Sistema presents Reactive Fields, a concert that unites three composers on the international computer music scene. Each was commissioned to create an original work specifically for our ensemble, furthering our mission of researching and creating a new repertoire for computer music.
The concert will explore the architecture of a living network where sound, space, and people are inextricably linked. Through recursive structures, sound evolves in a state of constant reaction, blurring the lines between the performer’s intent and the machine’s response. By treating algorithmic synthesis as a responsive partner rather than a static tool, Reactive Fields invites the listener into a web of connections where improvisation becomes a dialogue of mutual adaptation exploring how we perceive, influence, and ultimately synchronize with the digital systems we create.
The concert program includes the following works (not listed in performance order):
Each Other (2026) – Luc Döbereiner
for six performers and six coupled oscillators
Phasenregelkreis (2023) – Luc Döbereiner
for three performers, three coupled sound synthesis system and video
Constructing Realities (Eco) (2026) – Dario Sanfilippo
for six performers and ecosystemic network
Audible Icarus (2016-2026) – Dario Sanfilippo
for performer and autonomous ecosystem
sis10punct (2026) – Pierre Relaño
for three laptop performers
Laptop Performer:
Davide Bardi ~ Marco Rotondella ~ Francesca Seggioli ~ Alessandro Casolino ~ Federico Ambruosi ~ Andrea Potenza
Sound Direction:
Joanna Carvelli ~ Davide Gagliardi
3 february 2026, 7:30 pm
AGON, Viale Sarca 336, ed. 15
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Dario Sanfilippo
Dario Sanfilippo is a composer, performer, audio programmer, and researcher who specialises in musical complex adaptive systems. He holds a PhD in Creative Music Practice from the University of Edinburgh, and his artistic research focuses on the exploration of new music through artificial intelligence (in the broadest sense) and artificial life implemented via adaptive audio feedback networks. His work combines principles of agency, autopoiesis, evolvability, and radical constructivism to design systems that are deployed in live performance for human-machine interaction or autonomous music.
Luc Döbereiner
Luc Döbereiner is a composer, musician and researcher whose work explores the fragility, contingency and materiality of sound. Through his music, he investigates the entanglement of social, technological and compositional systems, investigating processes of sonic becoming, liminality and the relationality of sound. His work explores how meaning and identity are both dissolved and constituted in sound.
Taking various forms, including collaborative and solo performances, fixed media works, and written scores for choirs, soloists, and ensembles, his music frequently incorporates adaptive generative processes and sound synthesis algorithms. Döbereiner views synthesis as a processual form of computational becoming, where perceptual forms emerge from material encounters. Influenced by a wide range of genres, including early experimental computer music, medieval and renaissance polyphony, noise, improvisation, and sound art, his music is characterized by continuously evolving forms, states of fragility, noise, and turbulence.
Originally from Berlin, Luc Döbereiner has performed in experimental music venues across Europe. He has collaborated with ensembles such as LUX:NM, Eklekto Percussion, KNM, Schallfeld, AuditivVokal and Vertixe Sonora. He studied at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague and holds a PhD from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. Alongside his creative work, he has taught at institutions including the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the University of the Arts Berlin, the Bern University of the Arts, and the Free University of Berlin.
He has also been a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield and the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics in Graz and served as a professor of AI in composition and sound synthesis at the University of Music Trossingen. Döbereiner is part of the duos End of Text together with Ludvig Elblaus and NOR together with Martin Lorenz.
Pierre Relaño
Pierre Relaño was born in France in 1991. After an engineering degree in artificial intelligence and signal processing at Institut National Polytechnique de Bordeaux, he pursued advanced studies in mathematics and physics at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Later on, he joined IRCAM, where he was researcher in the Music Representation team for a project entitled SMIR (Structural Music Information Research), his work there was centered on the algebraic description of non-tonal harmonic progression strategies. Nowadays, he works as tech lead engineer of the DSP department at Expressive E (electronic instruments manufacturer), in collaboration with the Faust programming language team at GRAME (Lyon).
Self-taught composer, he was initially interested in sound synthesis and algorithmic compositional processes. From 2012 to 2018 he performed his music live while constantly bonding new works with the construction of software instruments for studio and performances. He then gradually turned to instrumental music composition, in which his harmonic-timbral approach have found a more suitable writing space, while pursuing the embodiment of his techniques in his own computer-assisted compositional environment.
In recent years, he has collaborated with musicians from international contemporary ensembles (Divertimento, L’Itinéraire, Meitar, Ictus), and deepened his training through masterclasses by composers Franck Bedrossian, Unsuk Chin, Francesco Filidei, Mauro Lanza.
His music have been performed in venues and festivals such as IRCAM (Paris), Fabbrica del Vapore (Milano), ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week (Sansepolcro), CEME festival (Tel Aviv), Festspielhaus Hellerau (Dresden, ICAS / CTM festival program), Le Centquatre (Paris), Les Instants Chavirés (Paris), Biennale Némo ARCADI (Paris), Été 78 (Bruxelles), Nuits Sonores festival (Lyon), Les Siestes Électroniques festival (Toulouse), among others.