Dronica #73 - Dronica Meets Danilo Casti

Nicola Serra, founder of East London's experimental music festival Dronica, presents new and archival material.

In this episode, Dronica meets Danilo Casti.

Electroacoustic musician and composer, Danilo Casti was born in Cagliari (Sardinia island, Italy) and has been present in the Italian electronic music scene since the early 2000s, working in live performance, contemporary dance, video, and multimedia installation.

He performs either as a solo artist or as a member of collective projects. Since 2018, he has been part of Dalila Kayros's band as an electronic musician, composer and arranger.

He is also part of Alessandro Carboni's contemporary dance company as a composer and performer. He has collaborated with several artists and he performed at various festivals of electronic music, theatre, and contemporary dance around Europe, USA, and Asia. His music style includes synthetic and concrete sounds organised in different ways, from straightforward composition to an algorithmic generative approach.

His career has been strongly influenced by experimental theatre and contemporary dance, and his music is based around atmospheric composition and soundscapes. Collaborating with Dalila Kayros, he explores more rhythmic and harmonic textures, combining his experimental, electroacoustic attitude with a songwriting style.

ANIMAMI, the latest record by Dalila Kayros and Danilo Casti, has recently received the Mario Cervo Award for Best Album 2022.