Luigi Monteanni

Luigi is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at SOAS (London) and winner of an AHRC CHASE scholarship. He is a researcher studying the relationships between contemporary transnational pop music genres and regional music. Currently, he is studying the indigensation of extreme metal in Bandung, Indonesia. He is also the co-founder of Artetetra Records: a music label and collective pursuing practice-based inquiries regarding notions of digital folklore and exoticism in late globalisation.  He lectured at universities such as SOAS, University of London, ISBI Bandung and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan) and worked for three years as applied anthropologist and qualitative researcher for Istituto Piepoli and IPSOS.  He wrote articles, papers and reports for Norient, NON – Copyriot, NOT, Ableton, CTM Mag, Aural Archipelago, Mousse Mag, ATP Diary, DiSCo Journal, Musica Stampata, Motherboard, Archipelago (CP company), X Magazine, Axis Mundi, The Attic and Zero.eu. He has also written blurbs for releases and publications on Leaving Records, Discrepant and Repeater books.  His music works have been covered by NTS, The Wire, Cvltnation, Anthony Fantano, Kiosk Radio, Lyl Radio, Resonance FM, The Quietus, Rai Radio 3, BBC, Coeval Magazine, Rolling Stones, Internazionale, Tiny Mixtapes, RuruRadio, Norm Radio The New York Times and Simon Reynolds. He has performed in eleven different countries and collaborated with festivals and institutions such as Terraforma, Nextones, MKG Hamburg, CTM, Club to Club, UH Fest, Thalassa, Fusion Festival, Roskilde, Jogja Noise Bombing, Outernational Days, Saturnalia, Mondo Muzak, and worked with the likes of Senyawa, Shit & Shine, DJ Balli, Duma, Tarawangsawelas and Sun Araw.

Improvisation, class issues, digital ethnography, digital folklore, radical exoticism, microsound and computer music, Indonesia, marxist theory, cables, studio production.

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