Sound · space · perception
Listening experiences across acoustic instruments, electronics and landscape.
A project shaped in carefully chosen spaces and in nature. Each encounter unfolds through the relationship between sound, place and perception.
FLUIZE
A practice across composition, space and perception.
FLUIZE is a sound research and practice project. Acoustic instruments, electronics and the qualities of each place become the elements of a composition created live.
Not a fixed sequence, but an open structure that develops through the meeting of environment, people and listening.
From September 2026
Next appointments
Two weekly ways into listening at Kendra. Join a single encounter or choose continuity across four Wednesdays.
Experiences
Three ways to encounter sound
Personal encounters, perceptual workshops and artistic events: different ways of moving further into the experience.
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Individual sessions
Live sessions for one person, a couple or a small group, developed through listening and the specific qualities of each encounter.
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02
Sound Journey
A live composition created with guest artists and musicians, across acoustic instruments, electronics, space and listening.
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Perceptual Cartography
A participatory workshop where electronics, environmental recordings, space and silence become material for observing how perception changes.
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FLUIZE in the present.
Events, guest projects and new listening opportunities at Kendra and beyond.
Retreat · Digital detox
Seravezza · Apuan Alps, Italy
INKONTRI
Three days of nature, practices and listening
An experience in the Apuan Alps shaped through three stages: Letting go, Alchemy · transmuting into essence, and The seal. FLUIZE joins the programme with a sound practice.
Guest event
Kendra · Prato, Italy
Kirtan and Vedic stories
with Chaitanya Academy Versilia
An encounter of chanting, listening and stories from the Vedic tradition, open to people with no previous experience.
Field recording
Sound photographs of the landscape.
Through field recording I gather the acoustic identity of a place: water, wind, vegetation, animals, cavities, distances and silences. As a photograph holds light, colour and form, a recording preserves the relationships, movements and depth of a particular moment.
I often choose natural environments where elements find a spontaneous balance and human interference recedes. In these conditions attention can slow down, allow the flow of thought to move into the background and become more sensitive to detail.
I bring these sound photographs into the sessions as part of the composition. They are not simply background ambience: they become listening material, open another perceptual space and can evoke images, sensations and memories through sound.
A recording does not replace the experience of a place: it preserves one listening perspective, chosen at a particular moment.
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For groups and organisations
Experiences beyond the studio
Sound experiences designed for different places, groups and occasions.
Events & collaborations
Sound experiences created with venues, festivals, retreats, hospitality spaces, artists and cultural organisations. Each project responds to the place, the context and the people taking part.
Organisations & teams
Listening experiences that create a pause from everyday activity and bring attention back to perception, the body and shared space.
Private experiences
Sessions for one person, a couple or a small group, hosted at Kendra or created for private homes and selected locations.
Courses & workshops
Learn the instruments, develop a practice, build your own setup.
Individual programmes and workshops dedicated to instruments, playing techniques and the design of personal or professional configurations—from selection and combination to acoustic, electronic and sound-system integration.
Instruments & techniques
Gongs, bells, harmonic and percussive instruments, microphones and electronics: how they work, how to play them and their expressive possibilities.
Building a setup
Selecting and combining instruments for individual needs, from acoustic, electronic or hybrid configurations to amplification, recording and spatial sound.
From practice to session
How to organise instruments, space and sound sequences for personal practice, individual sessions or experiences for an audience.
The space
Kendra — Sound & Yoga Lab
An independent space for sound, yoga and movement.
In central Prato, Kendra grew from the meeting between my sound research and Leonardo Nincheri's work with yoga and movement. Different practices connected by a shared attention to the body, space and the quality of experience.
The rooms host individual sessions, listening practices, Perceptual Cartography, Sound Journeys, courses, workshops and projects with guest artists and practitioners. The vaulted ceilings and intimate scale of the rooms become active parts of the experience: each setup responds to the acoustics, the number of participants and the format of the encounter.
Kendra is FLUIZE's home and a laboratory open to collaborations and new forms of research across sound and movement.
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About
Samuele Nigro
For more than twenty years I have worked with sound through instrumental practice, composition, electronics and recording. Music and traditional instruments were my starting point; today I create live sessions and compositions in which timbre, resonance and space become listening material.
Training in vibrational sound practice expanded this research through gongs, singing bowls, tuning forks and an increasingly broad range of resonant instruments, integrated with synthesis, field recording and spatial sound. The composition takes shape in the moment: each experience grows from the dialogue between instruments, place and people.
My research explores the relationship between sound, perception and attention. I am interested in using sound not only as expressive material, but as a condition for observing, perceiving and discovering something about ourselves and how we relate to what surrounds us.
Study and experimentation
An evolving enquiry
FLUIZE grows from more than twenty years of engagement with sound. Instrumental practice has gradually expanded through the study of vibration, acoustic instruments, electronic synthesis and spatial sound.
One strand of this enquiry begins with a recurring observation: while listening, attention seems to turn spontaneously towards certain sonic qualities.
Through the cataloguing of hundreds of instruments rooted in ancient traditions and used across different cultures in ritual, devotional and spiritual contexts, I collected and compared frequencies and spectral components. Their analysis brought to light, in several cases, recurring values close to those of a mathematical series developed from 7.83 Hz as its starting point.
From these relationships I developed an experimental frequency table and, in some tests, used an A4 tuning reference of approximately 422.8 Hz. Feedback gathered during listening experiences has been predominantly positive, opening further questions about the relationship between frequency, timbre, resonance and attention.
In 2024, an initial body of this work became part of the final paper for my training in sound-based practices. Since then, the study has continued through new measurements, comparisons between tuning references and observations developed in individual encounters, group experiences and workshops in social settings.
Instruments rooted in ancient traditions remain the foundation of the practice. Electronics, recording and spatial sound do not replace them; they make it possible to analyse, reconstruct and relate frequencies with greater precision.
The correspondences observed and the feedback collected are not treated as proof of universal effects, but as indications to be explored further. The enquiry continues by examining how frequency relationships, timbral qualities, space and continuity of listening may shape perceptual experience.
Taking part
Listening requires no previous experience
No technique or preparation is needed—only a willingness to attend to what happens.
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Choose a practice or programme.
At Kendra you can join the weekly practices, Perceptual Cartography, or choose an individual, couple or small-group session. Select the format and preferred date; I will confirm availability and the practical information directly.
A note
An experience centred on listening
These practices create a space for listening, presence and perception. Each person may move through the experience differently, with no prescribed state to reach.
FLUIZE operates in the field of wellbeing and experiential research through sound. It does not provide healthcare or therapy.
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Let's create a dedicated experience.
Private sessions, events and collaborations can be designed around the space, the people and the context. Share your idea and we can explore how to develop it together.