Fabio Machiavelli (Pisa, 1993) is a composer whose activity spans composition, performance, and instrument building.
He studied Percussion Instruments with Jonathan Faralli (MA in Percussion Instruments, 2018), and Composition with Giovanni Verrando (MA in Composition, 2022), Claudio Vaira, Fabio De Sanctis De Benedictis (BA in Composition, 2020), and others. He continued his education at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Salvatore Sciarrino, receiving the Diploma di Merito in 2024. He is currently a PhD student at the Conservatory of Mantua.
In his artistic research, he addresses issues related to new lutherie, DIY practices as compositional processes, the construction of new instruments, and the implications these practices have in educational and academic contexts.
His practice takes shape through a growing family of self-built and augmented instruments in which acoustic bodies, sensors, transducers, and real-time processing are treated as inseparable from the act of composing, moving between notated music, performance, and installation.
Some of his works involve building autonomous electromechanical apparatuses capable of interacting with the performers, and with one another. Among these are Machines Inside Me (La Biennale di Venezia, 2023) and, more recently, Micro-Breath of a Blue Lung, for self-built electromechanical instruments, voice, and electronics, developed and premiered with Ictus in Brussels.
His music has been performed by Ictus, Input Duo, Neko3, Mdi Ensemble, Divertimento Ensemble, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna contemporary ensemble, Quartetto Prometeo, Ensemble Chromoson, Ensemble Multilatérale, Endkadenz Ensemble, Livorno Music Festival Chamber Ensemble, and others, and presented in festivals and seasons such as: La Biennale di Venezia, Inner Spaces, Klangspuren Schwaz, Warsaw Autumn, Transart Festival, Sacroprofanum Festival, Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, Suoni Inauditi, Ma/In Festival, and others.
His music is published by SZ Sugar, Milan.
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