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bio
My name is Pierpaolo Ovarini and I am a sound artist, composer and music producer. I was born in Urbino and trained in Electronic Music and Sound Design in Bologna. Currently I work as a PhD researcher at Tempo Reale in Florence, under the academic supervision of the Fine Arts Academy of Naples and I am a visiting student at CIRMMT in Canada. I'm also part of Pase Platform's team in Venice, co-founder of the creative studio Spazio XI in Pesaro and co-running the project-space Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio in Bologna.

Over the years, I have made several albums and collaborations (also under the pseudonym of redmattre), performing in concerts and exhibitions in Italy and abroad. The sound textures of the materials in my work comes from the virtual world of the Internet, digital sharing culture, field recordings or uncanny creations of neural software. I sometimes publish music under the name of 'redmattre' for solo or production projects, the music genres explored are varied but all coming togheter from violent EDM scrapes and stumbling rythms. My live sets can be improvisations, live electronics or sound perfomances.

artist statement
(2026) my research is about exploring the 'soundscape of the internet' and the acoustic communities that co-inhabit virtual space in a mixture of users, bots, artificial intelligences, interfaces, malware and memes. Formal and aesthetic elements are extrapolated and intertwined with those of the real world, implying hybrid installation and compositional languages capable of generating interactive or site-specific spatial music performances or sound installations. I see sound as a tangible, sculptural element, intentionally plastic.

research abstract
(2027) I am building a creative IoT ecosystem to design inhabitable virtual sound spaces. This concept comes to life in two parallel projects called: Cielo and Nuvola. The first consists of a web-based 3D graphical interface built as a simplified control server for sound spatialization, with full OSC implementation and Websocket synchronization. Nuvola is built on a Raspberry Pi core hardware with a custom software image with real-time kernel based on the headless distro of Raspberry Pi OS and a full OSC interface implementation. This device acts as the core AAR interface with Wi-Fi room localization and head tracking capabilities. These two projects togheter form an AAR ecosystem for space design and sound rendering - comprising of wearable sound devices - that I am developing as part of my PhD research in Italy and Canada. The research aims to build technology within a theoretical and cultural framework, ensuring a design that is both stable and speculative, yet still functional, intuitive, and open enough to be adopted by a diverse range of creative practitioners across the arts and design.


I've worked, exibithed, played and collaborated with realities such as:


81. e 82. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia - Venice Immersive / 42 Records / 19. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia / Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli / Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino / Alchemilla / Alma Mater Università di Bologna / AMAT Marche / Arco Iris R / argo16 / Ars Electronica / Archivio HomeMovies / Associazione ZOE / Bologna Musica d’Autore BMA / Centre GRAME / Centro di Anatomia Clinica e Chirurgica Sperimentale e Molecolare / CIRMMT / Conservatorio di L’Aquila / Conservatorio G. B. Martini di Bologna / Conservatorio Pollini di Padova / d&b audiotechnick / DAMS Bologna / DAS Dispositivo di Arti Sperimentali / Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura / DNA Concerti / Fondazione Accademia d’Arti e Mestieri dello spettacolo Teatro alla Scala / Fondazione Golinelli / Fondazione Pescheria / Fonoprint / Hangartfest / Hyperlocal Festival / I3DA / Kazakh National Academy of Arts / Meeting Del Mare / musiXmatch / Nouveau Grand Tour 2024 / Pesaro Capitale della Cultura 2024 / Premio Città di Rossini / SaMPL / Saint Louis College of Music / serra madre / Senza Futuro Studio / Sofar Sounds Bologna / Spazio Punch / Tempo Reale / Zeroidee / Zero.eu


selected projects list




*this list contains major professional, academic and artistic projects, for a selected works list see the works page.