• Michele "Xenomorph" Gaggia has been sound engineering and producing classical, jazz, pop/rock and dance music since 1992.
  
  
• During 1991-95 he followed sound engineering courses with Prof. Reinhard Hanel, advanced acoustics and microtonal hearing with Prof. HorstPeter Hesse and composition courses with Prof. Alexander Mullenbach at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg.
  
  
• His state-of-the-art recording studio Digital Natural Sound was founded in 1997 in Italy, and later moved in Germany in 1999. His recordings have been often praised by the international music press for the excellent sound quality.
  
  
• 2001: Gramophone Award for Baroque Instrumental for the production J. S. Bach - 6 Partitas performed by Trevor Pinnock. Review: "... The warm, full, rather resonant recording beautifully captures the rich sound of his fine instrument - a David Way copy from 1983 of a Hemsch original - as well as the detail of his playing. ..."
  See also "Stereophile" online review: "The recorded sound is also excellent. If you speak while touching the case of a good harpsichord, you can feel it tremble, as if it were eager to sing. The sound of this set captures that feeling, being rich, warm, and resonant, without emphasizing the plucked attacks of the instrument (a 1983 re-creation by David Way of a Hemsch original). The occasional low bass notes have delicious weight, without booming, and when Pinnock uses a damped stop, the cascading notes illuminate the recording space in a most pleasing manner."
  
  
• 2008: Gramophone Award for Baroque Instrumental for the production J. S. Bach - The Brandenburg Concertos performed by the European Brandenburg Ensemble, conducted by Trevor Pinnock.
  
  
• Among his current partners in music publishing are the record labels AVIE Records (http://www.avierecords.com – England), Classic Concert Records (http://www.classicconcert.com) and Arcana.
  
  
• He has also produced for: Hänssler / Bachakademie Stuttgart, Germany; Ars Armonica, Spain; Essential Performance Reference, USA; Westermann Verlag, Germany; Universal Music Group, Germany; Brisa Entertainment, Germany; Classic Concert Records, Austria; Fontec, Japan; MusicaImmagine Records, Italy; Stradivarius Dulcimer / MEC Records Milano, Italy; Expanded Music, Italy; etc.
  
  
• Please visit the Productions page for a comprehensive list of CD Productions as sound engineer, producer and composer/arranger.
  
  
• Michele Gaggia has also been active as a professional web designer since 1999. Please visit the websites http://www.xenostyle.com and http://www.xenoplanet.com for more information and examples of his work.

• In 2001 he designed and realized together with the colleagues Iwan Pasuchin and Johannes Prischl the Mozarteum Medialab (http://www.medialab.moz.ac.at), which is considered one of the most advanced teaching facilities of this kind in Europe.
  
  
• He teached at the University for Music and dramatic Arts Mozarteum in Salzburg (http://moz.ac.at) from 1998 to 2009. He has been lecturer for "Sound Engineering", "DSP & Sound Design", "Synthesizer Programming", "Web Design", and "Video Editing".
  In 2002-2003 he has also been lecturer for these topics at the Universitätslehrgang Neue Medien (http://www.ulg-neue-medien.moz.ac.at).
  
  
• Michele Gaggia has been lecturer at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (http://www.fh-salzburg.ac.at) since 2002. He currently teaches "Music Production","Mix & Mastering" and "Auditive Gestaltung".

• Michele Gaggia has been playing keyboard instruments since the age of 5, got a Diploma in Organ and Composition at the "J. Tomadini" Conservatory of Music in Udine in 1988 and a Diploma (with hons.) in Harpsychord at the University Mozarteum in 1995 (with Prof. Kenneth Gilbert).
  
  
• He has followed harpsichord and organ masterclasses with Ton Koopman, Kenneth Gilbert, Harald Vogel, Françoise Gerard, and others.
  
  
• He has performed solo recitals and chamber music concerts in Italy, Germany, Austria and Holland; he collaborated with chamber music ensembles such as the Camerata Academica (Salzburg), the Salzburger Kammerphilharmonie, and others.
  
  
• Between 1985 and 1988 he studied intensively the music of J. S. Bach, with particular interest in his strict counterpoint forms as found in the Kunst der Fuge, the Goldberg Variations, the Musical Offering, and other compositions. According to Michele Gaggia, the most extraordinary aspect of Bach's canons was not their complexity, but Bach's ability to create music of such incredible beauty and emotional value, while observing the strict rules imposed by these forms of composition.
  
  
• To better understand the "secrets" hidden within Bach's masterpieces, he started composing in strict "baroque" style Il Gioco delle Perle, a series of canonic variations for organ, and other complex forms of choral and double-canon. In 1987 Il Gioco delle Perle was performed for the Norddeutsche Orgelakademie, with enthusiastic response from the press.
  
  
• Michele Gaggia started performing and programming analogue and digital synthesizer back in 1985; he has developed a large private library of synthesizer sounds and samples and is currently an expert in modern sound synthesis techniques. He performs live on synthesizers as well as on historic instruments.
  
  
• He has co-arranged and composed for a number of productions in different musical styles, including classic, jazz, pop-rock, techno, trance and avant-garde. See the CD Production page for more information.