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My name is Giulio Aldinucci, I was born in Siena (Italy) in 1981. I have been active for years as a composer in the field of experimental electroacoustic music and in the research on soundscape.


Giulio Aldinucci in studio self-portrait


Main works and projects:


Concerts and site-specific  performances

Arkaoda (Berlin); Palazzo Strozzi (Firenze); Art Cinema OFFoff 20th anni­vers­a­ry concert, De Centrale (Gent), Costanza. La città amplificata, Villa Costanza (Firenze); Vrooom, Klooster Oude Noorden (Rotterdam); Synthonia Festival, Monte Alago (Nocera Umbra); Klang - Dancity Festival preview (Roma); I/O - Villa Medusa (Napoli); Sulfure Festival (Paris); Nextech Festival, Teatro Puccini (Firenze); Warm Up To Date Festival (Wrocław); Biennale MArte Live, Klang (Roma); L'Arte della Sostenibilità - Università di Siena, Rettorato (Siena); Inner Spaces / San Fedele Musica, special concert on the SATOR acusmonium, Auditorium San Fedele (Milano); дом, Dom Cultural Centre (Moscow); Chigiana International Festival & Summer Academy, Accademia Chigiana (Siena); Up To Date Festival, Pałac Branickich (Białystok); Oblique, Garibaldi Books & Records (Palermo); Unsafe+Sounds festival, Nordbahnhalle (Wien); Associação Terapêutica do Ruído - Zaratan Arte Contemporânea (Lisbon); Masada (Milano); Bruma vol. II - Chiesa di San Michele in Cioncio (Pistoia); Villa Tereze (Pergola); Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala (Siena); Plunge & Spazio Concept (Milano); Inside Lottozero Grand Opening (Lottozero, Prato);  Flussi Festival (Avellino); Concertzender & SOTU Festival, OCCII (Amsterdam), A Study in mixed environment - Palazzo Strozzi (Firenze);  SOTU Festival, Vereniging Poortgebouw (Rotterdam); Spazio O' (Milano); Meeting FKL - Forum Klanglandschaft (Vivaio del Malcantone, Firenze); Fieldsquare (Siena); Café OTO (London); Corte dei Miracoli (Siena); Half Die Festival (Roma); The Hole - Acque Notturne (Bologna); Fanfulla 101 (Roma); SDSM Festival/Interferenze (Guardia Sanframondi, Benevento); What If/Estate Fiesolana (Fiesole, Firenze); Leoncavallo (Milano); Festival della Creatività, Fortezza da Basso (Firenze); La Controra (Napoli); Tagofest 2 (Marina di Massa, Massa Carrara); Centro Arte Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse (Siena).


A selection of installationtions, projects and site-specific works





November 2023: sleeping concert at Palazzo Strozzi for the exhibition The Tilt of Time (IED Firenze and Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi). The performance guides the audience on an immersive journey into the immediate moment as the influence of sound shapes the perception of time. The exhibition catalogue, which also feautures an exended interview, is published by Kunstverein.

October 2019: soundwork for Benjamin, a sound art festival at the tramway stops in Florence (I) where, between one service announcement and another, sound art took over the tramway speakers.

October 2020: Memory Drawings A Few Scattered Hours remix project album. My work is part of the 2 CD album released Second Language Music (UK) together with remixes and reworks by Brendan Perry (Dead Can Dance), Insides, The Green Kingdom, Cedric Pin/Glen Johnson (Piano Magic), Mücha and Yvonne Bruner.

August 2019: my composition Aphasic Semiotics is part of The Wire Tapper 50 (UK) special CD special that celebrates the edition number 50 including music from the Tapper series' 20 year back catalogue.

June 2019: music from my ep Boule à Neige was included in the soundtrack of the movie Lieux de Notre Passage by Tomasz Cichawa.

June 2017: my composition Mute Sirens was awarded with an honourable mention at the 18th International Electroacoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2017 (P).

May 2017: SPRING:2017 (RE)Awakening - food and sound residency at Villa Tereze with Dorit Chrysler, Dzintars Kristovskis and  Michał Kępiński. Video: Spring 2017 Portraits - Giulio Aldinucci Sound artist in residency.

March 2017: first public presentation of the Valigie Digitali (digital suitcases) project by Verso Lab. The projects focuses on digital memories of migrants and combines pictures and handwritten narratives with mobile video and audio recording of the migrants’ journeys. More infos here (English) and here (Italian with audio).

June 2015: A Study in Mixed Environments, site specific live sonorization created by AIPS (Italian Archive Soundscapes) for Palazzo Strozzi (Florence).

October 2013: my composition Come il mare was included in the CD Sound at work created by Tempo Reale (I), the Italian electronic music research, production, and educational center founded by Luciano Berio. This work is part of the Tempo Reale Collection cd series.

July 2013: Arno ATLAS, a project by Radio Papesse and Giulio Aldinucci about narration and soundscape of the Arno river in Florence. The Arno Atlas series was choosen by the national Italian radio, Rai Radio 3, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the flood of the Arno in Florence during the week of 4 November 2016.

June 2013: Postcards from Italy, a Project by Aips & Gianmarco del Re launched by Giulio Aldinucci and Attilio Novellino. Postcards from Italy is a CD released by Oak editions (I), a live performance show at Cafe OTO - London (June 16th) and an installation at SoundFjord - London (June 15th - July 21st).

September 2009: composition for the installation Talking Doors - Sounding Door (by Julijonas Urbonas), located at the Lithuanian Academy of Music of Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 2009. This work won the Award of Distinction in Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2010.

October 2008: composition Italia0.8beta for Revolutionary Sound, the Radio Papesse area inside the FreeQuencies exhibition, Festival della Creatività 2008 (Florence). Pictures: 1, 2