Projects on Francesco Papaleo

Trust Utopia

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CHEAP’s international open call brought together 601 artists, 952 submissions, and 209 posters installed throughout Bologna.

I composed the original music for the campaign video, shaping a sonic journey that matches the energy of the selected works and the collective spirit behind the project. The visuals and editing are by Undervilla.

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Credits

DJ Gigs

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Late-night set at Atelier Oz, Paris.

Past Dj Gigs

2025-09-20 - La Fesste
2025-08-30 - Free Party | East France
2025-06-14 - La Fesste
2025-03-29 — La Fesste
2025-03-14 — La S.A.V. aux Nautes
2025-02-15 — Free Party | East France
2025-01-17 — Desarmons Bolloré | Cirque Electrique
2024-12-21 — La Parole Errante
2024-12-07 — Le Jargon Libre | Cirque Electrique
2024-08-23 / 24 — Free Party | East France
2024-08-17 — Italo Brothers | Fiesta de Gracia
2023-12-31 — Planetaria: NYE
2023-09-16 — Planetaria: Back to School
2023-08-15 — Italo Brothers | Fiesta de Gracia
2023-07-21 — Festival Les Frairies Buissonnières #2
2023-02-05 — BVIO Dark Disco DJ Set | CHEAP Bologna
2022-08-18 — MÉTAMORPHOSE FESTIVAL | Kluster x La Fesste
2021-07-09 — Nadjingar & Francesco Papaleo x Les Disquaires

Fuck War

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Music for CHEAP’s 2024 call for artists: a manifesto against war that took over the streets of Bologna through large-scale poster interventions.

CHEAP Street Poster Art — Call for Artists 2024.

Project reach:

662 participating artists
41 countries involved worldwide
163 posters selected and installed in public space

Credits:

Neural Audio Spring Reverb

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Neural Audio Spring Reverb is a differentiable model of analog springs designed for the Neutone plugin platform and presented at DAFx 2024. The project combines circuit-inspired DSP with deep learning to capture the chaotic behaviour of hardware tanks while remaining lightweight enough for real-time performance.

Neural Audio Spring Reverb running inside Neutone.

The toolkit includes:

BVIO

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Abbiamo finito i buoni sentimenti

[We’ve run out of good feelings.]

An installation project in a temporary space
2nd – 5th February 2023

Palazzo Sassoli | Vicolo Bolognetti 18 | Bologna

Photo credit: Margherita Caprilli

BVIO
con le parole di [words by]:

AIA - anonymous iranian artists / Motus / Muna Mussie / Christina Maria Pfeifer / Fabiola Naldi / ZimmmerFrei / Ivana Spinelli / Giorgina Pi / La Rivoluzione delle Seppie / Maddalena Fragnito / Francesca Bono / Eva Geatti / Piersandra Di Matteo / Wissal Houbabi / Inside Porn / Porpora Marcasciano / Fiorenza Menni / Silvia Bottiroli / Francesco Costabile / Coco Riot / Collettivo Amigdala / Carolina Bianchi / Giovanni Attili / Anna Rispoli

Bologna Modulare

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Bologna Modulare (BoMo) is an informal, distributed hub across Emilia-Romagna for electronic musicians exploring modular synthesizer systems. Born in early 2021, the collective is non-hierarchical and genre-agnostic: ambient, drone, industrial noise, techno, and experimental soundscapes coexist, unified by the instrument itself — the modular system as an activator of experiences rather than a stylistic boundary.

I am part of the collective, performing with my modular setup and taking part in its activities across the region.

Indigo

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Indigo is a Barcelona-based DJ collective weaving together Italo disco, deep techno, and Latin electronics. We curate club nights focused on community care, inclusive dance floors, and unexpected sonic pairings.

I co-founded the project to experiment with long-form back-to-back sets and surround-style DJ rigs that blur the line between performer and audience. Our events activate independent venues, social centers, and rooftop spaces across the city.

oh!theladystone

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

oh!theladystone is an indietronica band that fuses analog synths, guitars, and glitchy beats into intimate, cinematic songs. I co-wrote and produced the record, shaping a live setup that lets us resample vocals and guitars in real time while projecting reactive visuals.

oh!theladystone performing with modular synths and live visuals.

Highlights:

Non Vengo dalla Luna

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

“Soggettiva attorno al 14 dicembre 2010”

Non Vengo dalla Luna is a documentary theatre piece born in the aftermath of the December 14, 2010 demonstrations in Rome. Faced with an official narrative that erased many lived experiences, we collected first-person accounts—intimate stories where private life and political struggle intertwine—and reworked them into a stage form that privileges voice, memory, and listening.

Text and performance: Carla Vitantonio
Music and sound design: Francesco Papaleo

Concrete Bologna Elettroacustica

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Concrete Bologna Elettroacustica is an electro-acoustic and acousmatic collective born in Bologna in 2010.

We want to promote and spread the listening of electronic and electroacoustic music, in its most diverse meanings and nuances, also through self-built and unconventional diffusion systems. We activate cultural paths that tend to restore sound to a fundamental and primary importance in the artistic experience as well as in everyday life.

During our activity, we have created several projects: HOLO Laptop Ensemble, ORFEO Collettivo Elettroacustico, Immersioni Sonore, Ephemeral. Each project is characterized by their own performative and experimental scope. The contamination and interaction between different media, such as music, audiovisual, plastic and figurative arts, are an integral part of the group’s poetics and activity.