Alex Braga is a poliedric and original artist, ranging from performative to conceptual art. Born in Novara in 1976, he has lived in many cities in Italy and in the USA and has been active on the audiovisual scene since 1995, focusing on Music, Radio and Television. Braga has created with prof. Francesco Riganti and prof. Antonio Laudani, from University of RomaTre, A.M.I., Artificial Musical Intelligence, the world's first A.I. capable of hacking the improvisation code of any musician playing any instrument just after few notes. A.M.I. is able to create infinite alternative tracks that improvise along, without any problem of scales, harmony, pitch or BPM, in REAL TIME : using the concept and the power of the new instrument A.M.I., Braga has become the first orchestra conductor of the future, creating real time orchestrations with infinite virtual players at his fingertips. His performances with A.M.I., along with "hacked" star pianists such as Danilo Rea or Francesco Tristano, have been supported by Google Arts&Culture and have been world widely acclaimed from the prestigious RomaEuropa Festival to the Centre Pompidou, the temple of contemporary art in Paris, where he closed the exibhition Codèr Le Monde alongside great masters like Ryoji Ikeda. 
Since 2009 his main focus becomes conceptual art with the creation of NIGHTGEOSESSIONS, a multimedial show of art and sustainability. With the support of MIBAC, the italian Ministry of Culture, Braga and his show have performed in the most prestigious artistic insititutions in Italy, such as the GNAM - The National Gallery of Modern Art, and the MAXXI, the new Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome.
In 2010 he creates the first show ever with music made from the trees, along with artists Claudio Coccoluto and Diego Stocco. In 2011 his performance SoundOfBeauty, where he explores the relationship between sound and beauty, is represented in Paris and Madrid. In 2012 he starts focusing on noise pollution and concrete music and the relationship between noise and sound brings Braga to perform his SOUNDPRINT#2, an Ottetto for 4 cars-violin-viola-oboe-flute, in the city of Florence. The performance, that opened the festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, followed by a troupe of videocameras, spreads inside the city center with each musician inside a car, both playing music and noise, manipulated in real time by Braga on a big stage with a big screen in Piazzale Michelangelo. Year 2012 is also very important because it marks the first international collaboration with 2 superstar of contemporary art : Mike e Doug Starn. The performance BigBambùBreathe, based on the worldwide famous masterpiece BigBambù of the two Starn twins , takes place in the Macro Museum in Rome.
In 2013, with is pseudonim PLUGGER, is the only italian artist to be invited to peform live in the most important festival of medial art, Sonar, and he publishes a book with the Marco Museum with AddEditore. The artwork of PLUGGER is a mixture of videoinstallations, experimental music, and real collage that brings Braga to perform in very prestigious locations like Macro, the MADRE museum in Naples and the Museo Della Permanente in Milan, as well as abroad, from Beirut to Berlin, between clubs, museums and cultural centers, with the support of the Italian Insitute of Culture. The concetual revolution of PLUGGER strikes deeply the visonary and worldwide famous composer Ennio Morricone. Upon listening to a PLUG dedicated to his work, Morricone says "PLUGGER is the new thing that wil shake Rock". 
2015 is indeed a golden year for Braga, releasing with his a.k.a. PLUGGER the RE_CYCLE#1 E.P. with dancefloor superstar Davide Squillace and his prestigious Barcelona based label ThisAndThat. The EP contains the hit single Waxoline, elected by god dj John Digweed as one of the best tracks of 2015. Digweed brings Braga and PLUGGER in the BedRockRecords family, a London based label regarded as one of the most important in the electronic music world, selectiong the track for his compilation "LIVE IN SOUTH BEACH". But, most of all, PLUGGER is one of the 4 "leading lights in electronic music world" ( as stated by the site roguhtrade.com ) to be selected by superhip english indie electro rock band PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING to remix their new single SPUTNIK. Braga and PLUGGER's song is released worldwide officially inside PSB's record bringing the artist also on TestCardRecordings.
In 2015 Braga also starts a new project regarding sustainability of water, promoted by EULABOR Institute with the support of the Ministry of Environment, IUCN, WCPA, National Geographic, Pelagus Sanctury and he produces a techno track made only with sounds of mammals, using the sound archive courtesy of Tethys Research Institute.
In the same year Braga displays the interactive videoinstallation INTERFERENCE (feat. Quietensemble) at Acquario Civico di Milano : an hydrophone is placed in the fish tank and the audio and the video interacts with the human presence as a symbol of the human impact of environment. In 2015 Alex Braga features in his first collective exhibition in G.N.A.M., the National Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery in Rome : Corporate Art. In 2015 Braga started a new project as menthor and judge for conceptual art and electronic music for AMICI15 , the most famous talent show in Italy broadcasted by Canale5 . Braga is also know in Italy for his activities of host, writer and producer for TV and Radio. |
ARTIFICIAL MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE
Intangible
Radio 2 |
