Lorenzo is a musician and sound artist based in Birmingham. He studied music at Dartington College of Arts and holds a Master’s in Sonic Art and a PhD in Music from The University of Sheffield. His practice explores the everyday as a site for creative action and imaginary, spanning installations, electroacoustic compositions, live performances and workshops. His research project Melting Buildings (2020-2025) explored the ecologies, rhythms and temporalities of public buildings by developing situated sound practices with Sheffield’s modernist Arts Tower and Western Bank Library. In 2022 he catalogued the Longplayer Archive with James Bulley. In 2021 he joined artist-led co-operative Artefact Stirchley where he co-hosts Artefact’s Improv Society Issimo! and helps with the running of the space. He is part of the long-term projects The Evil Usses and Ichigo Evil, and plays saxophone with many other artists and formations.

Contact

lprati1 [at] gmail [dot] com

^{Projects, events and exhibitions}

^{> Seven Stops (sound sculpture with Lee Mackenzie) — St. Swithun’s Church, Worcester, launched 15 March 2025
> Sounding the West Bromwich Way (workshop and sound map with Lee Mackenzie & Sandwell Visually Impaired) — West Bromwich, 2023-2024
> Music for the Reading Room (performance with Will Schrimshaw, Clelia Ciardulli, Rie Nakajima and Ross Davidson) — Western Bank Library, Sheffield, 22 March 2024
> Sounds of the Stacks (installation) — Western Bank Library, Sheffield, 17-31 July 2023
> The Single Plastics (performance with Mark Dennis, Michael Lightborne and James Mcilwrath) — A field in Stirchley, Birmingham, 07 July 2023
> Maybe that’s where it all comes from (installation) — SSOA Architecture Exhibition, Sheffield, 16 June 2023
> Live improvisation with Arts Tower scale model (performance) — Sound Junction, Sheffield, 31 June 2023
> Music for the Arts Tower with Platform4 (performace) — Arts Tower, Sheffield, 17 March 2023
> Melting Buildings (installation) — Sound Junction, Sheffield, 10 December 2022
> Melting Buildings (workshop) — NME Rush Hour Concert, Sheffield, 22-24 November 2022
> The Situationist Polutope (workshop) — Xenakis22 Centenary International Symposium, Athens 24-29 May 2022
> Legnaia — A Field in Stirchley, Birmingham 22 October 2021
> Acqua Calda — Sound Junction, Sheffield, 23 November 2019
> Acqua Calda — Steal: Away: Home, Sheffield, 17 July 2019
> Night Shift — University of Sheffield’s Architecture Exhibition, Sheffield Arts Tower, 14 June 2019
> Con Sfiato — Wigflex City Festival, Nottingham, 05 May 2019
> Con Sfiato — Sound Junction, Sheffield, 26 April 2019
> Frida’s Ashes — Wickham Theatre, Bristol, 02 February 2019
> Clifton Suspension Bridge Harp — New Scientist Live, London, 20-23 September 2018
> Clifton Suspension Bridge Harp — Jean Golding Institute Showcase, Bristol, 03 July 2018
> Microcosm — CeNMaS Launch Concert, Sheffield, 26 April 2018
> Clifton Suspension Bridge Harp — EPSRC Science for a Successful Nation, London, 21 February 2018
> Bin Music (with Matt Webb) — P R I L I C, Bristol, 8-16 December 2017
> Clifton Suspension Bridge Harp (launch event) — BBC Digital Week, Bristol, 20 October 2017
> Nebbia — Red Desert, Silent Spring, The Glasgow School of Art, 22 February 2017}

^{Conferences and presentations}

<sup>> 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 – Department of Landscape Architecture, The University of Sheffield, 22-23/04/21
> Urban Sound Symposium 2021 (academic poster) — 19-21/04/21
> Sinfonidria (press conference) – Forlì (IT), 26/05/2017
> Pervasive Media Studio ‘Lunch Time Talk’ on Sinfonidria — Bristol, 06/01/2017



Publications</sup>

^{> Prati, L. (2024). Melting Buildings: Exploring Site Through Resonance. Sonic Ideas, 16(31). https://www.cmmas.com/en/ideassonicas31/ideassonicas%2Fsonicideas-23
> Prati, L. (2023). The Well. In V. Fibisan, C. Fisher, A. Lehóczky, A. Moore, R. Van der Voet (Eds.), Route 57: Dweling, Issue 19. Sheffield. https://routefiftyseven.wordpress.com/lorenzo-prati-the-well/
> Prati, L. (2022). The Situationist Polytope. In A. Andreopoulou, D. Exarchos, E. Kiourtsoglou, & I. Steinhauer (Eds.), Centenary International Symposium XENAKIS 22: Lectures Workshops Concerts  (pp. 255). Spyridon Kostarakis. https://xenakis2022.uoa.gr/proceedings/
> Prati, L. (2021). “Melting Buildings: Three Approaches to Sonifying the Arts Tower Illumination”, in Abstracts of the Second Urban Sound Symposium. Proceedings 2021, 72, 4, p.10-11. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2021072004.
> Prati, L. (2021). Lorenzo Prati – Melting Buildings. Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture. https://doi.org/10.21428/66f840a4.ba69881c}

^Education

^{> PhD at The University of Sheffield, Department of Music, (October 2020 – current).
> MA Sonic Art, The University of Sheffield, (2017-2019).
> BA (Hons) Music, Dartington College of Arts – Falmouth University, (2008-2011).}

^Awards

^{> TUOS Arts and Humanities Knowledge Exchange Small Grant (HEIF) – Autumn 2022
> WRoCAH AHRC Competition Studentship (October 2020 – January 2024)
> University of Sheffield Postgraduate Scholarship (2017-2019)
> Julian Payne Music Scholarship (2017-2018)
> Falmouth-Yamaha Jazz Summer School Bursary (2012 & 2016)}