Passepartout Duo

Passepartout Duo is the musical project of Nicoletta Favari and Christopher Salvito. The group has been on a nearly continuous world tour ever since they began collaborating in 2015, performing across more than 60 countries while writing music for percussion, keyboards, and electronic instruments they design themselves. Across their performances, the instrumentation and location change but the music persistently returns to the same ideas: delicate interlocking rhythms, minimalistic repetition, pensive melodies and the physical exchange between two performers sharing one instrument. Their discographic releases trace different stages of this approach. Argot places the peculiar inflections of a 1970s Serge synthesizer alongside acoustic piano; Radio Yugawara (Tonal Union), made with Japanese ambient music pioneers Inoyama Land, emerged from a spontaneous improvisation session. Their 2026 project Pieces from Places gathers compositions written over several years in locations stretching from Taipei and Tokyo to Fes, Kolkata, and Tbilisi.