MARCO FAGOTTI is an Italian composer, musician, sound designer, and producer. He began studying piano at a very young age and discovered the creative possibilities of electronic sounds at just fourteen years old, becoming instantly fascinated by them.

After forming several bands (Atom, Clinic, Velasco, Luxluna) and playing so-called alternative rock, in the early 1990s, he approached experimental music by working with Giulio Clementi, who introduced him to computer-controlled composition techniques. He became one of the first musicians in Italy to use computers for live concerts, as well as for composing and recording original music. It was during this time that he began composing his first theater soundtracks, using music software that allowed him to easily integrate environmental sound elements into his recordings a feature that would become a hallmark of much of his work.

In 2002, he founded ANOMOLO, the first no-copyright net-label in Europe, which he led until 2009. This venture brought him to collaborate with Gilberto Gil's ministerial working group and to engage with the international music industry and copyright law in the internet age.

After writing for theater, scoring radio dramas, and releasing three albums with the band LUXLUNA, he began composing soundtracks for cinema, collaborating with national and international directors and with producer Donald K. Ranvaud (Farewell My Concubine, City of God, The Constant Gardener). Fascinated by research on the transformative power of sound and its relationship with other expressive languages, he first created AFFABULAZIONI, instant musical narratives that use improvisation and spontaneous interaction with the audience (he performed over 60 of these across Italy and abroad in three years). He later developed TRIP - Trance Through Music, an experimental hexa-phonic concert-installation controlled in real-time by computer. His interest in multidisciplinary artistic work also led him to collaborate with contemporary dance, interfacing his musical and narrative experiments with body movement.

In 2019, for the Pesaro Film Festival, he created the live performance ONDA, NEL COSMO DELL'OCCHIO in collaboration with the collective La Camera Ardente and 32 filmmakers from around the world. In the same year, he began writing what he considers one of his most complex and complete works, SACRALE, which he performed primarily in places of worship, creating deeply emotionally engaging experiences (a memorable performance was held at the Cremation Temple of Parma in 2022).

In 2021, he wrote, scored, and performed CONFESSIONI DI UN POVERO DIAVOLO, returning to total improvisation between theater and music in a fiery live-streamed performance broadcast in binaural sound.

In 2024, he resumed writing for theater and cinema while also working on his own productions. In 2025, together with cellist Jacopo Matia Mariotti, he officially launched LIMINAL, a sound research project, and debuted Q, a project unveiled in 2025.

Some of his major works can be heard on all major streaming platforms and on this website in the ARCHIVE section.