Pietro BardiniAbout
ListingsPressComposer and audio-visual artist, UK + Italy
Founder of label and event series STRATA
Releases as Partial Defrag
Published Works
Year
Title
2026Parallel Rooms, Album
2025
Memory Recoil, Partial Defrag, EP
2024
ScanDisk, Partial Defrag, EP
AV Works
YearTitle
2026
Corpus, A/V Performance
2023
AEco [AEco.STx/AEco.5o/AEco.16o.1i], Algorithmic System
2022
SL_genCore, A/V Installation
2021
Steel Tuner, 16-channels composition
YearWorkOutletType
2024Partial Defrag, ScanDiskThe QuietusReview“Snapshots of voices and digital debris conjuring up a journey through London’s nocturnal streets”
2024
Partial Defrag, ScanDisk
NINA ProtocolStaff Pick“Prickly compositions pulled from the dregs of hard drive compression”2021
Steel Tuner
CLOTReview“I am wrapping up my writing with a few words on Pietro Bardini and his piece that took the potential interaction between man and machine to the extreme. While his bespoke spatialising software treated each speaker as an individual source of resonance, the artist created a carefully curated computer choir out of the surround sound arrangement”
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