Roberto Cipollina

Roberto Cipollina, MA cum laude (Giacomo Puccini Conservatory of La Spezia)

PhD Researcher • Composer • Expert in Immersive Acoustic Environments at the Mantinea Institute

Roberto Cipollina is a composer and researcher with diplomas in classical guitar and composition, as well as a master’s degree in music for visual media from the Giacomo Puccini Conservatory of La Spezia. He studied composition with Joe Schittino and Andrea Nicoli.

Roberto has experience as a concert music composer, with works performed across several European countries, and as a composer of music for film, museums, and theatre. Alongside his compositional activity, he has written texts on orchestration and musical philology.

He has specialised in the application of the memory palace technique, a subject on which he has given lectures and conferences, and which forms the theoretical basis of projects he has designed with the aim of creating immersive environments for didactic and musicological purposes. He has also given lectures on composition with artificial intelligence, focusing on models of human–machine collaboration.

Currently, Roberto is a PhD candidate in immersive technologies applied to music at the Giacomo Puccini Conservatory of Music in La Spezia. His research focuses on the design and recreation of museum-quality immersive acoustic environments in virtual reality, with particular interest in the acoustics of the original performance of Prometeo by Luigi Nono, implementing the wooden structure engineered by Renzo Piano. He also focuses on composition assisted by co-creative agents and artificial intelligence systems, with particular attention to structural analysis and aesthetics.

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