Amelie Duchow developed her interest in electronic music in the 1990s through close ties with the german underground club scene, eventually shaping her own minimal ambient style under the moniker Fräulein Amelie. After relocating to Italy in 2003, she performed at key venues and festivals including Stazione Leopolda, Festival della Creatività, and MUV Festival, blending glitch, ambient, and experimental sounds into immersive DJ and live sets. In 2007, she co-founded together with Marco Monfardini  the project SCHNITT focusing on audiovisual experimentation.

SCHNITT SCHNITT is the collaborative project of German experimental musician Amelie Duchow and Italian media artist Marco Monfardini, active since 2007. Their practice merges sound, image, and technology through custom-built tools and software. Since 2010, SCHNITT has developed a distinctive body of work presented internationally. That year, they founded the platform and label Sync, debuting the audiovisual project SYNCHROPATH, which explores synchronism as a compositional method and was released on DVD and vinyl. Working on the concept of visual memory, the duo created MEMORY CODE, an audiovisual performance that explores visual memory as an internal image recalled and simulated through sound and video. SCHNITT uses abstract signals and real-time processing to evoke mental imagery, acting as a visual scanner of the viewer’s memory. The project has been shown at digital art festivals and museums across Europe and Asia as WESA Festival, e- Phil , Open Source Festival. The album MEMORY CODE was released on Sync in 2017. That same year, SCHNITT co-founded the interdisciplinary platform EXTRAsync with multimedia artist Gianluca Sibaldi, focusing on large-scale, site- specific projects and the development of advanced real-time audiovisual systems. This collaboration gave rise to works such as SCANAUDIENCE, a live performance based on real-time audience scanning, featured at major international festivals including MUTEK Montreal, Philharmonie de Paris (Biennale Némo) and ACT Festival South Korea. In 2023, the trio presented SCANSCAPE, a site-specific audiovisual installation developed in collaboration with Gianluca Sibaldi. Based on an analysis of urban life, SCANSCAPE was exhibited at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju. With a focus on cities around the world, the work reflects on the relationship between humans and technology, envisioning a “global city” where diverse cultures, identities, and languages coexist and intertwine. Their most recent project, WHITE BALANCE, applies the photographic white balance principles to the dynamic interaction of sound and image with the use of custom made photosensitive devices, the project premiered at LEV Matadero Madrid at has been shown since at digital art festivals as ACT Festival (KR), Tkeshi festival (GE), Live Cinema Festival (IT). SCHNITT continues to explore the evolving dialogue between media, perception, and contemporary culture through a practice rooted in experimentation and technological innovation.