Analysis of Sound Design Practices
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What can we deduce from the composers’ personal archives?
What do archives tell us about the person who has collected and organised (or disorganised) them over the years, about their own creative process, about their ‘workshop’? In this book (just published) “XENAKIS – BACK TO THE ROOTS. Philological Approaches to Electroacoustic Music” edited by Reinhold Friedl, Thomas Grĭll, Nikolaus Urbanek, and Michelle Ziegler, I…
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A history of the first computer sound spatialization system: John Chowning’s investigations at Stanford University (1962-1972)
Atmos? Spatial Audio? Immersive sound? Where did it all begin?Digital sound spatialisation systems for music, cinema, videogames, VR or portable systems, would not exist without John Chowning’s algorithm.François-Xavier Féron and I are delighted to have reconstructed the “History of the first computer sound spatialisation system: John Chowning’s investigations at Stanford University (1962-1972)” published in the…
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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 keynote @TENOR 2024 conference (Zurich ZHdK)
Overjoyed that my keynote “Unexplored Archives, Philology and Real People – How to study ‘sound-based art’ through sketches (design thinking, embryonic projects, first meetings, software programming)”, at the TENOR 2024 conference – International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, is now online. 2024: 4 April: Full video (my keynote and other talks): https://vimeo.com/930542621 Abstract: My presentation considers…
Analysis of Sound Design Practices, archives, Collaborative Art, CSC, Ircam, John Chowning, Music and Technology, Musical Assistant, Notation in Electroacoustic Music, Oral History, philology of music, Pioneers of electronic music, Sound Art, sound design, sound engineer, SOundNOiseMUsic, sources for the study of electronic music, Spectral music, Technology and Society, Teresa Rampazzi, Tracking the Creative Process in Music, women and music
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Computer Sounds in Luigi Nono’s Prometeo
As part of my research on collaborative creativity, on the music-technology relationship, and on the role of computer music designers / musical assistants, I studied the genesis of the computer sounds used in Luigi Nono’s Prometeo, generated with Giuseppe (Peppino) di Giugno’s 4i workstation.My paper “The Use of Technology in Revolutionary Perspective. Computer Music Research…
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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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Recent developments of our APDS project [Analyse des Pratiques du Design Sonore]: 28/29 Nov.
Next week, Nicolas Misdariis, Frank Pecquet, Nicolas Donin, David Fierro and I, will present the last developments of our project: “Pratiques et praticiens : résultats du projet APDS [Analyse des Pratiques du Design Sonore]”. IRCAM (Paris), 28-29 November 2019. Free Subscription here: https://www.ircam.fr/agenda/sound-design-days/detail/ ABSTRACT Le micro-projet APDS (Analyse des Pratiques du Design Sonore – Labex CAP, 2018-19)…
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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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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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“ANALYSIS OF SOUND DESIGN PRACTICES” at the XXII CIM in Udine
With my teammates Nicolas Misdariis, Frank Pecquet, Nicolas Donin, and David Fierro, we will be present at the next conference CIM (XXII Colloquio di Informatica Musicale) in Udine, Italy, from 20 to 23 November. Our talk is titled “Analysis of Sound Design Practices. Research Methodology” Our contribution describes an on-going project started in March 2018…
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