XR artist focused on the creation of immersive content for arts and live performance. The core of my recent research has consisted in the realization of mixed reality hybrid instruments for live audio-visual performance and in the exploration of the boundaries between Opera and VR installation.
Qualifications
Postdoc, Arts and Extended realities, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2022
PhD in Music, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2020
Startup Semester, UC Berkeley, US, 2018
Specialized Master in Composition and Electronic Music, Hochschule fur Musik Basel, Switzerland, 2016
Master of Arts in Composition and Theory, Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland, 2014
Composition Diploma, Conservatorio G. Puccini, La Spezia, Italy, 2011
Master in Piano Performance, Istituto Musicale P. Mascagni, Livorno, 2010
Piano Diploma, Istituto Musicale L.Boccherini, Lucca, Italy, 2006
Experience
Assistant Professor at XJTLU, School of Cultural Technology, present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2021-2022
Assistant Researcher, City University of Hong Kong, 2020-2021
XR Artist for the production of Wanderer of Realities, Hong Kong 2022
XR Artist for the production of Essere - VR Opera, Hong Kong, 2021
Sound Engineer for productions of live-performance, CDs and videos (Hong Kong), 2019 - present
Collaboration with the Swiss Radio and Television for the musical Teen Dante (composer and vocal coach), 2016
Collaboration with Swiss Radio and Television for the musical All'Angelo Blu (composer and vocal coach), 2013
Commissioned composer by numerous international new music ensembles with performances in European, American and Asian countries, 2010 - present
Concerts as piano concert player in European and Asian countries, 2002 - present
Research interests
Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality
Extended Realities for performing arts
Live performance
Interactive multimedia
Interaction design
Immersive technologies
Augmented instruments
Virtual Instruments
Articles
Classes of Colors and Timbres: a Clustering Approach, Mannone, M., Distefano, V., Santini G., in Electronic Journal of Applied Statistical Analysis, 2023
Color and Timbre Gestures: an approach with bicategories and bigroupoids, Mannone, M., Santini, G., Adedoyin, E., Cella, C.E., in Mathematics, 2022
Proceedings
LINEAR: a multi-device Augmented Reality application for musical performance, improvisation and education, Santini, G, in TENOR 2018 International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, 2022
Augmented Piano in Augmented Reality accepted for publication in New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference 2020 (NIME 2020) proceedings. 2020
Composition as an embodied act: a framework for the gesture-based creation of Augmented Reality action scores accepted for publication in Sound and Music Computing Conference 2020 (SMC 2020) proceedings, 2020
Action scores and gesture-based notation in Augmented Reality in TENOR 2020 International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, 2020
Composing space in the space: an Augmented and Virtual Reality sound spatialization system in Proceedings of Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC ’19), 2019
Synesthesizer: Physical Modelling and Machine Learning for a color-based synthesizer in Virtual Reality in Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), 2019
LINEAR (Live-generated Interface and Notation Environment in Augmented Reality) in TENOR 2018 International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, 2018
The ALMS Project - Mobile Technology for the Instruction of Music Technology, Keyes, C., Santini, G., Chow, E., Naidu, S., in AES International Conference on Audio Education , 2021
Conference presentations
TENOR Conference - Marseille - Online format , 2022
Improvise! Symposium – Hong Kong/Zurich – Online format, 2021
TENOR Conference – Hamburg (Germany) – Online format, 2021
New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’20) – Birmingham (UK) – Online format, 2020
Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC ’20) – Turin (Italy) – Online format, 2020
Innovation in Music Conference (InMusic’19) – London (UK), 2019
IRCAM Workshops at Shanghai Conservatory – Shanghai, 2019
GeKiPe Workshop at Geneve Conservatory – Geneve (Switzerland), 2019
Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC’19) – Malaga (Spain), 2019
Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM ’19) – Madrid (Spain), 2019
IRCAM Workshops at IRCAM – Paris (France), 2019
Sound and Music Computing Conference 2018 (SMC ‘18) – Limassol (Cyprus), 2018
World Saxophone Congress 2018 – Zagreb (Croatia), 2018
TENOR Conference – Montréal (Canada), 2018
Courses taught
Immersion and Virtual Worlds, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool, 2023
