ALESSANDRO CIPRIANI is the co-author, with R. Bianchini, of Virtual Sound, a textbook on Csound programming. His compositions have been published by the Computer Music Journal, the International Computer Music Conference, CNI, etc. He has composed music for the Peking Opera Theater and for films and documentaries in which computer-processed ambient sounds, dialogues and music blend together interchangeably - notably, with the Edison Studio composers' collective, for the silent movies Battleship Potemkin, Inferno and Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, published on DVD by Cineteca di Bologna. He has given seminars at many universities (the University of California, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the Moscow Conservatory, DMU-Leicester, etc.). He is a tenured professor of Electroacoustic Music Composition at the Conservatory of Frosinone and a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Organised Sound (Cambridge University Press). MAURIZIO GIRI is a professor of composition who teaches Max programming techniques at the Conservatory of Frosinone. He has written both instrumental and electroacoustic music. He is currently working on electronic music, and on the application of new technologies to digital sound processing, improvisation and musical composition. He has written software for electroacoustic improvisation and for live electronics. He is the founder of Amazing Noises, a software house that develops musical applications and plug-ins for mobile devices and computers, and he also collaborates with Ableton, for whom he has published numerous Max for Live devices. He has published Max tutorials in various professional journals. He has been a resident artist in Paris (Cité Internationale des Arts) and in Lyon (GRAME). He has collaborated with the Institut Nicod of the École Normale Supérieure de Paris, for a project on the philosophy of sound.