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Matra, il canto del pianeta – Installazione
| category | Installation |
| subject | Travels, Landscape, Nature, Beauty, Abstract |
| tags | conceptual, algorithmic art, interactive art, data art, music, visual, geosignals, generative, art-science |
| base | 400 cm |
| height | 225 cm |
| depth | 1 cm |
| year | 2025 |
"Mātrā - The Voice of the Planet" is an algorithmic artwork created in collaboration with the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), set to debut as an installation at the 25th-anniversary exhibition in Rome on April 2, 2025.
The installation occupies an entire section, featuring projections, spatial audio, headphones, a touchscreen for interacting with the algorithm, and the optional use of Haptic Vests to enable participation by deaf visitors.
Through simple touch interaction, the audience can choose among four musical and visual designs (Water, Fire, Earth, Air), then select from geoscientific data streams—seismograms, geomagnetic readings, solar electromagnetism, or oceanic patterns. The piece will generate a unique, unpredictable, and unrepeatable audiovisual performance, a direct expression of the planet's signals as recorded by INGV. It immerses viewers in Earth's creative voice, translating its deep emissions into music and imagery.
Mātrā - मात्र*
Perceiving the Song of the Planet – by Filippo Gregoretti
Mātrā is an intelligent, evolving audiovisual work based on Amrita, the artificial artistic personality developed by Filippo Gregoretti through two decades of research. The piece interprets geo-scientific data from INGV, transforming it into a coherent flow of musical and visual harmony.
It can process:
Real-time global monitoring data, generating Earth’s artistic expression and fostering a connection with the entire planet.
Data from a single station, or archived records of past events, artistically reinterpreting moments of historical significance.
To see and hear the planet’s emotional expression—to feel, through evoked music and visuals, the vast forces at play—deepens our connection to scales of space and time otherwise beyond imagination.
Presented in multiple formats (installations, performances, visual and auditory works), Mātrā aims to inspire emotional resonance, transformation, and public engagement.
Musical & Visual Composition
The music weaves together diverse natural flows (volcanoes, oceans, winds, etc.) into an ideal ensemble, supporting creative and narrative variations—each with its own poetics. The visuals stem from the same inspiration, generating an endless, ever-shifting stream where evolutionary AI blends preloaded content with real-time generation.
Mātrā is part of the broader EXNATURA research line, where the artist explores the fusion of human, natural, and algorithmic realms.
Amrita
Amrita is a tool developed by the artist to pioneer new forms of visual, narrative, and musical creation. Each work combines sound, visuals, technology, and algorithms—entirely crafted by Gregoretti—forming the foundation of the audiovisual composition. These are then shaped by complex metalanguages, which act like creative scores interpreted by the algorithm. The result is coherent yet unpredictable, as the AI generates non-repeating evolutions in real time.
The core of Amrita-based works lies in evolution, unpredictability, and impermanence: no two outputs are identical. The AI cultivates an ever-evolving personality, using source material as inspiration. A second performance may share stylistic or emotional traits with a prior one (if using the same data/metalanguage), but it will never fully replicate.
Note: A preview of the physical installation (to be set up on March 31) is not yet available.
It can be experienced at the INGV exhibition in Rome until August 31st 2025.
*Mātrā
A term with roots in Pali/Sanskrit, appearing across diverse contexts with interpretations spanning both technical and spiritual domains. Its constellation of meanings collectively evokes—with profound symbolic resonance—the core themes of this artistic research.
Mātra (मात्र) refers to the “size of the universe and the atmosphere”.
Mātra (मात्र).— The full measure of anything, the whole or entire class of things, totality.
Mātra (मात्र).— The primitive subtil or invisible type of visible elementary matter.
Mātra (मात्र).— The neuter noun mātram aiso derives from √mā, “to measure”.
Mātra (मात्र) refers to the “size of an atom”, according to Utpaladeva’s Vivṛti on Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā 1.5.6.—Accordingly, “[...] Therefore even if an infinite number of atoms were connected, they should be manifest as having the size of one single atom.
[ka] maternal, related to the mother; ~[vat] motherly, mother-like;
Mātrā (मात्रा) refers to the “measure of time” (e.g., of the Atharvaṇaveda) and is used to describe Goddess Umā, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.3.3.—Accordingly, as the Gods eulogized Umā (Durgā/Satī) with devotion:—“[...] you are the essential feature of five elements”.
The installation occupies an entire section, featuring projections, spatial audio, headphones, a touchscreen for interacting with the algorithm, and the optional use of Haptic Vests to enable participation by deaf visitors.
Through simple touch interaction, the audience can choose among four musical and visual designs (Water, Fire, Earth, Air), then select from geoscientific data streams—seismograms, geomagnetic readings, solar electromagnetism, or oceanic patterns. The piece will generate a unique, unpredictable, and unrepeatable audiovisual performance, a direct expression of the planet's signals as recorded by INGV. It immerses viewers in Earth's creative voice, translating its deep emissions into music and imagery.
Mātrā - मात्र*
Perceiving the Song of the Planet – by Filippo Gregoretti
Mātrā is an intelligent, evolving audiovisual work based on Amrita, the artificial artistic personality developed by Filippo Gregoretti through two decades of research. The piece interprets geo-scientific data from INGV, transforming it into a coherent flow of musical and visual harmony.
It can process:
Real-time global monitoring data, generating Earth’s artistic expression and fostering a connection with the entire planet.
Data from a single station, or archived records of past events, artistically reinterpreting moments of historical significance.
To see and hear the planet’s emotional expression—to feel, through evoked music and visuals, the vast forces at play—deepens our connection to scales of space and time otherwise beyond imagination.
Presented in multiple formats (installations, performances, visual and auditory works), Mātrā aims to inspire emotional resonance, transformation, and public engagement.
Musical & Visual Composition
The music weaves together diverse natural flows (volcanoes, oceans, winds, etc.) into an ideal ensemble, supporting creative and narrative variations—each with its own poetics. The visuals stem from the same inspiration, generating an endless, ever-shifting stream where evolutionary AI blends preloaded content with real-time generation.
Mātrā is part of the broader EXNATURA research line, where the artist explores the fusion of human, natural, and algorithmic realms.
Amrita
Amrita is a tool developed by the artist to pioneer new forms of visual, narrative, and musical creation. Each work combines sound, visuals, technology, and algorithms—entirely crafted by Gregoretti—forming the foundation of the audiovisual composition. These are then shaped by complex metalanguages, which act like creative scores interpreted by the algorithm. The result is coherent yet unpredictable, as the AI generates non-repeating evolutions in real time.
The core of Amrita-based works lies in evolution, unpredictability, and impermanence: no two outputs are identical. The AI cultivates an ever-evolving personality, using source material as inspiration. A second performance may share stylistic or emotional traits with a prior one (if using the same data/metalanguage), but it will never fully replicate.
Note: A preview of the physical installation (to be set up on March 31) is not yet available.
It can be experienced at the INGV exhibition in Rome until August 31st 2025.
*Mātrā
A term with roots in Pali/Sanskrit, appearing across diverse contexts with interpretations spanning both technical and spiritual domains. Its constellation of meanings collectively evokes—with profound symbolic resonance—the core themes of this artistic research.
Mātra (मात्र) refers to the “size of the universe and the atmosphere”.
Mātra (मात्र).— The full measure of anything, the whole or entire class of things, totality.
Mātra (मात्र).— The primitive subtil or invisible type of visible elementary matter.
Mātra (मात्र).— The neuter noun mātram aiso derives from √mā, “to measure”.
Mātra (मात्र) refers to the “size of an atom”, according to Utpaladeva’s Vivṛti on Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā 1.5.6.—Accordingly, “[...] Therefore even if an infinite number of atoms were connected, they should be manifest as having the size of one single atom.
[ka] maternal, related to the mother; ~[vat] motherly, mother-like;
Mātrā (मात्रा) refers to the “measure of time” (e.g., of the Atharvaṇaveda) and is used to describe Goddess Umā, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.3.3.—Accordingly, as the Gods eulogized Umā (Durgā/Satī) with devotion:—“[...] you are the essential feature of five elements”.
