Fabrizio di Salvo

Fabrizio di Salvo was born in Switzerland and is of Italian origin. His works are at the boundaries between experimental music, contemporary composition, sound installations and scenic art, focusing on concepts that examine models between politics and social life.

He obtained a Bachelor in Sound and Media Art at the Hochschule der Künste Bern and a Diploma as sound engineer. He has attended workshops and master classes with Gilbert Nouno, Helmut Lachenmann, Malcolm Braff, Stefan Prins, Simon Steen Andersen, Dr. Johannes S. Sistermanns, Andi Otto and Urs Peter Schneider.

As a composer, choreographer and sound artist his works were shown at Milano Musica, Theater Basel, Theater Rote Fabrik Zürich, Theater Paco Rabal Madrid, Theatre Conde Duque Madrid, Theater Roxy Birsfelden, Neues Theater Dornach, Tanztage Berlin Sophiensæle, Schwankhalle Bremen, Münchner Kammerspiele, Museum der Kulturen Basel, Landesmuseum Zürich, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Kunsthaus Baselland, Kunstmuseum La Chaux-de-Fonds, Arcaden Gallery Berlin, Fondation l’Abri Geneva, Interdans Festival Belgium, Les Digitales Festival Bern, Neu Bad Luzern, Dampfzentrale Bern. Currently he is attending the Master in Contemporary Art Practice with Minor in Composition at the Hochschule der Künste Bern.

He sees himself as a bricoleur and alienates both material and composition in search of a coherent experience. This can lead to sound installations, new instruments, choreographies or compositions and the results can be understood as highly interdisciplinary. His work levitates between the visible and the invisible, the choreographed and the quotidian, the silent and the loud. The process of emergence is an integer part of what is to be shown as final result and is directly connected to its context. The art of the fragile is the experience of the sensitive, the compassionate, the emphatic and of profound strength. This understanding lies at the core of his work and experience, as the most important means of his artistic practice. Experience that is not subordinate to a goal, but celebrates the moment of joy among one another and can thus be perceived as a creative impulse and starting point of every work.