Lucio Menegon is a composer, improviser, guitarist and sonic artist. He performs in varied collaborative and improvisational situations as well as sideman and colorist to traditional songwriters and performers. Lucio focuses on the creative use of melody and dynamics, judiciously using effects, live looping and found sound when necessary to sufficiently mangle his rock ‘n’ roll, blues, country, punk and improvisational angle.
Lucio has performed all over the globe from dingy bars to fancy theaters, alongside butoh dancers, tesla coils, firesculpture and new music luminaries Moe! Staiano, Laurie Amat, Myles Boisen, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Carla Kihlstedt, Mark De gli Antoni, Amy DeNio, Motoko Honda, Emily Hay and Ross Hammond. Lucio has performed and collaborated with songwriters Edith Frost, Anton Barbeau, Mark Growden, Danielle French, Scott Pinkmountain,Val Esway, Joe Rut, Dylan Champagne, Joni Davis, Heather Combs and Gunnar Madsen.
Recent projects include noise/improv groups Prehistoric Horse (David Grollman and Valerie Kuehne) and the blues/punk/soul band, The Bodice Rippers. He was a founding member of SF Bay Area bands Ramona the Pest, Zebu and the Ho! and established 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.
With many years experience as an audio recording engineer and producer in studios large and small, Lucio has worked with artists such as Kim Wilson, Rusty Zinn, Steve Lucky, Laurie Amat, Dylan Champagne and Cheetahs on the Moon. He continues to maintain Kingtone as a professional project and remote recording studio.
Lucio 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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