Manuele Giannini
Manuele Giannini: composer,
guitarist, speaker, theatre technician, founder member of Starfuckers
(all releases), Sinistri (all releases)
and Sinistri++.
Manuele Giannini was born on October 23, 1966 in Massa (Italy), he spent his teenage years in Pallerone (Lunigiana). His first experience creating music was playing bass at the age of fifteen. In 1985 he moved to Bologna to attend university, in 1995 he took a PhD in semiotics with a doctoral dissertation titled "The Noise: Theories And Practices". He became active in live performance on voice, electronics and guitar in 1987, he recorded his first LP in 1989 with the Starfuckers, his first USA release was in 1995, he first played outside Italy in 2001. During 1993/1994 Manuele Giannini played free techno improvised music on guitar and electronics with M16. He worked as producer/musician with the rock band Massimo Volume: "Stanze" (Underground, 1993), "Lungo I Bordi" (WEA, 1995). He also worked as speaker, performer and guitarist with the multimedia ensemble ZimmerFrei: "N.K. Never Keep Souvenirs Of A Murder" (2000), "Vocoder #1 Black Words On White Paper" (2001), "Free Form" (2003).
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
Manuele Giannini's guitar
techniques.
Manuele Giannini starts to play guitar in 1987, with a primal and raw proto-punk
approach, at the beginning of the nineties he starts to explore a rock oriented
way to serial techniques studying the music of Anton Webern, between 1996/1999
he refuses to rehearsal and stops to tune his guitar treating his Stratocaster
purely as a sound source. Around the end of 1999, illuminated by the chank style
played by James Brown's guitarists, he comes back to tune his guitar re-adopting
serial techniques with a percussive, ultra primitive, nonmetric
funk approach.
His music is influenced by: Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, James Brown, John Cage, Giacinto Scelsi, The Stooges…
Manuele Giannini's current
gear.
Guitars: Fender Stratocasters.
Amps: Fender Hot Rod De Luxe, Fender RAD, Pignose 7-100.
Effects: Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro, Morley Wah/Volume, Boss Super Octave.
