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Name: Simone Liguori Pronouns: he / they Location: Napoli, IT multimedia · deconstructed club · electronic music · IDM · glitch · noise · generative visuals · real-time performance systems Electronic music @ Conservatorio S. Pietro a Majella Ableton Live · TouchDesigner · Max/MSP · DaVinci Resolve

Non lascio spazio al gatekeeping.

I miei lavori derivano in primis da un profondo desiderio di comunicazione attraverso un impatto abrasivo ed a tratti confusionario. Ciò che faccio è concepito come una corrispondenza a 360° tra ciò che è visto e ciò che è sentito, con un'attenzione quasi maniacale ed ossessiva verso l'intento di suscitare un'interpolazione attraverso questi elementi.

Questo bisogno di comunicazione viscerale è nato ascoltando Roger Waters: per quanto resti un personaggio controverso, la cui spinta nasce spesso da una frustrazione fuorviata, è forse il singolo comunicatore che mi ha segnato di più. È proprio il suo stage designer, Sean Evans — che ha collaborato anche con i Radiohead per Kid A Mnesia — il motivo per cui ho deciso di inserirmi nel mondo delle proiezioni e dello stage design. Allo stesso modo Laurie Anderson — e in particolare il continuum multimediale di Big Science — gioca con l'intersezione di medium scenografici teatrali commisti a un suono che richiama macchinari pesanti d'industria che dipingono una distopia estremamente lungimirante. Non a caso Arca, altra mia enorme ispirazione, ha riconosciuto il genio del soundscape di Laurie Anderson nel proprio remix di Big Science.

Thesis cover — Jumping is not a crime [ reference thesis ] Jumping is not a crime ↳ click to read

In quanto figlio di internet, buona parte di ciò che faccio nasce da lì. Da adolescente mi sono formato sui suoni e sulle immagini della prima Drain Gang — Bladee, Ecco2k, i beat abrasivi di Whitearmor, e sono rimasto folgorato dal microcosmo narrativo di figure come Yabujin: l'estetica early internet e Y2K, la post-ironia, la malinconia digitale dei soundfont e dei campioni su CD-ROM. Il paradigma di cui parlo è racchiuso perfettamente nella mia tesi per l'esame di storia della musica elettronica, Jumping is not a crime, dove rapporto la suddetta scena ad una trasposizione postmoderna dell'hauntologia di Mark Fisher.

Da questa tesi nasce il moniker mi·rài, dedicato alla mia pratica musicale: un richiamo ai principi hauntologici di Fisher in chiave post-moderna — il futuro che ci era stato promesso, la cui ambizione positivista, risalente a qualche decennio prima del Y2K, è ormai diventata un'estetica a sé stante.

Uochi Toki — Idioti (copertina) [ listen · bandcamp ] Uochi Toki — Ecce Robot da «Idioti» · 2015 · ↳ bandcamp

Il macro-progetto Ecce Robot prende invece il nome dall'omonimo brano degli Uochi Toki, che sento come la sinossi contemporanea più vicina alla mia pratica. È il progetto "ad ombrello" della mia pratica visiva, con un imprinting rivolto alla collettività e al multimediale. mi·rài ed Ecce Robot sono l'uno la controparte dell'altro: il suono e l'immagine della stessa ricerca.

Exivit iterum Pilatus foras, et dicit eis: «Ecce adduco vobis eum foras, ut cognoscatis quia in eo nullam causam invenio». (Exivit ergo Jesus portans coronam spineam, et purpureum vestimentum). Et dicit eis: «Ecce homo». Cum ergo vidissent eum pontifices et ministri, clamabant dicentes: «Crucifige, crucifige eum!». Pilato uscì di nuovo e disse loro: «Ecco, io ve lo conduco fuori, perché sappiate che non trovo in lui alcun peccato». Gesù dunque uscì, portando la corona di spine e il mantello di porpora. E Pilato disse loro: «Ecco l'uomo». Come lo videro, i capi dei sacerdoti e le guardie gridarono: «Crocifiggilo! Crocifiggilo!».

Mi riconosco in una metodicità quasi ostinata — qualcosa che di solito viene considerato antitetico alla pratica creativa e portato come un fardello. Per me è il contrario: è proprio quel raziocinio a dare forma al mio modo di lavorare, soprattutto quando si tratta di arte generativa e algoritmica — di domare la macchina per tirarne fuori qualcosa di profondamente personale.

No gatekeeping here.

My work stems first and foremost from a deep desire for communication through an abrasive and at times confusing impact. What I do is conceived as a 360° correspondence between what is seen and what is heard, with an almost maniacal and obsessive attention toward the intent of eliciting an interpolation across these elements.

This need for visceral communication was born listening to Roger Waters: however controversial a figure he remains, his drive often arising from a misguided frustration, he is potentially the single communicator who marked me most. It is precisely his stage designer, Sean Evans — who also collaborated with Radiohead on Kid A Mnesia — who is the reason I decided to step into the world of projections and stage design. In the same way Laurie Anderson — and in particular the multimedia continuum of Big Science — plays with the intersection of scenographic, theatrical media mingled with a sound that recalls heavy industrial machinery, painting an extremely far-sighted dystopia. Not by chance Arca — another huge inspiration of mine — recognized the genius of Laurie Anderson's soundscape in her own Big Science remix.

Thesis cover — Jumping is not a crime [ reference thesis ] Jumping is not a crime ↳ click to read

As a child of the internet, much of what I do is born there. As a teenager I was shaped by the sounds and images of early Drain Gang — Bladee, Ecco2k, Whitearmor's abrasive beats — and I was struck by the narrative microcosm of figures like Yabujin: the early internet and Y2K aesthetic, post-irony, the digital melancholy of soundfonts and CD-ROM samples. The paradigm I'm speaking of is captured perfectly in my thesis for the History of Electronic Music exam, Jumping is not a crime, where I relate the aforementioned scene to a postmodern transposition of Mark Fisher's hauntology.

From this thesis comes the moniker mi·rài, devoted to my musical practice: a nod to Fisher's hauntological principles in a postmodern key — the future we had been promised, whose positivist ambition, dating back to a few decades before Y2K, has by now become an aesthetic in its own right.

Uochi Toki — Idioti (cover) [ listen · bandcamp ] Uochi Toki — Ecce Robot from Idioti · 2015 · ↳ bandcamp

The macro-project Ecce Robot takes its name instead from the Uochi Toki track of the same name, which I feel to be the contemporary synopsis closest to my practice. It is the "umbrella" project of my visual practice, with an imprinting turned toward the collective and the multimedia. mi·rài and Ecce Robot are each the counterpart of the other: the sound and the image of the same research.

Exivit iterum Pilatus foras, et dicit eis: «Ecce adduco vobis eum foras, ut cognoscatis quia in eo nullam causam invenio». (Exivit ergo Jesus portans coronam spineam, et purpureum vestimentum). Et dicit eis: «Ecce homo». Cum ergo vidissent eum pontifices et ministri, clamabant dicentes: «Crucifige, crucifige eum!». Pilate went outside again and said to them: «Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no case against him.» So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them: «Behold the man.» When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted: «Crucify him! Crucify him!».

I recognize myself in an almost stubborn methodicity — something that is usually considered antithetical to creative practice and carried as a burden. For me it is the opposite: it is precisely that rationality that gives shape to my way of working, above all when it comes to generative and algorithmic art — in taming the machine to draw out of it something deeply personal.

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▌ A GA MAEBA audiovisual work · original M/V
A GA MAEBA cover frame
▶ A GA MAEBA — M/V · ↳ watch on YouTube
An ambivalent emphasis on both the sonic and visual registers — the two pulling against each other only to converge, univocally, on the sense of urgency dictated by accelerationism and transhumanism. The track samples Kenji Kawai's Making of a Cyborg — the opening cue from Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell — folding it into a multimedial work that reaches the same charged territory mapped by hyperstition and Nick Land's cyber-schizo spiels; a synesthetic representation of an overwhelming sense of urgency towards a dance we're forcefully partaking in: an impelling symbiosis between man and machine.
Prints from the music video, exhibited and sold during the 2025 edition of Santa Feira festival. ↳ @santafeira_fest — Instagram
▌ RESONANT BENDS · NEMA ENSEMBLE × mi·rài realtime audio-responsive visuals improvised with touchdesigner · live show 2025
NEMA — Resonant Bends
▶ FULL PERFORMANCE · ↳ YT playlist
A concert-project conceived by NEMA Ensemble exploring timbre as a generative force of musical form. Drawing from French spectral thought (Grisey, Murail, Dufourt) and its roots in Debussy and Messiaen, it unfolds as a continuous perceptual journey — listening guided by evolving sonic qualities rather than themes or narratives. “What happens when musical form is allowed to emerge from the internal transformation of sound itself?” The program moves from electronic thresholds to ritual gestures, from microscopic attention to sound to expansive harmonic spaces, finally returning to Debussy's Nuages — a timeless figure of suspended time and floating resonance.
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Resonant Bends is a concert-project conceived by NEMA Ensemble as an exploration of timbre as a generative force of musical form. Rather than presenting a strict "spectral program", the project traces a broader constellation of ideas, linking spectral music to its precursors and consequences across different repertoires, media, and listening modes. At the core of the project lies a simple yet radical question: “What happens when musical form is allowed to emerge from the internal transformation of sound itself?” Drawing inspiration from French spectral thought (Grisey, Murail, Dufourt) and its deep roots in Debussy and Messiaen, Resonant Bends unfolds as a continuous perceptual journey. Electronics, acoustic instruments, original compositions, commissions, and transcriptions coexist within a single dramaturgical arc, where listening is guided not by themes or narratives, but by evolving sonic qualities. The program moves from electronic thresholds to ritual gestures, from microscopic attention to sound to expansive harmonic spaces, finally returning to Debussy's Nuages — a timeless figure of suspended time and floating resonance. This playlist documents the full live performance at Spazio Arena (Avellino), capturing Resonant Bends as a unified listening experience rather than a sequence of isolated works.
Stills captured during the live performance — visuals projected behind the ensemble.
Resonant Bends — locandina
date : october 5, 2025 venue : Spazio Arena · Via Santissima Trinità 93 · Avellino, IT series : Contemporary Speech funds : Progetto Sonora · Ministero della Cultura ↳ progettosonora.it
Vincenzo Gaudino — flute Francesco Filisdeo — clarinet Leonardo Ricci — violin Davide Maria Viola — cello Andrea Riccio — piano Francesco De Simone — electronics Cosimo Abbate — conductor ↳ @nemaensemble — Instagram
F. De Simone — Shifting Matter (electronics) C. Debussy — Syrinx (flute solo) T. Murail — Treize Couleurs du Soleil Couchant (ensemble & electronics) C. Debussy — Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir (piano solo) NEMA Ensemble — Resonant Bends (ensemble & electronics) Y. Maresz — Circumambulation (flute solo) R. Rafie — Suedama (ensemble) O. Messiaen — L'abîme des oiseaux (clarinet & electronics, reworking) C. Debussy — Nuages, from Nocturnes (ensemble transcription)
▌ LAST RESORT · DEMONCANDY × DEMONI CARAMELLA session guitarist · live show 2022
Live set as session guitarist for Demoncandy at the inaugural opening night of Last Resort Studio — a recording studio launched in Naples in november 2022. My work alongside the rest of the band was to re-shape the original beats produced by Mr. Monkey (Demoncandy's regular producer) into a rock / analog live arrangement — guitars, bass and drums replacing the studio tracks for the night.
Shots from the night — backstage, stage, and the band in motion.
Last Resort — locandina
date : november 26, 2022 venue : Last Resort Studio · Via Carlo De Marco 30 · Napoli occasion : studio opening night lineup : Rageless · Saint Abel · Demoncandy · Nxfeit · Suspense ↳ @lastresortstudio — Instagram
Demoncandy — vocals · ↳ Instagram Mr. Monkey — original productions · ↳ Instagram Francesco D'Auria — guitar · ↳ Instagram Simone Liguori — guitar · ↳ Instagram Daniele Nappi — bass · ↳ Instagram Nowaydafly — drums · ↳ Instagram
▌ DEMOS unmixed and unmastered sound experimentation in chronological order
↳ eccerobot [SoundCloud] ↳ eccerobot [Bandcamp]
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