Walter Branchi

Walter Branchi is an Italian composer of electronic music, born in Rome in 1941. He played in the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza and co-founded the Roman electronic studio Studio R7 with Franco Evangelisti and Domenico Guaccero. His later music rests on an ecological idea of sound and its surroundings, and he is also a specialist in old roses, which he links to his music. Branchi has taught electronic music at Italian conservatories, and in 1977 he published the book Tecnologia della musica elettronica.