# Bad Sector

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This article is about the ambient/noise music project. For the hard drive fault, see **Bad sector**.

**Bad Sector** is an [ambient](/source/Ambient_music)/[noise](/source/Noise_music) project formed in 1992 in [Tuscany](/source/Tuscany), [Italy](/source/Italy) by [Massimo Magrini](/source/Massimo_Magrini). While working at the Computer Art Lab of [ISTI](/source/ISTI) in Pisa (one of the [CNR](/source/Consiglio_Nazionale_delle_Ricerche) institutes), he developed original [gesture interfaces](/source/Gesture_interface) 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),[1] 'UV-Stick' (an [ultraviolet](/source/Ultraviolet)-illuminated stick that the musician moves in front of the camera—a computer reads its position and angle and makes changes to music generation algorithms accordingly),[2] and others.

Bad Sector's music is considered a mixture of [ambient](/source/Ambient_music), [noise](/source/Noise_music), [industrial music](/source/Industrial_music), [minimal](/source/Minimal_music) and [experimental](/source/Experimental_music) music.[3] Magrini himself describes it as "deeply emotional [dark ambient](/source/Dark_ambient) noise".[4] Common themes (as reflected in album and track titles) include microbiology, algorithms, physics, and space exploration.

## See also

- [List of ambient music artists](/source/List_of_ambient_music_artists)

## References

1. ["Orizzonte degli eventi"](http://music.columbia.edu/fest99/events/orizzonte.html). Retrieved 2008-11-11.

1. Tarabella, Leonello & Bertini, Graziano, ["Original gesture interfaces for live interactive multimedia performances"](https://web.archive.org/web/20051012200929/http://www.grame.fr/jim97/proc/Tarabella.ps), archived from [the original](http://www.grame.fr/jim97/proc/Tarabella.ps) on 2005-10-12, retrieved 2008-11-11

1. [Bad Sector](http://www.discogs.com/artist/Bad%20Sector)

1. ["Bad Sector : info"](https://web.archive.org/web/20081220130733/http://www.bad-sector.com/bs/info.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.bad-sector.com/bs/info.html) on 20 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-11.

## External links

- [Bad Sector official website](http://www.bad-sector.com/)
- [Facebook Page](http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bad-Sector/67220234509)
- [Bad Sector](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/5385e21a-7714-4b04-8b69-fb5004e62462.html) at [Musicbrainz](/source/Musicbrainz)
- [Bad Sector](http://www.discogs.com/artist/Bad+Sector) at [discogs.com](/source/Discogs.com)

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