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Montreal, TCPM 2013: Résultats sondage sur le RIM (Réalisateur en Informatique Musicale)
Vendredi prochain à Montréal, je présenterai les résultats partiels de mon projet de recherche plus vaste visant en général à étudier l’émergence de ce métier et sa concrétisation socioprofessionnelle, plus en particulier à documenter son histoire, l’histoire du nom (Zattra JIM 2013), le savoir-faire de la profession, son évolution, des cas spécifiques et significatifs de collaboration RIM-compositeur.…
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Les origines du nom de RIM (computer music designer; musical assistant): article available online
My article “Les origines du nom de RIM (Réalisateur en informatique musicale)”, is now available online. The paper traces the historical evolution of this practice at Ircam in Paris. It considers this evolution throughout the transformations of the name, from the ’70s up to the present day: scientifique (ingénieur / chercheur) ; tuteur ; assistant /…
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Méthodologie pour étudier la figure du Réalisateur en informatique musicale
Qui est le Réalisateur en informatique musicale ? Vendredi prochain, je présenterai à l’EHESS de Paris le cadre théorique, la méthodologie employée et quelques résultats de ma recherche actuelle sur la figure du RIM (Réalisateur en informatique musicale = Computer Music designer = Musical Assistant). Journée d’étude Approches ethno/musicologiques des processus de création musicale – INHA – Auditorium – 6,…
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The early works by Agostino Di Scipio (1987 – 2000)
Next week I am presenting at the International Symposium in Paris (Paris VIII University, 27-30 May) Musique et écologies du son / Music and ecologies of sound I will discuss Agostino Di Scipio’s early works. Abstract: Points of time, points in time, points in space. The early works by Agostino Di Scipio (1987 – 2000) If…
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Les origines du nom de RIM (Réalisateur en informatique musicale)
I am presenting at the conference Journée d’Informatique Musicale in Paris alongside colleagues from different institutions (13-15 May 2013). We are discussing present researches in electroacoustic music. The event will be a hosted by the Paris VIII University. A full programme is available. I will personally discuss about the history of the name “Musical Assistant”. My talk is…
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Padova, NUFEST 2013: Workshop e 1 concerto dedicati al suono sperimentale e all’elettronica
Giunto alla sesta edizione, NuFest (festival di Veneto Jazz dedicato alla musica elettronica), in collaborazione con il Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali dell’università di Padova, organizza anche quest’anno un workshop sull’arte elettroacustica, arte sonora in cui elettricità e strumenti audio e video (analogici e informatici) sono utilizzati per la concezione, l’ideazione, la creazione, la produzione, la…
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The Computer Music Designer: an emerging profession
My present research brings to light an infrequently studied professional figure: the Musical Assistant (or “Computer music designer”, or “RIM – Réalisateur en informatique musicale”), who has been unreasonably neglected, both in the literature and by music listeners. As one frustrated French musical assistant acknowledged: “the fact is, by and large the public ignores the…
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Invenzione musicale (Musical invention) by Renata Zatti
Exciting news to announce ! The book Renata Zatti. Invenzione musicale, edited by Laura Zattra (Padova, CLEUP), 2012, is now available and it is published by Cleup. Invenzione musicale is an unusual manuscript that may be read as an unconventional handbook for young composers and a novel as well. The contents of the book establish the type of musical…
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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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Creativity and musical theory: “Invenzione musicale” by Renata Zatti
The following paper has been published in the http://www.eas-music.org site, and presented at the EAS Conference 2012, The Hague (European Association for Music in Schools). If you are interested in reading the complete article but do not have institutional access to http://www.eas-music.org site, please contact me. Laura Zattra, “The relation between creativity and musical theory: Invenzione musicale by Renata Zatti” Invenzione musicale…
Laura is a Scholar in Sound-Based-Art, Creative/Collaborative Practices, Archival Research, Marginalized Figures. Author, Professor @UdineConservatoryOfMusic (Italy) and Researcher @IRCAM (Paris)
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