KTONIOS is the current artistic research and musical project of Davide Ghelli Santuliana, that translates the folk music from Southern Italy into a swarm of noise, industrial sounds, techno, acid melodies, reverberating loops and ambient digressions.
The artist uses a combination of control instruments and loopers coded with the software Max/MSP, together with modular synthesisers; this allow him to manipulated repeating loops in real-time and produce generative sequences of music that slowly evolve over time, creating a trance-inducing soundscape.
KTONIOS live sets are always improvised and recently he has been collaborating with AV artist Cem Altınöz to produce audiovisual performances.
Ktonios' performances have taken places, among others, at Paviljoen aan Het Water (Rotterdam), Open Oscillator (Amsterdam), Koffie en Ambacht (Rotterdam), Butcher's Tears (Amsterdam), Time Window (Rotterdam), The Grey Space in The Middle (Den Haag), Grond Bajesdorp (Amsterdam) and 4bid Gallery (Amsterdam).