Massimo De Mattia is born in Pordenone, on 1959. Self taught flutist and composer, he started his activity in the 70s with Lanfranco Malaguti, Bruno Cesselli, U.T. Ghandi, Gianluigi Trovesi and Ares Tavolazzi. His debut as a leader is 1993 with the record Poésie Pour Pasolini.
De Mattia is Italy's answer to John Zorn except that he offers a unique perspective through his warped lens that relies as much on contemporary classical sonorities as it does on jazz, and he does it somewhat less radically than early Zorn.
In his most recent years artistic director of the review Schermosonoro and founder of Zerorchestra in his homeland, De Mattia explored through music important figures of XXth Century culture as painter Egon Schiele and actor, poet, theatre writer and theorist Antonin Artaud with younger pianist and composer Giorgio Pacorig.
With great sensitivity, and with more than 20 records only under his own name, Massimo De Mattia during his career developed and showed a personal approach to both timbre and composition comparable to the most important European and worldwide recognized musicians of his generation. His approach to literature, poetry and painting melt different, often synesthetic suggestions into a coherent canavas through nervous and oblique flows of energies, charms and balances. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.