Francesco Toninelli is a sound maker and artist from Florence, Italy. Coming from a classical music background, he developed and interdisciplinary practice with a focus on sound: instrumental and electroacoustic composition, instruments creation, installations, sculptures, text scores, music for dance and theatre, percussion instruments playing, sound engineering, pedagogy. His creations focus on the discovery and reinvention of the past and its representations as well as on the relationship with rural environment and agricultural practices, often taking historiographical, archeological, literary and vernacular sources as starting points and resulting in artworks always bonded to the materiality of sound and the other elements. Current or past collaborations as co-creator or performing musician include Marco Baldini, Marta Bellu, Michał J. Biel, Renato Grieco, Nicholas Remondino, Maria Valentina Chirico; he is part of Ensemble Ektos. He published records on Kohlhaas, 901 editions, Invisibilia Editions, Research Laboratories, Falt, Howard Records. In 2026 he had his first solo exhibition in the framework of Una Boccata d'Arte. Since 2023 he organizes the concert series AFF. He talks and writes for the webzine Golem.