Fabrizio Di Salvo

Finn Marion ©finnsfuji : FOG Festival
Upcoming
Le Slie's
NEO ARTE Synthesizer of Arts - Gdansk (POL) - Okt. 25
Keroxen Festival (ESP - Nov. 25
Instituto Svizzero Roma (IT) - Nov. 25
Interfinity Festival (CH) - March 26
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(ex)tension
WeSa Seoul (KOR) - January 26​
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ptera
Gare du Nord (CH) - Mai 26
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carrying listening
Festival Rümlingen (CH) - June 26​​
me (at) fabriziodisalvo.com
Many of my works arise from improvised arrangements, from trials and imagination. Each one poses a question to sound and space and develops its own acoustic infrastructure. This takes shape through decisions about material, access and arrangement, and reflects how something is made audible and under which conditions sound comes into being. I am interested in the transformative potential of reinterpretation, especially in the reuse of industrial artifacts whose function can be shifted until they articulate an unforeseen acoustic language. Instrument making becomes like this a method for thinking about material, sound and interpretation. It opens spaces in which technology defines itself not through control but through resonance and unpredictability.
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2025
skhor
Guitare and Modular Synthesizer
FOG Festival Basel (CH)​
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Le Slie's
New mechanical Instrument inspired by the Leslie Speaker
Festival Klang Moor Schopfe
Doppler
New mechanical Instrument inspired by the Vibraphone and Glockenspiel
Festival Klang Moor Schopfe
(ex)tension
WeSa, Seoul (KOR) | MOZG Festival, (POL)
And all the spirals in the world
Two sculptures made of old theater backdrops
Theater Münster (DE)
dissident structures
Servomotors, textiles, aluminum tubing, microcontroller, contact microphones
Theater Roxy, Birsfelden (CH)
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2024
hyd~
parametric loudspeaker and robotic arm
Museum La Nef, Ancienne usine Thécla à St-Ursanne (CH) | Interdisciplinary Festival for the 25th anniversary of Radio X (CH)
lotka-volterra
sound, mixed media, vibrating motors, scarred crystal polystyrol plates
Kunsttage Basel (CH) and SCOPE BLN Berlin (DE)
(ex)tension
Festival Sanatorium of Sound (POL)
2023
osz~ and fluct~
two sound sculptures for the friendy takeover of Stanislas Pili
Gare du Nord (CH)
fluct~
sound sculpture | pneumatic installation with high-speed valves
Gallerie CRMI Langenthal (CH)
hyd~
sound sculpture | parametric loudspeaker and robotic arm
Annual Exhibition Art Local Rheinfelden | Trinkhalle Kurbrunnenanlage | Rheinfelden (CH)
(ex)tension
eufonic Festival | Castell d`Ulldecona (ESP) Stuttgart IDKF | (DE), Frequenz Festival, Kiel | (DE)
2022
(ex)tension
Festival Sonica | Glasgow (GB-SCT), SPOR-Festival | Copenhagen (DK), Fabbrica del Vapore | Milano (IT), cheLA, Buenos Aires (ARG), NUMA Circuit, Tenerife (ESP), eufonic Festival, Castell d`Ulldecona (ESP), Festival INDIGO, Ljubljana (SLO)
osz~
@brighton CCA, Brighton (GBR)
LEF
performance | in collaboration with Sol Bilbao Lucuix
Theater Roxy, Birsfelden (CH)
swarm_like & osz~

Exhibition in the Alten Billettkasse
Theater Basel | (CH)
osz~
B-Seite Festival für visuelle Kunst und Jetztkultur (DE)
swarm_like
Two installation investigating the theme of swarming and coexistence
Musikfestival Bern (CH)
(ex)tension

Composition, Instrument maker | for 48 sound plates and 48 solenoids | Wien Modern (AT) | Festival KlangBasel (CH) | Koncenrtkirken, Copenhagen (DNK) | Kulturhaus Helferei, Zürich (CH) | New Music and Arts Symposium (THA) | NeoArte - Synthesizer of Arts (POL) | Blooming Festival (IT), EXIT Festival | Montevideo, (URY), Sound Spaces, Malmö (SW)
le mont brûlé
Performance | in collaboration with Sol Bilbao Lucuix
Architektur Dialog Basel (CH)
Composition Residency
Prozess, IGNM Bern (CH
21 Percutiens
Festival le bruit de la musique (FRA)
osz~
Sound sculpture | pneumatic installation with high-speed valves
Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel (CH) | Kunsthalle Bern (CH) | Ars Electronica .ART Global Gallery (AT)
the art of getting lost
Performance| in collaboration with Sol Bilbao Lucuix
Theater Roxy, Birsfelden (CH)
21 Percutiens
Ensemble This Ensemble That
commissioned work, composition quatuor for tambourine and feedback Fracanaüm, Lausanne (CH)
ictu
Solenoid instrument | Atelier Bollag, Basel (CH)
skrrrrt
Commissioned work, composition | quatuor for guitar
Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich (CH), Druckereihalle, Basel (CH), La Voire, Biel (CH)
2018/19
drag and drop
tool for net neurality | mixed media Objekt
tulpa
performance | in collaboration with Sol Bilbao Lucuix | Museum der Kulturen Basel (CH) |Tanzfest Basel (CH)
lost and found | overrun instrument/object
candyflip
concert for generative audio system
Festival les digital, Bern (CH)
theoneandthemany
enhanced table performance
IRCAM, Paris (FR) | International symposium, theatre of objects, Bern (CH)
variations on the invisible
performance | in collaboration with Sol Bilbao Lucuix | museum of cultures, Basel (CH)
smioa
mixed media concert | Dampfzentrale, Bern (CH)
vom Verschwinden
performance | |Theater Roxy, Birsfelden (CH)
lui is

composition | for electric guitar and tap | Auditorium, Bern (CH)
2016/17
variations on the unstable
performance | in collaboration with Sol Bilbao Lucuix
Festival Interdance (BEL) |Tanzfest Basel
discontinuation
composition | for Petzold flute and 8 megaphones
Milano Musica (IT)
tulpa
performance | in collaboration witht Sol Bilbao Lucuix
Landesmuseum, Zürich (CH)
the discontinuatin of an echo
performance| in collaboration with Sol Bilbao Lucuix
Theater Basel (CH)
gömböc
composition | for bass clarinet
Papiermühlestrasse, Bern (CH)
una corda meccanica
composition for motorised zither
Parzelle 403, Basel (CH)
glint
Composition | for grand piano and electromagnetic manipulation
Papiermühlestrasse, Bern (CH)
2014/15
Involution
performance | in collaboration with Sol Bilbao Lucuix
Unternehmen Mitte, Basel (CH)
smioa
performance | in collaboration with Sol Bilbao Lucuix
Theater Basel (CH)