Italian American composer, percussionist and multimedia artist Andrea Centazzo has been for 40 years a key figure of contemporary art. In the early 70s he introduced a new concept of percussion playing, migrating from the Free Jazz to a new form of improvised music, defining itself. Centazzo was one of the founders in the late 70s of the NY Downtown Music Scene with his seminal collaboration with John Zorn, Tom Corra, Eugene Chadbourne, Toshinori Kondo and others documented in many albums. In 1976 he founded ICTUS Records, one of the first musician operated labels, recording with Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Pierre Favre, Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Alvin Curran, Albert Mangellsdorf, Don Cherry and many others. He left the improvised music scene in 1986, moving shortly after to Los Angeles, CA and dedicating himself to composition and video making, presenting 3 operas, 2 symphonies and almost 400 compositions for all kind of ensembles plus many award winning video films. Back to live performing in 1998, he created solo multimedia concerts, playing live in synch with videos that he shoots and edits. His last project ECM has been produced by NASA, Caltech and LIGO. He's also soundtrack composer. The University of Bologna Library just recently dedicated to the composer the "Fondo Centazzo" where all his works are collected and made available to students and scholars.