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Alessandra Novaga plays classical and electric guitar. She is mostly involved in new and experimental music and improvising, and has been working, among others, with composers such as Paula Matthusen, Sandro Mussida,Travis Just, and Vittorio Zago all of whom wrote scores for her. Her realizations of textual and graphic scores often include a makedly performative component, departing from conventional ways of interacting with the instrument.

She has performed in Europe and in the United States. She played in Festival such ANGELICA (Bologna), ALL FRONTIERS (Gorizia) and, among the others, Area Sismica (Forlì), Hundred Years Gallery (London), Quiet Cue (Berlin), O' (Milano); In the last years she has been invited to be part of downtown scene often, past performances in New York City include the Transient Series, the Incubator Arts Project - Ontological Hysteric Theater, Zebulon, Silent Barn and Spectrum. In 2011 she was part of the performance/installation Sight Inseen directed by Lee Ranaldo in Lecce for Sound Res Festival. In March 2013 she was the first guitarist to perform the entire cycle of John Zorn’s Book of Heads in Italy.

She is co-founder of the experimental music trio Hurla Janus and, among the others, she has collaborated with Massimo Falascone, Elliott Sharp, John Colpitts (aka Kid Millions), Gianni Mimmo, Roberto Del Piano, Patrizia Oliva, Gianni Gebbia, Oh Petroleum, Francesco Gagliardi, Andrea Centazzo, Sandro Mussida. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.