Alessandro Perini

Alessandro Perini (born 14 May 1983 in Cantù) is an Italian composer and sound artist living in Sweden since 2009.
== Biography ==
Perini received formal musical training in Composition at the Como Conservatory under the guidance of Luca Francesconi, and afterwards Ivan Fedele, Vittorio Zago and Giorgio Tedde among others.
Perini graduated in Science and Technology of Musical Communication (BA, 2006) from the Milan University and in Electronic Music (BA, 2007) at the Como Conservatory. He moved to Malmö in 2009 where he obtained a Diplom (postgraduate diploma) in Composition in 2013, after further studies with Luca Francesconi at the Malmö Academy of Music.
== Music ==
Notable performances of Perini's musical works have premiered at international festivals, concerts and competitions. In the 2006 edition of the International Composition Competition "...a Camillo Togni" in Brescia (Italy) , Perini reached the finals with his quintet Lumina. The piece was premiered by Dédalo Ensemble conducted by Vittorio Parisi. Reviewers described the music as "of metropolitan inspiration" and "alluding to and quoting with force the thriving of noises which assault the everyday".
In 2010 the Venice Festival of Contemporary Music saw the premiere of Exploraciones de la Biblioteca De Babel, written for 12 strings and commissioned by the festival.
In 2014 he was invited for a residency at the Fondazione Spinola Banna Per L'Arte (Poirino, Italy), where he collaborated with Quartetto di Cremona under the guidance of Helmut Lachenmann; in the same year he took part in courses with Peter Ablinger and Simon Steen-Andersen at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, where he composed Perturbance in close collaboration with contrabassist Jonathan Heilbron. He returned to the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 2016 composing Steel String Quartet, where four amplified swings made with steel wire were used as sound sources for the live performance.
In the following years Perini made extensive use of self-built instruments, electronic circuits and instrument modifications. Examples are Three Studies For Two Voices (2017), where he used small speakers inside the mouth of two performers; On That Day My Left Ear Became A Frog (2018) written in close collaboration with violinist Marco Fusi, where two contact microphones are embedded into a laser-cut wooden bow; and Touch Me (2019), commissioned by Agon for Milano Musica, where the strings of Francesco Dillon's cello were made part of a custom-built synth circuit.
Other notable collaborations include percussionist Simone Beneventi, Quatuor Impact, Ensemble Proton Bern, Norrbotten NEO, Zöllner/Roche duo, Ensemble Multilatérale with Les Métaboles, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Esbjerg Ensemble. 
Prizes awarded to Perini for his music include first prize at the 2nd Sergei Slonimsky Composition Competition (Saint Petersburg), the jury prize at the New Directions Festival 2016 (Piteå), and second prize at the First International Composition Competition for acoustic instruments and electronics in Bourges. 
== Other works ==
Apart from his purely performative music works, his production includes video art, installations, and land art works. His first video art piece (2008), titled Viaggio in una città invisibile, earned him various group exhibitions, screenings and prizes in Italy and abroad (Premio Arte Novara; Magmart; "Flow Interrupted"; "Game Play"; ITSLIQUID among others).
In the following years he started working with a site-specific approach. In 2011 he installed the sound and light work Forking clocks at the archeological site of the Roman baths in Como. Two years later he installed his first work of land art, a series of wooden structures floating on the Branchino Lake in the Orobic Alps. In 2016 he won the first edition of the IMAGONIRMIA Award, including a residency in Chiaravalle (Milan, Italy) where he installed a collection of sound-related experiences under the title Site-Specific Listening. The residency was curated by Isabella Bordoni with whom he collaborated afterwards in a series of events in Ferrara, Modena, Bologna among others. 
Perini won a commission from SPOR festival in 2016. The resulting artwork was a hybrid "between net-art, sound-art and hacktivism"; it used a text-to-speech system to read aloud random Wikipedia articles and then a speech-to-text engine to re-transcribe the articles. The whole process was shown online through a live YouTube feed. Articles were then stored in a wiki called Misheardpedia. According to Perini,
Misheardpedia had been archived in 2020 and is no longer accessible on the public domain, exception made for YouTube recordings of the process. Another similar work by Perini from 2014, titled Face, used a video projection of Perini's personal Facebook profile on a sculpture.
In 2017 Perini was artist in residence at the Biennale of Site-Responsive Art at I-Park (East Haddam, Connecticut, USA); in the same year he was selected for the visual arts workshop and residency "IperPianalto" at the Fondazione Spinola Banna Per L'Arte, with Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna as tutors. In this frame he produced Sound Fossils, three custom-made machines which interacted with clay collected in the area. For this work, in 2019 Perini received the Commendation Prize at the Global Digital Art Prize organized by the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore.
In 2018 Perini exhibited a new version of Tactile Headset at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York City, a work which originated in 2014 during his participation at City Sonic Festival (Belgium). The work consisted of "four spheres designed to vibrate against a user's head. Each sphere vibrates with a unique pattern, just as four audio speakers in a musical installation would play different sounds coming from different directions".
More recent site-specific projects by Perini include the public sound art piece Emergence, installed in Falkenberg's Stortorget, and In Your Shoes, a work involving soundwalks and a multimedia installation, made for the festival "Musica In Prossimità" in Pinerolo.
==In the media==
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== References ==
== External links ==
* Alessandro Perini on instagram
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* Alessandro Perini on twitter
* Alessandro Perini on vimeo
* Alessandro Perini on soundcloud
* Alessandro Perini youtube channel
* Alessandro Perini | Föreningen svenska tonsättare
* Alessandro Perini - Operation Olympiad - Printed Matter
* Alessandro Perini — IAC
* AlessandroPerini (Alessandro Perini) · GitHub
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