music

Back to Taipei and this time for three intense and productive masterclass days at “1500 Sound Academy”. Focusing on rec’ing technique and mixing tips plus an unexpected interaction with audience…

First time out with our Gravity duo together with (super) friend musician Raffaele Matta. A combination of electric guitars, percussions and no-input signal: avantgarde, contemporary music but also melody and

お疲れ様でした Masterclass tour galore in Japan (plus some beta-recording for future projects!) Tokyo-Nishikasai (TSM) Tokyo-Shibuya (TSM) and Takadanobaba (MI Japan) Fukuoka (FSM) Nagoya (NSM) Kobe (Koyo) Osaka (OSM) great time!

First time out for this contemporary music quartet with fellow great musicians: Contatto Sonoro Festival was the context and -being the first performance ever- it came out pretty good.

First time in Taipei for a masterclass tour (5 events!)… very excited and many new people met. To the next (?!)  

Proud of this new album of original material from Mario Massa (trumpet), Mixa Fortuna (vocals) and me (guitars). Check it out. And of course, mix and master by me 😉

Time to play live myself! Malnisio’s former power plant has been a great location to perform (together with Felice Colucci on visuals) with Theuth Alert Duo, a project we developed

Right after Japan time for a 2-day gig FOH’ing trio band The Dang , with top notch musician Marco Scipione on Sax (and much more!), Gianni Rojatti on guitar and

Finally I was able to go to Japan also this year after an intense traveling back and forth with the Armenian projects and Conservatory of Music stuff. It was a

Here we go, as Music Editor, for the last chapter of these intense weeks of recording and mixing for the CSC film school. Same vibe, different studio!

Back in studio as Music Editor for the CSC film school of Rome. Intense week, many recordings.

Third time in Armenia but this time no touring, no hundreds of kilometres by car but “back” to studio work with the recording of the first full album from locally

Back to Armenia, still under the Unicef Umbrella, but this time touring all over Armenia FOH-ing Gnawa musicians from Morocco together with Armenian musicians. Challenging on the technical and logistical

After my Spring (skiing) break, back on track with some Masterclass, this time on behalf of Antelope Audio as Brand Ambassador and not too far from home since I was

Back to Yerevan and to Armenia, this time I got called from Nexus Center of Arts on behalf of Unicef-Armenia to manage, coordinate, record, mix and – in the end-

New kind of gig for me, the one of  “Music Editor” for CSC Film School in Italy: being the guy in between composers, musicians and studio procedures. No playing guitar

Starting my gig dates in Tokyo with a day of video shooting at Ikebe Music (in Shibuya) for Antelope Audio, together with guitar player Ryunosuke Yamagishi. We did some guitar

Back at the Universiteti i Arteve of Tirana for a short music production masterclass, talking about FX-ing and some mic’ing/mixing tips for orchestra tracking Quick but fun.

At Peccioli Forum Biodiversity conference a Architecture Biennale of Venice 2021 spin off Performing with these unique and futuristic guitar and cello-ish from Monad Studio (Miami) With a touch of

“Christening” of my new duo project together with composer guitarist friend Raffaele Matta. His electric guitar with looping and spacy fx and me on effected nylon string guitar (for once)

Second year for me at the super nice City of Guitars Festival held in the main central place in Locarno, Switzerland. This year I got call to be coordinate closed-door

This comes from a personal idea of creating a festival in tiny amusing small town of Armungia in Sardinia (Italy) and, together with my friend composer Raffaele Matta, we put

I got an invitation to play guitar and perform together with contemporary duo (Mario Massa – sax and fx – and Mixa Fortuna – vox and fx) at the Cala

New freelancing mixing (and eventually mastering) in Palermo, Italy, for local guitar player and composer Germano Seggio. We managed to mix at his personal studio inside the music school for

June 2023 will be remembered by me as a super-intense teaching marathon at the Conservatory of Music of Matera (Italy), with a lot in-class lecture but also recording sessions held

Back full throttle to (my beloved) Tokyo and Japan for a pretty frantic tour around Japan together with some recording session. This time was intense as much as it used

Nice to be invited at the Archeological Museum of my hometown in Italy. They wanted me to do a speech about my personal work around the world, including excerpts from

Back to one of my favorite places in Europe and this time for a Masterclass/Lecture about Music Production in the conference Hall of the Universiteti i Arteve (the equivalent of

One of the best days of teaching at the “Martini” Conservatory of Music in Bologna, Italy for my international students of the inMics program. I could finally show my foreign

A year rich of surprises like the call to fill in as officially as full time “Maestro” in Electro-acoustics at the Conservatory of Music of Matera, one of the European

Antelope Audio called me to its HQ in Sofia to fill me in with some new products ready to be released at new Namm Show 2023 so it’s been an

So excited to get back to India after 5 years between work and Covid restrictions time… and finally get back on track with few work connections, a last minute FOH

Surprisingly while in Tirana I got an official call at Conservatory of Music in Bologna for a 30-hour special teaching position in English for students from international Master program: so

On the loop of the Armenian born TUMO Center brand, I got invited in Tumo Tirana to perform a full week of workshop about producing music for commercial. Tirana –

Finally it was possible to travel to Japan after a strict closure Coronavirus policy that has withdrawn in the beginning of October; therefore time was up for me to plan

Just done with a productive 5-day “Music production for commercials” Masterlab at TUMO-Lyon. Five intensive days of Logic galore, recording in studio and final delivery with presentation in the main

New entry for me this year by getting invited at the City of Guitars festival in Locarno with a lot of guests: my job was to get the vibe of

Like every year Miniere Sonore contemporary music festival has been held in late Summer in Sardinia, Italy. After 15 edition of being myself the technical director for the event, this

Right after my degree final exam time to put myself on an aircraft again and go to Berlin, Germany, for a 5-day masterclass at Tumo Berlin: topic, once again, creating-arranging-mixing-delivery

This time I’ve been engaged by Antelope Audio to shoot a video presentation (in Italian and Spanish) about its new Galaxy 32 interface with the Dolby Atmos integration-ready feature. We

Five day on the road, from North to South of Italy and back, 2000 km (at least), with “Gianni Rojatti vs Dang duo (Marco Scipione and Daniel Fasano)” act supporting

Finally our duo, Generative duo, myself together with CRS4’s researcher Felice Colucci,  made its first performance as ‘No input mixing’ one at Oktave festival in Sardinia. Our challenge is to

Time for Interzone, a one-day concentrated festival: many concerts in a single musical marathon (contemporary and jazz) to remember the much loved Roberto Pellegrini, held over the Conservatory of Music

Great news from the world… I’ll be FOH’ing a super trio (Daniel Fasano, Gianni Rojatti e Marco Scipione) for the 5 italian dates of Steve Vai‘s new tour coming up

After pandemic times it is good to be able to start traveling outside Europe once again… this time back to Armenia, on my 3rd time, to be involved on the

Just done with POLLINE 2022, a contemporary Audio Visual festival organised by the Conservatory of Music and Ticonzero production A festival which I was put as technical director for but

Finally out the Ollo Audio Ep.5 of their video/podcast serie: this time they got me in together with Leo Abrahams to have a chat about producing guitar, with focusing on

Just got released my new article on Accordo.it, this time about Antelope Audio newest version of their recent portable ZenQ unit. A condensed review of its great features and capabilities,

Intense day at the main Auditorium of the Conservatory of Music to record (and later mix/master) a 7-piece Ep from Albanian composer Aulon Naci, performing on a beautiful Steinway Piano.

Here finally releasing and “emerging” our small and intimate ballad song, “Narvalo”. – Emanuele Pittoni – voice Enrico Kikko Sesselego – guitar Matteo Sedda – trumpet – For us it

(Quick) recap of a fantastic week in Kiev, Ukraine, at Tumo Institute: lot of music -composed and recorded-, studio time and tasks! And it was very handy to have my

After a long and necessary pause, Accordo.it finally went back on organising the SHG (Second Hand Guitar) exhibition, the only real guitar exhibition left in Italy lately; and, as usual,

Back to Paris directly from Canary Islands… and here’s after a loooong week teaching at “Paris 8 University” as “external professor” It was an honor and a challenge, for sure.

Some teaching, some recording sessions for the Scottish TV and some equipment testing (Antelope Audio’s Axino marvel and Ollo’s headphones) All of that in Tenerife!      

Back to Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, after a (too) long break from it… good to be here and, besides vacation, definitely a productive place. First day, radio interview at Radiosuradeje,

Paris, week 1. That week this was  my office, right in the heart of Paris, inside the prestigious Forum des Images: the Tumo Paris. A 4-day long full workshop over

Third “chapter” of my online streaming workshop with the CHT-Estudios/Lab in Santiago de Chile. After being physically there before the Covid-19 time, we’ve been in touch and planning events together

Finally officially released the video of my improvised performance at the BIENNALE VENEZIA at the Italian Pavilion, playing a unique piece 3D-printed bass by Monad Studio of Miami. Resilient Communities

After years of standing-by and a lot of work, the “Percussioni” CD is released for the “Amici della Musica” association of Cagliari, an album dedicated to the never forgotten Maestro

Slowly but steadily it seems that travelin’ can happen again and people are keen to get together again to attend concerts, events and… workshops! Coming up a 4-day trip to

Second appointment with my 2-episode serie of guitar tracking lessons on Italian main music hub Accordo.it. This time is about tracking and mixing metal guitar and I used my Ibanez

Honored to be invited performing 🎸 here at the Biennale’s host pavilion, the Italian Pavilion – Thanks @monad_studio who invited me to play this unique 3D-printed unique, one of a kind, experimental

Just done with my very first Classical music concerts, performed as a peculiar duo, a piano Maestro from Conservatory of Music and myself on the electric guitar sonic realm… For

Accordo.it just started releasing a cycle of 4 specific lessons (with video) about guitar recording and mixing treatment   This time I went for a rock rhythm, double tracked with

I don’t know “how much” experimental you might consider my original releases on “Eksess” but you can bet that most of them were born from impromptu performance with different devices.

Here we go, it was born as a side project but it became one of my most active musical Avatar, with constant releasing every 3 weeks (pretty much). The more

“ClassiKKo”, has been operative and running on the last few months and I’ ve been uploading new releases on a 3-week basis. It came out from my willing to record

Glad to share my profile on the Ollo’s company page: plans are to be able to do more activities together even thou we just started as artist relationship. Check it

Check this new release of mine on main italian magazine Accordo. Talkin’ about the importance of TAB over the last 30-year spam of guitar chapters. Pretty good,  italian readers!

Just received a brand new pair of S4X Reference headphones from (pretty much) newborn Ollo Audio company. It has been a blast to test them on different mixing and mastering

A very nice and pretty long interview has been released on the cultural page of an italian newspaper. The interviewer, Vanna Chessa, did a pretty good job on compressing a

Back to teaching and again on this new (and mandatory during this Covid-19 times of us!) streaming fashion. And once again for the CHT estudios, a very refined and state-of-the-art

Part 2 of the Contemporary Music DVD Concert:  being my job the technical director, besides recording and mixing engineer, this time also (interesting, indeed) video montage editor and DVD making

Stuck for this Covid-19 in Italy… so better start getting other gigs going while I am here in Italy: the DVD making of a contemporary music concert seems to be

Very happy (and proud of the result) to release my first official release “Resume/Raat Ko Zid Hai” (and video!) as KikkoSesse on Spotify and main digital platforms.   The song

I found out that the recording session I did for Ervin Toucet, back in Los Angeles more than a decade ago, got released and the record it’s up-and-running on Spotify!

Never shared this before but I’m glad that the 2016 European tour date in Brighton with Gilbert has become an official release. And that it all started from my multitrack

Uncle Faust, a project which I did mastering session for, has been finally released with a fancy custom made sleeve and nice packaging. Tough Covid-19 times but we keep it

Here again with my 2-week appointment with Accordo.it with one of my article: this time we talk about ampli vs digital and headphones. Enjoy! Here is the direct link to

Back on writing on Accordo.it, this time I talked about delay and some interesting applications; it is such a huge amount of material to mention and face about delay that

Back on a plane after several months of Covid “standing by” to reach the full team of Accordo.it: many things on one day but the most important (for me at

Finally released an interview I did with the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) of Tirana, Albania. A very nice and fun conversation with the director over my career path, my

Even thou chances this year were against the making of the Festival Miniere Sonore because of Covid-19, we managed to make it happen. A 3-day kermesse with 10 total performances,

Recording, mixing and mastering for the new album from italian based band Suspended, a punk trio with 10 original tune. Short tunes and lot of vocal harmonies. Fun to record

Started recording session in March, right before Italian lockdown, finally we’ve been able to finish mixing and mastering (with some additional recording hours) the latest Matteo Leone album, featuring Farees

It used to happen very often for me in the past to write for the (online) most important music magazine in Italy, Accordo.it, and it seems that it will be

During this Covid-19 quarantine time, people and companies have been re-organizing themselves on web based activities and marketing strategy. On one of these events, I’ ve been involved on a