Nicola Cappelletti (ITA/FRA) is an electroacoustic sound artist, performer and composer. After studying violin he graduated in electronic music, with honors and honorable mention, at the F. Morlacchi Conservatory in Perugia. Winner of the XV National Prize of the Arts (Electroacoustic Composition), his artistic research focuses on the relationship between acoustic sound and electronic treatment in relation to audiovisual works, theater and contemporary poetry.
As a performer his activity ranges from popular music, with forays into rock and club music, to concerts of radical improvisation for prepared violin, prepared electric bass and live electronics. His work has been presented at the International Computer Music Conference, Sound and Music Computing Conference, New York electroacoustic Music Festival, Colloqui di Informatica Musicale, Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Osaka University of Arts Electroacoustic Music Festival, Lund Contemporary, Festival Orizzonti, Bologna in Lettere, Encode, Dancity. He is a member of the Opificio Sonoro ensemble.
Stanze. Fluttuazione. Epilogo. is an electroacoustic fixed media composition that comes from three chapters taken from the book “Ordine e Mutilazione” (Pietre Vive Editore, 2016) of the Italian poet Elena Zuccaccia. The musical writing dialogues with the voice, reconstructing the dramaturgical structure of the poem, allowing the emergence, in a musical form, of roles and deep narrative dynamics. This process of transfiguration and counterpoint at the same time, draws a new structural dimension with respect to the original text, a new context where poetry comes to life in a continuous dialogue between the physical body (the voice), literary body (the poem), and the sound body, thanks to the synthesis techniques used and the processing of concrete sounds and of the voice itself. The reading is by Elena Zuccaccia.