Luigi Marino is an Italian, Bristol-based electronic media musician and percussionist (focusing mostly on the Persian zarb and bowed custom cymbals extended with DIY portable circuits), whose work explores emergent phenomena involving people, objects, and whatever lies in between their shifting definitions. He is known for his collaborations with innovative improvisers like Giancarlo Schiaffini, John Butcher, and Michael Thieke.
For Cymbals features Marino’s three intriguing works for four bowed Wuhan cymbals (claiming that they are made with techniques dating back to two-thousand-year-old traditions), which he acquired in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 2009, and reflect his methodical study of their sonic most physical properties. Marino has developed the C-bow, a cymbal electronic bow, which is a feedback device that works exactly like a guitar e-bow,
