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 year together with the technical direction of Miniere Sonore Festival I was asked to manage the Propagazioni Festival, a more literature-oriented festival held in Sardinia, Italy, for a total
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
Finally I made it: due to pandemic I enrolled Conservatory of Music for its “Electronic Music” program and after 2 years I graduated with maximum score plus “Lode” (Honors) for
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
This time I was asked to create a 20 minute composition as a of an interactive installation for a contemporary art installation. The exhibition, held in the old “San Michele”
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
“Hibernation“, a “petit-vintage-disco-instrumental-groovy-spacy” composition, gets finally released after months that has been ready! It’s the (happy) result of my collaboration as KikkoSesse with Albanian artist Christopher Ndrio. Besides what anybody
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
Spending June and July on some cello tracking with my portable home recording set up has been a great way to “smart work”: about 30 hour of the finest cello
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
Here we go again with another mastering gig and once again coming from (my beloved) India! Vasuda Sharma is a well-known singer songwriter, Mumbai based, in India and amongst
On the lockdown time I was pretty lucky to get my workflow going since I got hired to perform a couple mastering gigs, this time especially from indian artist.
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
Miniere Sonore: here we go on the spot of the year where I manage the technical aspect of this 3-day Contemporary music festival. This thou I prevent myself to perform
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