In 1982 I created a free improvised music duo with the guitar player Roberto ‘Zoo’ Zorzi. The iconoclastic group activity last for some years, cutting down and destroying all melodic & harmonic structures and developing a more sound oriented music.
We mainly worked by processing simple sounds and creating an ever-changing and magmatic audio stream by mean of a long delay line (5 to 10 secs) made by two tape-connected revox machines.
Some melodic or harmonic fragments appear on this music, but are very soon destroyed, wasted or changed by my AKS synth used as sound processing machine working on the looped material (not on the source sounds, see schema below, starting from green callout and proceeding clockwise).
So our works were full of ghosts of a refused past and omens, like ruins from which we began building something new.

Disgraziani! was our first work. The piece was first performed on an art gallery about June, 10 1982. This is the original recording. The title refers to the not-easy listening to our music. When I ask Zoo to find a title, he said “Disgraziani! is the word the people will shout while listening to this music”.
A word for non-italian people: Disgraziani contains my name but is very similar to the italian word “disgraziati” that means “fallen in disgrace” and, when shouted to someone, means “criminals, addicted to anti-social activity” and so on.

Year 2022 will be the Disgraziani 40th birthday.

Graziani/Zorzi – Disgraziani! (1982) – Free improvised music by Mauro Graziani synth, electronic devices, loop control & Roberto ‘Zoo’ Zorzi electric guitar, devices