Our Team
We bring different perspectives to the table, but we’re united by a love for purposeful work, thoughtful design, and real connection.
Alessia Damiani
Alessia Damiani is a composer, electroacoustic performer and sound designer. She graduated with honours and special mention in New Technologies with a compositional focus, studying under teachers such as L. Ceccarelli, S. Pappalardo, F. Cifariello Ciardi, F. Antonioni, P. Rotili and M. Momi.
She is active both as a performer and composer in Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, Mexico, Spain, Germany and other countries. Her works have been performed at festivals including NYCEMF – New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, MUSLAB Electroacoustic Music International Exhibition in Mexico, and Mediagrammi in Berlin.
As a performer, she has worked for and with Francesco Giomi, Tempo Reale, Simone Pappalardo and others. The project M-Flute A/V Performance, for which she composed the music, was selected for MA/IN Matera Intermedia Festival 2018, Teatri di Vetro 2018 and UKYA 2019 – UK Young Artists City Takeover in Nottingham.
She has also supervised sound direction for several international events, including the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. She actively collaborates with various figures from the Italian and European artistic scene, including Carlo Caloro, Salvatore Insana, Michele Ragni, Filippo Gualazzi.
In 2019, she created the sound design for an interactive solo exhibition in which photographer and documentary filmmaker Riccardo Truffarelli presented forty years of his career. She is currently working on research into the sense of sound, inspired by the theories of F. Dogana and J.J. Nattiez, with the ensemble [tis ixu’s], as well as on the project Aporie by Dehors/Audela.
Since 2024, she has coordinated and directed musical activities within artQ13, an independent space for artistic research, focusing in particular on the composition and production of sound works for events and installations, technical and creative support for artists and collaborative projects, and research and development of new technologies applied to sound and artistic performance.
In her solo work, her interest focuses on repetition, error and the search for an “alternative meaning” through improvised and extemporaneous sounds.
She has taught at several prestigious Italian institutions and is currently Professor of Multimedia Systems and Languages at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan.
She is one of the founding members of the DDoS A/V Project collective and of the ensemble [tis ixu’s].
Artistic curator / Vice president
Paola Lopreiato
Artistic curator / FounderPaola Lopreiato holds a PhD in New Media Art from the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts (CAiiA-HUB) at the University of Plymouth.
Her research interests include multisensoriality, electronic and digital technology, acoustics, and the interactions between gesture, image, sound and word. She obtained an MPhil in Multimedia Composition from the University of Sheffield, an MA in Electroacoustic Composition and a degree in Piano from the Conservatory of Florence, as well as a degree in Multimedia and Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
Her work has been performed at several international events and venues, including SANTARCANGELO39, 7 stanze in cerca di autore in Mantua, the Marino Marini Museum and Piazza della Signoria in Florence, the Festival della Creatività at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, and Diffrazioni Festival, 2017–2019.
She has also presented her works in the United Kingdom, including at the University of Chester, Bournemouth University, Sheffield Drama Studio, Belfast SARC, the Undivided Mind Conference and Plymouth; in the United States, including Miami SEAMUS 2012, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014, NYU, Stedman Art Gallery in New Jersey and Rutgers University; in Greece, including the Ionian Academy in Corfu, the ICAC Gallery in Kefalonia and the Athenian I-Club; in Mexico, at Fonoteca Nacional 2011; in Slovenia, at ICMC 2012 in Ljubljana; in Australia, at ICMC 2013 in Perth; in Brazil, at CAC4 Rio de Janeiro in August 2014; in Turkey, at Halka Project Istanbul in October 2014; in South Africa, at the Fak’ugesi Conference in Johannesburg in December 2014; in Portugal, at the Obras Foundation in 2015; in China, at the Consciousness, Synchronicity and Art Conference in Beijing in 2018; in Serbia, at Belgrade Studio in 2018; in Iceland, at Nordanbal – Old School, Hrisey in 2018; in Oman, at the 7th USERN Congress in Muscat in 2022; in Iran, at the 5th USERN Congress in Tehran in 2020; and in Chile, at ICMC 2021 in Santiago.
She was Production Manager of Diffrazioni Festival from 2014 to 2017, and producer and artistic director of NOIS//E Festival in 2025 and 2026.
She has mainly taught at the Conservatories of Perugia and Bologna, as well as Sound Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara and Electroacoustic Composition at the Torre Franca Conservatory in Vibo Valentia, Italy. She currently teaches Electroacoustic Music at the Conservatory of Pavia.
Graduated in Electronic Music in Fermo, he is currently studying Sound Design in Bologna. He has worked as a sound engineer in theatre productions and live concerts, developing a sound practice that spans synthesis, soundscape and video art.
His work explores the intersection between sound and image in performative contexts, including audiovisual collaborations for theatre.
Tech directorRiccardo andrenelli
Andrea Mancuso (1998) is an Italian composer, saxophonist and sound designer. He graduated in Saxophone and Electronic Music from the G.B. Pergolesi Conservatory in Fermo and is currently attending the Master’s programme in Sound Design at the G.B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna.
His artistic activity ranges from performance and composition to music production and sound design for audiovisual projects and video games. His artistic research focuses on the integration of acoustic instruments, live electronics and digital technologies, with a particular interest in the expressive possibilities emerging from the relationship between sound, space and image.
Tech director