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John Chowning et Jean-Claude Risset : pionniers de la computer music
Colloque / Concert – 25 et 26 septembre 2014 Université de Bordeaux (LaBRI) / Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB-MATMECA) 1964 marque les débuts des travaux de John Chowning et Jean-Claude Risset dans le domaine de la synthèse sonore par ordinateur, le premier à l’Université Stanford et le second au sein des Bell Telephone Laboratories sous l’égide…
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The dawn of Audio Preservation and Restauration (quotation)
This significant quotation dates back to 1979 and it reports on a research project realized at Ircam in 1976-1977. La musique électroacoustique pose de façon cruciale le problème de l’archivage des sons. Depuis Imaginary Landscape n°1, de John Cage (1939), de nombreuses oeuvres musicales n’existent que sous forme d’enregistrement. Or les techniques analogiques d’enregistrement sont imparfaites, et la qualité…
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VISIONI DEL SUONO. MUSICA ELETTRONICA ALL’UNIVERSITÀ DI PADOVA
“VISIONI DEL SUONO. MUSICA ELETTRONICA ALL’UNIVERSITÀ DI PADOVA” http://www.musei.unipd.it/visionisuono/ 3 aprile – 18 luglio 2012 Sale espositive del Centro di Ateneo per i Musei (via Orto Botanico 15, Padova). An exposition whose title conveys the importance of Padova as a crucial centre for musical research and creativity, from the Medieval era to the second half…
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Enore Zaffiri: pioneer of italian electronic music
Il 27 e 28 marzo, a Torino presso l’Auditorium G. Quazza- Università di Torino / Conservatorio di Torino, si terrà un importante incontro di studi dal titolo Enore Zaffiri: l’esperienza storica della musica elettronica. Il convegno si propone di avvicinare il grande pioniere di musica elettronica Enore Zaffiri. Assieme a Pietro Grossi e a Teresa Rampazzi, Zaffiri ha…
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Demetrio Stratos: his voice research in Padova in the late ’70s
We (Ceolin Elena, GrazianoTisato , Zattra Laura) have just presented our paper “Demetrio Stratos rethinks voice techniques: a historical investigation at ISTC in Padova” at the Sound and Music Computing Conference (http://smc2011.smcnetwork.org/). Abstract: Demetrio Stratos (1945-1979) was a singer known for his creative use of vocal techniques such as diplophony, bitonality and diphony (overtone singing).…
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My book on Computer Music is now available!
Exciting news to announce ! My book Studiare la computer music. Definizioni, analisi, fonti is now available and it is published by libreriauniversitaria.it. Computer music developed in the 20th century and uses the computer as the principal instrument. Musical philology has recently introduced valid reflections on typical texts of 20th century music (heterogeneity of the sources,…
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John Chowning and Max Mathews in conversation with Curtis Roads
John Chowning and Max Mathews, together with Jean-Claude Risset can be considered the most prominent pioneers in computer music synthesis. Their researches, results and software (begaun in the late ’50) are known worldwide and have influenced all computer music scenes. Starting a few years ago, they recall their experiences in several seminars that are worth…
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