Multimedia artist, electroacoustic composer, researcher, lecturer
I compose with sound, write code, teach how to listen. Technology is a tool for composition, teaching and research: from data sonification to Progressive Web Apps, from computer music to intangible sound heritage, all the way to artificial intelligence applied to the humanities.
About
I teach, compose and conduct research across conservatories, fine arts academies and universities.
Conservatorio G.B. Martini, Bologna
Lecturer in Ear Training for Sound Technique
Accademia di Belle Arti, Macerata
Lecturer in Sound Space Design
Multimedia Performance Processes and Techniques
Accademia di Belle Arti, Catania
Lecturer in Interaction Design
UNIMORE, Modena e Reggio Emilia
Scientific collaborator, PNRR ITSERR project
Generative AI and LLMs applied to the humanities. Development of PWAs for cultural heritage research.
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Guidance expert
PNRR "Orienta-Menti" project
Research
Five active research strands on composition, sonification, cultural heritage and sound pedagogy. Each line produces scientific contributions, works and public tools.
UNIMORE / FSCIRE / ITSERR, PNRR
Research on the transformation of religious textual corpora into composable sonic material through generative AI, semantic analysis and audio synthesis. Explores the relationship between sacred word, computational reading and critical listening.
Personal research, open source
A computational pipeline for soundscape analysis combining technical metrics (LUFS, spectrum, Schafer bands), ecoacoustic indices (ACI, NDSI, BI, ADI / AEI, H), semantic classification and critical narrative. Dialogues with the vocabulary of Schaeffer, Smalley, Schafer, Krause, Chion, and with the gold standards of musique concrète and acousmatique.
ESA Frascati 2026 / Master in Sonic Arts, University of Rome Tor Vergata
An interactive audiovisual composition that sonifies Copernicus satellite imagery and climate data from 1950 to today (temperature, CO₂, Arctic ice, sea level). Granular synthesis, harmonic drones, Schumann resonance at 7.83 Hz, GLSL shaders. Five execution modes, from browser fruition to live performance.
Villa Ficana Ecomuseum, Macerata - OZ Association - Marche Region
Documentation, restitution and composition of the soundscape of the rammed-earth village. From the February 2026 sound mapping workshop emerged a georeferenced audio archive, two PWAs for the public fruition of the sound heritage and a network of contributions from local communities. A research practice between ethnomusicology, ear training and intangible heritage.
G.B. Martini Conservatory of Bologna - Academies of Fine Arts of Macerata and Catania
Pedagogical research and development of teaching tools for ear training, electroacoustic composition and interaction design. I bring the teaching PWAs into the courses I teach as experimentation materials, where they become research artefacts in dialogue with Italian higher arts education (AFAM).
Publications
Essays, technical handbooks and contributions to scientific contexts on electroacoustic composition, ecoacoustics and sonification.
Methodology paper on the Soundscape Annotation project, conducted at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata, A.Y. 2025-2026. Describes an iterative six-stage workflow for soundscape annotation and analysis in AFAM higher-education teaching, formalises three open-source software artefacts (Python skill <em>soundscape-audio-analysis</em>, companion PWA <em>soundscape-annotation-atelier</em>, first-hand PDF worksheet) and documents an end-to-end validation case study. Published on Zenodo, CC BY 4.0. DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20282496" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10.5281/zenodo.20282496</a>.
Talk at the ITSERR / RESILIENCE Superseminar 2026 on the sonification of sacred texts, presented within the collaboration with UNIMORE / FSCIRE / ITSERR (PNRR). Investigates the translation of text into sound as a practice of computational reading and critical listening.
A study on contemporary sound art with an analysis of John Heineman's work for the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. Cited by the Isabella Scelsi Foundation.
ISBN 978 0244 56039 3
A technical handbook on professional audio, field recording techniques and the principles of acoustics applied to sound recording.
ISBN 978 0244 26028 6
PWA works
Progressive Web Apps for listening, research and teaching.
Sonification of Copernicus satellite imagery and climate data 1950-2025. Five execution modes, granular synthesis, Schumann resonance.
ESA Frascati 2026 - Tor Vergata Master in Sonic Arts
Open the work → Spiritual heritageAI analysis of sacred texts from the main religious traditions, force-directed graph of conceptual connections, sonification of the extracted data.
ITSERR / UNIMORE / FSCIRE, PNRR
Open the work → Spiritual heritageOver 60 radio stations from 10 spiritual traditions worldwide, interactive map, comparative AI explorer. From textual analysis to sonic immersion.
Open the work → Intangible heritageGamified PWA for the sound heritage of the rammed-earth village. Eight narrative chapters, geographical mixer, field recording missions.
Villa Ficana Ecomuseum, Macerata - OZ Association - Marche Region
Open the work → Ear training researchA complete toolkit for teaching field recording: 319 exercises, georeferenced interactive map, 20 Hz - 10 kHz spectrogram, multi-format export.
G.B. Martini Conservatory of Bologna - Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata
Open the work → Ear training researchInteractive musical acoustics: seven Sound Explorer stations, real-time spectrogram, 200 quizzes, AI mentor. In use across musicology and sound design courses.
G.B. Martini Conservatory of Bologna - Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata
Open the work → Electroacoustic compositionGenerative algorithmic composition with 91 world scales, 28 chord types, nine synthesis engines, accelerometer control, synchronised p5.js visuals.
Open the work → Electroacoustic compositionInteractive audiovisual installation, a reinterpretation of John Heineman's conceptual work (1973). Spectral analysis turned into colour, Markov generator, computer vision.
Tor Vergata, Master in Sonic Arts
Open the work → Higher arts education (AFAM)Teaching platform for the Interaction Design course. Thematic modules, practical exercises, curated resources, mobile-first, offline-ready.
Academy of Fine Arts of Catania
Open the work →Events
Public events linked to the active research lines: sound mapping workshops, audiovisual performances, contributions to scientific seminars.
24-25 June 2026
PerformanceESA scientific symposium, Frascati - Master in Sonic Arts, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Presentation of the interactive audiovisual work Terra Viva: sonification of Copernicus satellite imagery and climate data from 1950 to today, performed live with five execution modes, granular synthesis, harmonic drones and Schumann resonance.
11 February 2026
WorkshopVilla Ficana Ecomuseum, Macerata - OZ Association - Marche Region
Free workshop on sound design, active listening and field recording for participants aged 14 to 35. Participants turned the sounds of the rammed-earth village into georeferenced sound maps, electroacoustic compositions and a shared digital archive. Part of the "Trame di Borghi" project, funded by the Marche Region and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
March 2026
SuperseminarPNRR ITSERR project - UNIMORE / FSCIRE
Talk on the research strand dedicated to the sonification of sacred texts: computational reading, audio synthesis guided by generative AI, translation of the compositional process into PWA form. Documents the state of the work in the early stages of the research collaboration.
Teaching
Active courses across conservatories and academies of fine arts.
Bologna
Macerata
Catania
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