Electroacoustic Music
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The Electroacoustic Music Archives at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: A Review of the Camillo Togni, Fausto Romitelli and Giacomo Manzoni Collections
What can tell a personal archive about the composer or anyone who has collected-organized (or disorganized) their contents over the years? In this article (just published and downloadable for free in PDF) I reflected on the electronic music sources donated to the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice by composers Camillo Togni, Fausto Romitelli and Giacomo…
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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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A JOURNEY AMONG ELECTRONIC MUSIC SOURCES #4 – #5
My last two articles for the column A JOURNEY AMONG ELECTRONIC MUSIC SOURCES focusses on a couple of amazing material sources (the Music 5 software in Padova and Pierre Schaeffer’s dedication to the N.P.S. Group) (#4) and the importance of oral history in the study of electroacoustic music (#5). Musica, tecnologia e società attraverso le…
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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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A JOURNEY AMONG ELECTRONIC MUSIC SOURCES #3 | ITALIAN ARCHIVES
Preservation and Electroacoustic Heritage in Italy: this is the focus of my third article for the blog http://www.musicaelettronica.it/ (dedicated to the sources in electronic music). Italy is home to outstanding electracoustic music stories and centers. With this contemporary grand tour I am bringing my readers on a quick journey throughout Italy to visit the most famous…
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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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Von Francesca Caccini zu Francesca Verunelli. Komponistinnen in Italien
The catalogue of the Festival/Conference «Get Real. Music and Reality» (Philarmonie Luxembourg, 13-25.11.2018) is now online, with my article “Von Francesca Caccini zu Francesca Verunelli. Komponistinnen in Italien”, and other contributions by Tatjana Böhme-Mehner (also curator of this astounding catalogue), Philippe Lalitte, Rebecca Saunders, Sivan Eldar, Corinne Schneider, José L. Besada, Martina Seeber, Marie-Thérèse Lefebvre,…
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e-book: Live Electronic Music Composition, Performance, Study
The digital edition of our book Live Electronic Music Composition, Performance, Study is now available on the main online stores. Live Electronic Music Composition, Performance, Study Edited by Friedemann Sallis, Valentina Bertolani, Jan Burle, Laura Zattra, Routledge, 2018. On Amazon.com and on Routledge.com Contents (340 pages) Introduction (FRIEDEMANN SALLIS, VALENTINA BERTOLANI, JAN BURLE AND LAURA ZATTRA) Part I Composition 1…
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