ROSSO MERDA is a multi-disciplined collective of anonymous individuals with members throughout Europe and the USA. The principle areas of interest to ROSSO MERDA are the contradictory relationships between music & noise, work, creation and decay, ownership, public performance and private actions. Anyone may record, perform or create works using the name ROSSO MERDA.

ROSSO MERDA originated in Italy circa 1981. The name was chosen at random from graffiti somewhere in the Piazza Barberini / Via Vittorio Veneto tourist area of Rome.