e.g.ø ]also known as egø or eg0[

 

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born in 1977 in Italy.

works in a town near Venice, in Rome and in Padua.

he is a:
°°° laptop musician,
°°° programmer,
°°° visual []digital[] artist(?).

e.g.ø would be really glad to play live his own digital music. If you're an organizer of such events please contact e.g.ø to receive a free demo CD with some audio in which e.g.ø is working at the moment. You may find this site slow, because e.g.ø is using free spaces; new site will available soon. 

contacts:
e.g.ø   artego77@yahoo.it
mob. phone: +39 338 234 3691


e.g.ø

 

long biography:
Born in March 1977 near Venice. He started making his first music and noises in 1982 with a Bontempi organ. He studied piano from 1983 to 1986, then he stopped and said (crying) "I don't want to learn piano anymore, mum! It's too much difficult!". However, he continued playing his keyboard developing "a good ear" in recognising songs and melodies. In 1985 he started programming in BASIC his first Toshiba-MSX 64K computer (various graphic and sound programs copied from magazines about low level programming; he had fun in modifying the code especially with a 3D function plot). He also used a ZX-spectrum, a Commodore 64 and a Commodore 16. In 1990 he started playing guitar as a self-taught. In 1991 he started playing bass guitar as a self-taught. He left the world of computing and programming from 1992 to 1995, spending the big part of his time in studying (math, physics and philosophy) and in playing with local bands. In 1996 he discovered the world wide web and then he got back to programming, learning c++ and Java. In 1996 he also started making his first experiments with HTML, javascript and Photoshop. In that year he also bought an Ensoniq 16 plus sampler with his friends, discovering the world of digital sampling and electronic synthesis. He kept on playing with local bands until 2000. He also kept on working with graphics and the web and he made a couple of websites. He will graduate from engineering (on wireless communications) in autumn 2002.

This project

In 2001 e.g.ø started to think about using the web to show his very little work in music, programming and "digital-art" that he has made in all these years. The reason why he does so is not because he'd like to be a famous star or because he is a pretentious exhibitionist; what he would like to do is a project of "idea sharing" like "file sharing" in the peer2peer networks (old Napster and now Gnutella, Kaza etc.).

Idea sharing

Idea sharing consists in publishing on the web mp3s, HTML works, algorithms, images, ideas under the GNU GPL (General Public License); that is, in a very synthetic way, "you can use my ideas in your no-profit works, but please quote the source saying where you get these ideas; if you modify the source, please specify in you work the changes that you've made; if you use these ideas and you earn money by doing so, please contact e.g.ø with an email or SMS" (this is like what is done with the free software licensed under the GNU GPL). E.g.ø's ideas, now, could give you some hints in generating new sounds from images, in writing HTML pages, in making a T-shirt, etc... and the best thing to do to share ideas is to create a Network (Deleuze would say "making rhizome"). The link page is an example of my little network on the web: with these people I share various ideas via e-mail and often we help each other.

Why should everybody do so?

Are you an "artist" or, better, a person with ideas to share?  So why don't you do so making a web page with your little projects, papers, ideas so as to help other people or simply to make their brains think? E.g.ø's ideas often come from visiting other websites or listening to other music; and that is not copying but "getting inspired". "If you have music, share your mp3s; if you have ideas, share your brain". Maybe all this goes beyond art, but actually this is not an artistic site, or a site about Art, or the homepage of an artist. E.g.ø is a programmer, a musician and an active person who can't live without doing all this.