sources for the study of electronic music
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COMBINED METHODS TO STUDY COLLABORATION, CO-CREATION AND COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE IN THE DIGITAL MUSIC ERA. THREE CASE STUDIES BETWEEN ORAL HISTORY AND SOURCE CRITICISM
In my recent article COMBINED METHODS TO STUDY COLLABORATION, CO-CREATION AND COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE IN THE DIGITAL MUSIC ERA. THREE CASE STUDIES BETWEEN ORAL HISTORY AND SOURCE CRITICISM, I give a theoretical frame and contextualization of my research method, which I developed to study various aspects of music with new technologies (sound-based art). The combination of…
Academic, Andrea Valle, archives, Clara Iannotta, Collaborative Art, Combined method to study electroacoustic music, computer music, Fausto Romitelli, Interviews, Laurent Pottier, Live-Electronic Music, Mauro Lanza, Musical Assistant, Notation in Electroacoustic Music, Oral History, philology of music, sources for the study of electronic music, Tracking the Creative Process in Music -
What can we deduce from the composers’ personal archives?
What do archives tell us about the person who has collected and organised (or disorganised) them over the years, about their own creative process, about their ‘workshop’? In this book (just published) “XENAKIS – BACK TO THE ROOTS. Philological Approaches to Electroacoustic Music” edited by Reinhold Friedl, Thomas Grĭll, Nikolaus Urbanek, and Michelle Ziegler, I…
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A history of the first computer sound spatialization system: John Chowning’s investigations at Stanford University (1962-1972)
Atmos? Spatial Audio? Immersive sound? Where did it all begin?Digital sound spatialisation systems for music, cinema, videogames, VR or portable systems, would not exist without John Chowning’s algorithm.François-Xavier Féron and I are delighted to have reconstructed the “History of the first computer sound spatialisation system: John Chowning’s investigations at Stanford University (1962-1972)” published in the…
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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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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 -
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 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 -
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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A JOURNEY AMONG ELECTRONIC MUSIC SOURCES #3 | ITALIAN ARCHIVES
Preservation and Electroacoustic Heritage in Italy: this is the focus of my third article for the blog http://www.musicaelettronica.it/ (dedicated to the sources in electronic music). Italy is home to outstanding electracoustic music stories and centers. With this contemporary grand tour I am bringing my readers on a quick journey throughout Italy to visit the most famous…
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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…










