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Real Name: Mimmo Napolitano.
Electro-acoustic musician and composer from Naples, Italy.
With his tape recorder Revox, that he uses in a very physical and unconventional way, SEC_ is a promoter of the new "musique concrète", using at the same time tape manipulations and feedback electronics (no-input feedback, digital feedback, feeddrum, CRT TV, etc...). Continously trespassing the borders between analog and digital, structured and improvised, narrative and abstract, SEC_ tries to build up a new musicality done of cuts, twisted rhythms, sharp or animalistic sounds, deep drones. Co-founder, in 2003, of the avant-rock band Weltraum, since 2008 he collaborates with several musicians and improvisers of different areas (electro-acoustic, noise, free-jazz) giving life to the duo Aspec(t) (with Mario Gabola). With these formations and in solo he plays extensively around Europe, in heterogeneous situations.
Active collaborations with Jerome Noetinger ("Testacoda" LP), Olivier Di Placido ("Rainbow Grotesque" LP), Dave Phillips (upcoming “Medusa” CD), Valerio Tricoli, Andy Guhl, Ken Vandermark (Rara Avis band), Franck Vigroux, Dario Sanfilippo (upcoming), Burp Enterprise …. As a composer has received commissions by L'Audible festival (Paris), Kunstradio broadcast (Wien) and several remixes/re-edits. Since 2008 he runs the label Toxo Records and collaborates to the organization of Altera!, an annual festival of experimental music and critical thinking in Naples.