Laura Zattra
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A questionnaire-based investigation of the skills and roles of Computer Music Designers
This article I co-wrote with Nicolas Donin has just been published: A questionnaire-based investigation of the skills and roles of Computer Music Designers, Musicae Scientiae, September 2016 20: 436–456, doi:10.1177/1029864915624136. This essay adds one more piece to the puzzle of the musical assistant research I’ve been developing for four years, and the implications of collaboration in the art computer music scene.…
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Ladyz in Noyz (movie 2016)
Ladyz in Noyz. A movie/documentary (2016) in which noise ladies from different parts of the world collaborate online to bring one after the other their own live set in their own choice and style. International Call and Response: Ladyz in Noyz
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Immagini Per Diana Baylon: new vinyl by Teresa Rampazzi
As with the spellbinding Musica Endoscopica, this issue of Immagini Per Diana Baylon – one of her three known soundtracks for art installations – helps to place Teresa as Italy’s answer to Daphne Oram; that is, a pioneering female experimenter operating in a male dominated field since the ’50s, and an artist/musician/technician who was magnetically drawn to the emerging possibilities…
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Collaboration and Musical Assistants at IRCAM, CCRMA, and CSC
On Thursday 14 April, I will present my research at the AHEM (Alternative Histories of Electronic Music) conference (14-16 April 2016). And I will also chair one of the sessions. I’m looking forward to hearing hidden stories happened around the world! Abstract The revolution of sound recording, synthesis and transformation (commenced in 1948 with concrete music and…
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Éliane Radigue International Conference, CFP
I am pleased to share with you this Call for Papers I just received from Marc Battier, professor at IReMus / Université Paris-Sorbonne. COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL ÉLIANE RADIGUE Le colloque international Éliane Radigue a l’ambition de réaliser un panorama de l’œuvre de la pionnière de la musique électroacoustique française Éliane Radigue et d’inciter à la recherche sur les…
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PLEIADI: Electronicgirls celebrate their 6th birthday
New collective release free-download available from 9th January Electronicgirls celebrate their 6th birthday with a new collective release: Pleiadi. Participants have been asked to submit a 6 minutes piece composed by following the Instruction for the Realization by Johann Merrich. Each track can be heard individually or in a collective track format: Pleiadum Constellatio, a single body of sound made by the sum of…
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John Chowning and Theremin: oral history interview (Stanford Archive)
Jonathan Manton, sound archive librarian at the Stanford University Libraries, has just published this article and mp3 file: on September 2nd, 2015, he carried out an oral history interview with John Chowning, Professor Emeritus at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and inventor of Frequency Modulation (FM) synthesis. They discussed Chowning’s background in computer…
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“Génétiques de la computer music”
Génèse Musicales is a new book edited by Nicolas Donin, Almuth Grésillon and Jean-Louis Lebrave (PUPS, Sorbonne, october 2015). Table of contents: http://pups.paris-sorbonne.fr/catalogue/arts-et-esthetique/hors-collection-histoire-geographie-et-archeologie/geneses-musicales In a chapter entitled Génétiques de la computer music I demonstrate that techniques derives from the discipline of philology of music can be usefully applied to the study of computer music. The chapter outlines an overview…
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“Can Composition and Performance be Research?” Forum, November 25th, London
Try to imagine a research funding application from Arnold Schoenberg. Research question: ‘can I make music in which all pitch classes are played equally often?’. In his article ‘Composition is not Research’ John Croft challenges a conception and ideal of compositional work in academia (download the PDF article). The incongruity between the act of composition and the way…
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Alternative Histories of Electronic Music
International Conference: Alternative Histories of Electronic Music: 15–16 April 2016, The Science Museum Research Centre, Queen’s Gate, London. Call for papers (Deadline: 31 October). The story of the genesis and development of electronic/electroacoustic music is often told in the same familiar way. Experiments in musique concrète in Paris and elektronische Musik in Cologne played a central role in…
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