The city without sun

Massimo Ruberti from Livorno (Italy) likes to define himself as a “sound&visions trafficker”. This vague term, instead, allows him to move quite easily from one role to another, in the creation of live performances, music and videoart. He creates works that accompany exhibitions, performances, happenings, audio/video installations, silent film screenings and multimedia catalogue presentations. With the assistance of the laptop and some analogic synths, he is able to perform his compositions in the live dimension, enriching them with the collaboration of other musicians on the stage and undoing sound schemes that approach thus the method of jazz and pure improvisation. The red thread that unifies his works is surely the theme of Journey, of the flight from this reality towards imagined or transfigured worlds. The journey also (and mostly) thought as a path inside oneself. Compositions are often long instrumental suites where electronic and videos accompany themselves, and often collide to create hybrid forms.
In his little mobile studio, the “Dogana d’acqua”, his compositions have been enriched from time to time by valuable sax, choir, or piano interventions. In fact, he loves to get surrounded by people who would leave a print on the schemes of his art. "The City Without Sun" is a concept album of instrumental electronic music. An ideal soundtrack for the kid's novel by Michel Grimaud 'La ville sans soleil'. A French novel of the 70s, which in the post '68 era tells us about a group of teenage activists against the pollution of their 'city without sun' by an unscrupulous local squire. A book that still has not lost its, though simplistic, message of rebellion and hope. A book to be known, to be implemented, to not forget.