Lucio Menegon, aka the Rev Screaming Fingers, is a guitarist, composer, improviser and sonic artist who lives for the gig be it stage or studio. Lucio works within various collaborative and improvisational frameworks, from free improvisation, noise and soundtrack music to providing a bit of magic as a sideman and colorist to traditional songwriters and performers. He has performed all over the globe from dingy bars to fancy theaters, alongside butoh dancers, tesla coils, firesculpture and plays in bands that write, sweat, fight, sink or swim together. He absolutely loves to tour.
Recent projects include the modern improvised music trio, Prehistoric Horse with David Grollman and Valerie Kuehne, the bluesy cabaret band, The Bodice Rippers, and 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 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.
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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