ALESSANDRO CIPRIANI co-authored "Virtual Sound", a textbook on Csound programming. His compositions have been performed at major festivals and electronic music venues, and released on CDs and DVDs issued by Computer Music Journal, International Computer Music Conference as well as others. He has written music for the Peking Opera Theater, as well as for films and documentaries in which ambient sound, dialog, and music all fuse together, interchangeably. He is a tenured professor in electronic music at the Conservatory of Frosinone, a founding member of the Edison Studio in Rome, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Organised Sound (published by Cambridge Music Press). He has given seminars at many European and American universities, including the University of California - Santa Barbara, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and Accademia di S. Cecilia in Rome.