Music
Summertime with Four Schizophyllum commune
This piece is a sonification of the electrical spiking activity I recorded from four Schizophyllum commune mushrooms over the course of a full day, on August 12 (from midnight to 11 p.m.). According to researchers such as Andrew Adamatzky, fungi use spiking activity as a means of communication and information processing within their mycelial networks. The interplay of different spikes forms the equivalent of words in their vocabulary.
For this work, I identified the spikes within the recorded signals and translated them into sound. Each spike’s amplitude, duration, and waveform were used to drive a simple synthesizer built from pink and brown noise, a band-pass filter, and envelope controls. The timeline of the piece has been condensed into just a few minutes, compared to the length of the original recording.
Dancing with Chloroplasts (during a genetic mutation)
The music comes from my art installation created with Mariapaola Infuso, titled Immortal Nature. It was presented from June 19th to 26th, 2025, at Peekaboo Gallery in Turin, as part of the (In)oculum exhibition curated by the Consciousness Collective.
The five tracks in the album narrate a moment of transformation into an Alocasia plant, triggered by genetic editing carried out by a computer. The pieces were composed using a combination of two algorithms: one that simulates the CRISPR genetic editing technique, and another that replicates the photosynthetic cycles of various chloroplasts.
The Fabric of Morenica
In The Fabric of Morenica, I experimented with gate-based quantum computation and quantum concepts such as the phonon, Bose-Einstein condensate, superposition, and entanglement as both analytical methods and speculative tools for artistic creation.
As analytical methods, I used quantum computing for: a) the spectral analysis of sound recordings, b) the simulation of a system composed of phonons, and c) the simulation of a Bose-Einstein condensate subjected to linear temperature variations.
Starting from a collection of my own sound recordings of the morainic amphitheater, I used spectral analysis to extract a set of frequencies describing the acoustic spectrum of the territory. These frequencies then served as initial parameters for simulating the behavior of phonons. I used the results of the phononic system to guide the selection and manipulation of audio samples through granular synthesis. The data from the Bose-Einstein condensate simulation, on the other hand, informed the musical composition process.
Study for a Sound Garden in Val Susa (Exilles)
Soundscape from the art installation Study for a Sound Garden in Val Susa exhibited at Forte di Exilles during the Summer 2024. Piece made with Lorenzo Peluffo.
Sounds from Immortal Nature (Pastis, Turin)
Soundscape from the art installation Immortal Nature exhibited at Pastis, Turin in 20th June 2024. Project made with Mariapaola Infuso and Vanessa V(ozzo).
Bidens frondosa (Turin, Murazzi)
The track is my first result obtained by interaction between data recorded from Bidens frondosa and the cellular automata algorithm.
Sant’Agata - Fango Radio
Taking inspiration from the experiments conducted by Cleve Backster, for this first “Short Concert for Houseplants” intitled Sant’Agata we worked on the construction of a system that allows a plant to play, for creating a sound representation of its emotional intelligence symbolically perceptible to us humans.
The system that I constructed consists of an electrocardiogram sensor that monitors the potential action of the plant - the electrical signals due to the communication activity between cells, made possible by plasmodesmata, phloem and xylem - through electrodes placed on the leaves and along the stem of the vegetable.
The data resulting from monitoring are processed, transformed and analyzed to produce sounds that demonstrate the behavior of the plant or to decide the pitch and duration of the sound to be played on a specific virtual instrument. Data analysis also allows you to establish the rhythm of the composition.
For this first plant concert a sansevieria, a calathea and a tomato plant were involved.
The piece was made in collaboration with Eugenio Nicolella and Lorenzo Peluffo.