For nearly a decade, Passepartout Duo has lived in motion. Without a studio to return to, their creative world has been shaped instead by a constantly shifting horizon. Pieces from Places, a series of 12 tracks released monthly over the course of a year, encapsulates that wandering life into a series of vignettes released from different corners of the world.


Being Passepartout Duo has meant constant artistic reinvention: with each new piece, comes an instrumentation that is cast from the need to be agile and creative. Consisting of homemade synthesizers and DIY percussion instruments, the pieces’ characteristic setups are often shared as one instrument by the two performers, highlighting the cooperation and coordination that is distinct to their style.
Pieces from Places is two artists’ exercise in listening to the world: from the humid quiet of Taipei’s artist village to the urban rhythms of Belgrade or Tbilisi; the still coast of Ayvalik to the labyrinthine acoustics of Fes; Kolkata’s vibrant density or the winter timelessness of Trondheim - each location offers a fragment of an atmosphere from the duo’s peculiar perspective.
Each track works like a sonic journal: a negotiation between an idea, an experience, and a memory that refuses to settle into a single interpretation. The duo’s blend of off-kilter percussive grooves and delicately glowing synth melodies shapes the project with a language both unmistakable and unplaceable: music that belongs everywhere and nowhere at once. Pieces from Places is a celebration of curiosity and listening to the world as a collaborative continuous experience.
The artwork is a manipulated image of the Rostocker Pfeilstorch, a stork discovered in Germany which had migrated from central Africa with an arrow in its neck. It provided early proof for the migration of birds - the striking image acting as a reference for the varying connotations that travel and migration can assume.
The limited edition flexi disc features two additional bonus tracks (From Memphis and From Narva) - its artwork also references the Pfeilstorch featuring a two-color risograph print of artist Uladzimir Hramovich’s 2024 work “I am Pfeilstorch”.

"From Taipei": Written, recorded and filmed at the Taipei Treasure Hill Artist Village, TW (Dec 2024)
Installation artwork in the video by Namia Leigh - namialeigh.com
"From Belgrade": Written at Footnote in Belgrade, RS; recorded at Ikalto in Tbilisi, GE (Dec 2023)
"From Tokyo": Written and recorded at Paradise AIR in Matsudo, JP (May 2023)
"From Nicosia": Written and recorded at CYENS Thinker Maker Space in Nicosia, CY (Oct 2023)
"From Tbilisi": Written and recorded at CES (Creative Education Studio) in Tbilisi, GE (Jan 2024)
"From Ayvalik": Written and recorded at Gate27 in Ayvalik, TR (Sep 2024)
"From Kolkata": Written and recorded at Chander Haat in Kolkata, IN (May 2023)
"From Fes": Written and recorded at Nawat Fes in Fes, MA (Jan 2023)
"From Rauma": Written and recorded at RaumArs in Rauma, FI (Dec 2018)
"From Chengdu": Written and recorded at NY20+ in Chengdu, CN (Mar 2024)
"From Viisoara": Written and recorded at Acasă la Hundorf in Viişoara, RO (Aug 2023)
"From Trondheim": Written and recorded at LKV in Trondheim, NO (Dec 2023)
All tracks written and recorded by Passepartout Duo (Nicoletta Favari, Christopher Salvito)
Artwork: adapted from the image “Rostock Pfeilstorch” by Zoologische Sammlung der Universität Rostock, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Layout and Modification by Passepartout Duo.