- country:Italy
- region:Sicily
- style(s):Ambient, Rock
- label:Weltlabyrinth production
- type:Composer/Songwriter
- gender:male
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
- artist posted by:Agricantus
Line up
- Rosie Wiederkehr (vocal)
- Tonj Acquaviva (Vocal, composer,drum, percussion,sampler, programm)
Tonj Acquaviva: MUSIC COMPOSER, VOICE, GUITAR SYNTH - EXPANDER, MPC 4000 SAMPLER SEQUENCER, acustic AND ELECTRONIC DRUM SET, ARRANGEMENTS AND STRINGS CHOIR, PROGRAMMING, LOOPS, BASS LINE.
Tonj ACQUAVIVA SPECIAL INSTRUMENTS: CHINESE FLUTE HU-LU-SI, Bolivian FLUTE Quen, TEHARDENT, FRAME DRUMS, WAVE DRUM, DARBOUKA, CAJON, CHINESE PROGRAMMING ERHU VIOLIN, ZI FLUTE OF CHINESE AND INDIAN SHEHNAI OBOE.
Artistic director, sound creator and founder of Agricantus.
Born in Palermo in 63, at the age of 13 years approaches the music on the ethnic instruments southern Italy and the Andean Cordillera, from the string and wind than percussive.
At 18 starts a trip traveling through Europe that brought him to gain mastery of the most popular European musical expressions.
In the late 80s the need to contaminate the popular music accompanies the study of dialects considered as sound and writing.
Collaborate with various theater companies (experiment, figure, avant-garde Kitonb), developing an interest in composition, and rhythm (drums), which leads to the use of digital electronics.
Make several CDs, including Tuareg 1996 Ethnosphere 2001, The Best of Agricantus-emerged in the United States 1999 Luna Khin 2007, IV Buddha Bar, Nirvana Lounge, Siddhartha. Signed also important soundtracks for film and television (The turkish bath 1997, Placido Rizzotto 2000, The Gardens of Eden 1998, The Son of the Moon 2007), gets awards, including: Premio Tenco,Premio Italiano per la musica.
In 1994 born the Weltlabyrinth project in whith collaborates also Rosie Wiederkehr, singer of Agricantus, and he search path and musical experimentation with visual artists, .
In 1996 the Palazzo delle Esposizioni with CAOS Emilio Leofreddi. In 1998 co-produce, with Canadian photographer Sheila McKinnon, the cd-rom Under the Skull, a trip on the manipulation of the human brain by the mass media. In 1999, received the prize Taormina Arts and Sciences.
In 2000 composed the soundtrack for Tibet Event (presented in Milan), accepted in your Ethnosphere 2001.
In 2004 begins collaboration with the ONU in projects for the preservation of the environment and the Mediterranean, promoting a culture of sustainable development through the creation of movies and documentaries. Topics which will spokesperson in the Tour Live Weltlabyrinth that presented in 2006 at the Rome Music Festival, Notte Bianca di Roma and CousCousFest of San Vito Lo Capo, gather consensus of critics and the public. In 2007, with Weltlabyrinth signing the soundtrack of the film "Liberidi giocare" for RAI1. In 2008, collaborating with Teresa De Sio For his CD Ridimm Sud, with Unnaddare for the CD Kaissa; currently is recording his next work Klima Millennium 00001-1