Salvatore Siriano is a Chicago-based composer, audiovisual artist, and educator whose work engages sound, video, film, and digital processes. Drawing on field recordings, synthesis, acoustic instruments, filmed landscapes, depth-camera imagery, and drone footage that he captures and transforms digitally, his work explores relationships between physical and virtual environments. His projects combine natural imagery with digitally altered visuals, reflecting on ecological change, perception, personal history, and the unpredictable ways memory resurfaces.

Recent audiovisual presentations include Sound/Image Festival (UK), Seoul International Computer Music Festival (South Korea), Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Musical (Brazil), Bangdo Tape Music Festival (South Korea), NOIS//E Multimedia Festival (Italy), Art Alive Festival (Portugal), the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, and the International Computer Music Conference. His recent live multimedia works have been performed by Civic Orchestra Fellows at Symphony Center, Neonautica Ensemble, and trumpeter Russell Monahan in a dome-projection setting at the Cernan Earth and Space Center.

In collaboration with Chicago photographer Alice Hargrave, Siriano crafted immersive sound collages for her Sea Change and Forest Shouting exhibitions. As a music educator, he has led workshops for Illinois school districts and at the Illinois Council for Exceptional Children Convention on fostering equity in music education through technology.

In summer 2024, Siriano taught music at the Roi Et School for the Blind in Thailand, in partnership with the U.S. Embassy, Northern Illinois University, and Mahidol University.

Appointed in 2020, Siriano is a tenured faculty member and Director of Bands at Triton College, where he teaches music theory and technology to many first-generation college students—just like himself. He has hosted a virtual lecture-recital series inviting artists from across the United States to perform and engage in conversation with Triton students and the wider community. Recent guests include social justice artist and photographer Tonika Lewis Johnson, Colombian American ensemble EnsAmble Ad-Hoc, Portland sound artist Crystal Quartez, and Michael Heralda, creator of Aztec Stories. Siriano also curates a global music series on campus in collaboration with Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music. In 2023, he received Triton College’s Outstanding Full-Time Faculty Member of the Year Award.