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Outdoor interactive exhibit with people using headphones around a table in a park setting.

Group of people walking together with a glass of red drink in the foreground.

A group of people wearing headphones dancing outdoors in a park setting.

People with glowing headphones and colorful umbrellas at night, participating in an interactive exhibit outdoors.

Group of people with headphones sitting outdoors at night in a circle

Person sitting in a dimly lit closet with colored lights and papers on the wall, creating an immersive storytelling scene.

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Soundscapes

Sound offers unique opportunities for immersive storytelling. These productions use the acoustic medium as the main pivot to develop participatory experiences. At times, these productions give full space to the participants, through audio guides or by evoking presences and environments solely through sound, without involving live actors.

Text 'Le voci degli altri - Talking Objects Collective Exhibit' on abstract black and gold background

2025

A dimly lit room with a green door, a hand turning the handle, and a red shirt hanging inside.

Moody room with chair and glass on a transparent table

Interactive exhibit with a colorful locker covered in cat images and drawings

Person interacting with an immersive exhibit in a dimly lit room

Wooden box with sewing supplies and a smartphone on a table

Creative display of corrected Italian language exercise papers with dramatic lighting.

Group of people interacting with digital exhibit in Aula Colleoni

Dark room with black chair and checkered floor illuminated by spotlight

Closet with colorful clothes and scattered documents under blue light, comic book wallpaper background.

Small dimly lit room with a modern chair, small table, and display stand.

Reflective moment of a man in front of a mirror, soft lighting

Person in dimly lit room surrounded by scattered papers

Toy soldiers and action figure on a surface with a stuffed bear in the background

Retro kitchen setup with red polka dot wallpaper and vintage stove, featuring a moka pot and sticky notes on a fridge.

Dimly lit scene with a pink lamp casting a soft glow on a table with hands using a spoon

Fashion exhibit with eclectic clothing design in a moody setting

Cozy study corner with books, green desk lamp, and newspaper-clad walls.

Tent with 'non disturbare' sign and a box with boots in dim lighting

Vintage stove in a polka dot patterned kitchen with ambient lighting.

Interactive exhibit with colorful building blocks and headphones for immersive storytelling

Group of people celebrating at an interactive exhibit event.

Immersive exhibit with statues and dramatic lighting

Wooden drawer with books, lock, black wallet, and small objects.

Children's play tent decorated with photos and drawings under a hanging light bulb.

Vintage kitchen setup with red polka dot background, featuring an old stove and refrigerator.

QR code display and purple-lit ambient setting.

Hand-drawn pictures and writings on a wall illuminated by blue light

The Voices of Others

Talking Objects Collective Exhibit

Sala Colleoni - Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, IT

“The Voices of Others” is an exhibition dedicated to the interactive storytelling technique of Talking Objects, developed by Project xx1 in collaboration with national and international partners. The Talking Objects, on this occasion, give a voice to groups of people at risk of social exclusion and marginalization.

Each of these works invites the public into a private space: an intimacy revealed through interaction, offering itself for connection. It is an invitation to find the courage to take that step toward the unknown, the hidden, the truths that are only whispered.

Each work represents a life, a uniqueness, a breath – a person pushed to the margins of society by the judgment of others.

An opportunity to approach what we might often avoid in everyday life.

An artistic production project by the School of Decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome

Co-financed by the European Union within the Erasmus+ Small-Scale Partnership project “UNIQUE - Fostering inclusion through creativity and youth work”

Authors

Riccardo Brunetti Anna Maria Avella Simone Petrucci Alice Generali Eleonora Bracci Nicolas Brigante Barbara Cammarota Aurora Cinti Aurelio Cullhaj Filippo Fiaschi Eleonora Fiorucci Laura Graziosi Gabriella Martino Giulia Messina Andrea Piergentili Michelangelo Ruggieri

Audioguides Voices

Anna Maria Avella Nicolas Brigante Arianna Brunetti Riccardo Brunetti Aurora Cinti Aurelio Cullhaj Filippo Fiaschi Eleonora Fiorucci Alice Generali Andrea Piergentili Gabriella Martino

Audio Editing

Riccardo Brunetti Anna Maria Avella

ABA Teacher responsible

Donato Marrocco

Set Design

Martina Giannico Giusy Campisi

Artwork Setup

Students from Roma Fine Arts Academy and Cassiopea Academy of Dramatic Arts

Graphic Design

Pierluigi Ciasullo

Photography

Riccardo Rebollo

Production

Project xx1 and Academy of Fine Arts of Rome

Directed by

Project xx1

Group of people with blue headphones gathered under colorful umbrellas in a nighttime outdoor setting.

People wearing headphones engaging in a playful group activity in a bright indoor space.

Participants wearing headphones in an outdoor nighttime soundscape event

Group of people wearing headphones and holding colorful umbrellas at night.

People wearing headphones sitting in a circle outdoors at night, participating in an immersive storytelling experience.

Group of people participating in a silent disco with headphones outside a stone building at night

2024

Nexis (the Tango of freedom)

Collective Audioguide - 2024

A participatory experience using Wi-Fi headphones, stimulating relationships, dance, individual and collective actions, the creative use of space. Through the lens of the rituals of an ancient civilization that has long since vanished, it explores the concept of freedom, the invisible connections that shape our lives, and how our choices are interconnected—revealing how inclusion can be easily fostered or denied.

Developed in the frame of the European project 2023-3-IT03-KA153-YOU-000172324 "DIVE IN! Immersive Learning in Youth Work"

Authors: Riccardo Brunetti and Anna Maria Avella
Narrating voice (Italian): Eleonora Bracci
Narrating voice (English): Maria Grazia Mancino
Audio Editing and Soundscape: Riccardo Brunetti

People wearing headphones interacting outdoors among trees during an event.

People participating in an outdoor silent disco wearing headphones, enjoying music and dancing in a natural setting.

Group of people participating in an outdoor soundscape experience with headphones, surrounded by pink chairs on grass.

Group of people participating in an outdoor interactive exhibit with headphones

People enjoying soundscapes with headphones in an outdoor interactive exhibit

People dancing with headphones in an outdoor silent disco event.

Outdoor interactive exhibit with people wearing headphones seated on pink chairs facing demonstration.

People participating in an outdoor interactive event with headphones.

2019

The Milonga of Participation

Collective Audioguide - 2023

A collective, interactive, and participatory experience that, through the use of WiFi headphones, energizes group relationships by involving participants physically and emotionally, stimulating deep reflection on three dimensions of participation: personal, intimate, and social.

From an idea by Anna Maria Avella and Riccardo Brunetti, Developed with the participants of the project 2023-1-IT03-KA154-YOU-000149898 “ARTicipation: Body Languages for Active Participation.”

Text: Anna Maria Avella and Ilenia Lanni

Narrating Voice (Italian): Eleonora Bracci
Narrating Voice (English): Maria Grazia Mancino
Soundscape: Anna Maria Avella
Audio Editing: Marcello Danza

Fuga, a tre voci: un viaggio immersivo nel tempo con Project XXL

2020

Three people sitting around a table outdoors, engaged in conversation with a bottle and glasses present.

Outdoor table setup with sunset in the background

Three people seated at a round table outdoors, with a bottle and a dish in the foreground.

Three people sitting at a table in a park, engaged in conversation

Chairs in a sunlit forest clearing with tall trees

Woman in red dress at outdoor table facing a man

Group of people interacting playfully in a park setting

A woman in a red dress sits at a table outdoors, with a man standing nearby in a park setting.

Three people in a park, engaging with a suitcase in a playful manner.

Man shaving outside with a vintage camera under a blue cloth.

Woman participating in outdoor interactive activity by palm tree

Three people sitting at an outdoor table with a white cloth, engaged in conversation.

People embracing in a dimly lit tunnel, evoking immersive storytelling and participation.

Group of people enjoying outdoor activities in a forest setting.

People embracing in a dimly lit corridor with hanging lights

Two people interacting in a sunlit forest.

Three people laughing and relaxing on a blanket in the grass.

Group of people walking in a forest with a blurred glass in the foreground

People wearing headphones in an underground immersive experience with dim lighting

People dancing joyfully in a forest setting with onlookers in the background, embracing interactive exhibits and participation.

People participating in an outdoor interactive exhibit in a park setting, with trees and open grass.

fugue, in three voices

promenade performance - 2016

A shelter, a telephone, a suitcase, chocolate and a bike. A love story dictated by the atrocities of the war. The first man, the woman and the second man, inspired by the theatre play “Histoire d’amour” by Jean-Luc Lagarce. Three different voices, their thoughts, their feelings perfectly intersect in a binaural design, with the suggestive background of a park.

An experience to be lived through headphones, choosing scene by scene one of the three audio channels, each linked to a character. The audience will thus be caught in the sounds of the feelings and thoughts of the three characters who, evoking live François Truffaut's “Jules et Jim”, move and live through the crucial events of their story.

A Project xx1 production, in collaboration with the Scuola Popolare di Musica Donna Olimpia and the Teatro Villa Pamphilj with the contribution of the "8 per mille" office - Chiesa Valdese