Born in Bari (Italy) in 1971, he studied piano, electronic music (with A. Di Scipio) and composition. He continued his musical education in computer music in the centre of musical research cTempo Realec, managed then by L. Berio; in 1998 he graduated as a specialist in Musical Computer Science. In 1997 he was awarded a scholarship by Istituto degli Studi Filosofici Italiani and Sonus magazine. Since 1999 he has studied composition with Azio Corghi at the Santa Cecilia National Academy (Rome). Dedicated to musical research, he deals with problems related to the computer modelling of compositional processes.
His music has been performed at such festivals as Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea' (L'Aquila, 1996, 2000), Festival Musica e Colore' (Torino, 1996), VIII Jornadas Internacionales de Musica Electroacustica' (Cordoba, 1997), I concerti di Tempo Reale' (Firenze, 1998), Corpi del Suono 98' (L'Aquila, 1998), Futura99' (Crest, France, 1999), Ruido...' (Mexico City, 1999), and Rive-Gauche Concerti' (Torino, 2001).
His version of John Cage's Imaginary Landscape was played by rai 3 Radio. For the Ricordi-bmg Publishers he edited a new version of Quanta Oscura Selva Trovai by Giacomo Manzoni.
In 1999/2000 he taught sound designing at mahler - project of the European Community. In the summer of 2002 he was an assistant of Azio Corghi in the courses at Accademia Musicale Chigiana. He is also a professor of electronic music at the N. Piccinni' Conservatory in Bari.

Selected works: D'agosto for digital devices (1993), Concerto piccolo for flute and digital devices (1994), Trasumanar for digital devices (1995), ...e organizar for digital devices (1995), La via dell'uomo for viola and piano (1996), Can (n) oni for digital devices (1996), Le squame del drago for digital devices (1996), Indaco for guitar and piano (1996), ...e c'e il risvolto della luce for 6 instruments (1997), Edit_H. for digital devices (1998), Non d'atro et tempestoso notturno for flute, cello, digital devices and live electronics (1998), String Quartet (1999), La Guinea for digital devices (1999), Ipogei della Dunia - music scene for digital devices (1999), Clause Mates. El mar del Tiempo for digital devices (2000), m. for female voice, digital devices and live electronics (2000), Anna is well past seventy for orchestra (2000), Through for alto saxophone and 50 performers (2000), Prima copia for piano (2001), Voci for speaking voice, bass clarinet, percussion and live electronics (2001), D'improvviso for trombone and digital devices (2001).

The project D'improvviso is the counterpoint to another I have been thinking of doing for a long time: writing a Requiem. A Requiem cannot be written on commission, neither one's nor someone else's commission, because writing it has nothing to do with musical composition; you write a Requiem because you miss someone or something. I think everybody has his own Requiem to tell. D'improvviso is not the piece I would have written, but it was born in that context.

Francesco Scagliola