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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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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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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,…
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Ladyz in Noyz (movie 2016)
Ladyz in Noyz. A movie/documentary (2016) in which noise ladies from different parts of the world collaborate online to bring one after the other their own live set in their own choice and style. International Call and Response: Ladyz in Noyz
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PLEIADI: Electronicgirls celebrate their 6th birthday
New collective release free-download available from 9th January Electronicgirls celebrate their 6th birthday with a new collective release: Pleiadi. Participants have been asked to submit a 6 minutes piece composed by following the Instruction for the Realization by Johann Merrich. Each track can be heard individually or in a collective track format: Pleiadum Constellatio, a single body of sound made by the sum of…
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“Génétiques de la computer music”
Génèse Musicales is a new book edited by Nicolas Donin, Almuth Grésillon and Jean-Louis Lebrave (PUPS, Sorbonne, october 2015). Table of contents: http://pups.paris-sorbonne.fr/catalogue/arts-et-esthetique/hors-collection-histoire-geographie-et-archeologie/geneses-musicales In a chapter entitled Génétiques de la computer music I demonstrate that techniques derives from the discipline of philology of music can be usefully applied to the study of computer music. The chapter outlines an overview…
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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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