Pietro Bardini

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Pietro Bardini is an Italian-British composer and audiovisual artist. He works across sound composition, audio-visual performances, and installations. His works have been shown and played at arebyte, Barbican Centre, Café OTO, Corsica Studios, The White Hotel, The Horse Hospital, IKLECTIK, Spanners, Royal College of Art, Rio Cinema Dalston, Terrapolis Festival, MK Gallery, Rai Radio 3. He co-runs the label and event series STRATA and releases music under the alias Partial Defrag, as previously covered by The Quietus and as a NINA Protocol Staff Pick.

2026
Performance at STRATA 7
w/ Ran Cap Duoi, Onas Ueno, Castle Maol
Spanners, London

Installation
Wunderflux #2 w/Andrea Reveberi
Laboratorio Aperto, Parma

Live A/V
Corpus
Terrapolis Festival, Bologna

Performance at STRATA 6
The Engine Room, London

2025
Memory Recoil
EP (DL + CD) released on STRATA

Live A/V (Partial Defrag) at STRATA 5
w/ Canaan Balsam, Vittoria Assembri and Paola Lesina, Onas Ueno
The Horse Hospital, London

Horsehair
w/ Pietro Bardini, Anghgarad Davies & Maxwell Sterling
Spanners, London

Live A/V (Partial Defrag) at STRATA 4
w/ Onas Ueno, Laila Sakini & Castle Maol
The Engine Room, London

Horsehair
w/ Pietro Bardini, Flora Yin-Wong, Caius Williams & Ute Kanngiesser, Isidora Edwarrs & Luigi Marino, Julia Dèng Hànzú
Avalon Cafe, London

Live A/V (Partial Defrag)
Gloves to Bouqet Ettrcik Sites EP Launch
RCA Stage Space, London

2024
ScanDisk Launch Event
w/Isidora Edwards and Micheal-Jon Mizra IKLECTIK + STRATA, Goldsmiths SIML Space, London

ScanDisk
AV Album + CD released on STRATA

DYCP Arts Council England
Composing for Strings

Live A/V (Partial Defrag) at Strata+0.1
Spanners, London

Live A/V (Partial Defrag) at NEWPHORIA: THE END OF REALITY RAVE
curated by ecolagbohrsac2021 x Fetchish
Corsica Studios

Installation + Film
I Dropped My Camera Into The Deepest Hole In London
Our Slanted. Deserted. Remains
hARTslane, London

Rasa Machine with Dominique Savitri Bonarjee Goldsmiths SIML supported by IKLECTIK, London

2023
Live A/V (Pietro Bardini) for IKLECTIK
w/ Blood of Aza, Dale Cornish, John-Robin Bold,
The White Hotel, Manchester

Music Video
XL Order Digillusion
Evar Records

How to Dream a Rasa Machine
Performance using a conductive crochet suit
w/ Dominique Savitri Bonarjee, Drupad and Neeraj Mistry;

Live A/V (Pietro Bardini)
w/ Maria Bertel & Ecolagbohrsac2021
Cafe Oto, London

Performance at Natalia Janula & Joanna Wierzbicka
I MIGHT HAVE BITTEN OFF MORE THAN I CAN CHEW
Generation and Display Gallery, London

Live A/V Corpus Align
Hyperspace
IKLECTIK, London

2022
Live A/V (Partial Defrag)
Spectacle for Later
Computational Film Festival at Rio Cinema, London

A/V Installation SL_genCore
Otherness Festival
IKLECTIK, London

HYPERSPACE
Research group w/Irruptive Chora

2021
Web portal
Paraspaces and arebyte
The Wrong Biennale ‘21

Sculpture for Paraspaces
arebyte Gallery with Goldsmiths Computing dept., London

Multi-channel sound performance
AEco.16o.1i
Corpora Aliena at IKLECTIK, London

Multi-channel sound performance
Steel Tuner
Amoenus RnD and Showcase
IKLECTIK, London

Composition Cycles of Healing
SMQB Arts Residency
Minimal Probabilities
University of Birmingham

Live A/V
Minimal Probabilities v.III
TOPLAP Transnodal/London node

2020
You Speak of Soft Landing Spheres
Leave of Absence Gallery, London (online);

A/V Installation with Tice Cin
The Heart of The Whirlpool
Borough Road Gallery, London

A/V Installation
Minimal Probabilities v.II
MK Calling 2020
Mk Gallery, Milton Keynes

2019
A/V Installation
Minimal Probabilities
AI: More Than Human - Young Barbican Night Barbican Gallery, London

Sound Performance
Combat
Lee Krasner: Living Color - Young Barbican Night
Barbican Gallery, London

Sound Installation
Loops for Krasner
Lee Krasner: Living Color - Community view Barbican Gallery, London

2018
Sound Performance with Tice Cin
A Knave of Diamonds
Modern Couples- Young Barbican Night
Barbican, London

Installation
Blank
Hush Hush: Conversation with Myself - curated by Concrete Assembly
Guest Projects, London

Installation
Home
Common Ground
Barbican Foyer, London

Residencies
arebyte Gallery
Residency with Goldsmiths Computing Dept.
2021

SMQB
University of Birmingham
2020-21

The Crypt Gallery, London;
2020

Other
Specialist Technical Instructor for Physical Computing
Royal College of Art, London
2023-2026

Exhibition A/V Techician
V&A Museaum
2023

Judge at Artsdepot Open
2019

Barbican Design Yourself collective
2018

MCPS Production Music Awards: Nomination for Best ambient/minimalist composition
2017

Concrete Assembly
Curatorial Collective with Cosima Cobley-Carr and Maisie Linford
2017-18

Barbican Young Visual Art group
2017-18