Roberto Paci Dalò, was born in Rimini, he grew up in Tremosine sul Garda and he has lived in Berlin, Naples, Rome, and periodically in Vancouver BC; he currently lives and works in Rimini and Tremosine sul Garda.
His work has won him international admiration from – among the others – John Cage, Giya Kancheli, Robert Ashley, and Aleksandr Sokurov.

Composer, musician, director, author, sound and visual artist, radio-maker his work has been presented worldwide in museums, biennials, theatres and festivals including the Venice Biennale, Wien Modern, Fundaciò Joan Mirò, Power Station of Art Shanghai, Vienna Opera House, Palais des Beaux Arts Bruxelles, Triennale Milan, ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica Festival Linz, Bauhaus Weimar, Musica Strasbourg, MaerzMusik Berlin, Experimental Intermedia New York, Western Front Vancouver.

He leads the group Giardini Pensili (co-founded in 1985) and he has been the recipient of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD Fellowship (1993-1994) and the Premio Napoli per la lingua e la cultura italiana (2015). He created and directed LADA L'Arte dell'Ascolto radio festival (Rimini, 1991-1998) and composed more then 50 radio works produced internationally. In 1995 he created Radio Lada, web radio conceived as an exhibition space for sound art. Founder and director of Itaca - the electronic stage of the Teatro di Roma (1999-2001) and Velvet Factory (2006-2016). Collaborations include Kronos Quartet, Alvin Curran, Julia Kent, Fennesz, Robert Lippok, Patrizia Valduga, Rupert Huber, Terry Riley, Giorgio Agamben, Predrag Matvejevic', Guido Guidi, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, Gabriele Frasca, Tom Cora, David Moss, Paolo Tassinari, Stefano Boeri, Akio Suzuki, Philip Jeck, Stefano Scodanibbio, Scanner, Fred Frith, Gerfried Stocker, Horst Hörtner, Adriana Borriello, Peter Courtemanche. Since 2018 Expert and Artist at the European Commission. Roberto is member of the Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft (Berlin) and the British Cartographic Society. He is professor of Exhibit and Interaction Design at UNIRSM Design (Republic of San Marino) where he is the founder and director of Usmaradio – radio station and Research Centre for Radiophonic Studies. Co-founder of ‘The School of Radio’ (2014). His latest book is ‘Ombre’ (Quodlibet 2019).

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