Ciacona (VR 3D video)

Photographic details extruded into three-dimensional forms create the backdrop of a scene in which the dancer Risa Kojima interprets a harpsichord composition by Johann Pachelbel. Five distinct interpretations unfold simultaneously across different areas of the stage.

Via Appia (Web app and VR app)

A fanciful reconstruction of the ancient Via Appia through which the viewer can freely wander, inspired by a celebrated etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

The work is also available as a full-scale virtual reality application for Meta Quest. Viewing the web version requires downloading approximately 160 MB of data. The experience has been tested with Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers.

Navigation on desktop devices is controlled with the mouse: hold the left button to look around, and use the scroll wheel to move forward and backward. On touch devices — provided sufficient RAM is available — the viewer can look around by moving a finger across the screen, while pinch gestures allow forward and backward movement through the virtual environment.

Praeludium et Fuga (Web App and VR app)

An interpretation of the Praeludium et Fuga BWV 883 by J. S. Bach (music played on my clavichord). Available also as a real-scale VR app for Oculus Quest. Watching the web version implies downloading some 160 Mb. Tested with Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Use the mouse left key to look around.

Il giardino di Armida (Mixed Reality app)

A baroque opera scene interpreted as mixed reality experience.

Unum Cole Deum (VR app)

Ten harpsichords, placed all around you at the vertices of a decagon, play the 40 voices „Ten Commandments fugue“ of the famous Venegas de Henestrosa’s book of keyboard music from 1558, while structures that may resemble tables and inscriptions raise up…

Vexations (VR app)

An app running for almost 24 hours! So long is the time it takes to repeat the Satie’s “Vexations” musical theme 840 times, as the composer indicated. Was this just a joke? The first to take it as a serious challenge has been J. Cage, who organized the first complete performance. Here is an excerpt of my musical and visual interpretation. Immersed in a foggy landscape, the viewer hears the musical theme coming from somewhere behind the fog curtain. Little by little, a shape appears, slowly moving toward him. The viewer realizes that the music source is bound to the shape, which is approaching and will eventually cross him. The musical theme sounds again, this time bound to another shape, coming from somewhere else, and so on…During their passage, the shapes partially superpose, creating every time new visual situations.