Elio Martusciello

Elio Martusciello (born 23 November 1959, Naples, Italy) is an Italian experimental music composer and performer, principally on guitar and computer. He has studied photography with Mimmo Jodice and visual art with Carlo Alfano, Armando De Stefano and Rosa Panaro. He is a self-taught musician/composer and teaches "electronic music" at Conservatory of Music, Napoli, Italy. His compositional aesthetics are derived from acousmatic issues, but in addition to acousmatic composition he composes for instruments and live electronics, sound installation, multi-media works, audiovisual art and computer music improvisation. He lives in Napoli, Italy.

Main collaborations
He has worked with improvising musicians such as Ana-Maria Avram, Natasha Barrett, Eugene Chadbourne, Alvin Curran, Chris Cutler, Iancu Dumitrescu, Michel Godard, Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Jerome Noetinger, Tony Oxley, Roberto Paci Dalo, Evan Parker, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Mario Schiano, Z'EV, and others.



Bands
Ossatura

with Fabrizio Spera and Luca Venitucci

Ka’e

with Giorgio Bosso, Stefano Giampietro, Paolo Montella and Andrea Laudante

Schismophonia

with Mike Cooper

Taxonomy

with Graziano Lella and Roberto Fega

Bindou ensemble

with Ana-Maria Avram, Chris Cutler, Rhodri Davies, Iancu Dumitrescu and Tim Hodgkinson

Le pecore di Dante

with Tim Hodgkinson

DA

with Paganmuzak

Xubuxue

with Pietro D'Agostino, Marco Ariano and Gianfranco Tedeschi

Selected Discography and videography
E. e M. Martusciello: meta-harmonies (Staalplaat, 1995)

Ossatura: dentro (Recommended Records, 1998)

Ossatura: verso (Recommended Records, 2002)

Aesthetics of the machine (bowindo, 2003)

Unoccupied areas (Recommended Records, 2005)

Taxonomy: A Global Taxonomycal Machine (Ambiances Magnétiques, 2005)

Taxonomy: 10 Taxonomical Movements (Ambiances Magnétiques, 2008)

To extend the visibility (Recommended Records, 2009)

Concrete songs (TiConZero, 2011)

BetweenUs: Chamber Rites (Die Schachtel, 2015)

Ossatura: Maps and Mazes (Recommended Records, 2016)

incise (em music, 2018)

The Ghost Album (em music, 2020)

SISMONASTIE - Music for yellow guitar solo (em music, 2023)