Carlos Giffoni is a Venezuelan electronic musician who has lived in the New York City area since 2000. Performing on modular synthesizers and hand made custom instruments, he uses various types of analogue and digital synthesis techniques to compose electronic music pieces and improvise live with local and international musicians. His recent solo work has focused in live performance on electronic music that creates both a physical experience as well as an emotional one while pushing for a new balance between a completely infinite abstract sound world and what is accepted by most people as ‘music’. Other active projects include No Fun Acid and Death Unit.

Carlos is a major figure in the US and international experimental music scene, performing live in New York and in a number of tours and festivals in the US, South America, Europe and Japan. He is the curator of the No Fun Fest, an international event that has been taking place in Brooklyn since 2004 and that now has extended to include events around the world, including a 2009 edition in Sweden and other upcoming editions in European cities in 2010. Carlos also runs the No Fun Productions label.

Recent live and recording collaborations include work with Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Peter Rehberg, Smegma, Yasunao Tone, Emeralds, Gert-Jan Prins, John Duncan, Rudolf E.ber, Lasse Marhaug, Z Karkowski, Merzbow, Astro and many others.

Carlos holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.

Carlos Giffoni