music

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Finally it was possible to travel to Japan after a strict closure Coronavirus policy that has withdrawn in the beginning of October; therefore time was up for me to plan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

I have worked for Steve Vai and side by side with Steve Vai for over three years. It is something that I am very proud of and it had obviously

Ho lavorato per Steve Vai e con Steve Vai per poco più di tre anni. E’ una cosa della quale vado fiero ed ovviamente mi ha aperto la strada verso

This COVID-19 spreading has been changing day by day and all the country borders around the Blue Planet have been closing down as well: so in the end I have

…and there you are… Covid-19 has been spreading (and scaring) all over the place. With Italy locked-down, the rest of Europe on its way to be, spreading of the virus

Excited -but very cautious at the same time because of the Coronavirus epidemic behaviour- to go back to South America for an intense clinic/masterclass tour together with my main sponsor

Finally I did… they asked me for, my webmaster bitched about doing that through the years and here we come… I finally opened a youtube channel of myself… I don’t

Finally we did release (our) version of Salamanders of the Sun, one of the mythological Steve Vai track from the eighties album “Flex-able“, where he was very much still into

Short trip to Rome to meet eclectic and versatile (and friend) Lorenzo Feliciati to finish up together the mixing of his new upcoming releasing “Rumble” EP (due in February 2020).

My third time in Japan for this 2019 (and already booked for next April, wow!), this time for roughly a month in which I visited some of my beloved “clients”,

3 days, quick one in Tuscany for “Resilient Communities” rendez-vous… and got a call to perform and showcase two beauties from the Monad Studio: a bass guitar and a guitar,

Soooooooo nice to be back in Latin America… just great… last time in Mexico was 2005 and in South American countries it was 2013… and 2019 featured all of them

Yes Yes Yes, Thomas is gonna release a super intriguing album very soon and the title says itself: progressive but pop, intricated but enjoyable, hard & heavy but amusing. And

Time is up to reset my personal studio for guitar recording. Being a big fan of amps and analog pedals in general, I have been slowly incorporating my new Kemper

Fist time for me in Baku, an interesting crossing path of Oil business, Caspian fashion, Caucasian habits and technology. 2 days, 6-hour in-depth seminar at Baku Castle. Guitar treatment, compression

Back on intercontinental plane, this time to Beijing and Hong Kong. All sponsored by AntelopeAudio, a super fast 3-day trip to China. In Beijing big studio, nice crowd, lot of

Quick trips first to Taranto (at StrumentiMusicali.net headquarter) and to Rome, Italy, then to Barcelona, Spain,  to give some lecture about AntelopeAudio‘s products. I’ve been Brand Ambassador of this brand

Guitar on my hand, time to perform some articulated contemporary music. It was a honor to be invited in the beautiful island of Kerkyra to perform a very long composition

Armenia time and back to Yerevan. This time a steady full gig at TUMO Center , a gigantic and impressive center for any form of art, and I got invited

Stage time with my loyal Strat and Nuno guitars. Pure amp and analog pedals for this gig in a theater with Luca Wu, Italian London-based artist and the rest of

Japan galore for me again this time. 6 seminars (2 in Tokyo, 2 in Nagoya, 1 in Sendai and 1 in Hiroshima), very guitar oriented this time (which is definitely

Finally I have the chance to fly to Sofia and to meet (pretty much the entire) staff at Antelope Audio…! I’ve been representing this brand and carrying around on my

No NAMM show for me this year for nice unusual (for me) gig: in fact it’s about time for acoustic eclectic italian guitarist Pino Forastiere to tour Japan a bit

Back to classical recordings and back to my recording mobile set up (Antelope Zen Tour interface with Universal Audio, Millennia and Avalon mic pre, Aston and Neumann mics) to record

Back home and back to (different) work. With “Amici della Musica” music association hired me to manage the technical direction of their festival: different artist between contemporary and classical music

Nagoya on my way! At NSM this time, on a nice big SSL G+ series console (always good to be back on working on this board). Recording guitar techniques and

Toho Gakuen. Always loved this place, Audio Engineering school, just that: no other topics, instruments or anything different… focus on audio …and beatiful SSL

Finishing my weekend with another Shimamura Gakki store event, this time at the Kawasaki branch. Serial compression, plug-ins galore, mixing and … more

… and there goes my Saturday: workshop at Shimamura Gakki store in the heart of Shinjuku, in Tokyo center area. Cool gig, all smooth, nice crowd with good questions, me,

私はとても東京が好きで、私はこの国で働くのが好きです Here we go, next!   I always feel very welcomed at MI-Japan, it reminds of my old days studying and teaching in the main Los Angeles’ campus and even

Two days are passed by and it’s time to work again! Tokyo School of Music (TSM) in Shibuya for workshop meeting with the enrolled students over there. Beautiful SSL console and

A quick (for my japanese standards) trip to Tokyo for a few gigs here and there!   Very first one, the very next day I land, the InterBEE exhibition at

Back to (close) Eastern Europe, back to Albania but before that, a nice interesting trip on alive Kosovo and to its capital, Pristina. Long weekend over there at the Termokiss

Ninth year for our contemporary music (and not only, indeed) Festival in Sardinia, Italy. This year we were able to bring more international artists and, expecially for me, has been

As usual, I’ve been spending my Summertime back in Sardinia (Italy), where I grew up and where I have my studio set up for recording and mixing. So – besides