Tracking the Creative Process in Music
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A JOURNEY AMONG ELECTRONIC MUSIC SOURCES #4 – #5
My last two articles for the column A JOURNEY AMONG ELECTRONIC MUSIC SOURCES focusses on a couple of amazing material sources (the Music 5 software in Padova and Pierre Schaeffer’s dedication to the N.P.S. Group) (#4) and the importance of oral history in the study of electroacoustic music (#5). Musica, tecnologia e società attraverso le…
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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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A history of first encounters between Spectralists and Sound Researchers
My talk “Behind the official literature. A history of first encounters between Spectralists and Sound Researchers” is now online. Link to video: https://medias.ircam.fr/embed/media/x8a75e6 It is a recognized fact that studies such the ones developed by Jean-Claude Risset [2], John Chowning [2] and Joseph Fourier [3] on psychoacoustic, synthesis and sound representation, have opened the door to the development…
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Call for submissions: ORGANISED SOUND Vol. 25, N. 2
ORGANISED SOUND, Call for Submissions – Volume 25, Number 2 Issue thematic title: Time in Electroacoustic Music Deadline for submission: 15 September 2019 Topics for investigation could include: • critical schema of time representations which have been previously articulated by composers/analysts (e.g. Stockhausen, Xenakis); • comparison of analytical approaches in their treatment of subjective temporal…
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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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Making sound-based practices come alive
Busy week next week!! I am super thrilled to teach at the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts – UdK Berlin (Master of Arts) as Guest Faculty Member. Alongside Scott Cazan, Peter Cusack, and Christina Kubisch! Can’t wait to meet my class! June 25-29, 2018. https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/courses/sound-studies-and-sonic-arts-master-of-arts/faculty-staff/guest-faculty/ Course Title: “Making sound-based practices come alive. Sources and issues…
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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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Collaboration at the Studio di Fonologia della RAI in Milan (1955-1983)
This week, I will be in the conference TCPM (Tracking the Creative Process in Music) at the University of Huddersfield, UK (September 14-16). In this context I will do an oral presentation of my latest research and will focus on the origins, dynamics and evolution of collaboration at the Studio di Fonologia della RAI in Milan (1955-1983). Abstract Electroacoustic music is a…
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“Musique mixte”: Writing of Sound, and the Problem of Sources
In my new publication I discuss the concepts of écriture, micro and macro forms, internal and external writing of sound, and analysis, in musique mixte. Laura Zattra, “Les écritures des musiques informatiques mixtes à la lueur des sources documentaires”. This is a chapter for the book Musique et Technologie. Regards sur les musiques mixtes, Marc Battier, Evelyne Gayou, Daniel…
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