Massimiliano Cerioni (Italy, 1986) is an audiovisual composer, sound-art performer, and a native of Pomezia (Rome), living and working in Berlin. He has graduated from the A. Casella Conservatory of L'Aquila (Italy) under the direction of Michelangelo Lupone. In 2015 he placed 1st at the Italian national art prize Premio Abbado. In June 2019 he is resident artist from the EMS – Elektron Musik Studion in Stockholm. In 2020 he also announced his software project Culto, focused on releasing devices for music creation. In 2021 his AV work Asleep? has been selected for the Psychedelic Film and Music Festival in New York City. In the meantime, he is resident artist from SCOPE BLN in Berlin where he premiered his video installation Inner landscape in April. Cerioni uses coding to synthesize and process sounds and visuals. Also, he plays the didgeridoo and custom-made instruments such as Metastring, an expanded electroacoustic monochord that first appeared in September 2017 at Tempo Reale in Florence, Italy.