Giacomo Lepri
Somewhere in between music improvisation, interaction design, and academic research. In short, I am specialised in not being specialised. Busy making interactive systems for music performance, weaving together digital fabrication and human-computer interaction. I explore spaces where humans, art and machines meet and transform, pulling insights from the social sciences and qualitative research methods. I team up with practitioners from fields like dance, philosophy and engineering to make things that are meant to be experienced with the body. I perform regularly with the things I make, and they occasionally evolve into audio-visual compositions / installations.
Mostly, I play with the illusion of music and the magic of technology.
2025 MSCA Post-doc University of Genoa
2024 Post-doc InfoMus Casa Paganini, University of Genoa
2023 Post-doc Intelligent Instruments Lab, Icelandic University of the Arts
2022 Post-doc Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustic, Uni. Graz
2022 PhD in Media and Arts Technology - Queen Mary University of London
2016 MMus in Sonology Royal Conservatory of The Hague / STEIM Amsterdam
2014 Research assistant / Sound designer InfoMus Casa Paganini, University of Genoa
2012 BMus Electronic Music Composition Conservatory N. Paganini, Genoa
2011 Visiting student University of Edinburgh
I often perform, present or exhibit in academic and artistic contexts, including Ars Electronica Linz, Sonar+D - Barcelona, ICMC - NIME - DIS conferences, Institute of Sonology - The Hague, ZKM - Karlsruhe, IEM - Graz, ICST - Zurich, STEIM - Amsterdam, IRCAM - Paris, Guildhall School of Music - London, China Conservatory of Music - Beijing, MediaLab Prado - Madrid, Bauhaus University - Weimar, Guthman Musical Instrument Competition - Georgia Tech.
I taught at the Conservatory of Genoa N. Paganini "Interactive Multimodal Environments" and I was Teaching Assistant (TA) for the "Sound and Music Production" module at EECS department - Queen Mary University of London. I organise and deliver workshops / lectures on Digital Instrument Design.