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Alessandro
MUSS NOCH ERSETZT WERDEN. Alessandro grew up as the younger of two children in the Five Lakes Region outside of Munich, Bavaria. His school-years cultivated a strong interest in the natural sciences, especially in the subject chemistry and its applications. In parallel Alessandro trained as a drummer from the age of 11, while starting his first band soon after. Together with school-friend & collaborator Julian on keys and three additional bandmates, the two young musicians ended up playing shows in the Munich-area throughout their high-school years.
Alessandro grew up as the younger of two children in the Five Lakes Region outside of Munich, Bavaria. His school-years cultivated a strong interest in the natural sciences, especially in the subject chemistry and its applications. In parallel Alessandro trained as a drummer from the age of 11, while starting his first band soon after. Together with school-friend & collaborator Julian on keys and three additional bandmates, the two young musicians ended up playing shows in the Munich-area throughout their high-school years.
After a graduation-break, Alessandro & Julian reconnected in 2014 to write, produce & engineer all IO Airwaves records to date. For these records Alessandro went on to shoot & edit music videos in Munich, Hong Kong & Berlin as part of his efforts to create accommodating IO Lightbeams.Alessandro earned a degree in Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück, finishing his studies with a research project at the Brain Networks Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford investigating the involvement of EEG-gamma-activity in the motor-cortex in movement-choice. Aside from Neuroscience, Alessandro’s academic focus was on the subjects philosophy of mind & artificial intelligence.The surprising compatibility of Alessandro’s artisitic & academic interests is manifest in his contributions in designing, building, transporting, installing & running the Burning Man sculpture OCULUS. After its playa-debut in Nevada, Alessandro replicated the sculpture in Berlin, bringing it to multiple showcases in the city as well as to the regional burn Nowhere in Aragon, Spain.
Through seeking support for the projection-mapping portion of OCULUS, Alessandro sought advice from Karlsruhe-based communication agency minality, who have deep expertise in highest-level event presentations, both in conceptual & technical contexts. Through this connection, Alessandro started working as the in-house technology & development design-engineer shortly after returning from the US.In quick succession Alessandro was awarded the scholarship of Berlin-Science-Startup (BSS) to support the berlin-based environmental startup regenmodule in their effort of creating rainwater-collecting urban furniture. Alessandro is responsible for creating the brand’s corporate identity in the physical & digital realm.The IO has been conceptualized throughout the entire process described above, starting with the first artist name of the first record GLOW by PLTO IO (now IO Alessandro). IO Everything was incorporated in June 2024 with its headquarters located in Berlin.
Alessandro’s role in IO Everything is currently best described as “lowest common denominator”. His focus lies on building IO Everything based on the principles he continues to discover during the conceptual, creative & technical phases of projects within currently every IO discipline.What drives Alessandro’s need to build IO Everything is the conviction, that well-structured intellectual, creative & technical environments impact not only the quality of the work being produced but ease production and facilitate more in-depth reception.Alessandro’s personal perspective on IO Everything is best represented by the observation of the self & the world being one and the same entity, which is represented by the rotating torus shaping IO from a single three-dimensional object. This stance allows the collapse of question & answer, creator & creation, problem & solution and self & other into a single entity that promotes recognition as the ain mode for discovery.