Francesco Medda is a sound designer born in Sardinia in 1981. His research started in 2003, making his way through traditional cultures, soundscapes, and contemporary music. Francesco has listened to hip hop, dub, techno, and traditional Sardinian music as well as people’s voices, traffic and the sounds of nature, creating a vast archive of experiences and material sounds, considering and studying them all as potentially useful elements to create new music. All of this is part of his multicolored aesthetics.
Since 2003, Medda had developed his main personal project called “Arrogalla”, producing numerous and diversified recordings and hundreds of concerts all over Europe. The sound of Arrogalla is a stylish intermingling of Sardinian folk sounds, together with tropical and Mediterranean music that meets abstract electronica.
In addition to his own projects, he has collaborated with other authors and artists such as Michela Murgia, Mauro Palmas, Malasorti, KOI and Giacomo Casti.
(headline image: Francesco Medda and Mauro Palmas – Photo by Lieven Loots)