Born in Rome in 1959, he started working in radio stations in 1976, at the birth of the pirate/private radio movement in Italy. In the 80s he worked for a number of local stations, developing more and more uncommon formats until he started collaborating with AudioBox, the Radio Art broadcast of Rai (the national radio of Italy) where he worked as a producer and artist for five years. Meanwhile he worked as a professional Dj (1982 - 1988) and was briefly involved in the very first hip hop movement in Rome. In 1989 he took the stage with RadioMantra, an electronic radio show with Tape recorders, PC and samplers on stage. Within this set (that was performed over 150 times in two years both in Italy and Europe) in 1990 he wrote and recorded RadioGladio, a "no copyright" song/message aimed at american audiences. It was distribuited for free in 400 master cassettes, inviting people to duplicate it.

It was a hit, Frank Zappa praised it in an interview, and radio stations worldwide picked it up (you can download it here). Several compilations featured RadioGladio, and it was put under copyright only after a struggle with the industry's dark side (but it's still available for free). Meanwhile SM kept two lines of production (an [almost] complete list of music and audio works is available here), making radio art mainly in Austria (with Kunstradio, throughout the 90s until today - you can sample it here) and more musical (and often political) material in Italy. in 1992 he produced Curre Curre Guagliò, the first album by neapolitan Reggae/Hip Hop band 99 Posse (over 150.000 copies sold). He published his own first album in '93, La vendetta del Mulino Bianco (whose title, graphic design and lyrics infringed the © of the most popular italian biscuit brand) and another in '96, Inaudito, under the name of Buddha Stick. This CD (which sold out the 2000 copies printed in less than a year) has been available in Mp3 since july 1997: it's perhaps the first commercial albums legitimately distribuited online.

In 1996 he started writing a personal column in the monthly music magazine Rumore, Mini Minor (still ongoing with the name Banda Larga). In 1999 he created the (now closed) Radio Lilliput website, a resource for the rights of digital users that also gave "public access" to anyone that wanted to broadcast online; at the same time he started taking a public stand on many political/technological issues. In 2000 he was invited at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz Austria, both as a musician (there is an album that documents that project, coordinated by Alexander Balanescu) and as a partecipant to the symposium with his talk (and installation) about Realcore, the digital porno revolution. Between '98 and 2002 he has been  author and live musician in the first italian tv show about technology, Mediamente, and in 2001 he started teaching Multimedia and Copyright in various universities and other Italian institutions. He has also been strategy consultant for several commercial and artists' websites, including Elio e le Storie Tese and Casino Royale. From 2003 to 2009 he wrote extensively (about Porn and Technology) for the italian edition of Rolling Stone. In 2005 he was invited by the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan to devise and implement a three year Sound Design school. In the same year he revamped his Realcore live show (a talk with 100 porno pistures), successfully performing in clubs, art galleries, festivals and academic institutions all over Europe and USA, where he's been visiting artist and full faculty at the School of Photography of the Art Institute of Chicago in the spring 2009 semester (see classes descriptions). The Realcore research also generated a photo exhibition, La Rivoluzione Siamo Noi (2008/2012, several venues, and a personal show at Nowhere Gallery in Milan).

In dec. 2010 his first book came out, Real Sex, Alt porn is the new Rock'n'roll (in italian, published by Tunué). In 2011 he joins forces with  Painé Cuadrelli to form the duo Soslo. They published three albums (Soslo I, 2011, Adagio, 2011, Ameno 2016) for the label Compl8. In 2017 he was invited to give a  master lecture (on his research on amateur pornography) at the international congress El Cuerpo Descifrado in Queretaro, Mexico. In 2019 the EP Music For Uplifting Gormandizers came out (Hell Yeah Recordings). Presently he writes, teaches Sound Design and Cultural Anthropology at IED in Milan, and works on his art practice and music in the hills of southern Lombardy, his new home since 2018. His new album Sensual Musicology came out in 2022.