Imaginary Questionnaire
(or how I would have answered the following questions if I had been asked)

How would you define and describe your music?

a) General features
Improvised-Structured > Simple-Complex > Acoustic-Electric > Regular-Irregular > Motional-Monotonous > Soft-Hard > Chaotic-Disciplined > Noisemaking-Melodic > Linear-Stratified > Transparent-Impenetrable > Patient-Impulsive > Light-Thoughtful > Floating > Curious > Alive

b) Main criteria
Once you've entered, you have no chances of return

c) Aspirations
Turn away the public and the critics, frighten women and children > Give up money > Be persecuted > Stop playing

d) Specifications
It aims at the essential > It is aware of being «that-stuff-you-don't-understand-nothing» > It requires a lot of work but it is not a "job" > It has learnt to wait > It's stick and tired of waiting > It looks ahead

e) Influences (and correspondences)
My beloved ones, the musicians and the artists I have been playing with and...

- Ornette Coleman
- Luis Buñuel
- Frank Zappa
- John Cage
- Anton Webern
- Art Ensemble of Chicago
- Beatles
- Sun Ra
- Anthony Braxton
- Stanley Kubrick
- Eric Satie
- Charles Mingus
- Enzo Jannacci
- Eric Dolphy
- Edgar Varèse
- Peter Sellers
- Vasilij Kandinskij
- Donald Duck
- Dario Fo
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Paul Klee
- Stephen King
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk
- Umberto Eco
- Thelonious Monk
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Easy Rider
- Igor Stravinsky
- Roscoe Mitchell
- Misha Mengelberg
- Steve Lacy
- Fluxus
- Sherlock Holmes
- Georges Simenon
- Monty Python
- Woodstock
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Reiser
- Robert Altman
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Dracula
- Alberto Sordi
- Robert Johnson
- Derek Bailey
- Joan Mirò
- Eugene Ionesco
- Cornell Woolrich
- Lucio Battisti
- Walter Matthau
- Jimmy Lyons
- Joni Mitchell
- John Coltrane
- Laurel & Hardy
- Frankenstein
- Billy Wilder
- Tadeusz Kantor
- Miles Davis
- Kurt Weill
- The Twilight Zone
- Sergio Leone
- Charlie Parker
- Woody Allen
- Wounded Knee
- Wile E. Coyote
- Cochi e Renato
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hide
- Sonny Rollins
- György Ligeti
- Roland Topor
- Charles Ives
- Andy Warhol
- Federico Fellini
- Duke Ellington
- Mario Corso
- François Truffaut
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Philip K. Dick
- Dada
- Lebowski
- Giacinto Scelsi
- Pink Floyd
- Nino Rota
- Akira Kurosawa
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Marcel Duchamp
- Nikola Tesla
- AMM
- Luciano Berio
- Roman Polanski
- David Toop
- The Blues Brothers
- William Burroughs
- Escher
- Steve Reich
- Martin Scorsese
- Mel Brooks
- Frank Sinatra
- Iannis Xenakis
- Ugo Tognazzi
- Nam June Paik
- Bob Dylan
- Jack Kerouac
- Fabrizio De Andrè
- ICP Orchestra
- Bruno Munari
- Man Ray
- Ray Charles
- Jackson Pollock
- Marco Ferreri
- Robert Wyatt
- Roger Corman
- Jimi Hendrix
- Glenn Gould
- Skip James
- Pierre Schaeffer
- John Carpenter
- Wendy Carlos
- Otomo Yoshihide
- John Fahey
- Dylan Dog
- Raymond Carver
- Quentin Tarantino
- Morton Feldman
- Giorgio Gaber
- Cecil Taylor
- The Avengers
- Billie Holiday
- Clint Eastwood
- Krautrock
- John Lee Hooker
- Bill Bryson
- Wim Wenders
- Alan Ford
- Evan Parker
- James Ellroy
- The Simpsons
- Company
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Bruno Bozzetto
- Henry Mancini
- Totò
- Alan Lomax
- Brian Eno
- FMP
- Alvin Curran
- Jim Jarmush
- Brotherhood of Breath
- Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo
- Raymond Scott
- Tristan Honsinger
- Mike Westbrook
- Michel Waisvisz
- John Belushi
- Mario Monicelli
- Pan Sonic
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Harry Partch
- David Lynch
- Cassiber
- Coen Brothers
- Terry Riley
- Don Cherry
- Gong
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic

...and many others