Francesco Venturi researcher, vocalist, composer

Research

Practice-based PhD

The Transformability of Voices, Kingston University London


Publications

Venturi, F. (in press). “The Morphology of Voice Cloning.” In A. Placanica & E. Lombardi Vallauri (Eds.), Voice and Technology. Nuove Musiche.

Venturi, F. (forthcoming). “La clonazione vocale.” Intelligenze, Krill Magazine.

Venturi, F. (2025). “Rumore vocale: biopolitica del vocal fry.” In M. Mastrogiacomo, L. Giust, & F. Bommarito (Eds.), Rumore. Routes & Routes.

Venturi, F. (Ed.). (2025). Creak: Theories and Practices of Pulse Phonation. Jenny Stanford Publishing.

Venturi, F. (2025). “Doing Things with Creak.” In F. Venturi (Ed.), Creak: Theories and Practices of Pulse Phonation (pp. 305–334). Jenny Stanford Publishing.

Venturi, F., Meizel, K., Pikes, M., et al. (2025). “What Can the Pulse Register Do?” In F. Venturi (Ed.), Creak: Theories and Practices of Pulse Phonation (pp. 411–438). Jenny Stanford Publishing.

Venturi, F., & La Barbara, J. (2025). “The Other Side of the Human Voice.” In F. Venturi (Ed.), Creak: Theories and Practices of Pulse Phonation. Jenny Stanford Publishing.

Venturi, F. (2023). “The Power Dynamics of Gratitude.” TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation, 2(2), 93–95.

Venturi, F. (2023). “Voices in and Out of Place: Misplaced, Displaced, Replaced, and Interlaced Voices.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, 7(2), 107–111.

Venturi, F. (2023). “C’è inumano e inumano.” Kabul Magazine.

Venturi, F. (2022). “The Value of Curating Music.” TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation, 1(1), 71–84.

Venturi, F. (2021). “Creaky Voice Gender.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, 6(2), 201–218.

Kane, B. (2021). “La voce: una diagnosi.” (F. Venturi, Trans.). Kabul Magazine.

Venturi, F. (2019). “Performatività del valore: note sulla produzione culturale.” Kabul Magazine.

Venturi, F. (2017). “Christine Sun Kim: artista in ascolto.” D’Ars Magazine.

Venturi, F. (2017). “Performatività della notazione musicale.” Arte e Critica, 88/89.

Venturi, F., & Vasiljević, N. (2016). “Jéremias and Reichelt.” In D. Arens, J. Dikstein, M. Harouni, et al. (Eds.), Eyelid Reports. Mousse Publishing.

Venturi, F. (2013). “Microstagione.” Sinestesie.


Educational projects (selected)

2025–2026: Play to Express Yourself, Agape Onlus, funded by the Dipartimento per le Politiche della Famiglia

2025: Somatica della Voce, Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare sulla Voce, Bologna

2025: Ecovocality, Waking Life Festival (Crato) / Nurt Foundation, Warsaw

2025: Bark, MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna

2025: Voice workshop, Scuola delle Idee Marino Golinelli, Fondazione Golinelli, Bologna

2025: Hide (vocal coaching), Chiasma / SIAE – Per Chi Crea

2024: La Voce Vissuta, Department of Child Neuropsychiatry, Policlinico Hospital, Milan

2024: Vocal Transformability, Refugee Worldwide, Berlin

2023–24: Opera Domani, AsLiCo, Social Theatre of Como

2022–23: Voce Minore, Municipality of Milan (Municipio 1)

2022: Nuovi Ascolti, Scuola Secondaria di I Grado D. Buzzati, Milan

2022: Podcast creation, Corriere della Sera

2022: Voice Theories, Conservatorio di Milano

2022: Vocal Exploration, Kingston University, London

2021: Sorgenti, Mirmica ETS, Milan

2019: Il Corpo Pensa, Spettro, Brescia

2018: Monotone-Silence / Inclusive, Goldsmiths University, London


Conferences

2025: Embodied Monologues Symposium, Maynooth University, Maynooth, IE

2025: AI & Digital Innovations for Voice and Vocal Music, University of Edinburgh, UK

2024: Sound, Movement, and the Sciences, University of Oslo, NO

2024: Subject/Object/Practice/Place, University of Malta, MT

2024: London Conference in Critical Thought, London Critical, London, UK

2024: MET24 – Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research, University of Hull, UK

2023: Festival della Scienza, Genova, IT

2023: Nuova Atlantide, Bomarzo (Viterbo), IT

2023: Doctors in Performance, Royal Academy of Music, London, UK

2023: Theatre and Performance Association Research Conference, University of Leeds, UK

2022: Danae Festival (Chair), Talk with Alessandro Bosetti and Lin Chi-Wei, Milan, IT

Sept 2022: Vicarious Vocalities (Chair), Newcastle University, UK

Jul 2022: Performance Studies Network, University of Surrey, Guilford, UK

Mar 2022: Methods in Artistic Research, University of Antwerp, BE

2021: Congress of Organology (ANIMUSIC), Fundão, PT

May 2021: Listening to (Mainstream) Popular Music in 2020, Innsbrück University, AT

2021: The Improviser’s Network, University of Huddersfield, UK

May 2020: RE-peat please! IASPM Benelux Conference (cancelled), University of Antwerp, BE

March 2020: Performance Knowledges (cancelled), Malta University, MT

Nov 2019: Who is the ‘I’ that Performs?: Enacting Musical Identities, Orpheus Institute, Ghent, BE

Oct 2019: Teatrum Botanicum III, PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin, IT

Oct 2019: Royal Musical Association 55th Annual Conference, The University of Manchester, UK

Sept 2019: 11th Conference on Music Since 1900, University of Huddersfield, UK

Aug 2019: Music and Disruptive Pasts, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK


Other Texts

Chronos in Java (2018)

27 Theses on Composition (2017)

Statement: Musical Composition (2013)

15 Theses on Creak

Venturi & Vasiljević: Selected Works


Interviews

Joan La Barbara (vocalist)

Ivan Fedele (Biennale Musica)

Igor Toronyi-Lalic (London Contemporary Music Festival)

Guy Morley (No-Nation)

Federico Ferrari (philosopher)

Gabriele Manca (composer)

Ezio Partesana (philosopher)

Martina Angelotti (curator)