SPEAKER

Lorenzo Ballerini

Artist

Conservatory of Trapani

Lorenzo Ballerini is a sound and new media artist, researcher, and professor of Electroacoustic Music and Multimedia Arts at the Conservatory of Trapani, Italy. Based in Florence, he holds a Master’s degree in Music and New Technologies from the Conservatory of Florence and a Post-Diploma Master’s degree in Artistic Music Research from the Conservatory of Rome.

His practice explores the intersection of sound, digital media, and physical space. Through transmedia installations and performances, he investigates the social, communal and political implications of contemporary technologies and their influence on perception, interaction and collective experience.

His work has been presented at festivals and international events including ADE Festival, ARTECH, Berlin Biennale, Bright Festival, CHB Berlin, Diffrazioni Festival, Fabbrica Europa, GAIDA Festival, ICSC, IRCAM-WAC, MA/IN Festival, MEFF, SMC and Tempo Reale Festival.

He has collaborated with artists including Alvise Vidolin, Christine Meisner, Michele Marasco, Nicola Sani, Paolo Parisi, Roberto Fabbriciani and Tiziano Manca.

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Session

Void: Rewiring Audience Smartphones into a Distributed Musical Instrument

Void is a browser-based audiovisual performance that explores the relationship between collective and individual perception. By scanning a QR code, participants access a web application that transforms their mobile devices into audiovisual elements controlled in real time by the performer.
The work addresses a contemporary paradox: technologies designed to connect people increasingly shape individual perceptual spaces. Void reconfigures this condition by combining a common acoustic environment with distributed audiovisual events generated on personal devices. Each participant contributes to the performance while experiencing a unique perspective, creating a constantly shifting dialogue between public and private space, presence and isolation, individual experience and collective listening.
Void proposes an artistic reflection on how everyday digital devices shape the contemporary social experience and how they can be temporarily reimagined as part of a shared performative environment.

Performance

🇬🇧 English

NEXTTECH

Audience Experience

Hybrid Music Lab

Speakers

Lorenzo Ballerini

Gallery (Raum 1) – nhow Berlin

Nov 5, 2026,

5.30 PM –

5.50 PM

Hybrid Music Lab: Exhibition and Performances

Welcome to this year’s Hybrid Music Lab: our first edition featuring a shared exhibition space alongside demos, performances, and installations. Here, everything is tangible, hands-on, and open to exploration.

Dive in, experiment and experience music, sound and technology coming together in an inspiring, playful environment of discovery and collaboration.

Performance

🇬🇧 English

NEXTTECH

Production Innovation

Hybrid Music Lab

Speakers