Fabio Perletta

Fabio Perletta is a sound artist and curator living and working in Italy. His work encompasses recorded compositions, performances, site-specific installations, text scores, online projects and participative actions, appearing worldwide at festivals and art spaces like A×S Festival (Pasadena, US), Human Resources (Los Angeles, US), BlueProject Foundation (Barcelona, ES), Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona, ES), Pollinaria (Civitella Casanova, IT), Museo De Arte Moderno (Medellín, CO), Auditum Festival (Medellin, CO), Musee National des Arts Asiatiques Guimet (Paris, FR), Screen City Biennial (Stavanger, NO), Ultima Festival (Oslo, NO), Ftarri (Tokyo, JP), Ochiai Soup (Tokyo, JP), Kid Ailack Art Hall (Tokyo, JP), Ryosokuin Temple (Kyoto, JP), Museum of Modern Art (Wakayama, JP), Café OTO (London, UK), O’ Art Space (Milan, IT), Imago Museum (Pescara, IT), Standards (Milano, IT), Saturnalia Festival (Milan, IT), TOdays Festival (Turin, IT), Eufònic Festival (Ulldecona/Barcelona, ES), E-fest Cultures Numériques (La Marsa, TN), roBOt Festival (Bologna, IT), Acusmatiq Festival (Ancona, IT), Flussi Festival (Avellino, IT), Krake Festival (Berlin, DE), Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome, IT), Mattatoio (Rome, IT), AlbumArte Gallery (Rome, IT) and others. He has participated in various artist residencies including Aequusol MMXX (Civitella Casanova, IT), EMS Elektronmusikstudion (Stockholm, SE), VOLUME (Los Angeles, US), Aqua Matrix (Bagnoli Irpino, US) and mAtter (Japan). Perletta’s solo and collaborative recordings are documented on LINE, Dragon’s Eye Recordings, Superpang, aufabwegen, Dinzu Artefacts, Granny Records and his own imprint 901 Editions. Founded in 2008, his label has since released more than 50 sound art and experimental music editions by international artists. In 2014, he co-founded Mote Studio in Berlin with artist Davide Luciani. The studio is both an art and design collective, production and publishing platform forging dialogues between sound and vision. Luciani and Perletta guide their research through the creation and direction of sound and spatial installations, graphic works, audiovisual pieces and editorial works. In 2019, Mote initiated Son.AR in collaboration with Art Republic and spatial sound artist Jordan Juras, investigating the concept of virtuality, presence and embodiment in relation to sonic arts and public spaces. Since 2014, he has co-curated Lux, an artistic program dedicated to presenting visual artists working with sound. In its 8 years of activity Lux has collaborated with museums, curators, exhibitions, festivals and contemporary art galleries, promoting solo and group exhibitions of artists like William Basinski and James Elaine, Thomas Koner, Arnold Dreyblatt, France Jobin and others. He collaborates with sound designer Pierluigi Scarpantonio for the impro project Cygni. He is currently a professor of sound design at ISIA University in Pescara, Italy.