As part of the concert season celebrating the Bicentenary of the transfer to its current site and the naming of the Royal Conservatory of Music of San Pietro a Majella, napoliGROUND transforms the urban fabric into an international laboratory for sonic arts and intermedial experimentation.
The synergy between the Conservatory “San Pietro a Majella”, the Napoli Totale Elettronica collective, the Madre Museum, the Teatro Bellini, the Pietà de’ Turchini Foundation, the Opificio Puca, and L’Asilo establishes an osmotic dialogue between Higher Education institutions, contemporary art hubs, independent research circuits, and the commons.
In this network of spaces, electronic musical practice operates as a relational and collective process based on theoretical research, compositional praxis, and live performance. Sound becomes a practice of co-creation: an act of sonic citizenship that roots experimentation in the living community.
This vision spans ten days of programming across historical spaces and places of participatory democracy. From the intermedial explorations of Marginale II to the site-specific sound sculptures of Re/Compose, up to the Electroacoustic Orchestra Officina Arti Soniche (OEOAS), napoliGROUND activates permeable sonic architectures. The theoretical core is the first edition of SPaMEC 2026.
With the participation of key figures in international sound experimentation — including Manuella Blackburn, Cedrik Fermont, Jean-François Laporte, Klaus Filip, Christian Kobi, and Radu Malfatti — the project is an open construction site.