“Scappa” is a single by the Italian rapper Nitro, built around a question many people ask themselves: as disappointments, misunderstandings and pain pile up day after day, does it take more courage to leave and breathe again, or to stay and try to make this a better place? For the single’s release, I created a webpage that turns that question into something you can hear.

The page is a data sonification of people leaving Italy, based on ISTAT figures. As visitors listen, the numbers appear on top of the artist’s video, synced to the music, and the track reacts to them: the more people leave, the quieter and more distorted the music becomes, until the sound itself seems to empty out along with the country.

I worked on the project on my own in 2025, handling both sides of it. I composed and produced the sound in Ableton Live, shaping how the track degrades as the data grows, and built the page in SvelteKit, keeping the numbers, the video and the music moving together as a single experience.