Born in the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola region in northern Italy, Alberto Ricca is an electronic musician who’s released music under a variety of aliases, his most consistent being Bienoise. Interested in multimedia and creating a listening experience framed by memory and textual sounds that live between techno, house and folktronica, he’s released loosely thematic albums and EPs on labels like Concrete Records, Bitcrusher, and White Forest – his 2015 album for the latter, _Meanwhile, Tomorrow_, was regarded as one of the best Italian electronic albums of that year, and is considered part of a new wave of experimental Italian electronic music. Ricca is also a co-founder of the label Floating Forest, which releases mostly improvisational music. After coming to the 2014 Academy in Tokyo as a participant, he gained a Masters degree in Music and continues to produce original works.
