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Selected press
“Austere, unsettling, and intellectually rigorous.”
“It’s overwhelming in the best possible way.”
“A beautifully crafted and delicately constructed work.”
“Un atto d’amore per l’elettroacustica.”“An act of love for electroacoustic music.”
“This band knows how to clothe its drone in drama.”
« De plus en plus hanté […] et de plus en plus incantatoire. »“Ever more haunted […] and ever more incantatory.”
“Un occultismo psichedelico che insegue l’orrore.”“A psychedelic occultism chasing horror.”
“Architeuthis Rex, sono un nome su cui puntare.”“Architeuthis Rex are a name to bet on.”
“A fantastic exploration of concept and sound.”
“All in all a fantastic album.”
- — Blow Up, magazine, issue 335 — Hope for Nothingness as Something (2026)
- — Blow Up, magazine, issue 216 — Architeuthis Rex, Stilbon Is Dead (2016)
- — Joyful Union Cassette Resource, review — Hope for Nothingness as Something (2026)
- — Son of Marketing, album stream — Hope for Nothingness as Something (2026)
- — unruhr, review — Architeuthis Rex, Stilbon Is Dead (2016)
- — The New Noise, review — Architeuthis Rex, Eleusis (2013)
- — Don't Count On It Reviews, review — Architeuthis Rex, Eleusis (2013)
- — The New Noise, “Di tentacoli e abissi…” — in-depth feature on the Architeuthis Rex discography, with an interview with Antonio Gallucci and Francesca Marongiu (in Italian)
- — rovr.live, “The Weight of Atmosphere” by Leena Lee · Hope for Nothingness as Something
- — Fango Radio, “TAPE IN” by Gianmaria Aprile · Hope for Nothingness as Something
Selected mastering credits
More than fifty releases mastered for other artists and labels.
- — Rune Clausen / Mads Henning Jensen / V_DL · Made from Ashes (Grubenwehr Freiburg, 2026)
- — Machinefabriek · Samen (self-released, 2026)
- — Francesca Marongiu · Still Forms in Air (Umor Rex, 2025)
- — Various · Cohesion — We Stand Together for the People of Ukraine (Midira Records, 2022)
- — Otto Lindholm & Jean D.L. · Apophenia (Midira Records, 2021)
- — Jarmo Huhta · Midair (Midira Records, 2020)
- — SabaSaba · Metabasi (Maple Death Records, 2020)
- — Machinefabriek · Zinder (Nomad Exquisite, 2019)
- — Gareth Davis & Duane Pitre · Nótt (Midira Records, 2019)
- — øjeRum · 7 Sjæle (Midira Records, 2019)
- — Daniel W J Mackenzie & Richard A Ingram · Half Death (Midira Records, 2019)
- — Giulio Aldinucci and The Star Pillow · Hidden (Midira Records, 2018)
- — The Star Pillow · Symphony for an Intergalactic Brotherhood (Boring Machines, 2018)
- — Christoph De Babalon · Live at Dance Affliction (Dance Affliction, 2017)
- — Weightausend · Went Berserk (Haunter Records, 2017)
- — Anton Mobin & Takanobu Hoshino · Innsbroke / Primitive Future (Observatoire, 2016)
- — Lee Noble · Darker Half (Black Moss, 2012)
Biographies
Short biography · English
Antonio Gallucci is an Italian electroacoustic composer and sound designer based in Pistoia. His work spans modular and FM synthesis, drone, acousmatic and generative composition, and sound design for museum exhibitions. He has released music on Utech Records, Midira Records and Dinzu Artefacts, and collects his long-form works in the Sheffer Stroke archive.
Medium biography · English
Antonio Gallucci is an Italian composer, sound designer and sound engineer based in Pistoia, where he runs Mercurial Studio. His music moves between electroacoustic research, modular and FM synthesis, ambient-drone and generative systems. Active in the experimental underground with throuRoof and Architeuthis Rex (Utech Records, Midira Records), he composes sound environments for museum exhibitions in Solofra, Sassari and Matera, and has mastered more than fifty releases for labels such as Midira Records and Haunter Records. His 2026 album Hope for Nothingness as Something (Dinzu Artefacts) was reviewed by A Closer Listen, Foxy Digitalis, IGLOO Magazine and Blow Up.
Images
Exhibitions & labels
- — 2024 · A cì appartjn? Vicinati. Etnografie di oggetti · Musei nazionali di Matera
- — 2023 · La forma dell’oro. Storie di gioielli dall’Italia antica · Museo Nazionale G. A. Sanna, Sassari
- — 2021 · Archaeological section · Museo Civico Città di Solofra
- — Dinzu Artefacts (Los Angeles) · Midira Records (Germany) · Utech Records (USA) · Sturmundrugs Records · Sheffer Stroke