Acquaviva has been prolific on the underground/experimental music scene since 1990, working with major figures of the historical avant-garde including Isidore Isou, Marcel Hanoun, Pierre Guyotat, Bernard Heidsieck, Maurice Lemaître and Henri Chopin.
[2][3] as well as people from a more recent experimental scene like poets-artists Jean-Luc Parant, Joël Hubaut, lettrist Broutin, poet-film maker F. J. Ossang [fr], choreograph Maria Faustino, Maîtresse Cindy, cello Anton Lukoszewieze, violin Chihiro Ono, trombone player Thierry Madiot, pianist Mark Knoop, harpist Helen Sharp, flutist Carin Levine, Bartosz Glowacki (accordion) and mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg.
As the creator of "chronopolyphonic" installations, he works on the notion of "oxymoron" and in the intersection of instrumental or voice with computer editing since 1990, sometimes including video-texts or live streams, mixing a conceptual approach with physical body sounds.
His work has been performed in concert halls and also galleries like Palais de Tokyo and Centre Pompidou in Paris, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Weserburg Museum in Bremen, The Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London, La Fenice in Venice, Fylkingen in Stockholm, Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening Institute and Phill Niblock Experimental Intermedia in New York, Gallery Lara Vincy in Paris, gallery WhiteBox in New York City, Le Lieu, Québec, Spor Festival in Aarhus, Futura Festival in Crest, Licences Festival in Paris, ZKM in Karlsruhe, XP in Beijing, Hamburger Bahnhof and Berghain am Kantine in Berlin, Palazzo Bertalazzone in Torino.
393, Paris, October 2012 [5] and in 2018 Yoann Sarrat published a special issue of his magazine "Freeing (Our Bodies) #2" on the music of Frédéric Acquaviva with 39 contributions including Henri Chopin, Maurice Lemaître, Dorothy Iannone, ORLAN, Jacques Lizène, Michel Giroud Jean-François Bory, Philip Corner, Jean-Baptiste Favory, Bernard Heidsieck, Tom Johnson, Esther Ferrer...[6] He received a command from the French Ministry of Culture in 1998, from ACR (France Culture) in 1999 and 2018, Motus/Palais de Tokyo in 2009 and has been in composing residency at CEIIDA (Monterrey, Mexico, 2023), Emily Harvey Foundation Venice (2009, 2011 and 2016),[7] EMS studios in Stockholm (2015 and 2019) and also won the Beinecke Fellowship Yale University USA (2012 and 2017),[8] as well as have been curating since 2003 more than 40 exhibitions on avant-garde art and poetry (Gil J Wolman and Isidore Isou among others) in museums such as Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Serralves, Museo Reina Sofia.