Portfolio - Alessandro Anatrini

2026 — Audio-Video Live Media

Bròlo

A cultivated place appears where it should not, and perhaps for that very reason, for a moment, it seems necessary.

2025 — Audio-Video Fixed Media

Venerdì sera a letto presto

The artist throws into crisis the ontological paradigm of "the sofa as apparatus of stasis" through neural-network-assisted domestic wandering.

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2025 — Interactive Generative Installation

Faulty Oracle

Faulty Oracle is an adaptive audiovisual installation conjuring a gloriously unreliable divinatory machine.

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2024 — Chamber Music with Electronics

[ Reloaded ]

Written for the Non-Piano/Toy Piano Weekend of Hamburg, taking cues from Romitelli's Amok Koma; conventional and toy instruments blend through live electronics.

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2024 — Audio-Video Fixed Media

Die Monsterfabrik

Die Monsterfabrik explores the progressive transformation of Vivaldi's string music through iterative artificial intelligence training.

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2022 — Site-Specific Installation

Sandy Island

Adaptive site-specific installation running continuously for 60 hours, with 288 speakers (Wavefield Synthesis) forming a fully immersive environment.

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2021 — Interactive Generative Installation

Wunderkammer

A Renaissance cabinet of curiosities transformed into an intelligent sonic organism, with a finite ~72-hour life cycle mirroring biological organisms.

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2020 — Interactive Generative Installation

Here Be Dragons

A generative installation inhabiting the threshold medieval cartographers marked "Here be dragons": the unexplored temporal space between concert pieces.

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2019 — Chamber Music

Tap This

Commissioned for Hamburg Dialogues 2019 and dedicated to Nicolas Haumann and Martin Donoso Vera, Tap This explores the electric guitar as a melodic instrument and percussive interface.

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2019 — Site-Specific Music

Open Fields

144 musicians distributed across 900 metres of subterranean tunnel, 24 metres beneath the Elbe River. The tunnel becomes instrument.

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2019 — Chamber Music

Il suo divertimento era di contare le stelle

Commissioned for Leopardi's 200th anniversary of "L'Infinito," this chamber work takes its title from the poet's diary: "His amusement was to count the stars."

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2018 — Interactive Installation

Unfamiliar Walks

Unfamiliar Walks emerged from Healing Soundscapes, research investigating how generative sonic environments influence patient well-being in hospital settings.

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2017 — Orchestral Music with Electronics

Fragile Territories

Commissioned by Hamburger Symphoniker, Fragile Territories constructs an entire orchestral universe from a single acoustic event: the oboe's tuning A at the work's beginning.

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2017 — Chamber Music

Esplorazione di una certa quantità d'acqua

Commissioned by Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles for the Tactus Young Composer Forum, Esplorazione di una certa quantità d'acqua transforms acoustic properties of water-filled glass into orchestral material.

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2015 — Solo with Electronics

Forbite fantascienze

Commissioned by IRCAM's Académie ManiFeste 2015 and dedicated to Paul Riveaux, Forbite fantascienze—"Forbidden Science Fictions"—explores the contrabassoon's timbral extremes through real-time electronic augmentation.

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