ABOUT

Oliver DiCicco’s work as a sound artist began in the early 70’s in the electronic music lab at SUNY Buffalo . It was there that he became interested in experimental music and audio technology. Upon relocating to San Francisco he utilized his knowledge of audio techniques to start the Mobius Music recording studio. The studio started in 1976 and operated until 2004. His work as an audio engineer and producer, has been recognized by several Grammy nominations and gold and platinum record awards.

In 1989 he began building musical instrument sculptures, which would become the basis for the Mobius Operandi ensemble. The group performed, composed and improvised music on the family of instruments he designed. In the mid 1990’s the group staged a number of inter-disciplinary theater performances. It was during the process of designing the sets for these pieces, that he began to create large scale kinetic sound sculpture as an integral element of the performance.

Since the close of the studio he has devoted his time to creating kinetic sound sculpture, custom commissioned fabrications and theatrical set design.