Bad Sector is an ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

/noise

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

 project formed in 1992 in Tuscany

Tuscany

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, Italy

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 by Massimo Magrini. While working at the Computer Art Lab of ISTI in Pisa (one of the CNR

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

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 institutes), he developed original gesture interfaces that he uses in live performances: 'Aerial Painting Hand' (a device that tracks the position of the musician's hands in gloves of two different colors), 'UV-Stick' (an ultraviolet

Ultraviolet

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-illuminated stick that the musician moves in front of the camera—a computer reads its position and angle and makes changes to music generation algorithms accordingly),, and others.

Bad Sector's music is considered a mixture of ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

, noise

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

, minimal and experimental

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

 music .
Magrini himself describes it as "deeply emotional dark ambient

Dark ambient

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 noise". Common themes (as reflected in album and track titles) include microbiology, algorithms, physics, and space exploration.

External links

• Bad Sector official website
• Bad Sector at last.fm
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• Bad Sector at Musicbrainz
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• Bad Sector at discogs.com