Agnese, Delia Banti she/her. Sound artist, musician and overtone singer, originally from a valley of northern Tuscany and roomer in different places of the Mediterranean area, she is actually based in Bologna, working with sound in music, performances, installations and audiovisuals.

With a colourful path of studies (in humanities, design and communication, electronic music and sound design) and a multidirectional interest in sound and music, her activity has always been gravitating around many points of attraction: such as choral music, soundscape studies, traditional folk music repertoires, space composition and the collaborative dimension of making music. One of the things that fascinated her the most in recent years is the research made around a sound installation project on frog voices and ancient ruins that she realised between the Electronic Music School of Bologna and the Ionian University of Corfu for her master’s degree.

She collaborates with Tempo Reale, the esteemed centre for musical research, production and education in Florence founded by Luciano Berio and she works on overtones singing projects with the Italian composer Roberto Laneri. She’s the creator of the intimate music project The Songbook and the co-founder of the electronic music collective born in the Conservatory of Bologna (2018-2021). Recently she collaborated with the choreographer Marta Bellu in “I versi delle mani” and she attended Malagola, the School of vocality and international centre for voice studies based in Ravenna.

In 2023, thanks to the support for artistic research from FONDO – Network for Emerging Creativity, she dedicated herself to the project “Speaking cables, choreographic device for voice, cables and loudspeakers”, in collaboration with the sound designer and computer musician Andrea Trona.

Her works have been performed in Italy, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, the UK and the US. She collects music tapes and spinning tops in order to “play” them all.

CONTACTS: agnese.banti@gmail.com