Simone Massaron

Simone Massaron is an Italian guitarist, composer and educator based in Milan. His practice brings together electric and acoustic guitar, prepared instruments, live looping, electronics and a wide range of musical languages, from free improvisation and noise to jazz and experimental rock.

He has collaborated with musicians including Elliott Sharp, Nels Cline and Marc Ribot, and created projects linking live guitar performance with cinema and visual art. He teaches electric guitar at the Conservatorio Luca Marenzio in Brescia. Creative Sources released One (CS845), a trio recording with reed player Riccardo Luppi and bassist Daniel Studer that investigates texture and collective musical invention.