Maurizio Giri is Professor of composition and teaches programming techniques at the Conservatories of Latina and Frosinone. He has written instrumental and electroacoustic music. He is currently involved in electronic music and new technologies applied to digital sound processing, improvisation and music composition. He has written software for electroacoustic improvisation and live electronics. He founded Amazing Noises, a software house that develops music applications and plug-ins for mobile devices and computers, and is a partner of Ableton. He has published tutorials on Max in professional journals. He has been a resident artist in Paris (Cité Internationale des Arts) and Lyon (GRAME), where he developed a software for sound spatialization and processing, called Hyperspace. He collaborated with the Institut Nicod at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris on a project on the philosophy of sound. He is co-founder of the publishing house ConTempoNet and co-edited of the book The Virtual Sound (1999/2001, ConTempo Editions) with a text on the Max/MSP program.