AntonioArgentieri

Electronic Music Composer

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Hammerklavier cover: a collage of piano and abstract forms — **Hammerklavier**2024 · Acousmatic composition

ICMC 2025

Best of the Listening Rooms · Ravello Records

Biennale Musica 2023

Jury, Conservatories section

DAFx 2026

Arbitrary Polygon Oscillator · Accepted paper
Cambridge, MA, USA · 1–4 September 2026

Selected works

Hammerklavier

2024 · Acousmatic composition

Selected for ICMC 2025, Boston.

Antonio Argentieri's "Hammerklavier" is an acousmatic composition that reimagines the sonic potential of the piano through radical extended techniques and innovative digital processing. The work is constructed entirely from recordings of non-traditional piano gestures—scraping, striking, and manipulating the instrument's strings, frame, and body—revealing a hidden world of resonances, percussive attacks, and spectral textures that transcend conventional pianistic expression.

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Selected for the 50th Anniversary of the International Computer Music Conference 2025 (ICMC 2025 Boston)

At the core of Hammerklavier is a sophisticated computational approach: custom Wolfram Language algorithms are employed to deconstruct and recontextualize raw piano samples, generating intricate timbral mutations and gestural transformations. This algorithmic intervention allows for an organic evolution of sound, where the boundaries between the instrument's acoustic identity and its digitally abstracted counterpart become increasingly fluid.

The result is a dynamic, percussive soundscape that merges human intuition with machine-driven recomposition, offering a listening experience that is at once immersive and unpredictable. Rooted in the electroacoustic tradition, Hammerklavier engages deeply with questions of materiality and abstraction, exploring the tension between the tangible, physical properties of the piano and the intangible, ever-shifting sonic architectures created through digital processing.

Release

18 September 2026

ICMC: Best of the Listening Rooms

Hammerklavier is included in this digital release celebrating the 50th anniversary of the International Computer Music Conference.

Label: Ravello Records
Catalog: RR8129
Track: 05 · Hammerklavier
Duration: 4:59

Engineered and produced by Antonio Argentieri.

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Research · DAFx 2026

POLYgon

Generalizing Polygonal Synthesis to Arbitrary Shapes, Morphing, and Three-Dimensional Polyhedra

Arbitrary Polygon Oscillator explores synthesis through geometric shapes. Traversal along a perimeter generates an oscillation; shapes, curvature and transformations change its timbre. The project includes morphing between polygons and cross-sections of three-dimensional polyhedra.

All audio examples APO VST

Antonio Argentieri · Francesco Scagliola
Accepted at DAFx 2026 — 29th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · 1–4 September 2026

Supplementary material · XXV CIM 2026

Audio examplesOriginal examples · 10 s

Compare three shapes at the same fundamental frequency and listen to how the timbre changes.

Antonio Argentieri · Bari, Italy

About Me

Antonio Argentieri (b. 1997) is an Italian composer and pianist specializing in electroacoustic music and algorithmic composition. He began studying piano at age six and graduated with highest honors in Classical Piano from the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory of Bari, where he also completed his second-level studies in Electronic Music under the guidance of Maestro Francesco Scagliola.

As a performer, Argentieri has appeared in concerts throughout Italy and Europe, including performances in Spain and Germany. His artistic development has been enriched through masterclasses with leading Italian and European performers and composers, deepening his understanding of contemporary performance practices and composition techniques.

His compositional work explores the intersections between acoustic instruments, algorithmic processes, and electroacoustic transformation, integrating extended instrumental techniques with digital sound manipulation to create immersive, process-driven sonic environments.

In 2023, he was selected as a jury member for the Conservatories section at the 67th International Festival of Contemporary Music during the Biennale Musica in Venice—an experience that deepened his connection to the international contemporary music scene.

In 2025, he participated in the 50th anniversary of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2025) in Boston, where his work was selected for the Best of Listening Rooms album, released in collaboration with PARMA Recordings.