Members
Ernesto Romeo  Francisco Nicosia  Lucas Romeo

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1968. He studied synthesizer programming, electroacoustic means, and computing musical applications, piano, harmony, and composition.

In 1988, he created the electronic music band Klauss recording the albums “Anthology 1994-2004”, “Perfect Metals”, and “Moving Skies” and he participated in several national and international compilations.

Klauss performed several concerts in the main stages of the city of Buenos Aires, the most important of which being those at Recoleta Cultural Centre, the Municipal Theatre, and the General San Martín Cultural Centre, Modern Art Museum, Espacio Cultural Babilonia, La Trastienda (together with the English band Stereolab), Club del Vino, Templum, Club Oval, La Cigale, etc.. Klauss also gave concerts at Centro Cultural L´Avenc and Sala El Cadí (Barcelona, Spain), Brooklyn Lyceum and On Air (New York, USA), Pachamama (Montevideo, Uruguay) and La Boca del Lobo, Amargord and Marula Café (Madrid, Spain) as well as in national and international radios, television and web sites and outstanding festivals (International Festival of Video and Electronic Arts F.I.V., ´96, Buenos Aires International Hot Festival, Rio de la Plata Electromusicians Festival at Montevideo, Uruguay, First Latin American Meeting on Electronic and Industrial Sounds in Bogotá, Colombia, etc.).

With the historical progressive rock band Espíritu he recorded albums such as “Fronteras Mágicas” (Magic Frontiers) (presented at the Teatro N/D Ateneo, Teatro Santa María and the Recoleta Cultural Centre) and “En Vivo, 2004”.

As a member of the group Pez he recorded “Folklore” and “Para las Almas Sensibles” (“For Sensitive Souls”) (live) and he made concerts at the Teatro N/D Ateneo, La Trastienda, Niceto, Teatro Alvear, Palais de Glace, Roxy, Teatro Plaza (Montevideo), and in festivals such as Quilmes Rock, Cosquin Rock, and Corrientes Alterna.

With the band of Carla Pugliese, he recorded “Ojos Verdes Cerrados” (Closed Green Eyes), “Eléctrica y Porteña”, he participated of the Japan Tour “Tango Venus” in 2004 where they recorded the live album “La Vida y la Tempestad” (Life and Tempest) (winner of the Carlos Gardel award, tango revelation, 2006) and they gave performances in Buenos Aires at the Borges Cultural Centre, Clásica y Moderna, Cooperation Cultural Centre, YMCA, Alliance Francaise, etc.

He is part of the techno project 1984 together with Pablo Leocata. With the duo Marienbad, with María Castel, he gave a performance at the Modern Art Museum, Espacio Giesso, La Cigalle, etc. and took part in the albums “Fuga Externa” (“External Escape”) and “Cerca de la Revolución” (“Close to Revolution”). He was also part of Eser System with Eduardo Sormani and Ache with Ricardo Ache.

He made recordings and arrangements (with Andrés Linetsky and Carla Pugliese) for the album “TangoNuevo”, with the participation of Leopoldo Federico, Ramiro Gallo, Oscar Ferrari, Klauss, etc.

He has also made recordings with Babasónicos (albums “Jessico” and “Infame”), Cinerama, Giradioses, Estupendo, Medusa, No demuestra Interés (NDI), Jaime Sin Tierra, Mauma, Hiperimpulso, etc.

He participated as guest artist in concerts of Los Natas (Teatro N/D Ateneo, Niceto), Medeski Martin & Wood (Teatro Gran Rex), Oumm (Recoleta Cultural Centre), Jorge Haro (El Living), Giradioses (La Luna), Luis Marte (Modern Art Museum, La Cigale), etc.

His electroacoustic plays “Estática” (Statics) (for violin and synthesizers) and “Vairumati” (for synthesizers and digital images) which they played live for the first time at the Festivales Sonoimágenes organized by the Universidad Nacional de Lanús in 2003 and 2006.

He composed and interpreted electronic music live for different events among which the most outstanding are the theatre works “Esperanto”, by Marielouise Alemann (Cemento), “Almas Examinadas” by La Organización Negra (Teatros San Martín and La Plaza), “El Vuelo de la Caída” by Diego Starosta and Enrique Carpintero (Centro Cultural Rojas and Limbo Teatros), “Memoria Ciega” by La Raza (Bs.As. News, R. Rojas Cultural Centre, Electric Circus), etc. and several multimedia performances.

He composed soundtracks for short films of Silvina Cafici (awarded with prizes at the Iberoamerican Cultural Institute festival and Video-Minute of France), for TV programmes and for prominent plastic art exhibitions (at Mun, Babilonia, Recoleta Cultural Centre, Parakultural, Silvia Vesco Gallery, etc.). In 1992, he composed the original music (performed at L.I.P.M.) for the exhibition “Fifteen years´resistance of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo” at the Recolecta Cultural Centre.

He has a chair at the career Electronic Arts of the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, he is a coordinator, teacher and co-author of the syllabus of the career Electroacoustics Arts of the Instituto de Tecnología O.R.T. and teaches Musical Production at the Escuela Técnica O.R.T.

Since 1989, he has been teaching synthesis and programming of synthesizers and electronic instruments and musical applications of computers at his own lab.

He has given courses, seminars (organized by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires) and special classes at the San Martín Cultural Centre, Escuela Sónica, Goethe Institut, Rojas Cultural Centre, Borges Cultural Centre, INARTEC, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, and O.R.T. and Santa Ana schools.