aylesim

About

Alessandro Miracapillo

Berlin

I'm Alessandro Miracapillo. I live in Berlin, I'm Italian, and I work in English and Italian. I make software for sound and image: music instruments and plugins, installations and web interfaces. I design the interfaces and write the code myself.

I build web frontends with React, TypeScript and Next.js, and backends with Node.js or Python (FastAPI) when a project needs them. In 2025 I developed the North Sea chapter of the Berggruen Institute's Planetary Compendium from the designers' Figma files. The project received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2026. I also build sites for clients with headless CMSs such as PayloadCMS and PagesCMS.

Since 2018 I have run Aylesim Devices, where I design and build Max for Live instruments and support the people who use them. I studied electronic music at the Conservatorio Niccolò Piccinni in Bari, and I have made installations and live visuals.

Awards

  • Prix Ars Electronica 2026, Honorary Mention, Digital Humanity, for the Planetary Compendium (team project)
  • Premio Nazionale delle Arti XV (Italian Ministry of University and Research), first prize, Electronic Art, 2021, for Please Set a Password

Press

  • Create Digital Music, "Free sounds and samples in Ableton Live, powered by commons and community", August 2020 (Freesound4Live)
  • Rekkerd, "Aylesim releases Knob Studio experimental mapping device for Live", August 2024
  • Rekkerd, "Birds generative MIDI sequencer for Ableton Live by Aylesim", April 2026

Education

Diploma Accademico di I livello (bachelor's level) in Electronic Music, Conservatorio Niccolò Piccinni, Bari [needs year]

Languages

Italian (native), English (professional)

CV (PDF) Portfolio (PDF)

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Community

Max Berlin Network (2025 to now). Founder & Organiser. I organise in-person meetups for Max/MSP users in Berlin, with demos, troubleshooting and shared patching, and I built the website, maxberlin.network.

Teaching

  • Fondazione Cascina Cotica (2024): a four-month remote web development course in Svelte, SvelteKit, Git and GitHub Pages for adults aged 20 to 60 with mixed starting levels. I reviewed code until every participant had a live website.
  • La Scuola Open Source, Bari (2018 to 2026): worker-member of the cooperative. I ran workshops, including Self Playing Music (generative music in Max/MSP and Pure Data), ESP32 sensor builds at MAST Festival and Arduino at XFARM, and I maintained the cooperative's Kubernetes cluster (Docker, Nextcloud, Jitsi).

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