Musical Assistant
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My keynote @TENOR 2024 conference (Zurich ZHdK)
Overjoyed that my keynote “Unexplored Archives, Philology and Real People – How to study ‘sound-based art’ through sketches (design thinking, embryonic projects, first meetings, software programming)”, at the TENOR 2024 conference – International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, is now online. 2024: 4 April: Full video (my keynote and other talks): https://vimeo.com/930542621 Abstract: My presentation considers…
Analysis of Sound Design Practices, archives, Collaborative Art, CSC, Ircam, John Chowning, Music and Technology, Musical Assistant, Notation in Electroacoustic Music, Oral History, philology of music, Pioneers of electronic music, Sound Art, sound design, sound engineer, SOundNOiseMUsic, sources for the study of electronic music, Spectral music, Technology and Society, Teresa Rampazzi, Tracking the Creative Process in Music, women and music
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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