Steve Piccolo

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Steve Piccolo (* 1954 in New Hampshire ) is an American - Italian performance and sound artist , translator , musician and bassist .

life and work

Steve Piccolo studied at Bard College and New York University . In the 1970s he played bass in various jazz groups and was active as a performance artist in the New York art scene. From 1979 he played for five years in the band The Lounge Lizards , of which he is one of the founding members. In 1983 he wrote the chart hit Self Control .

Steve Piccolo works with numerous artists and groups in the fields of video art, performance, installation, soundtracks and jazz. Mention should be made of Gak Sato , Adrian Paci , Luca Pancrazzi, A Constructed World, Giancarlo Norese, Alessandro Mendini , Nathalie Du Pasquier, Gabriele Di Matteo, Francesco Fei, Marc Vincent Kalinka and Marzia Migliora. Piccolo worked for Magazzini Criminali . Since moving to Milan in the 1990s, Piccolo has collaborated with Giancarlo Locatelli, Filippo Monico, Paolo Filippo Bragaglia, Massimo Volume, Afterhours, The Transistors (Maurizio Mansueti and Luca Cirillo), Rosso Maltese, Elliott Sharp and Zeena Parkins .

Piccolo has published numerous phonograms and has been teaching sound art at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo since 2002 and at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan since 2005 . He writes monthly for InSound magazine .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 326; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
  2. ↑ Lounge Lizards , accessed on January 31, 2016 (English).
  3. ↑ last.fm Steve Piccolo accessed on January 31, 2016 (English)
  4. ↑ Steve Piccolo , accessed January 31, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Piccolo, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piccolo, Steven Vincent (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Italian performance and sound artist, translator, musician and bassist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH New Hampshire