He began studying the accordion at the age of 9, in Coreno Ausonio where he began to learn the first rudiments of the instrument from the great heritage of tradition. An explorer and experimenter of sounds, he was a pioneer in the use of electronics applied to the accordion. He created an original system of percussion of the accordion, which combined with the continuous modulation of the sounds, through the use of effects, loops and various objects ‘applied’ directly to the instrument, he called ‘prepared accordion’, using a term generally in use in contemporary music. In 2017 he won the TARGA TENCO (best album in dialect) for the album ‘Canti, ballade ed ipochondrie d’ammore’ (Squilibri) made together with Canio Loguercio. He has performed in some of the most important Italian and foreign festivals in the most varied contexts from classical to world music, from songwriting to jazz, from cinema to literature. He has written and performed music for cinema, theatre, performing arts and literature.

Born in 1980, Gianluca Abbate is one of the most interesting directors and video artists on the national and international scene. In 2015 he won the best short film award at the Turin Film Festival, and in 2016 the Nastro d’Argento for best animated film. In 2020 he was awarded the Golden Ephebe for New Languages ​​and the Goethe Film Award at the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin. His films have been screened at various festivals and museums including Ann Arbor and Chicago Underground Film Festival, at the MAXXI in Rome, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Hiroshima, Moscow and Istanbul, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and screened on the ARTE television channel France. He has taught at the Civic School of Cinema in Milan, at the IED in Rome, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Frosinone and currently teaches at the NABA in Rome.