collaboration
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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 -
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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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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Symmetrical Collaborations. Jonathan Harvey and his computer music designers
My chapter “Symmetrical Collaborations. Jonathan Harvey and his computer music designers”, just published in «Nuove Musiche», Vol. 4 (2018), Special issue on Jonathan Harvey, edited by Candida Felici and Stefano Lombardi Vallauri, Pisa : Pisa University Press, pp. 29-57, DOI: 10.12871/97888333922572. ABSTRACT: The work of Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) has been influenced by computer technology since…
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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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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…