Biography
There are two artists named Simone Gatto:
1) Southern italian artist Simone Gatto (owner of Out-Electronic Recordings - Out-ER) versatile dj and producer, is an eclectic, philosophy-graduated dance music activist who finds into music a dynamic source of emotions, reminds and energy.
Simone’s first contact with music was early in 2004 and since then, he’s been known for globe-trotting around the world to perform quality house and techno shows and managing his own label Out Electronic Recordings with his partner Andrea Santoro, releasing music from relevant house and techno artists like The Analogue Cops, Regen, Christopher Rau, Efdemin, Orlando Voorn, LaChriz, Conforce and many others. Simone has performed in clubs like :// about blank, Suicide Circus, Greissmuehle, OHM (Berlin), Output (NYC), Le Rouge Pigalle (Paris), showcasing a singular aesthetics united with a solid selection criterion. As a producer, he released his own works mostly on OUT-ER plus a restricted number of realities like Orlando Voorn’s Night Vision, Subwax BCN’s sub label Vosnos and Safari Electronique from Arnaud Le Texier.
The variety of experiences and musical stimuli has brought Gatto to research the music potential together with the Italian University San Raffaele on an ever-increasing scientific and emotional scale. The results have led to the organization of several seminars and workshops, organized throught Out Electronic Recordings and happening in between Italy, Germany and Holland, in which artists and music industry experts examine the relationship between sounds and emotions. The tangible findings and collected depositions will be put out on a book to be published in late 2017, where the personal path of the artist and the musical context he’s studied and lived, will be offered to the world of music enthusiasts. Simone’s world may serene, deep and sensitive at the same time – but it’s always been an intense place to enjoy.
2) Simone (Simon) Gatto (* around 1545 in Venice; † 1595 in Graz) was an Italian conductor and composer.
He was trained in Venice and worked as a trombonist at the court in Munich from 1568, before continuing his professional career in Graz from 1572. In the court music band there, he first began as a windsman and rose to court conductor in 1581. Many Italian musicians, especially wind players, moved north during this time and Gatto himself made several trips to his homeland to recruit instrumentalists.
He only created sacred works. Several fairs and motets are partly in print, partly by hand. Compositely, he followed the style of his native city.
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