Music and Technology
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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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A JOURNEY AMONG ELECTRONIC MUSIC SOURCES #2 | MUSIC PATENTS AND ONLINE RESEARCH
I am writing a column for the blog http://www.musicaelettronica.it/ about the less known or forgotten sources in electronic music. I have used private and institutionals archives, physical or digital, in my musicological practice for 20 years and this investigation never fails to amaze me. The second article is dedicated to patents and online research of patents…
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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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A journey among electronic music sources #1 | The first Italian books
I have used private and institutionals archives, physical or digital, in my musicological practice for 20 years. I am writing a little about this and the sources I can find when I dip into this faboulous world in my column “Viaggio tra le fonti elettroniche” for the amazing blog http://www.musicaelettronica.it/. The first post is dedicated to…
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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…
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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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Teresa Rampazzi at the Chalton Gallery, March 1st 2019
‘What time are you performing tonight?’ OPENING: Friday, March 01; 7pm Chalton Gallery, 96 Chalton St, NW1 1HJ, London ‘What time are you performing tonight?’, an axhibition curated by Caterina Gobbi, is dedicated to four composers that have shaped the development of early electronic music in Italy: Teresa Rampazzi, Daniela Casa, Ingrid McIntosh, and Maria Teresa…
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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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