Matteo Uggeri is an Italian visual designer and composer from Milan.

He invests himself in sound poetry of everyday life, organized around a vast array of personal field recordings and melodic compositions meticulously arranged in a story-telling way. He's part of the duo Starlight Assembly along with Dominic Appleton and he plays in Sparkle in Grey and Open to the Sea.

He has been active in music since 1996; most of the releases under his own names are in collaboration with other artists such as Dominic Appleton, Nocturnal Emissions, M.B./Maurizio Bianchi, Controlled Bleeding, vonneumann, Francesco Giannico, Tex La Homa, Giulio Aldinucci, Deison, Nuno Moita, Andrea Ferraris, Enrico Coniglio, Maurizio Abate and others.

His latest solo moniker is Barnacles, a more 'tribal beats' project.

Uggeri draws with various techniques, also experimenting with disc graphics and rare videos between analog and digital, so far the two main poles and cornerstones of his artistic research. A good example is “Remote Control” (2011), a work on two VHS that mocks Italian TV habits showing an hour and a half zapping and whose soundtrack is provided by other artists involved in the project, including Zbigniew Karkowski, Jan Yun, Wooden Veil, Eraldo Bernocchi and If, Bwana. The work is published by Moriremo Tutti Records, Uggeri’s own label, a sort of counterpoint to the milder Grey Sparkle, a brand under which he often self-publishes his works.

https://matteouggeri.bandcamp.com/

(Above photo by Riccardo Trudi Diotallevi)