Academic
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My latest talks here and there at various International Conferences
In these last few days leading up to the end of 2025, I would like to share my latest presentations, which I have had the pleasure of giving over the last six months. I have spoken a lot about Teresa Rampazzi, and I am very happy about that, but I also discuss about the birth…
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COMBINED METHODS TO STUDY COLLABORATION, CO-CREATION AND COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE IN THE DIGITAL MUSIC ERA. THREE CASE STUDIES BETWEEN ORAL HISTORY AND SOURCE CRITICISM
In my recent article COMBINED METHODS TO STUDY COLLABORATION, CO-CREATION AND COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE IN THE DIGITAL MUSIC ERA. THREE CASE STUDIES BETWEEN ORAL HISTORY AND SOURCE CRITICISM, I give a theoretical frame and contextualization of my research method, which I developed to study various aspects of music with new technologies (sound-based art). The combination of…
Academic, Andrea Valle, archives, Clara Iannotta, Collaborative Art, Combined method to study electroacoustic music, computer music, Fausto Romitelli, Interviews, Laurent Pottier, Live-Electronic Music, Mauro Lanza, Musical Assistant, Notation in Electroacoustic Music, Oral History, philology of music, sources for the study of electronic music, Tracking the Creative Process in Music
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Unveiling Camillo Togni’s (1922-1993) Creative Process in Electronic Music
Doing analysis of electronic music also means understanding – in addition to the audio, sketches, score (if any) and technology – the circumstances that led an author to create the piece. “Recitativo for Tape” (1961) is the only work of electronic music made by Italian composer Camillo Togni who embraced dodecaphony and integral serialism. Like…
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Physicality, persons and personae in the creative process of sound-based-art
Next July 12th I’ll be keynote speaker at the Heroines of Sound Festival in Berlin, in the second panel titled “The engaged body and the aesthetics of electronic music”. I will share the stage with other speakers: Sabine Sanio (moderator), Greta Eacott, Katharina Ernst, Anna Murray, Karen Power, Teresa Riemann, Robyn Schulkowsky. My presentation will…
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My contribution for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art
It’s out! I am honoured to have a chapter in this new book edited by Sanne Krogh Groth and Holger Schulze. My chapter “Audiogrammi of a Collective Intelligence. The Composers-Researchers of S2FM, SMET, NPS, and Other Mavericks” revisits the impact of 1960s-1970s Italian electronic music experiences in the light of their interdisciplinary experimentation opening up to Sound Art,…
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How do they work? An analysis of the creative process in Sound Design obtained through an online questionnaire
Nicolas Donin and I will be presenting our talk “How do they work? An analysis of the creative process in Sound Design obtained through an online questionnaire” on behalf of our team, at the next Tracking the Creative Process in Music in Lisbon (10-11 October 2019). http://tcpm2019.fcsh.unl.pt/program/ Laura Zattra, Nicolas Misdariis, Frank Pecquet, Nicolas Donin and…
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A history of first encounters between Spectralists and Sound Researchers
My talk “Behind the official literature. A history of first encounters between Spectralists and Sound Researchers” is now online. Link to video: https://medias.ircam.fr/embed/media/x8a75e6 It is a recognized fact that studies such the ones developed by Jean-Claude Risset [2], John Chowning [2] and Joseph Fourier [3] on psychoacoustic, synthesis and sound representation, have opened the door to the development…
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Behind the official literature. A history of first encounters between Spectralists and Sound Researchers
I’ll be presenting my talk on the next Spectralism Conference, 12-14 June, IRCAM (Paris). ABSTRACT It is a recognized fact that studies such the ones developed by Jean-Claude Risset [2], John Chowning [2] and Joseph Fourier [3] on psychoacoustic, synthesis and sound representation, have opened the door to the development of French Spectralist music. Throughout the pages…
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Call for submissions: ORGANISED SOUND Vol. 25, N. 2
ORGANISED SOUND, Call for Submissions – Volume 25, Number 2 Issue thematic title: Time in Electroacoustic Music Deadline for submission: 15 September 2019 Topics for investigation could include: • critical schema of time representations which have been previously articulated by composers/analysts (e.g. Stockhausen, Xenakis); • comparison of analytical approaches in their treatment of subjective temporal…
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Our paper “Analysis of Sound Design Practices [ASDP]. Research Methodology”
Read here (http://cim.lim.di.unimi.it/2018_CIM_XXII_Atti.pdf) the proceedings of the XXII CIM conference (Federico Fontana and Andrea Gulli eds., organized by the AIMI – Associazione di Informatica Musicale Italiana), with a great diversity of researches that bring much excitement and promise to the field of Electroacoustic Music, Computer Music, Sound Design and Sound Studies. The general theme of…
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