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This research investigates the electroacoustic solo performance as a form of emergent multimodal choreography. I explore the syncretic relationship between the performer’s body, instruments, and technology, where the body acts as both a visual and sonic instrument.
The core inquiry of this study is how the body shapes and modifies perception and output during improvised performances. This leads to key questions: Is the relationship between body and technology a territory of compromise and constant negotiation, where embodiment is continually enhanced or limited? Furthermore, can the body assume a role in musical performance that is as visually active as it is sonically performative?
Using my previous solo performance, Sacred Habits as starting point, I examine the interplay between instrumental gestures, technology, and the performer’s body. This investigation integrates improvisational practices—both musical and choreographic—with theoretical frameworks from choremusicology and embodiment theories.
Ultimately, this research seeks to expand the potential of electroacoustic performance by developing new applications of technology and exploring novel dramaturgical and choreographical modalities. The goal is to critically rethink the role of the human body in technologically mediated music performance and question our relationship with mediums and the performative space from a very human point of view.

This website is an ongoing output for my artistic and academic research that focuses on solo electroacoustic performance involving guitar, electronics and the body of the performer used as a musical agent. The aim is to investigate the counterpoint of these three elements (instrument, technology and body) to envision the solo performance as a multimodal choreography.

This digital place will contain documentation, writings and reflections on my PhD in a diaristic form, alternating academic references with a more relaxed and colloquial style of writing: the website is freely browsable in every direction, since the only temporal indications are the day a particular post was written. The idea is to produce a consultable notebook open to everybody that shows the messy ongoing project of my research, my failures and achievements in a very performative and improvisational way. This is going to help me get through the PhD but doesn’t constitute an official final document of my path (different versions of it may constitute part of my final exposition).
While more friendly posts are often linked to audio/photo/video material the more academic ones are coupled with a bibliography

To achieve a performative freedom in the use of the website, I’ll use only 4 procedural rules to manage it, except for a macro organization of themes (corresponding to the blue squares and their landing pages):

In the text you’ll often find links to other pages, many different times and in many different contexts: this is to allow the free flow of ideas and to convey the fact that all the concepts in my research are not separated but in constant relationship. Keep that in mind when you’ll find yourself landing on the same post/media/comment for a while, you’ve just found what I believe to be pure gold!

If a concept is a dead end, not interesting or purely worn out, you’ll see a "dead end"
in the page. I will not erase any post or idea just for the sake of keeping track of the overall process.

If the concept needs an update or is better explained in another post you’ll see the “obsolete”

If I’m very pleased with a concept you’ll see the “key concept”

Everything will constantly change, hopefully, but sticking to these rules.