Projects

A single archive for studio work, experiments, and long-running collaborations from Alessandro Saccoia and Simone Galofaro.

The selection includes Lisan Studio initiatives, earlier prototypes, open source explorations, and interactive work developed over the years.

Thembi

Thembi

2023-2025

Applied AI Platform

An AI venture for policy monitoring, strategic planning, and decision support. Alessandro Saccoia was Co-Founder and led product and technical work on systems such as PolicyManager and StreamScope.

Team: Alessandro Saccoia, Co-Founder, and collaborators

Mentor

Mentor

2025-2026

EdTech Platform

A platform for tutors, students, and parents to organize lessons, monitor progress, manage availability, and coordinate evaluations in one secure environment. The product is already used by multiple schools and tutors.

Team: Simone Galofaro and collaborators

Prof Otto

Prof Otto

2025-2026

AI Tutor

An educational AI tutor designed to guide reasoning instead of handing over answers. It supports students with step-by-step explanations, exercise review, and adaptive help in subjects such as physics and mathematics.

Team: Simone Galofaro and collaborators

MPC Smith

macOS App

A native macOS application for MIDI pattern creation and manipulation with a grid-based interface, real-time MIDI output, and hardware integration.

Team: Alessandro Saccoia

AlgoSynth

Web Audio

An algorithmic sequencer inspired by Autechre's Acroyear, with pattern generation, MIDI output, swing control, and song mode for complex rhythmic structures.

Team: Alessandro Saccoia

Moire

Moire

2024

WebGL

A hypnotic moire pattern generator with synchronized audio-visual synthesis, multiple pattern modes, and real-time control of both motion and sound.

Team: Alessandro Saccoia

Spray

Spray

2024

WebGL

A minimalist WebGL video synthesizer with fifteen procedural shader modes and live parameter control, inspired by the visual rigor of Alva Noto and Ryoji Ikeda.

Team: Alessandro Saccoia

VoiceStreamAI

Open Source Audio

An open source speech-to-text project based on hosted Whisper workflows, focused on configurable transcription pipelines for audio streams.

Team: Alessandro Saccoia

Wiki AI

Knowledge Base

A semantic knowledge base for artificial intelligence concepts, models, and architectures with structured navigation and research-oriented documentation.

Team: Alessandro Saccoia

PyRemoteView

Python Web App

A web application for browsing and viewing images stored on remote servers over SSH, with thumbnail generation and caching for smoother navigation.

Team: Alessandro Saccoia

Conway's Game of Life

Simulation

A browser-based take on Conway's cellular automaton, built as an interactive simulation that lets users explore emergent patterns in real time.

Team: Alessandro Saccoia

Real-time GANs

Real-time GANs

2024

Open Source Research

A work-in-progress exploration of RTMP streaming for images generated by adversarial networks, including real-time morphing experiments.

Team: Alessandro Saccoia

Mai Dire AI

AI Format

A format that makes artificial intelligence approachable and understandable, built to explain complex topics with clarity and a light editorial tone.

Team: Angela, Christelle, Sara, Cristian, and Alessandro

Festival Flinger

Software Rescue

An archaeological rescue mission for the nearly vanished Flinger module for Festival speech synthesis, ported and repaired to run properly on Unix and macOS.

Team: Alessandro Saccoia

Galapagos App

Typeface Tool

A companion app for Dinamo's ABC Galapagos typeface, letting designers explore a modular font system built from evolving character forms and stylistic alternatives.

Team: Felix Salut, Alessandro Saccoia, Dinamo

Canada Goose - Out There

Interactive Campaign

An interactive digital experience created for Canada Goose's Out There campaign, focused on immersive storytelling and product exploration.

Team: Dinahmoe and Alessandro Saccoia

This Exquisite Forest

Installation

A collaborative animation platform and installation produced by Google and Tate Modern where artists and visitors could branch, remix, and extend shared animated sequences.

Team: Google Creative Lab, Tate Modern, Dinahmoe, and Alessandro Saccoia

Beck - Hello Again

Interactive Music

An immersive music experience for Beck's Hello Again that translated the track into a digital environment users could explore and manipulate.

Team: Dinahmoe and Alessandro Saccoia

Infiniti - Deja View

Interactive Campaign

A digital campaign for Infiniti that turned automotive storytelling into an exploratory online experience.

Team: Dinahmoe and Alessandro Saccoia

Outcast

Interactive Experience

A digital experience exploring isolation and connection through interactive storytelling, visual atmosphere, and audience participation.

Team: Dinahmoe and Alessandro Saccoia

(x)trees

Generative Installation

An installation that generated forests from SMS and tweets, adapted from Flash to OpenFrameworks for the ISEA2012 Machine Wilderness exhibit.

Team: Agnes Chavez, Alessandro Saccoia, and Jared Tarbell