Cipriani completed his studies in music composition and electroacoustic music at the Conservatorio S.Cecilia in Rome. He studied for a time with Barry Truax. Since 1989 he has worked on intermedia pieces, often in collaboration with visual artist Alba D'Urbano. More recently he has composed electroacoustic pieces with traditional religious singers.

His works have received honors and/or have been selected for performance by government arts commissions, professional organizations and festival organizers including Bourges, Government of Canada Award, International Computer Music Conference, International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Musica Nova, Newcomp, etc.

He has taught electroacoustic music at the Ist. Mus. V. Bellini in Catania since 1995. He has lectured about his music and his theory of 'electroacoustic tradition' at several Universities in Italy, Canada and the U.S. He has published analytical and theoretical papers in several journals and has published the textbook "Virtual Sound", on sound synthesis and signal processing with Csound, in collaboration with R.Bianchini on ConTempo.

His CD "Il Pensiero Magmatico" in collaboration with StefanoTaglietti is available on the Edipan label. Other pieces can be found in the ICMC’95 and ICMC’99 Cds. A monographic Cd, "Al Nur", including all his works with oral tradition musicians, has just been been released on CNI Compagnia Nuove Indye. His music has been broadcast by RAI, CBC and other national radio networks as well as performed at festivals in Europe, Canada, China, South-America and the U.S.A.

He is one of the founding members of Edison Studio in Rome.

Al Nur