Projects, jobs and news from GR Studio.https://grstudiosrl.it/en-gbhttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-02-piacenza-music-pride/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-02-piacenza-music-pride/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.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-09-notte-dei-ricercatori/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-09-notte-dei-ricercatori/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.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-09-pagine-social/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-09-pagine-social/The Nicolini Conservatory, with XNL Musica and the MusicMediale festival, Piacenza Music Pride and KaiVision: the pages we follow every day.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-09-das-festival/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-09-das-festival/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.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-09-ilpod-xnl-musica/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-09-ilpod-xnl-musica/A five-month course, an editorial team of young women and men, and a podcast that will tell the story of the Festival del Pensare Contemporaneo. The voices passed through our studios.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:35:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-09-sito-giorgia-orsi/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-09-sito-giorgia-orsi/A website rebuilt from scratch, faster and with no fee: three paths, the class calendar, bookings, reviews and a newsletter. It is online at www.giorgiaorsi.it.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-06-cardyn/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-06-cardyn/The management app we built ourselves: seven modules, from the personal one, free forever, to work; trades such as restaurant, garage, building site and health practice; end-to-end encrypted sync; AI agents that propose and never decide. Today it is at version 2.67.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-06-festival-musicmediale/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-06-festival-musicmediale/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.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-04-sala-atmos/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-04-sala-atmos/The design of a room for listening and mixing in immersive audio. We are at the materials-list stage.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-04-kit-video-conservatorio/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-04-kit-video-conservatorio/Cameras, lenses, drives and a dock: a complete set of equipment for recording lessons and concerts, chosen and delivered by us.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-04-oltre-le-nuvole/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-04-oltre-le-nuvole/At XNL Piacenza, from 2 April to 5 July 2026: an art exhibition, three theatre evenings and a sound path about the sky. Gianmarco Romiti was one of the three curators; we designed and installed the sound: ten loudspeakers along the hall and a 16.2-channel listening room. More than eight thousand visitors.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-03-the-four-turandot/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-03-the-four-turandot/Eight performances in four theatres, across the United States, Italy, Korea and China, captured to reconstruct Turandot in virtual reality: sound, gestures, faces, theatres.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-01-lo-studio-di-pontenure/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-01-lo-studio-di-pontenure/Offices on two floors, a workshop, a warehouse for the audio service. Since January 2026 the studio has had a place of its own.Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-01-syncoda-registro-elettronico/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2026-01-syncoda-registro-elettronico/One-to-one lessons, ensemble classes, calendars that change every week: a register written from scratch for the way a conservatory really works. The lesson screen, lessons and their states, the rules it is written by; and since September, a website of its own.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2025-10-nasce-la-srl/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2025-10-nasce-la-srl/On 15 October 2025 GR STUDIO S.R.L. was born: the studio, a company for many years, took the shape it has today.Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2025-09-xnl-aperto/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2025-09-xnl-aperto/From 19 to 21 September 2025, the fourth edition of XNL Aperto, XNL Piacenza’s contemporary art festival spread across the city and the province. Gianmarco coordinated it together with Paola Nicolin and Paola Pedrazzini; it opened with a sound performance at the Nicolini Conservatory, with XNL Musica.Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2025-08-oriental-expo-osaka/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2025-08-oriental-expo-osaka/The orchestras of Italy’s conservatories filmed in Japan in 360°, with immersive audio. And a player we wrote ourselves to choose what to listen to, down to a single instrument.Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2025-07-stampanti-a-contratto/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2025-07-stampanti-a-contratto/Kyocera printer rental: an all-inclusive fee, counters read every quarter, a replacement machine always ready.Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2025-07-musicmediale-videomapping/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2025-07-musicmediale-videomapping/On 6 July 2025, for the finale of the MusicMediale festival, the façade of the Nicolini Conservatory came alive with a projection mapping curated by Ali Hosseini, Gianmarco Romiti and Riccardo Dapelo: abstract, geometric images fused with an electronic soundtrack.Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2025-02-nicolini-talk/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2025-02-nicolini-talk/In 2025 we filmed and edited Nicolini Talk, the Nicolini Conservatory’s video interviews: from February to September, with Donato Renzetti, Carlo Izzo, Antonio De Lorenzi, Pietro Tagliaferri and other guests, up to the second series in the summer.Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2024-05-xnl-musica/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2024-05-xnl-musica/From 2023 to 2024 we directed the XNL Musica project, on level -1 of XNL Piacenza: rooms by Boxy System, with an ambisonic room of sixteen loudspeakers arranged in a sphere, a control room, a jazz room and a hall for ensemble music. On 3 May 2024 they were opened by Ryoichi Kurokawa: 350 seats sold out in three days.Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2023-ricerca-realta-virtuale-georgia/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2023-ricerca-realta-virtuale-georgia/Two periods at the University of Georgia, between 2023 and 2024: rooms rebuilt in 3D and explorable with a headset, binaural and ambisonic sound, capture of movement and faces. It is the research The Four Turandot grew from.Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2022-foto-concerti-nicolini/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2022-foto-concerti-nicolini/In 2022 and 2023 we photographed thirty-five concerts and events of the Nicolini Conservatory: 1,947 photos for the website, social media and the archive. And between 2025 and 2026, the New Sisters choir.Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2022-sito-conservatorio-nicolini/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2022-sito-conservatorio-nicolini/Between 2022 and 2023 we designed and built the website of the Piacenza Conservatory: official notice board and transparency, studies, events, library, room booking. Three years on, it is still its website.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2021-salone-e-rete-nicolini/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2021-salone-e-rete-nicolini/From 2021 to 2022 we coordinated the rebuild of the concert hall’s control room, with a Dante audio network reaching every room; between 2023 and 2024 the fibre. The next step: the same network all the way to XNL Musica.Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2020-bandi-nicolini/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2020-bandi-nicolini/Since 2020 we have followed the Conservatory’s ministerial and European funding calls in the areas we know, from writing the project to carrying it out: digital teaching, the concert hall, digital public administration, XNL Musica, the international projects.Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2020-prenotazione-aule-nicolini/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2020-prenotazione-aule-nicolini/We set it up in 2020, specifically for the Conservatory, and it is still there: today it manages 44 rooms across six sites, XNL Musica included, and about seven hundred and fifty users.Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2019-ogve/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2019-ogve/We filmed the Via Emilia Youth Orchestra, the best students of the conservatories of Emilia, in its concerts at the Nicolini: on 14 December 2019, conducted by Michele Gamba, and on 15 October 2022.Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2019-foto-e-video-imb/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2019-foto-e-video-imb/From 2019 to 2025 we photographed and filmed the machines made by IMB, which has been building tools for electrical panel builders and installers in Busseto since 1976: photos for the catalogue, thirteen product videos with the graphics of their YouTube channel and, in 2025, a photo shoot in the workshop.Fri, 30 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2019-06-digital-av-piacenza/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2019-06-digital-av-piacenza/In 2019 Gianmarco was touring a 360° installation: basilicas, palaces, the Pietra Parcellara and the woods of the Val Trebbia to walk through with a headset. The local daily Libertà interviewed him. It is where the road to Oriental and The Four Turandot begins.Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2017-comunicazione-nicolini/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2017-comunicazione-nicolini/Since 2017 we have recorded the Nicolini’s concerts and published them; since the end of 2023 we have coordinated its communication office. At the start of 2025 the Conservatory’s YouTube channel had more than 438,000 views.Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2016-dieci-anni-al-nicolini/https://grstudiosrl.it/en/story/2016-dieci-anni-al-nicolini/Since 2016 we have been the technology department of the Nicolini Conservatory in Piacenza: support, recordings, the room booking software, the concert hall, the website, communication, XNL Musica, funding calls and international projects. Ten years, in order.Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT