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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. Currently I work as a PhD researcher at Tempo Reale in Florence, under the academic supervision of the Conservatory of Bologna and the Fine Arts Academy of Naples. I'm also part of Pase Platform R&D team in Venice and you can visit and have a chat with me at Spazio XI in Pesaro.

Over the years, I have made several albums and collaborations (also under the pseudonym of redmattre), performing in concerts and multimedia installations between Bologna, Venice, Milan and Lyon. The sound materials in my work comes from the virtual world of the Internet, digital sharing culture, field recordings or spontaneous creations of neural software. My music production explores various musical genres all amalgamated by energetic EDM splinters. My live sets can be improvisations, live electronics or DJ sets.

artist statement
(2025) 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.

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:

81. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia - Venice Immersive / 19. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia / Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli / AMAT Marche / argo16 / Archivio HomeMovies / Associazione ZOE / Bologna Musica d’Autore BMA / Centre GRAME / Conservatorio di L’Aquila / Conservatorio G. B. Martini di Bologna / Conservatorio Pollini di Padova / DAS Dispositivo di Arti Sperimentali / Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura / Fondazione Accademia d’Arti e Mestieri dello spettacolo Teatro alla Scala / Fondazione Golinelli / Fondazione Pescheria / Fonoprint / Hangartfest / Hyperlocal Festival / Kazakh National Academy of Arts / Meeting Del Mare / musiXmatch / PASE Platform / Pesaro Capitale della Cultura 2024 / Premio Città di Rossini / SaMPL / Saint Louis College of Music / Senza Futuro Studio / Sofar Sounds Bologna / Spazio Punch / Tempo Reale / Zero.eu


selected projects list




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