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The female women programmers of ENIAC
The ENIAC programmers project is a project by Kathy Kleiman, a young programmer in the mid-1980s, who has recorded oral histories with the original ENIAC female programmers in the late 1990s. Their stories were fascinating but lost for more than 50 years. In Kathy’s words: “Not only did they program the ENIAC, the first all-electronic, digital computer during WWII without manuals or programming…
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Enore Zaffiri & the others (Pietro Grossi, Teresa Rampazzi): Italian electronic music pioneers
There was a loophole in the Italian electroacoustic music studies. Noone had ever written a complete study dedicated to Enore Zaffiri, and now we finally have a complete book about this astonishing music researcher. Andrea Valle and Stefano Bassanese are the editors of the book Enore Zaffiri. Saggi e Materiali. Here you find the complete publication (Creative common, ISBN:…
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Roberto Fabbriciani and Luigi Nono: over a decade’s collaboration
I just published my contribution to this fascinating collaboration. Flutist Roberto Fabbriciani and composer Luigi Nono created wonderful pieces during the ’80s, when working and researching at the Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des Südwestfunks E.V. di Friburgo, together with Ciro Scarponi (clarinet), Giancarlo Schiaffini (tuba), Susanne Otto (alto), Stefano Scodanibbio (cotrabass), and the musical assistants Hans-Peter Haller,…
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I will present my research on RIMs-Computer Music Designers emerging profession next week at IRCAM in Paris (12 March). I will present results concerning the project: Le RIM – Réalisateur en Informatique Musicale: étude de l’émergence d’une profession L’objectif de cette recherche (commencée avec un séjour en tant que chercheuse invitée CNRS INS2I, juin – octobre 2012) est…
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Padova: a concert by John Cage in 1959
I have noticed some Italian websites and blogs speculate about the presence of John Cage in Italy, noting that despite his well known participation to the TV show “Lascia o Raddoppia” in 1959, there is a certain confusion upon the subject. Here’s my little contribution to the story. It starts back in November 1958, during…
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