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 and to teaching.
Lecturer at the G.B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata.
Works
Acousmatic composition, interactive audiovisual works, the soundscape of a place.
Fixed media, stereo, 9'26". Recordings 2018, composition 2019.
A piece built entirely from the soundscape of Sarzana, recorded over the three days of a festival that had taken its streets. The work page documents the process, from eight hours of field recordings to the finished piece.
Sonification of Copernicus satellite images and of four historical climate series.
Selected through the ESA - University of Rome Tor Vergata call and performed at the ESA conference at the ESA-ESRIN site in Frascati, with the Master in Sonic Arts. Granular synthesis, harmonic drones, Schumann resonance, five performance modes from the browser to the live performance.
A rereading of John Heineman's conceptual work (1973).
Born from the musicological study of the work for the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, published in the essay Air Piece. Bark-scale spectral analysis that becomes colour, texts recomposed by Markov chains, the performer's movement read by the webcam.
With the Villa Ficana Ecomuseum, Associazione OZ, the Municipality of Macerata and the Marche Region.
The village of earthen houses of Villa Ficana, in Macerata, crossed in eight narrative chapters around the fire of 1891. Field recording missions and a geographic mixer for composing one's own soundscape of the place.
Research
Six active research strands on composition, sonification, cultural heritage, sound pedagogy and artificial intelligence in the classroom. Each line produces scientific contributions, works and public tools.
Born within the ITSERR / UNIMORE / FSCIRE (PNRR) collaboration
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. The strand continues on living religious sound heritage, with the ten-tradition web radio catalogue of the Sacred Sound Radio Hub PWA used as a corpus for listening and analysis.
Personal research, open source
A research ecosystem that brings human listening and machine listening into dialogue. A computational soundscape analysis toolkit (technical metrics, ecoacoustic indices, semantic classification, critical narrative) and a first-hand annotation PWA with a 128-term controlled vocabulary (JSON, PDF and IIIF Presentation 3 export with a SKOS vocabulary) feed an iterative six-stage teaching workflow, formalised in a working paper with a validation case study.
ESA Frascati / 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 the browser to live performance.
Villa Ficana Ecomuseum, Macerata - OZ Association - Marche Region
Documentation, restitution and composition of the soundscape of the village of earthen houses. From the sound mapping workshop, held within the "Trame di Borghi" project funded by the Marche Region and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, emerged a georeferenced audio archive, two PWAs providing public access to 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 - Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata
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).
DM 219 programmes in Italian state schools - AFAM teaching - Personal research
Educational research on AI literacy, from the history of conversational systems to Turing's imitation game, with tools that run in the browser and collect no data. The PWAs are born in school staff training programmes and in AFAM courses, and remain public as experimentation materials.
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 soundscape-audio-analysis, companion PWA soundscape-annotation-atelier, first-hand PDF worksheet) and documents an end-to-end validation case study. Published on Zenodo, CC BY 4.0. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20282495.
Talk at the ITSERR / RESILIENCE Superseminar (Reggio Emilia) on the sonification of sacred texts, presented within the collaboration with ITSERR / UNIMORE / FSCIRE (PNRR). Investigates the translation of text into sound as a practice of computational reading and critical listening. Published on Zenodo in a bilingual edition (Dal testo al suono), CC BY 4.0. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20719806. Superseminar programme (PDF).
A handbook, in Italian, for teachers and school administrative staff drawn from the Aula IA training course, with the open-access companion web app. GreenCat Edizioni, available on Amazon.
ISBN 979-8-170042-78-4
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
About
I teach, compose and conduct research across conservatories, fine arts academies and universities.
I teach Ear Training for Sound Technique at the G.B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna and Sound Space Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata. I lead training programmes on artificial intelligence for school staff, as an AIFIA-qualified trainer.
Contact
The full CV is available on request.