Mattia Barro Splendore
I — Introduction

Mattia Barro Splendore

Cultural Researcher  ·  Sound Curator  ·  Music Editor  ·  Milan

Fifteen years across indie bands, club music, gallery installations, and cultural journalism. The thread connecting all of it: sound as a way of thinking, not just making.

Mattia Barro Splendore explores how music shapes identity, aesthetics and communities. His work moves across editorial practice, artistic research and applied cultural projects — from gallery commissions and live performances to brand campaigns and institutional collaborations.

Milan-based, working internationally.
Music Editor at Rolling Stone Italia.

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Artist Statement

My practice starts from a single premise: sound is how we understand our own feelings. Working across performance, installation, and sonic research, I explore the space where sound stops being aesthetic and becomes a way of knowing. The works I make are attempts to locate that threshold — for myself, and for whoever is in the listening. Because we are all listeners. And listening, I believe, is how we find out who we are.

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Selected Credits

01 Pinacoteca Agnelli Sound selection & mix for Piotr Uklański, Untitled (Dancing Canovas) Institution 02 Gió Marconi, Milan Live performance & album presentation Gallery 03 Peep Project, Philadelphia Sound installation (with Alice Visentin) Exhibition 04 Leone Film Group Sound design, cinema Cinema 05 Timberland Sound design, TV & digital campaign Brand 06 Intimissimi Sound design, TV & digital campaign Brand
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Radio & Curation

NTS Radio — UK Radio AlHara — PSE Room 303 — JP Radio Raheem — IT Foundation FM — UK Res Radio — AT Rinse FM — FR Fritto.fm — IT
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Music

Selected Discography 1 I Know Your Voice, But It's Hard To Find in The Crowd Silentes, IT 2025 2 Pray Anything EP — Jelly Kid Forever Santa Sede, AR 2025 3 OMG EP Ivreatronic, IT 2020 4 Un Luogo Sicuro — L'Orso Garrincha Dischi, IT 2016
Labels
Angelz — DE/IT C.T.M. — EC Dalf — FR Garrincha Dischi — IT Globalcore — CO Ivreatronic — IT Santa Sede — AR Silentes — IT Widows — DE
Selected Works 1 Child Voices in the Park Performance 2026 2 Latte Performance 2024 3 OMG (9871) x Primavera Sound Digital performance 2021 4 Ci Amavamo, What Happened? Videoclip 2021
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Artist Residencies

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La Moissie
Belvès, FR
2026
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Casa degli Artisti
Milan, IT
2023
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Jägermusiclab
Milan, IT
2022
4
Osa Sound
Basilicata, IT
2021
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Brand Partnerships

Ableton Adidas C2C Festival × Gucci Cheap Monday Nike Save The Duck Spotify x Pride
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Writing

Rolling Stone Italia Rivista Studio Elle Decor Marie Claire Linkiesta Esquire IL
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As Featured In

Artribune — IT Cosmopolitan — IT Primavera Sound — ES Sky TG24 — IT Vogue — IT Wonderland — UK
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Approach & Collaboration

How I work
Editorial thinking
Journalism and cultural analysis — reading scenes, aesthetics and communities with a critical eye.
Sound practice
Performance, installations, music — sound as a tool for research, not just production.
Cultural research
Understanding how music shapes identity, aesthetics and communities over time.

I am particularly interested in projects where these dimensions overlap — creating new formats between art, media and cultural production.

Selected areas for collaboration
  • Cultural research projects
  • Music direction & sound work
  • Curatorial and artistic collaborations
  • Editorial and narrative consulting
  • Cross-disciplinary cultural projects