sound design
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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 -
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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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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How do they work? An analysis of the creative process in Sound Design obtained through an online questionnaire
Nicolas Donin and I will be presenting our talk “How do they work? An analysis of the creative process in Sound Design obtained through an online questionnaire” on behalf of our team, at the next Tracking the Creative Process in Music in Lisbon (10-11 October 2019). http://tcpm2019.fcsh.unl.pt/program/ Laura Zattra, Nicolas Misdariis, Frank Pecquet, Nicolas Donin and…
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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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“ANALYSIS OF SOUND DESIGN PRACTICES” at the XXII CIM in Udine
With my teammates Nicolas Misdariis, Frank Pecquet, Nicolas Donin, and David Fierro, we will be present at the next conference CIM (XXII Colloquio di Informatica Musicale) in Udine, Italy, from 20 to 23 November. Our talk is titled “Analysis of Sound Design Practices. Research Methodology” Our contribution describes an on-going project started in March 2018…
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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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Sound chaser. The invention and impact of the NAGRA recorder
The video with my talk about the NAGRA recorder is out! “L’invention et l’impact du NAGRA, chasseur de sons” (in French), 8 June 2018, IRCAM, Paris, Seminaires Musique Science Technologie. Full video: https://medias.ircam.fr/x957613 Sound chaser. The invention and impact of the NAGRA recorder This research focuses on the invention and impact of the NAGRA recorder. It is based…
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Video Game Music: 3 new publications
These 3 new publications (2016) record the most recent results and discussions on video game music (received from Tim Summers, Royal Holloway, University of London). Monograph: Tim Summers, *Understanding Video Game Music *(Cambridge University Press, with a foreword by composer James Hannigan). This book provides methods and concepts for investigating music in the video game. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/9781107116870 Collection of Essays: *Music Video…
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Mathemusical Conversations: Mathematics and Computation in Music Performance and Composition
Here’s another interesting book now in print: Elaine Chew (Queen Mary University of London), Jordan Smith (AIST, Japan—currently at ISMIR2016), and Gérard Assayag (STMS: IRCAM-CNRS-UPMC – Sorbonne Universités, France) are the editors of this new book titled Mathemusical Conversations: Mathematics and Computation in Music Performance and Composition (Sep 2016, Imperial College Press / NUS Institute for Mathematical Sciences Lecture Notes Series,…