SEC_ is the moniker of Mimmo Napolitano, electronic musician and sound engineer from Naples, Italy. He plays tape recorder, laptop, synthesizers and electronic devices, taking part to several projects of experimental music and improvisation. Co-founder, in 2003, of the avant-rock band Weltraum , since 2008 he collaborates with electro-acoustic/impro band A Spirale , giving life to the project Aspec(t) , in which concrete music and electro-acoustic/feedback experimentation merge with noise poetic. With these formations he played concerts around in Europe, in heterogeneus situations (festivals, clubs, squats, museums, disc shops,…), collaborating with musicians and improvisers of international renown (Jerome Noetinger, Valerio Tricoli, Olivier Di Placido, Franck Vigroux, Ignaz Schick, Mario De Vega, Basshaters, Jealousy Party, Nicolas Wiese, Dominique Vaccaro, Domenico Sciajno,…). Since 2009 he runs with other collaborators the label Toxo Records , which releases most of his records. His sound research is on the edge of musique concrete and digital processing, characterized by the use of heterogeneus sound sources and materials (voice, no-input feedbacks, samples, field recordings, radio waves, synthesizers), that are played/processed live through the tape recorder Revox. All the elements of his set are connected in the way of no-input feedback, so that any activation or modification in one device influences the whole chain. In his music there’s often a narrative factor obtained through the straining of sound materials, expecially in a rythmical way. The imperfect ripetitions and the spastic rythms generate a sort of chaotic structure, where the order is only a mask behind which are rather the uncontrolled, the unexpected, the possible to rule.

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