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what would you so/ the h1jhl1jht of'your e-areer has been So .f'ar?Relaunching Inked Magazine has been my greatest and most challenging achievement to date.It's an amazing publication and I work with a small, dedicated, kick-ass team. We have fun atthe office everyday and somehow manage to get out 10 award winning issues a year.

was be;n:) ?art 01' a Ma.:Jz;ne a I;.f'e IOn:) dreaM o.f' yourS? I.f' not,what did you want to be when you":Jrew U?"?If you asked me 5 years ago what I would be doingnow, the last thing I would think of would be theCD of a lifestyle magazine with a tattoo focus.Going from branding/packaging toadvertising then publishing seemedlike a natural evolution for mypersonality and skills.

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what a.dV;Ce can yoLt.:ive ?eo?le oLtt therewho are str;V;n:J to be?a.rt of' a. M~a2;ne?Publishing is hard work. Ifyou're a graphic designer andlooking to cash in, go withadvertising. Working for amagazine is all about relatingto your reader and not a client.If you think you can have myjob right out of college, thinkagain, it takes years of hardwork to get to the top!

what doeS the word VOLLIME Mean to Y0Lt?Volume is how loud you can make something, how far you can push it and what you canachieve when the dial hits 10.

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A lifetime between classic andmodern, who are the musiciansthat influenced you the most onyour artistic journey?More than influence, I'll talk about who inspiredme the most. .. First and foremost, Joe Zawinul,universal musician, pianist that started with clas­sical (precisely a duo with another great aristo­crat, Friedrich GuIda), than moved to be-bop (inthe meantime he became the pianist of Canon­ball Adderley) eventually giving life to legend

I try to give life to moments of intense and reallistening, and of silence. The bet hasn't beenwon yet, but I have already noticed some sur­prising reactions, especially at the "Sonar"music festival in Barcelona, where when Ilaunched an improvised proto-Baroque, itspread itself into a sort of electricity only after afew notes.

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ary group 'Weather Report' and to his only lan­guage. Glenn Gould is a great visionary of thepiano: the first to make the decision to abandonconcert halls in order to dedicate himself exclu­sively to studying. They are two great personali­ties, inimitable. If they have taught me anything,it certainly has to be to not dwell on the things Iknow how to do well, but to always push myselffurther, into unknown territory.

Between a concert hall and a club, isthere much difference in the atmo­sphere and the audience? Tell us whatexcites you about these two places.These two places are absolutely complimentary.In a concert hall, there is absolute silence thatdistinguishes a listening audience - in a club,

or two ways to interpret music that canlive separately?It is a discussion that, all in all, I don't care aboutmuch ...Digital technology is infact as instru­mental as the (acustic) piano, it is an instrument.Today, in 2012, I have a lot of will to use all dif­ferent instruments that help me create music:harpsichord, piano, synthesizer, computer andsequencer - and not necessarily in this order!Technology cannot be and should not be an endall in all. Music is a universal language and atthe same time abstract - we use instruments tomake musica. My music can be defined as a mixbetween piano and electronic. Infact, I happen toplay the (acustic) piano in classical concerts andthan the keyboard in a techno gig(electronic) ...Maybe I'm a chameleon?

The piano is an instrument thatrepresents perfection and beautyfrom the practice of style, whatconnection do you have toaesthetics?Maybe that is an old, dusty image of the piano,because the piano has always been the instru­ment of the future! It contains a technologyunlike some other instruments; the piano in thebeginning was scary to most composers - it hada heavy sound, too complicated. But it was thesound of the future! In less than 100 years, itbecame a fetish instrument for most composers.From that moment on, it took a short time toarrive to the invention of the synthesizer. "Theexercise of style: consists in fighting this anach­ronistic image of the "romantic instrument".However, I relocate in the dance clubs, for ex­ample like I did with Carl Craig in Ibiza; awinged piano at We Love ...Space - a UFO thehas landed in the middle of the dancefloor! Aes­thetics is a value that tranforms and forcefullyadapts itself to the epic and society in which welive in.

Volume is a project consisting of contem­porary research. Across the combina­tions ofyour performance you representgreatly contemporary attitude. So whatis modernism to you?Modernism, another concept used or abused,maybe I would position myself more in the post­modernism sector. Classic music can seem like agift from the past, it is ashame, because it wouldbe, in this situation, exactly the opposite of"modern" - Mozart never composed classicalmusic! Mozart, like Bach, like all composers,created contemporary music. My relationshipwith modernism consists of staying in touchwith the world, politics, people that are aroundme, and at the same time working in my bubble.Like John Cage said, " music does not serve tous nothing if not to keep us awake and live ourlives!"

In what do you feel Italian?Without a doubt, food. A single day does notexist without a good Italian espresso, pasta andParmigiano Reggiano. One exception: when Iam in Japan...

Amongst the various countriesyou live and work, where do youfeel the most energy?Barcelona is my base, there in fact is where Ihave my studio and piano. Barcelona is a unique,beautiful and useful city. New York will alwaysbe in my heart - it is where I passed my most im­portant and formative years, I get very nostalgicwhenever I go back.Tokyo is an incredible city,the people give out an incomparabile energy.But the greatest audience is in Italy! I recentlyplayed 3 nights there, my last one on New Year'sEve in Terracina (Latina). I have never seen sucha great crowd with their hands up in the air, noteven in Ibiza. I would love to live in Rome forsome time - after all isn't it the most beautifulcity in the world?

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What relationship do you have withcinema? Would you like to create a songfor a movie?Cinema is a superb art, union of all artistic ex­pression. I have written a few film songs ofsmall independent movies, documentaries. If Ihad less concerts I would do more. Like a Frenchcomposer once told me: A beautiful song cannotsave an ugly movie, but an ugly song can defi­etly destroy a good movie.

What does the word VOLUME mean to you?VOLUME = organization/measure of how bigsomething is.