bio
Pierpaolo Ovarini is a composer, sound artist and music producer. He was born in Urbino and trained at the Conservatory of Bologna in Electronic Music and Sound Design. Over the years, he has made albums and collaborations under the pseudonym redmattre, performing in concerts and multimedia installations between Bologna and Venice. The sound materials in his works come from the virtual world of the Internet, digital sharing culture, field recordings or spontaneous creations of neural software. His production explores various musical genres all amalgamated by energetic EDM splinters. His live sets can be improvisations, live electronics or DJ sets.

artist statement
(2024) 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. The way I see sound is intentionally plastic and tends to extrapolate and categorize it according to its internal harmonic texture, both from a semantic and technical point of view. The sound materials that I use the most come from the virtual world of the internet, the result of the digital culture of sharing, field recording or 'spontaneous' broken creation by neural software.

I publish music under the name of 'redmattre' for solo or production projects, the music genres explored are varied but all coming from violent EDM scrapes and stumbling rythms. Live sets could be impros, live electronics or dj sets. Also I'm half of 'vergine', an italian electronic pop duo.

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

Centre GRAME / PASE Platform / Zero.eu / Archivio HomeMovies / AMAT Marche / Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura / musiXmatch / Fondazione Golinelli / Fonoprint / DAS Dispositivo di Arti Sperimentali / Associazione ZOE / Piccola Video Galleria / Sofar Sounds Bologna / argo16 / SAMPL / Bologna Musica d’Autore BMA / Premio Città di Rossini / Hyperlocal Festival / Meeting Del Mare