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Cultural heritage and digital humanities

Data sonification, intangible sound heritage, interactive installations, AI applied to sacred texts and cultural documentation.

Research lines and projects developed within institutional contexts.

AI and sacred texts

AI-assisted hermeneutic analysis, interactive graphs of connections between spiritual traditions, conceptual data sonification. ITSERR/RESILIENCE project with UNIMORE.

Google Gemini AIForce-directed graphsSonificationCross-tradition analysis

Sound heritage and soundscape

Documentation and valorization of soundscapes, with field recording, geolocated archives and deep listening exercises. Adopted at Conservatory and Academy of Fine Arts.

Field recordingInteractive mapsReal-time spectrogramAcademic export

Installations and generative systems

Interactive audiovisual environments where sound translates into light, gesture modulates timbre, and text fragments into algorithmic variations. Computer vision, dynamic scores, participatory performance.

Computer visionMarkov generatorDynamic scoreWeb Audio API

Selected demos

Research projects available as Progressive Web Applications.

Terra Viva

Sonification of Copernicus satellite imagery and historical climate data for the ESA Frascati 2026 symposium. Granular synthesis, harmonic drones, Schumann resonance.

Soundscape Annotation Atelier

First-hand soundscape annotation with a controlled vocabulary of 128 terms across 8 taxonomies, from Schaeffer to Wishart. Software artefact of the Soundscape Annotation working paper (Zenodo DOI).

SacredTexts AI

AI analysis, concept graph and generative sonification of 48 sacred texts from 8 traditions. Born within the PNRR ITSERR research on AI and religious heritage.

Sacred Sound Radio Hub

63 radio stations from 10 spiritual traditions on an interactive map, with a comparative AI explorer. The living sound corpus of the religious heritage research.

Ficana 1891

A sound exploration of the rammed-earth village. 8 narrative chapters, field recording missions, a geographic mixer. Villa Ficana research line.

Very Beautiful

A digital re-reading of John Heineman's conceptual work (1973). Bark-scale spectral analysis, Markov chains, dynamic score. From the Air Piece essay.

Institutional context

These projects are developed within collaborations with research and educational institutions.

ITSERR/RESILIENCE (PNRR)UNIMOREAcademy of Fine Arts MacerataG.B. Martini Conservatory BolognaVilla Ficana Ecomuseum

Research collaborations

If your project involves cultural heritage, digital humanities, sound or AI, get in touch to explore possible synergies.

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