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Roberto Musci is a Milan-born musician who studied alto saxophone and guitar. From 1974 to 1985, he traveled the world to study African, Indian, Near Eastern, and Far Eastern music, recording music "on field" and collecting ethnic musical instruments from various regions. Musci has released LPs and CDs with several European labels, including Raw Materials Records, Victò, Recommended Records Lowlands, Auditorium, Voiceprint/Gonzo Multimedia, Island Records, Music from Memory, Soave Records, Goodfellas Records, and Oxmose Records. He has composed and performed music for films, videos, commercials, dance, live soundtracks for silent movies, as well as music for poetry and theater. His LP "Water Messages on Desert Sand" was Grammy-nominated in the UK in 1987. Musci has developed digital interfaces for guitar, including tactile and laser-based "Extended Guitar" systems, and has created video and audio installations where music and images interact in real time, triggered by movements, audio inputs, and live cameras. In the 1980s and 1990s, he broadcast ethnic and electronic/experimental music on radio stations such as Rai and Radio Popolare. Musci collaborated with Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany, for a photo and video exhibition by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, he has performed with numerous Italian, European, and American musicians, including Giovanni Venosta, Claudio Gabbiani

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