Italian musician, producer, composer and instrument builder Alessandro Cortini is one of the
foremost figures of contemporary electronic music. A longstanding member of Nine Inch Nails,
Cortini has been releasing a steady stream of his own heady music on luminary labels including
Mute and Important Records for the past decade. Balancing dark ambience with smokey,
pulsing rhythms, his compositions are perfectly restrained, textured and mesmeric. In 2021, in
collaboration with boutique synth builders Make Noise, Cortini released his own, custom
designed, semi-modular synth, Strega (Italian for ‘witch’). That same year, he used Strega to
build his latest full length, Scuro Chiaro (Mute), which Pitchfork described as “pitched
somewhere between purgatory and the planetarium […] consistently managing to thrill and
surprise”. Throughout his shadowy rise to fame, Cortini has collaborated with the likes of
Lawrence English, Daniel Avery and Merzbow (to name a few).