![]() ![]() I meet Senni in his basement studio in Milan-he spends the entire day in his cave surrounded by cables, synthesizers, posters of punk bands, flags, and various music-related paraphernalia that indicate that he comes from a hardcore punk background. ![]() All the while, he’s distributed his works in the commercial realm, as if the two arenas were almost complementary, if not identical. He’s coined terms like “Rave Voyeurism” and “Pointillistic Trance,” played in museums and art institutions, and positioned his work as that of a composer. After signing with Warp Records in 2016, Lorenzo Senni became one of the regular names you’d see at big festivals and international venues, and has never compromised the ideas that guide his music. He’s a musician whose conceptual drive has not prevented him from conquering the experimental and the mainstream music scenes. I couldn’t be happier to have a special guest for this episode of Runway Music, someone who, I think, perfectly embodies the character of the impulsive intellectual. This person blends the high with the low while making their ideas clear and communicable-no matter how articulated or sophisticated they are. ![]() A class-defying, status-bending public figure whose conceptual activity is driven by pure instinct rather than premeditation and over-thinking. Although it seems that everyone is skeptical of ideas in Milan, we have developed, I think, a very peculiar type of intellectual that probably can’t exist anywhere else. ![]()
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