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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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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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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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In hoc signo vinces by Angelo Paccagnini and Eugenio Carmi – Symposium and Concert, November 9th 2024
Posthumous discoveries of unknown and never performed musical works always represent, in the eyes of researchers and the public, a valuable opportunity for new biographical readings and new interpretative scenarios. In hoc signo vinces (1976) is a score-catalogue discovered by archivist Carlotta Ghiretti at the archives of Eugenio Carmi (1920-2016, one of the protagonists of…
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L’Ircam et les 50 ans du Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou celebrates 50 years. Next Tuesday, at the Center Pompidou in Paris, I will give a talk about the history of IRCAM (founded by Pierre Boulez to associate the Center for art and culture with a Center for musical creation) in the context of the seminars organized by the History Commission of the…
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Angelo Paccagnini and Eugenio Carmi. In hoc signo vinces
My chapter “Angelo Paccagnini and Eugenio Carmi. In hoc signo vinces” has just been published in the book “Angelo Paccagnini. L’utopista indipendente”, edited by Maria Maddalena Novati and Marina Vaccarini, published by DieSchachtel records and NoMus, produced by Bruno Stucchi and Fabio Carboni, and with an attached CD with music by Paccagnini.
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My keynote speech at the XXIII CIM Colloquio di Informatica Musicale
Last Thursday (October 27) I gave a keynote speech at the XXIII CIM Colloquio di Informatica Musicale in Ancona: “The Computer Instrument: mixed methods to study past, present and future between archives, lost sources and oral history”. I was also able to admire the instruments on display from the Museo del Synth Marchigiano and from…
archives, collaboration, Collaborative Art, Composers & Artists, computer music, Interviews, John Chowning, Live-Electronic Music, Luigi Nono, musicaelettronica.it, Musical Assistant, Oral History, philology of music, sources for the study of electronic music, Technology and Society, Tracking the Creative Process in 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 review of Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde, by Jennifer Iverson (2019)
The final version of my review of this wonderful book was published in August 2021 in the Journal of the American Musicological Society.
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My co-edited issue “Notation in Electroacoustic Music”, Music/Technology XIII, 2019
This marvel is now out! The new issue of Musica/Tecnologia (XIII), edited by Stefano Alessandretti and me, is titled “La notazione della musica elettroacustica. Scrutare il passato per contemplare il futuro” (Notation in Electroacoustic Music). The journal is committed to OPEN ACCESS, so enjoy it! (for paper version, please contact the publishing house). https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/mt/index TABLE…
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