Diego Stocco discovered music at the age of 6 when his parents, hoping to calm him down, gave him his first electronic keyboard. That might have backfired. ;-)
Equal parts sound design artist, composer and performer - Diego creates eclectic musical experiences with custom built instruments and experimental recording techniques. He loves discovering hidden sounds from organic sources, objects and materials, with an unorthodox musical curiosity that allows him to produce music with sounds that have never been heard before.
As a collaborator with Spectrasonics for over 20 years, Diego has become legendary for creating musically playable sounds out of ordinary objects like light bulbs, sampling a piano set on fire, building his own Custom Built Orchestra and many other imaginative contraptions.
His exploration for new sounds doesn't stop there. Diego has become well-known for extracting evocative sounds from unusual sources for his hugely popular Internet works "Music From Sand", "Music from a Tree" and "Music from a Bonsai" - where he's played organic sounding compositions out of actual trees, sand and compositions performed with his own custom built instruments like the "Experibass" and "Bassoforte". His internet videos of these pieces have gone viral and gained high profile features on CNN and Wired.com
As a composer, Stocco created Epic Score's "Epic Textures" series of libraries which have been licensed for many film trailers, as well as music for video games - including the score for “The Conduit". Thanks to his custom "Experibass", Diego attracted the attention of Oscar® Winner Composer Hans Zimmer - who loved it's pounding tonal grooves and featured him as one of the soloists on his score for "Sherlock Holmes".
Diego's limitless passion for creativity led him to the creation of is the Spectrasonic’s Sonic Extension Twisted Trees™, an extraordinarily creative new sonic world built entirely from wood and elements of nature. Many years in the making, Twisted Trees™ is designed specifically for dark cinematic production, offering a vast array of organic sounds with an earthy, natural quality. A creative tour-de-force, it delivers an endless experience of creative possibilities for composers and producers alike.