Urkuma is Stefano De Santis, born in the south-east of Italy in  salento-finisterrae region. Starting from writing for theatre (the name of urkuma's site "www.sanfocahotel.com" is the title of a surrealistic plot about the problem of refugees), he developed a personal way to express his theatrical texts in sound.
The word "urkuma" is an idiomatic _expression of his salento-region: urkuma is the opposite of buddhist-nirvana's concept and it-he-she is entropic-anarchic-heterogeneous.
Playing live urkuma usually uses laptop, small electronic devices, clarinette, effects, vocal, selfmade instruments, tapes, feedback-boxes and everything is possible to rape.

website

releases((here selection only):
 "misophonia"  (for Mik_Musik (Poland)  www.mikmusik.org)
  "onomatopoeic cigarettes"    (for Chmafu_Nocords (Austria)  www.nocords.net )
 "a cricket in the river" ( per Neus318 (Japan)  http://www.neus318.com)
  "embedded" ( for Detterent (Canada)  http://deterrent.net/ )
 "sonic scope 04" ( for Grain Of  Sound (Portugal)  www.grainofsound.com/)

exhibitions (here selection only):
WienModern 03, Wien
Raster Gallery , Warsaw
Next Festival 03, Bratislava
transart 04, South Tirol
Stazione Topolò (Ita-Udine) 04,05
CCC Bern (CH)