Adrian Clemens Di Ruscio is a Norwegian composer, violinist and violaist. He lives and works in Oslo, Norway, with his wife, Camilla Henrikke Esp Di Ruscio. He was born on the 2nd of July, 1981 in Oslo, Norway, as the youngest son of Mary Sandberg Di Ruscio and the Italian writer and poet Luigi Di Ruscio. His list of works consists of music for solo instruments, vocal, chamber, orchestral music and Electro Acoustics. Efforts to catalog his large output, which accounts for more than 100 works, most of them written in 1998-2004, are now underway and will be published through Music Information Centre Norway.Di Ruscio's musical material is derived from a number of sources; algorithmic composition, (pseudo)- random choice, serial organisation of pitch with quarter tones, harmonic multiplication and frequency-based compositional techniques. In addition to strong musical influences from the second Viennese school: Boulez, Barraque, Nono, Ferneyhough - poetry, literature and philosophy have a major influence on Di Ruscio’s music. Of poets and philosophers who have influenced his thinking and music, can be mentioned Lucrets (and thus Epicurus) Marx (and thus Hegel), Bertold Brecht, Paul Celan, Frankfurt School (especially Adorno‘s Aesthetic Theory, and Walter Benjamin's thesis about creating an art, if aesthetics is useless for fascist purposes.) The list may be longer, but will contain few Norwegian names; the most important include Georg Johannesen. In a system where humanity is an exception, and the population is held down by the entertainment industry's propaganda machine, art and music have lean conditions. Nevertheless, it's important to write music and create art, even if the music only reaches one single person, as a documentation of humanity, and as a medium to break through the veil of lethargy and ignorance.