried on by italian trio Sinistri (formerly known as Starfuckers) and sound artist Dino Bramanti.
Sinistri++ is aimed at extending in space and dissecting in time the fractured, disarticulated avant funk drive from Sinistri through Dino Bramanti's real time processing network. The concept behind the project is the search for an interaction between what is actually played using traditional instruments and its further possible de-composition, fragmentation, rebuilding and dislocation performed in real time using custom processing network. The concept behind Sinistri++ is the addition of other possibilities, dimensions and "channels" to raw Sinistri core, where the idea of "adding channels" is open to multiple and diverse intuitive implementation. It can be a simple live processing dimension added to the trio's sound, reacting/opposing/interacting with it, or a multichannel live sound spatialisation, physical dislocation of musicians and so on. The project is part of a long term research from Sinistri/Starfuckers, exploring strategies and techniques of dissociation between the musician's will and the music itself he is creating. The musician's intention is separated from the actual sound he is producing with his instruments and hence he is stimulated to give up with the concept of having an intention caging the sounds itself. Nobody, neither Sinistri nor Dino Bramanti, have full, end to end knowledge about the whole process as it happens. As a result, the music is freed from the intentions and becomes something independent, almost autonomous from the musicians involved in its creation.
This project (with some implementative variants) has been premiered at Raum in Bologna, in November 2004 within Desco Music live series and has been performed in May 2005 within Placard Festival, Bologna edition, hosted by Galleria Neon.

Sinistri
Sinistri, formerly known as Starfuckers, is an experimental music unit with drums, electronics, guitar and sometimes vocals, based in Italy. Since their forming in the late 80's they've established a highly unique musical language based on nonmetric rhythms and minimal riffs that bear traces of proto-punk, black roots and contemporary classical music.

Selected releases:
Sinistri "Free Pulse" Hapna 2005
Starfuckers "Infinitive Sessions" Dbk Works 2002
Starfuckers "Infrantumi" Lessness/Drunken Fish 1997/98
Starfuckers "Sinistri" Underground Records 1994
Starfuckers "Brodo Di Cagne Strategico" Helter Skelter 1991
Starfuckers "Metallic Diseases" Electric Eye 1990

Dino Bramanti/ampang
Dino Bramanti/ampang is an one man sound and software design entity working on the boundaries of composition and improvisation for live electronics and laptop based custom programs. Its sound processing and generation applications and machines are entirely designed and implemented in MaxMSP, SuperCollider and Csound software environments.

Selected works and collaborations:
"Free Pulse" CD ( with Sinistri) Hapna Records 2005
"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
"quaalude - a quiet interlude" sound installation and natural sound generator (with A. Borghi) 2002