Steve Piccolo is from New York, but he also lives and works in Italy. He studied at Bard College and New York University, and has been active as a musician, composer, performer and artist since 1975. He used to be a musician whose “hobby” was field recordings and sound art. Now he's practically a sound artist and recordist whose “hobby” is music, a situation that probably reflects industrial and market dynamics more than any real change in his interests and activities. He was one of the founding members of the Lounge Lizards in New York in the late 1970s-early 1980s. He has done soundtracks for many videos by internationally acclaimed artists and many publicly and privately commissioned sound art installations. He teaches "sound design" in art academies, curates the "sound of art" pages for Undo.net and writes a monthly column in the Italian magazine "InSound".