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About Me

Andrea Baroni (Italy, 1978), is a multimedia IT musician, as to say that he has not yet decided what to do once adult... but for sure he wants to do it right (and in the most complex way).
He took a Master in Computer Science in 2003 in Pisa, and started working for some years at PERCRO laboratories, where he contributed in the developing of advanced multimedia platforms, using the most advanced modern technologies.
Not so keen about the world of research (and the "pure" computer science), he decided to deepen its music skills, an activity he has undertaken since the tender age, with the study of piano, and then in the latest years as a keyboard player for many bands (to mention the band Icycore, with which he released two albums). For this reason he moved for a short period of time to London, where he succesfully achieved a degree within SAE Institute.

Since then he moves across the freelance world, trying to make all these realities (music, web design, illustration, photography, video and of course computer science) to coincide. With the neverending dream of being able to create art and to tell life.

He asserts that a good plan for the future (a not so well defined one to be honest), would be moving to an Irish cottage, writing poetry and novels... but there's time for that.

The last sightings saw him lost in the web sea, a new Ulysses made of bytes and thoughts, always in the search for the world voices.

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MAIN INTERESTS:

Creativity, Arts, Music, Reading, Writing, Computer, Travelling, Design, Movies, Comics, Theatre, Nipponic Culture, ancient stories and future tales...

BEST THINGS IN LIFE:

my Valentine, autumn rain, pizza, squeezing my cat, playing some old videogames in a nostalgic mood, cappuccino with a lot of foam, going to the movies, have a dinner with good friends, Ribena juice, making strange photos around places you have never seen before and that looks great with that particular light, entering Forbidden Planet in London with a lot of money to spend, playing live in front of a lot of people (that are not throwing anything towards you), Lucca Comics, Camden Town Market, cheesecake, English toasts with some salty butter, have a stroll in a nice city streets in a fresh summer night and...well...too many to mention here!

FAVOURITE ARTISTS:

T.Pratchett, P.K.Dick, D.Gildenlow, D.Adams, K.Moore, T.S.Eliot, J.Hisaishi, Vangelis, G.R.R.Martin, M.Oldfield, P.Kidby, A.Lee, J.R.R.Tolkien, R.Bradbury, V.Evangelisti, R.Matheson, W.Gibson, N.Gaiman, B.Froud, H.Hesse, J.Prevert, H.P.Lovecraft, J.Oliva, J.G.Ballard, A.Lucassen, E.A.Poe, and many others...

FAVOURITE ALBUMS:

  • "A Pleasant Shade Of Grey" / Fates Warning
  • "Be" / Pain Of Salvation
  • "Brave" / Marillion
  • "Alternative 4" / Anathema
  • "Dead Winter Dead" / Savatage
  • "Nightfall In Middle Earth" / Blind Guardian
  • "The Devil's Hall Of Fame" / Beyond Twilight
  • "Soundtrack to Your Escape" / In Flames
  • "Haven" / Dark Tranquillity
  • "Burn The Sun" / Ark
  • "Into the Electric Castle" / Ayreon
  • "The Politics Of Ecstasy" / Nevermore
  • "Le Dimensioni Del Mio Caos" / Caparezza

FAVOURITE BOOKS:

Neuromancer, The Wee Free Man, A Song of Ice and Fire Saga, American Gods, So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, and many others...

FAVORITE FILMS:

Blade Runner, Princess Mononoke, The Legend Of 1900, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Requiem For A Dream, Donnie Darko, Pan's Labyrinth, Spirited Away, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Lord Of The Rings, Kill Bill, Ratatouille, American Beauty, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Shrek, Fight Club, Sin City, Lost In Translation, Hook, Ghostbusters, and bla bla bla...

FAVOURITE VIDEOGAMES:

Another World, all Lucasarts adventures, Lemmings, System Shock 2, Zelda Twilight Princess, Hitman, Hired Gunds, Fallout, Fable, Gothic I and II