Teresa Rampazzi
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My latest talks here and there at various International Conferences
In these last few days leading up to the end of 2025, I would like to share my latest presentations, which I have had the pleasure of giving over the last six months. I have spoken a lot about Teresa Rampazzi, and I am very happy about that, but I also discuss about the birth…
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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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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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Teresa Rampazzi and other pioneers – @ Goethe Institut, Rome: 22.3.2024
Happy to have given a lecture last Friday at the Goethe-Institut in Rome Conferenza Teresa Rampazzi ed altri pionieri della musica elettronica in Italia Armando Gentilucci, nel primo libro italiano (1972) dedicato alla musica elettronica, riteneva che i lavori di Pietro Grossi, Enore Zaffiri, Vittorio Gelmetti e altri fossero “applicazioni generalmente molto immature” rispetto a quelli…
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Teresa Rampazzi: “La nuova alleanza tra musica e computer”
Nell’articolo “La nuova alleanza tra musica e computer“, pubblicato sul sito dell’Università di Padova https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it, Francesca Bastianon racconta la storia di Teresa Rampazzi. All’interno, potete ascoltarmi in un video mentre ripercorro le tappe principali della vita di questa importante pioniera, una delle prime donne al mondo ad occuparsi di musica elettroacustica. Per approfondire la storia…
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Fluxus (1979) by Teresa Rampazzi at the final concert of the Darmstadt Summer Course
Alongside the new version of the mesmerizing piece Dust III (2018-21) by Rebecca Saunders, this evening the quadraphonic work Fluxus by Teresa Rampazzi will be performed during the final concert of the 50th Darmstadt Summer Course. After 70 years, Rampazzi is back at the Ferienkurse (she attended the course also in 1954, 1956, and until…
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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,…










