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GR STUDIO S.R.L. · Piacenza, Italy

The technology
behind culture.

We write software. We make stages sound. We rent machines. We repair and support. We produce culture.

A technology studio with a single team: the people who write your management system are the same who rig your stage and bring you the printer.

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From code
to the stage.

Not six companies: six ways of doing the same thing — making technology work for the people who use it.

New · Websites and software for companies Your new website, built before we ask you for anything. Then software for the workshop. From website to part

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continents reached between 2025 and 2026

International projects

From Italy to the world.

Some projects have a site of their own. Spin the globe and pick one: each site opens with something to try with your hands.

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3D render of the Miller Theater in Augusta seen from the gallery: the empty stage with three circles of light, the gilded proscenium, the red seats in the stalls.

EU recovery plan · 2026 · led by the Milan Conservatory

The Four Turandot

Puccini’s Turandot in four theatres, two performances per city with a double cast, and a different ending in each city. The site opens on the thread of Act III: pull it and choose how the opera ends.

  1. Augusta, Georgia Miller Theater · February 2026
  2. Milan Sala Verdi, Conservatorio di Milano · 27 and 28 February 2026
  3. Daegu Keimyung Art Center · 12 and 13 March 2026
  4. Hangzhou Zhejiang Conservatory of Music · 15 and 16 April 2026
  5. Piacenza the studio and the XNL Musica labs
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Frame from the 360° recording of the Orchestra Nazionale Jazz dei Conservatori Italiani at the Arena Matsuri, Expo 2025 Osaka, August 2025.

EU recovery plan · Expo 2025 Osaka · led by the Latina Conservatory

Oriental

The orchestras of Italy’s conservatories at Expo 2025 Osaka, filmed in 360° with immersive audio, and our player to listen from inside, even without a headset. The site opens inside the concert: turn your gaze and the sound turns with you.

  1. Piacenza the studio and the XNL Musica labs
  2. Osaka Expo 2025 · jazz in August, symphonic in October 2025
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University of Georgia · Athens · since 2023

UGA Research Partnership

Our research partnership with the University of Georgia, on the software: since 2023 the halls of the Dancz Center rebuilt in virtual reality, then the performers’ faces and movement. It is the method The Four Turandot took to the theatre. Within the partnership Gianmarco holds the title of International Collaborator at UGA.

  1. Piacenza the studio and the XNL Musica labs
  2. Athens, Georgia University of Georgia, Dancz Center
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The 49-loudspeaker dome on the SPATIA site: rings of dots on a dark violet ground, with the sound lighting up on the right edge.

Creative Europe · European Platforms · proposal

SPATIA

The proposal for a European platform for emerging artists in spatial sound: music and sound art made for domes and rings of loudspeakers, wave field synthesis and headphones. We are bringing together venues, festivals and studios that want to present these artists and make their works travel. It grows out of The Four Turandot.

  1. Piacenza the studio and the XNL Musica labs
  2. Europe spatial sound venues, festivals and studios: the network is taking shape
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Our story

What we have done.

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Xavier Le Roy, in a red shirt, conducts the audience seated in the hall of the Nicolini Conservatory; behind him, the organ. Culture & production

September 2026Associazione De Arte Saltandi

dAS Festival 2026: technical direction and Le Sacre du Printemps with sixty-two loudspeakers

Four days of dance, music and the spoken word in a dozen venues across Piacenza. We handled the technical direction, and were inside the evening that put the audience in the orchestra’s place: Xavier Le Roy’s Le Sacre du Printemps.

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The piacenzamusicpride.com home page in a browser window: the red logo, the menu and the September 2026 articles. Photo, video & social

September 2026ongoingNicolini Conservatory, Piacenza

Piacenza Music Pride: the city’s music journal

Piacenza’s online music journal, running since 2014. Since January 2024 its newsroom has worked inside the Nicolini Conservatory’s communication team, which we coordinate: 705 articles since then, about one for every working day.

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Calaf rebuilt digitally and seen from below: the tenor’s face and his pale costume, simulated as real fabric, on a black background. Software

September 2026Nicolini Conservatory, Piacenza

Researchers’ Night: the Miller Theater in Augusta, on headphones

On 25 September 2026, in the former Carmine church in Piacenza, we brought The Four Turandot to the European Researchers’ Night: with a joystick and a pair of headphones you could walk through the stalls of the Miller Theater in Augusta while Calaf sings «Nessun dorma», with the hall’s real acoustics. The sound comes from an audio renderer we developed.

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The Nicolini’s Salone during the concert “Frontiere” on 12 June 2026, seen from behind the control desk: the camera, the laptop, the lit mixer and the screen on stage. Audio service

June 2026

Festival MusicMediale: two weeks across galleries and theatres

Concerts in a gallery, a live set under the porticoes, an opera at the Teatro Municipale in Piacenza and in Milan. The technical production is ours.

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The XNL façade on via Santa Franca at night, rebuilt in 3D

Interactive journey

Via Santa Franca, at night

A 3D journey through our work: from the XNL façade to the Conservatory cloister and its Salone, then to Athens, Augusta, Hangzhou and Osaka. With sound, scrolling or on autopilot.

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GR Studio’s building in Pontenure seen from a drone: a white building of squared volumes among the fields

The studio

676 square metres, our development hub.

Offices on two floors, the workshop where our audio gear is prepared and refurbished before every show, the studio where we write our software. In Pontenure, ten minutes from Piacenza: the hub every GR Studio project starts from.

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How we work

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A team, not a list of suppliers

Software, audio, machines: the people are the same and they talk to each other. For you it is one phone call, and nobody blaming somebody else.

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First we understand, then we propose

Every job starts from how you work: a registry, a stage, an office. The quote comes after the questions, not before.

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What we promise, we measure

Counters read every quarter, inventories piece by piece, visible progress. If a number does not add up, we are the first to say so.

They have worked with us · a team of 8

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