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My work with video extends my musical research into the visual field, creating a dialogue between sound, image, gesture, memory and performance.
Across video works, live videopainting, installations and audiovisual collaborations, images become living matter—something to be composed, transformed and performed in real time.
The videos often emerge from the same artistic territory as my music: archives, travel, fragments, improvisation, ethnographic memory, cinema, visual art and experimental sound.
This section brings together a selection of video works created for music, contemporary art exhibitions, live performances, CD and video releases, and interdisciplinary projects.
2024
2024
"PF Series"
"PF Series"
Paola Fonticoli
Paola Fonticoli
Paola Fonticoli — Milan, 2024
A video project dedicated to the work of Paola Fonticoli, a painter, sculptor and fashion model.
Fonticoli’s artistic practice has been presented internationally since the mid-1980s, with exhibitions in Italy, Brazil, France, Japan, Germany and the United States. Her work has been included in exhibitions curated by, or presented with the support of, leading figures in contemporary art criticism and curatorship.
Art: Paola Fonticoli
Music: Giovanni Venosta and Massimo Mariani
Video: Roberto Musci
2020
2020
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
Algeria 1957
Algeria 1957
Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany — February 2020
A series of three videos created for an exhibition at Zeppelin University dedicated to Pierre Bourdieu’s photographic work in Algeria.
Between 1957 and 1961, Bourdieu produced an extensive photographic archive documenting rural life, everyday experience and social transformation in Algeria. These images became part of his broader sociological research and contributed to the development of what is now commonly described as visual sociology.
For the exhibition, Roberto Musci created three videos exploring Algerian music, the Algerian War, and his own ethnological and musical research.
2008
2008
As time goes by
As time goes by
An audiovisual performance based on soundtracks from Hollywood films of the 1940s to the 1970s, combined with live video created using videopainting techniques.
The project reinterpreted cinematic memory through live music, voice and moving images, creating a performance space in which cinema, concert music and visual improvisation intersected.
Voice: Liliana Bancolini
Piano: Giovanni Venosta
Guitar and mandolin: Massimo Mariani
Double bass: Tito Mangialajo
Videopainting: Roberto Musci
2004
2004
Halloween night concert
Halloween night concert
Milan, Italy — 2004
An all-night Halloween concert, performed from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., featuring a live score for Henri Desfontaines’s 1927 French silent serial Belfagor (Belphégor), together with a selection of early and experimental films exploring ghosts, phantoms and supernatural imagery.
The programme included works by Segundo de Chomón, Georges Méliès, the Lumière brothers and other pioneers of early cinema, alongside two original video works, In Your Eyes and Ghosts.
Belfagor Orchestra: Elliott Sharp, Steve Piccolo, Gak Sato, Walter Prati, Matteo Pennese, Claudio Gabbiani, Massimo Falascone, Daniele Cavallanti, Matteo Saltalamacchia, Diego Ruvidotti, Massimo Mariani, Claudio Chianura and Roberto Musci.
Monster
Monster
A video track created for Monsters, an album by Giancarlo Schiaffini and Walter Prati, released by Auditorium Edizioni.
Who Are You?, created by Roberto Musci, expands the musical material into a visual dimension, establishing a direct relationship between electronic sound, instrumental gesture and moving images.
Giancarlo Schiaffini: trombone and electronics
Walter Prati: cello and electronics
Video track: Who Are You?, by Roberto Musci
2003
2003
Hounded
Hounded
A bonus video track included on the album The Day After the End of the World Party.
The work combines music, video and spoken word, reflecting Musci’s interest in hybrid formats in which sound and image operate as parallel narrative materials.
Music: Massimo Mariani and Roberto Musci
Spoken word: S. R. Duncan
Video: Roberto Musci
Psichedelic Laborintus
Psichedelic Laborintus
Parma, Italy — 2003
A live concert and video project presented in Parma, combining rock instrumentation, electronics, improvisation and live visual performance.
The project brought together musicians from different experimental and popular music backgrounds, creating an intense audiovisual environment shaped by sound, image and performance energy.
Walter Prati: electric bass, cello and electric guitar
Massimo Mariani: electric guitar
Fabio Pansini: drums
Marco “Morgan” Castoldi: electric bass, keyboards and vocals
Video: Roberto Musci
Nomadi Urbani
Nomadi Urbani
A project by Massimo Cavallaro dedicated to urban spaces and the people who inhabit them.
Through music, video and live videopainting, Nomadi Urbani explored the contemporary city as a space of movement, encounter, fragmentation and transformation.
Massimo Cavallaro: saxophone and keyboards
Massimo Mariani: guitar and electronics
Roberto Musci: video and live videopainting
2002
2002
Beauty Unrealized
Beauty Unrealized
Beauty Unrealized
Canada, 2002
Beauty Unrealized is a multidisciplinary performance combining film, percussion and electronic sound. The work is structured around seven films and seven percussion pieces by Arnold Marinissen, creating a dialogue between image, rhythm, gesture and expanded sound.
The performance features works for percussion, electronics, musical saw and two feet, exploring the physical, theatrical and sonic dimensions of contemporary music performance.
Video contribution by Roberto Musci and Massimo Mariani: A Windy Place.
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