[ Projects, Events & Exhibitions ]

2026

• The Poetry Room (performance/installation with Lee Mackenzie and James Mcilwrath) — CreaTech Frontiers, Birmingham

2025

• Chuffing! Sounding the loudspeaker’s vent port (paper + installation) — Composing (with) Systems, Sheffield
• Seven Stops (sound sculpture with Lee Mackenzie) — St. Swithun’s Church, Worcester

2024

• Music for the Reading Room (performance with Will Schrimshaw, Clelia Ciardulli, Rie Nakajima and Ross Davidson) — Western Bank Library, Sheffield
• Sounding the West Bromwich Way (workshop and sound map with Lee Mackenzie & Sandwell Visually Impaired) — West Bromwich

2023

• Sounds of the Stacks (installation) — Western Bank Library, Sheffield
• The Single Plastics (performance with Mark Dennis, Michael Lightborne and James Mcilwrath) — A field in Stirchley, Birmingham
• Live improvisation with Arts Tower scale model (performance) — Sound Junction, Sheffield
• Maybe that’s where it all comes from (installation) — SSOA Architecture Exhibition, Sheffield
• Music for the Arts Tower (performance & installation with Platform4) — Arts Tower, Sheffield

2022

• Melting Buildings (installation) — Sound Junction, Sheffield
• Melting Buildings (workshop) — NME Rush Hour Concert, Sheffield
• The Situationist Polytope (workshop) — Xenakis22 Centenary International Symposium, Athens

2021

• A Field in Stirchley, Birmingham

2019

• Acqua Calda (performance) — Sound Junction, Sheffield
• Acqua Calda (performance) — Steal: Away: Home, Sheffield
• Night Shift (installation) — University of Sheffield’s Architecture Exhibition, Sheffield Arts Tower
• Con Sfiato (performance) — Wigflex City Festival, Nottingham
• Con Sfiato (performance) — Sound Junction, Sheffield
• Frida’s Ashes (sound design) — Wickham Theatre, Bristol

2018

• Microcosm (performance) — CeNMaS Launch Concert, Sheffield
• Clifton Suspension Bridge Harp (installation with Yas Clarke & Sean Clark) — EPSRC Science for a Successful Nation, London

2017

• Bin Music (with Matt Webb) — P R I L I C, Bristol
• Clifton Suspension Bridge Harp (installation with Yas Clarke & Sean Clark) — BBC Digital Week, Bristol
• Nebbia (sound design) — Red Desert, Silent Spring, The Glasgow School of Art
• Sinfonidria (durational installation with Yas Clarke)

[ Conferences & Presentations ]

• Chuffing! Sounding the loudspeaker’s vent port (paper + installation) @ Composing (with) Systems, Sheffield (26th-28th March 2025)
• Music for the Arts Tower (presentation) @ WRoCAH Colloquium, Sheffield (14 June 2023)
• Music and/as Process: Music and Interdisciplinary Practice — University of the Creative Arts, Farnham (16-17 September 2022)
• Xenakis 22 Centenary International Symposium — Athens and Nafplio, Greece (24-29 May 2022)
• BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference 2022 — Plymouth (6-8/01/22)
• PGR Symposium 2021 — Dept. of Landscape Architecture, The University of Sheffield (22-23/04/21)
• Urban Sound Symposium 2021 (academic poster) (19-21/04/21)
• Clifton Suspension Bridge Harp (installation with Yas Clarke & Sean Clark) — New Scientist Live, London (20-23 September 2018)
• Clifton Suspension Bridge Harp (installation with Yas Clarke & Sean Clark) — Jean Golding Institute Showcase, Bristol (03 July 2018)
• Sinfonidria (press conference) — Forlì, Italy (26/05/2017)
• Pervasive Media Studio ‘Lunch Time Talk’ on Sinfonidria — Bristol (06/01/2017)

[ Publications ]

• Prati, L. Melting Buildings: Exploring Site Through Resonance. Sonic Ideas, 16(31) (2024).
• Prati, L. The Well. In Route 57: Dwelling, Issue 19. Sheffield (2023).
• Prati, L. The Situationist Polytope. In Centenary International Symposium XENAKIS 22 (pp. 255) (2022).
• Prati, L. Melting Buildings: Three Approaches to Sonifying the Arts Tower Illumination. Proceedings 2021, 72, 4, p.10-11 (2021).
• Prati, L. Lorenzo Prati – Melting Buildings. Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture (2021).

[ Education ]

• PhD in Music — The University of Sheffield, Department of Music (2020–present)
• MA Sonic Art — The University of Sheffield (2017–2019)
• BA (Hons) Music — Dartington College of Arts / Falmouth University (2008–2011)

[ Awards & Scholarships ]

• TUOS Arts and Humanities Knowledge Exchange Small Grant (HEIF) (2022)
• WRoCAH AHRC Competition Studentship (2020–2024)
• University of Sheffield Postgraduate Scholarship (2017–2019)
• Julian Payne Music Scholarship (2017–2018)
• Falmouth-Yamaha Jazz Summer School Bursary (2012, 2016)