Frédéric Acquaviva

Frédéric Acquaviva (born France January 20, 1967) is an autodidact experimental composer and avant-garde sound artist living in Berlin.

Acquaviva has been prolific on the underground/experimental music scene since 1990. Creator of "chronopolyphonic" installations, he works on the notion of "oxymoron" and in the intersection of instrumental or voice with computer editing since 1990, sometimes including video-texts or live streams, mixing a conceptual approach with physical body sounds. His music pieces are thought from the compositional phase to the form of the final objet, as people could see at his retrospective sound exhibition "Frédéric Acquaviva, Music & Multiples Multiple Musics" at La Plaque Tournante, Berlin, in 2017 or with the first exhibition of his magazine CRU curated by Martha Willette Lewis at Institute Library, New Haven.

He has worked with major figures of the historical avant-garde, Isidore Isou, Marcel Hanoun, Pierre Guyotat,Bernard Heidsieck, Maurice Lemaître, Henri Chopin as well as people from a more recent experimental scene like poets-artists Jean-Luc Parant, Joël Hubaut, lettrist Broutin, poet-film maker F.J Ossang, choreograph Maria Faustino, Maîtresse Cindy, trombone player Thierry Madiot, pianist Mark Knoop, harpist Helen Sharp, flutist Carin Levine, Bartosz Glowacki (accordeon) and mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg.

His work has been performed in concert halls and also galleries like Palais de Tokyo and TIPI du Centre Pompidou in Paris, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Weserburg Museum in Bremen, The Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London, La Fenice in Venice, Fylkingen in Stockholm, Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening Institute and Phill Niblock Experimental Intermedia in New York, Gallery Lara Vincy in Paris, Gallery White Box in New York, Le Lieu, Québec, Spor Festival in Aarhus, Futura Festival in Crest, Licences Festival in Paris, ZKM in Karlsruhe, XP in Beijing, BKA in Berlin, Palazzo Bertalazzone in Torino. He has also created works for radios all around the world: France Culture, Radio Libertaire, Resonance FM, WGXC Radio New York, Deutschlandradio Kultur, RadioWebMacba, Radio Canada.

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