Yeah, right... What about me? That's what I wonder about sometimes... I guess everybody does.
Oh, well. Anyway.

I suppose you're here for the music, so maybe I should talk about that. I've always been interested in music, and I started playing mostly self-built instruments and non-instruments at the age of 16. What always interested me the most, however, were sounds and noises. So it was just unavoidable that I would eventually wind up playing electronic instruments (my fascination with them as a listener started when I was seven) with their almost unlimited creative possibilities in terms of sounds...

In 1999 I became one half of a duo called BIOnighT (you can read about that below) but I never stopped making my own music, one of my basic needs. I try to avoid musical restraints of any kind, letting myself free to explore all forms of music with the main (and often sole) purpose of expressing my feelings and experiences through organized sounds.
I could go on writing about myself, but I don't want to bore you more than it's strictly necessary, so I'll just give you a brief list of things I love and things I hate, which pretty much summarizes my tastes and doesn't waste too much of your time.

To write me or BIOnighT please use the following address: macnight@inwind.it - just click on it to write me about whatever, if time permits I'll get back to you :)

And now, back to the list I was talking about (scroll down the page):

Name: Mac of BIOnighT

Born: Luino, September 14, 1964

Lives in: Luino (VA) Italy

Loves: anime (especially the super robot animes from the 70's and 80's, but also recent ones, such as Evangelion), music, pictures, manga, Star Trek (The original series, The Next Generation and Voyager), Gene Hackman, American English, OTR (that's Old Time Radio - I especially love the sci-fi shows), old movie serials, making music, nature, rocks, the sound of washing machines, the early Marvel and DC comics, watching the stars, Peanuts by Schulz, electronic instruments, and more...

Hates: dogs' barking, little (and not so little) things that go wrong one after the other, every form of fanaticism and narrow mindedness, stupid and self-centered people, the sound of lawnmowers, backstabbing hypocrites, and more...

Favorite musicians: Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze, Depeche Mode, Rockets, Italian theme songs of anime series from the 70's and 80's, Matia Bazar, De Sfroos, Celtic music in general, Vangelis (some things), Doris Norton, BIOnighT, Sbrizzi FaBIO, Mac, and more...

Secret dream: to become.
SPACE ADVENTURES UNIVERSE

As you will see on my albums' page, I divide my CD's into different series, according to the type of music. One of these series is dedicated to an imaginary universe where I try to recreate the atmospheres of old sci-fi films and books (mostly from the 30's, 40's and 50's). It's a series I am so fond of that I decided to give it a website to live in, so if you have a passion for that kind of wild fantasy where there's little room for logic and the old, plain, boring everyday world, just wear your silver uniform and take a trip into space on your rocket! To start the countdown, click HERE.
BIOnighT

The guy you can see with me in the picture on the left is Sbrizzi FaBIO, the other half of the electronic music duo BIOnighT. Our CDrs are made and distributed by the German label SynG@te, which also distributes some of my own albums.
My experience with BIOnighT is very important for me, so it would be nice if you had a look at our website, too (when you're finished with mine, of course!). Just click HERE and you'll be taken there!
ERAC

The big guy here on the left is my brother-in-law and friend Eros Salina. He was not a musician (or so he thought), but we did come up with a track together, which you can download for free from the Erac (that'd be us...) website. Due to life's random injustice, Eros is no longer here with us, so this track is all there will ever be. However, I decided not to modify the website I made at the time, as to me he is still here and always will be in every note I play, forever a part of what I am.
Just click HERE to visit the site and download the track.
SynG@te

SynG@te, the label I mentioned above. Lothar Lubitz, its boss, is a true lover of music and a great guy, too. He has the uttermost respect for the creative freedom of his artists. His genuine love for EM (Electronic Music) has allowed his label to become one of the best and most respected of the niche market occupied by this kind of music. Beside BIOnighT's records and my own stuff, he releases material by many great musicians and bands, such as Syn, Godfried Stockman, Frank Klare, E=motion, and many more - an ever growing number of artists that are given the chance to be heard thanks to this man's passion. If you want to visit his website, click HERE.
PHOTOGRAPHS

I also have a small site where you can see some of the photographs I take for fun - no professional aspirations here, it's just something I enjoy doing.
You'll find no masterpieces among my pictures, I guess, but if you want to have a look anyway I'll be glad :) To open that site in a new window just click HERE.
MY FAVORITE MUSIC
Making a list of all of my favorite albums and tracks is basically impossible, but I decided to make an incomplete and very confused list anyway, just to give you at least a vague idea of what I like. To read it click HERE.
 
A "THANK YOU" NOTE...
Like so many artists all over the world, I live on a very tight budget which - quite simply - prevents me from buying all those costly music machines you can see under the fingers of people like Jarre or Vangelis. This has very often stopped me from making any music at all in the past, but fortunately that is no longer the case. Why? Well, because on this planet where everything and (horrible to say) every life turns on money, there's a bunch of mad scientists who create some wonderful virtual instruments and make them available for free to anybody willing and happy to make music with them.
These instruments and effects units called "VST's" are basically (for the non musicians among you) synthesizers etc. in the form of software; the machine is no longer a "physical" object, but an image on the computer screen that generates sounds and noises just like a "real" musical machine. The hardware versions of those machines would cost so much that so many people like me would be forced not to play, and therefore a lot less genuine, non-market-driven music would exist.
I've been using with more than satisfactory results all the free VST's I've found since the end of 2004, and BIOnighT have been using them since their "The Rain is Over" album. The limitations to creativity are very, very few. So, a HUGE "Thank you!!" goes out to all those brilliant, talented, and so very generous developers thanks to whom music can go on!!