SPETTRI An interactive guide toward the consciousness of sound through listening and the discovery of the auditoory phenomena

SPETTRI - An interactive guide toward the consciousness of sound through listening and the discovery of the auditory phenomena.

My research wants to explore the physical, perceptual, and political dimensions of sound and listening, presenting the latter as both a conscious sensory act and a cultural and political choice. Listening here is not understood as passive reception, but as an intentional and transformative practice—capable, through the study of acoustics, of questioning hierarchies, revealing power structures, and opening new forms of connection with the environment and others.

The written documentation, as foundational as the installation itself, delves into the physics of sound, psychoacoustics, auditory processes, the history of audio reproduction, and acoustic illusions—offering both technical and perceptual tools to deepen the sonic experience. The concept of noise is also examined, alongside its aesthetics of ugliness, and the fine line between sound as a weapon of control and as a means of resistance, community, protest, and culture.

This extensive investigation culminates in Spettri, a sound installation shaped as an experimental sound system: nine speakers and an oscilloscope fragment a single sonic signal into the separate frequency bands that compose it. The audience is invited to approach, engage, and enter a dialogue of discovery with the sound and its nature.
Spettri encourages attentive and curious listening, rejecting passive immersion in favor of a sensitive, structural exploration—where the poetry of electronic noise intertwines with the frequencies of the real.