Sound Art
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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 -
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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Recent developments of our APDS project [Analyse des Pratiques du Design Sonore]: 28/29 Nov.
Next week, Nicolas Misdariis, Frank Pecquet, Nicolas Donin, David Fierro and I, will present the last developments of our project: “Pratiques et praticiens : résultats du projet APDS [Analyse des Pratiques du Design Sonore]”. IRCAM (Paris), 28-29 November 2019. Free Subscription here: https://www.ircam.fr/agenda/sound-design-days/detail/ ABSTRACT Le micro-projet APDS (Analyse des Pratiques du Design Sonore – Labex CAP, 2018-19)…
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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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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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“Can Composition and Performance be Research?” Forum, November 25th, London
Try to imagine a research funding application from Arnold Schoenberg. Research question: ‘can I make music in which all pitch classes are played equally often?’. In his article ‘Composition is not Research’ John Croft challenges a conception and ideal of compositional work in academia (download the PDF article). The incongruity between the act of composition and the way…
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Alternative Histories of Electronic Music
International Conference: Alternative Histories of Electronic Music: 15–16 April 2016, The Science Museum Research Centre, Queen’s Gate, London. Call for papers (Deadline: 31 October). The story of the genesis and development of electronic/electroacoustic music is often told in the same familiar way. Experiments in musique concrète in Paris and elektronische Musik in Cologne played a central role in…
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Enore Zaffiri & the others (Pietro Grossi, Teresa Rampazzi): Italian electronic music pioneers
There was a loophole in the Italian electroacoustic music studies. Noone had ever written a complete study dedicated to Enore Zaffiri, and now we finally have a complete book about this astonishing music researcher. Andrea Valle and Stefano Bassanese are the editors of the book Enore Zaffiri. Saggi e Materiali. Here you find the complete publication (Creative common, ISBN:…
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Padova, Workshop with artists (game music, crowdfunding, ecological composition, sound art and more…)
Il Laboratorio rinnova la collaborazione intrapresa negli anni tra Veneto Jazz, l’Università degli Studi di Padova e la Regione Veneto. Con il 2014, il laboratorio giunge alla sua settima edizione (notizie sulle edizioni passate si trovano qui: https://lazattra.wordpress.com/?s=nufest&submit=Search, o qui: http://audio.accordo.it/article.do?id=48170). Nelle edizioni trascorse, il laboratorio, chiamato Nufest (festival di concerti e seminari dedicati alla…
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My new article on Agostino Di Scipio’s early works
My research study on Agostino Di Scipio’s early works has been published in the last issue of the Contemporary Music Review. Laura Zattra (2014), “Points of Time, Points in Time, Points in Space. Agostino Di Scipio’s Early Works (1987–2000)”, Contemporary Music Review, 33:1, 72-85, DOI: 10.1080/07494467.2014.906699 Abstract This paper bears on Agostino Di Scipio’s work from the years 1987–2000. Early…