Lucio Menegon is a guitarist, composer and sonic artist. His music ranges from intense, ethereal, out there free-improvisation and collaboration to compositions with more traditional, melodic song structure. He lives for the gig be it stage or studio, likes to play in bands that write, sweat, fight, sink or swim together and absolutely loves to tour.
Current projects include Music for Driving and Film, a cycle of melodic instrumentals set to film, the modern improvised music trio Prehistoric Horse with David Grollman and Valerie Kuehne and ongoing collaborations with interested improvisers and composers. Recent projects include the debut performance of his first composition for large ensemble, Piece to Celebrate the Proximity of Pearl Harbor Day and The Death of John Lennon. He was a founding member of SF Bay Area bands The Bodice Rippers, Ramona the Pest, Zebu and the Ho! and curated the very successful Ivy Room Hootenanny Creative Music series in Albany, CA.
Film credits include the score for the 2009 short, Nightsoil in collaboration with SF Film-makers Thad Povey and Al Alvarez, an award winning score for John Harden’s short, La Vie d’un Chien as well as live improvised scores with the Overdub Club, Scratch Film Junkies and Cinepimps. His work has appeared at the SF International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival and the SF Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Music on Film Festival in Prague, CZ.
He is a member of the Immersion Composition Society, has a degree in Economics (ie hocus pocus), a sharp eye for photography and loves a good story.
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