Latitudine X-3

Latitudine X-3


sound installation | performance

2025

Sound diffusion: site specific
Duration: 25:49

Latitudine X-3 is a sound installation with clarinet performances by Raffaella Palumbo, which interacts with  Bizhan Bassiri's permanent work Tapesh: The Golden Reserve of Magmatic Thought (2017) in the Bassiri Foundation's Caveau.

Latitudine X-3 is a commission by Fondazione Bassiri

Performances
19.10.2025 - IV° Venti di ottobre, Fondazione Bassiri, Fabbro (IT) [premiere]


DHwtj

DHwtj


sound installation

2025

Sound diffusion: site specific

Composition and installation project: Nicola Cappelletti, Simone Pappalardo

 

DHwtj explores the boundary and continuity between gesture, sign, and sound, tracing a continuum where certain traditional instruments are explored for their atypical timbral potential through physical computing systems and the use of electromagnetic fields, activated through interaction with a graphic score that serves as a map for the sound investigation. In its first form dedicated to the 50th Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano, the work is inspired by the concept of a “musical worksite”: the viewer can activate musical instruments, generating sound events that are rooted in the origins of timbre construction, extended and modified in unusual ways, and which recall sound imprints of the city’s soundscape. By exploring the graphic score, which in turn arises from a re-contextualization in the musical and artistic sphere of the iconography of construction site signs, we arrive at a redefinition of the relationship between visual and musical language, composing a semantic code of gestures and sounds that acquires a specific meaning in active relation to the environment and the instruments, making them the physical extension of a single meaningful gesture.

 

DHwtj is a commission by 50° Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte of Montepulciano.

Performances
11.07-12.09.2025 - 50° Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte - Mostra 50 Cantieri, Fortezza, Montepulciano (IT) [premiere]


A Tuning Study: Montepulciano

A Tuning Study: Montepulciano


acousmatic | sound installation

2024

Sound diffusion: quadriphonic; binaural

A Tuning Study: Montepulciano is a site-specific sound installation that originates from the mapping of the tonics, signals, and sound imprints that define the city's sound ecosystem. Deterministic and random processes of synthesis, intrinsically connected to the timbral characteristics of the recorded material through the processes of spectral analysis and auto-convolution, were used to generate a new soundscape, at once identifiable and imaginative. The soundscape was divided into three bands: the upper band (aerial), the middle band (proper to human activities), and the lower band (underground), each of which was investigated with the use of dedicated microphones and filming techniques, documenting the sound contexts both neutrally and through the solicitation of materials, vibrating bodies, mechanical objects and surfaces present in the areas of investigation, in order to analyze their timbral potential and activate a dialogue with the context.

 

A Tuning Study: Montepulciano is a commission by 49° Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte of Montepulciano.

Performances
12-17.07.2024 - 49° Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte, Chiostro del Comune, Montepulciano (IT) [full work, premiere]
23.11.2024 - DME. Culture and Sustainability 2024, Incomun Lisboa (POR) [Interno Pozzo]
15.04.2025 - Radiophrenia, Glasgow. Radiophrenia shorts 52, [Interno Pozzo, radio broadcasting]
14.09.2025 - Paysages Composés 2025, Jardin des plantes, Grenoble (FR) [Interno Pozzo]
25.09.2025 - Musica Ricercata 2025 - Auditorium Santa Cecilia, Perugia (IT) [Interno Pozzo, Mosaicing]
18.10.2025 - Queens Tape Music Festival, world of tomorrow. Our House Queens, Astoria, Queens, NYCNew York (USA) [Interno Pozzo]


Dialettica Liminale

Dialettica Liminale


sound installation

2022

Sound diffusion: 10 channel self constructed speakers

Dialettica Liminale is a site specific sound installation dedicated to the compositional thought of Salvatore Sciarrino, created by the sound Nicola Cappelletti, together with Mattia Parisse for the Blooming Sciarrino event.

A 10-channel system of self-built loudspeakers, Dialettica Liminale (by Nicola Cappelletti), uses the Conicetra sound sculpture (by Mattia Parisse) as a sound source to inhabit the acoustic space, letting the resonant frequencies of the architectural environment emerge through a repeated process of overdubbing the original sound with the echoing resulting sound.

 

A generative algorithm asymmetrically spatializes the sound with a random temporal granulation thus creating a sound ecosystem sensitive to every minimum timbre variation.

 

Dialettica Liminale is a commission by Opificio Sonoro.

Performances

 

10/15.07.2023 - Domus Pauperum, Perugia (IT)


Grand Mother Bretagne

Grand Mother Bretagne


sound installation

2019

Duration: 25'00''
Sound Diffusion: 5 exciters on 16 mt harmonic steel sheet and a 2.1 reinforcement system

Brittany's version of the conceptual sound installation by Opera Bianco, a work of sound and plastic art, a multi-perceptive environment in which the circular movement of the audience completes its choreographic intention.

 

Concept: Vincenzo Schino

 

dramaturgy: Marta Bichisao, Ivan Schiavone

 

sound design: Nicola Cappelletti

 

field recordings: Marta Bichisao, Vincenzo Schino

 

text editing: Ivan Schiavone

 

production: Opera Bianco

Performances

 

16.05/16.10.2019 - Murmures, installations cinétiques et sonores, La Briqueterie, Saint Brieux (FR) [premiere]
11-12.09.2021 - Crisalide Festival,Teatro Felix Guattari, Cesena (IT)
09-11.07.204 - You Are Here - Auditorium San Francesco al Prato, Perugia (IT)


Evolution 221

Evolution 221

acousmatic binaural site specific composition

2022

Duration: 7'37''
Sound diffusion: binaural (headphones)

Evolution 221 is an electroacoustic piece that investigates the relationship between man and nature from an acoustic point of view, investigating the ecological and sustainability aspects of that relation. Written in connection with the sound and visual context of the Pharo Park of the city of Marseille, to be performed only through an headphone concert in the same location, the piece presents an electroacoustic processing of discarded and recycled sound materials, deliberately elaborated to find an ideal acoustic imprint of all the passages and crossings that this place has seen over the centuries: the city, the sea, the port, the view of the horizon lines, the park and the human relationship with nature, make up an ideal sound time lapse through space and time, imposing a reflection on the kind of evolution we are participating in.

Performances

 

03.07.2022 - Viberation #4, Parc du Pharo, Marseille (FR)


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