Eugenio Petrarca

Research Focus

  • Sound Synthesis and Modular Synths
  • Sound for Live Performance
  • Interdisciplinary collaborative work
  • Sound Art Education

Curriculum Vitae

Acrartep is the moniker of Eugenio Petrarca, artist, composer and sound designer working in the realm of electronic music. Acrartep is also half and co-founder of the ambient project Ab uno.
Acrartep’s artistic exploration primarily focuses on genres such as Ambient, Drone, and Minimalism, where each sound acquires its unique sonic identity through a blend of tones and overtones. His compositions are characterized by extempore arrangements of modular synthesizer patches, featuring long and sustained drones, slow progressions, rhythmic shifts, and repetitions, carrying the listener in an immersive and meditative sonic journey and crafting soundscapes with a ritualistic approach.Acrartep continues exploring the possibilities of electronic music through a unique and experimental approach, offering to audiences sound experiences that challenge conventions and
invite the contemplation.

See: www.abuno.bandcamp.com

Selected Shows and Performances

  • 2023 Ipnotica Erotica Showcase @ Kantine am Berghain – Berlin [GER]
  • 2023 Boundary Condition @ Iklectik – London [UK]
  • 2023 Savage Republic + AB UNO live @ Urban Spree – Berlin [GER] 
  • 2022 AB UNO live @ Tempio del Futuro Perduto – Milan [ITA]
  • 2022 AB UNO + MAI MAI MAI @ Palazzo delle Esposizioni – Rome [ITA] 
  • 2022 Ab Uno + Desert Drone @ Occulture Conference – Berlin [GER] 
  • 2019 Ritualtronics Vol. I / Iklectik, London (UK)2020 Domecast feat. Dasha Rush / Teufelsberg, Berlin [GER] )
  • 2019 AB UNO + Bob Rutman @ Loophole – Berlin (GER) 
  • 2019 Transience #19 / Cashmere Radio – Berlin (GER) 
  • 2019 AB UNO / Kolonia Artystow, Gdansk (POL)
  • 2019 AB UNO / Kanepes Kulturas centrs, Riga (LV) 
  • 2019 AB UNO live @ Vertice / Vertice, Madrid (SPA) 
  • 2019 Ab Uno + Sigillum S / Hangar 49, Berlin (GER)
  • 2018 MantraSonic / 8mm, Berlin (GER)
  • 2017 Esperimenti Festival / Gaeta (ITA)

Press Selection

African Paper interview http://africanpaper.com/2023/02/04/it’s-the-place-and-material-that-inform-and-shape-our-work-an-interview-with-ab-uno/

Lost in a sea of sound https://lostseasound.blogspot.com/2022/08/ab-uno-les-gens-de-mogador.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR0gcrSjTTJK6QXzWLDKdH11O7mjab9acbBmR59qeFKBzuYlY2dCy4L6CkE

Music

2022 Acrartep Live @Kantine am Berghain [Live recording] 

2022 AB UNO – Les Gens de Mogador [Vinyl – digital] 

2022 AB UNO – Invenies Occultum [VA – digital]

2021 Acrartep – Magenta [dig – tape cassette]

2021 Acrartep – Teufelsberg Domecast [Live audio installation]

2020 AB UNO – La Linea Negra [Cd – video – digital]

2020 AB UNO – Regressive Repetition [digital]