Electroacoustic Music
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Italian Electronic Music Studios (1950s-60s-70s)
My presentation at the Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi in collaboration with the Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, October 13-14 2017, at the “POLISH RADIO EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO” conference, is now online. Italian Electronic Music Studios of the First and Second Generation (from the 1950s to the 1970s) with a focus on the the triangulation between the S 2F M (Florence),…
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Making sound-based practices come alive
Busy week next week!! I am super thrilled to teach at the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts – UdK Berlin (Master of Arts) as Guest Faculty Member. Alongside Scott Cazan, Peter Cusack, and Christina Kubisch! Can’t wait to meet my class! June 25-29, 2018. https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/courses/sound-studies-and-sonic-arts-master-of-arts/faculty-staff/guest-faculty/ Course Title: “Making sound-based practices come alive. Sources and issues…
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“Is Originality Undetected Plagiarism?”
I am excited and honoured to be keynote speaker at the 2018 EMS (Electroacoustic Music Conference), next Wednesday, 20 June 2018, in Florence at Villa Finaly, www.ems-network.org/ems18. Is Originality Undetected Plagiarism? And, after all, what is originality? It is merely undetected plagiarism. This quotation, which seems to have been uttered by English writer Herbert Paul in 1896, but was echoed…
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Marino Zuccheri (and Angelo Paccagnini) @ the Studio di Fonologia della RAI in Milan
OUT NOW! A tribute to Marino Zuccheri, the eclectic sound engineer of the Studio di Fonologia Musicale Rai di Milano. The book MARINO ZUCCHERI & FRIENDS, with a selection of Zuccheri’s graphic designs, concert diagrams, photos with John Cage, Bruno Maderna et al., and articles devoted to heterogeneous activities at the Studio. The book also include…
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Positionen n. 114 (2018): New article on Teresa Rampazzi
Out Now! The first article in the German language devoted to Teresa Rampazzi, is presented in the latest issue of Positionen. Texte zur Aktuellen Musik, n. 114 “Heroines of Sound” (2018). Laura Zattra, “Sie war ihrer Zeit voraus. Teresa Rampazzi, eine wichtige Komponistin elektronischer Musik in Italien”. www.positionen.net/ Other articles in the same number: Bettina Wackernagel, Never…
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LIVE-ELECTRONIC MUSIC. COMPOSITION, PERFORMANCE, STUDY (Routledge)
I am pleased to announce that the book LIVE-ELECTRONIC MUSIC. COMPOSITION, PERFORMANCE, STUDY (Routledge), edited by Friedemann Sallis, Valentina Bertolani, Jan Burle and me, is now available: https://www.routledge.com/Live-Electronic-Music-Composition-Performance-Study/Sallis-Bertolani-Burle-Zattra/p/book/9781138022607 Contents (340 pages) Introduction (FRIEDEMANN SALLIS, VALENTINA BERTOLANI, JAN BURLE AND LAURA ZATTRA) Part I Composition 1 Dwelling in a field of sonic relationships: ‘Instrument’ and ‘listening’…
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Collaboration at the Studio di Fonologia della RAI in Milan (1955-1983)
This week, I will be in the conference TCPM (Tracking the Creative Process in Music) at the University of Huddersfield, UK (September 14-16). In this context I will do an oral presentation of my latest research and will focus on the origins, dynamics and evolution of collaboration at the Studio di Fonologia della RAI in Milan (1955-1983). Abstract Electroacoustic music is a…
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Pioneer Spirits: New media representations of women in electronic music history
“Pioneer Spirits: New media representations of women in electronic music history” is a new important article by Frances Morgan in the current issue of Organised Sound, Vol. 22, Issue 2 (Alternative Histories of Electroacoustic Music) August 2017, pp. 238-249. Teresa Rampazzi is numbered amongst those composers previously “either ignored or thought to be marginal […].…
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Collaborative Creation in Electroacoustic Music. Comparative Analysis of Three Case Studies
I will present my research at the EUROMAC conference, the 9th European Music Analysis Conference (Strasbourg, 28 June – 1 July 2017). TITLE: Collaborative Creation in Electroacoustic Music. Comparative Analysis of Three Case Studies ABSTRACT The revolution of sound recording, analogue synthesis and the birth of computer music, caused the emergence of a new professional profile:…
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Teresa Rampazzi: a new entry in the Italian Enciclopedia Treccani
The Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani of the Italian Enciclopedia Treccani (originally published: 1929), is dedicated to notable Italian people (composers, artists, politicians, historians, etc.) past and present. It has been an honour for me to contribute with an entry on Teresa Rampazzi. Laura Zattra: “Teresa Rampazzi”, Enciclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/teresa-rampazzi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ The article contains a biography of…
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