Agostino Di Scipio Born in Naples, 1962, since 1985 Agostino Di Scipio is based in L’Aquila, a medieval town in the inner mountains of the Italian peninsula. Composer of a variety of sound works, including electroacoustic music, sound installations and music scored for instrumentalists (soloists or ensembles) with interactive computer systems. Many of his compositions develop from unconventional sound synthesis/processing methods inspired to phenomena of noise and turbulence. In recent work, Di Scipio focuses on the 'man-machine-environment' feedback loop (for example his live-electronics solos titled Ecosistemico Udibile). After many years in low-level computer programming and the development of personal stand-alone audio applications (for a variety of processors and workstations), since 1994 he has continued his computer music research mostly using Kyma. Beside Kyma, he relies on freeshare software, and is taught by his students to use and misuse other (un)popular audio technologies. Natura allo speechio In musical contexts, I tend to use a large palette of finely tuned parameter configurations in the synthesis, and to compose the emerging textures and gestures with the help of some higher level iterated function system. This can be described an instance of algorithmic composition, but it uses chaotic textural materials instead of musical notes as the basic musical units. In Natura allo specchio, the strategy was to create utterly synthetic sound environments that could eventually be perceived as naturalistic, keeping the listener in an ambivalent situation where the sound is overtly artificial and still preserves something (a dynamical behaviour) that is realistically perceived as proper to natural sonic ambiances (the compositional idea has to do with the interplay of Nature and Culture as commented in Shakespear's The Tempest).