Bad Sector

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Bad Sector is an ambient/noise project formed in 1992 in Tuscany, Italy by Massimo Magrini. While working at the Computer Art Lab of ISTI in Pisa (one of the CNR institutes), he developed original gesture interfaces that he uses in live performances: 'Aerial Painting Hand' (a device that tracks the position of the musician's hands in gloves of two different colors),{{cite web

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Bad Sector's music is considered a mixture of ambient, noise, industrial music, minimal and experimental music.[http://www.discogs.com/artist/Bad%20Sector Bad Sector]

Magrini himself describes it as "deeply emotional dark ambient noise".{{cite web| title= Bad Sector : info| url= http://www.bad-sector.com/bs/info.html| accessdate= 2008-11-11| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20081220130733/http://www.bad-sector.com/bs/info.html| archivedate= 20 December 2008| url-status= dead}} Common themes (as reflected in album and track titles) include microbiology, algorithms, physics, and space exploration.