Pioneers of electronic music
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In hoc signo vinces by Angelo Paccagnini and Eugenio Carmi – Symposium and Concert, November 9th 2024
Posthumous discoveries of unknown and never performed musical works always represent, in the eyes of researchers and the public, a valuable opportunity for new biographical readings and new interpretative scenarios. In hoc signo vinces (1976) is a score-catalogue discovered by archivist Carlotta Ghiretti at the archives of Eugenio Carmi (1920-2016, one of the protagonists of…
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Physicality, persons and personae in the creative process of sound-based-art
Next July 12th I’ll be keynote speaker at the Heroines of Sound Festival in Berlin, in the second panel titled “The engaged body and the aesthetics of electronic music”. I will share the stage with other speakers: Sabine Sanio (moderator), Greta Eacott, Katharina Ernst, Anna Murray, Karen Power, Teresa Riemann, Robyn Schulkowsky. My presentation will…
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Teresa Rampazzi: sound creations and co-creations as a meeting place between art and life
Next Saturday May 18th, I will discuss in Padova with Marta Previti and Maddalena Rizzi about women who have left a strong artistic mark in Veneto, Italy and the world. I will address how electronic music pioneer Teresa Rampazzi revisited the idea of creative place, from the home, to the collective, to the conservatory, to…
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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…
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The role of John Chowning in the contruction of Ircam (1973-1977)
During the 1970s, John Chowning founded CCRMA at Stanford University and was also involved in the planning of IRCAM, the computer music center directed by Pierre Boulez. In studying different archives and conducting interviews, as part of the RAMHO project, we have reconstructed this important years between 1972 and 1977 and highlighted the links that…
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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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Between the Tracks (2020), the new book edited by Kerry Hagan and Miller Puckette
The book Between the Tracks-Musicians on Selected Electronic Music edited by Kerry Hagan and Miller Puckette is finally published! My chapter focuses on the analysis of “Taras su tre dimensioni” [Taras on three dimensions], a work realized by Teresa Rampazzi in 1971-72 in the course of a transitional phase (her transition from the analogue to…
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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 #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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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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