Passepartout Duo - Pieces from Places
- 1From Taipei
- 2From Belgrade
- 3From Tokyo
- 4From Nicosia
- 5From Tbilisi
- 6From Ayvalik
- 7From Kolkata
- 8From Fes
- 9From Rauma
- 10From Chengdu
- 11From Viisoara
- 12From Trondheim
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"Pieces from Places" is a series of 12 tracks compiled by Passepartout Duo in different locations around the world.
One new track will be released each month for one year, starting March 27, 2025.
Since 2015, Passepartout Duo has been traveling without a studio, an apartment, or home base. This itinerant lifestyle has been fueling a unique musical practice that has now spanned more than fifty countries. In each place, they engage with artist communities, build new instruments, and exchange ideas. These “Pieces from Places”, recorded as sonic journals, exemplify Passepartout’s philosophy, building on a core musical language as much as the experiments conjured along the way.
Counting on their original self-built musical tools as trustworthy translators, and approaching occasional unassuming instruments on site, the two musicians weave together off-kilter percussive grooves with ethereal melodic synth motifs that belong to nowhere in particular, but sound intimately familiar.
From Taiwan to Serbia, India to Morocco, you can follow this journey through a monthly release: each piece represents a negotiation between an idea, an experience, and a memory, and contributes to the bigger picture in unique ways, making the experience of traveling a deeply joyful choice of sharing, encountering, and learning.
credits
releases December 18, 2025
"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)
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.
One new track will be released each month for one year, starting March 27, 2025.
Since 2015, Passepartout Duo has been traveling without a studio, an apartment, or home base. This itinerant lifestyle has been fueling a unique musical practice that has now spanned more than fifty countries. In each place, they engage with artist communities, build new instruments, and exchange ideas. These “Pieces from Places”, recorded as sonic journals, exemplify Passepartout’s philosophy, building on a core musical language as much as the experiments conjured along the way.
Counting on their original self-built musical tools as trustworthy translators, and approaching occasional unassuming instruments on site, the two musicians weave together off-kilter percussive grooves with ethereal melodic synth motifs that belong to nowhere in particular, but sound intimately familiar.
From Taiwan to Serbia, India to Morocco, you can follow this journey through a monthly release: each piece represents a negotiation between an idea, an experience, and a memory, and contributes to the bigger picture in unique ways, making the experience of traveling a deeply joyful choice of sharing, encountering, and learning.
credits
releases December 18, 2025
"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)
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.
