Instruments – Fabio Machiavelli

Instruments

Double-Bell Clarinet

Augmented Organ-Vibraphone

Splitted Guitar

Electric Spekterium

Ultra-bass Membrane Flute

Filtering Saxophone

Double-Bell Clarinet

2024 – ongoing

A clarinet in which a transducer, housed in a wooden box and coupled directly to the instrument’s bell, feeds digitally generated sound into the body of the instrument itself. Triggers distributed along the clarinet activate a sampler built in Max/MSP, allowing the performer to launch samples, activate real-time synthesis processes, and modify specific parameters depending on the combination of triggers engaged, all while playing. The sound produced by the transducer passes through the clarinet’s tube and is shaped by fingerings, tone hole combinations, and breath — the same physical gestures used in ordinary playing. When all tone holes are closed, the mouthpiece rests inside the oral cavity, which then acts as an additional resonating chamber, filtering the sound through vowel shapes and mouth position.

Augmented Organ-Vibraphone

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2026 – ongoing

A vibraphone extended through a network of pressure sensors, solenoids, 3D-printed resonating tubes, and small electromechanical devices distributed in the space around the instrument. Pressing the sensors on the bars activates sound objects placed nearby — some strike parts of the instrument itself, others resonate through tubes that the performer opens and closes by hand in real time. The instrument can still be played with mallets in the traditional sense, but in practice the boundary between playing and controlling tends to dissolve: parts of the keyboard end up controlling other parts of the same system.

Mouth piece with DPA

Mouth piece with DPA