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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…
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Luigi Nono’s A Pierre. Dell’azzurro silenzio, inquietum (1985)
Our article Studying Luigi Nono’s A Pierre. Dell’azzurro silenzio, inquietum (1985) as a Performance Event is out in the last issue of Contemporary Music Review, available online from 20 Apr 2012! Contemporary Music Review, Special Issue “(De)composing sound”, ed. Nicolas Donin. 30:5, 411-439 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2011.665579 Abstract In our project, a detailed genetic study and a careful…
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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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Cheaper and faster: February 24, Génève
exposition and live performance in Génève, on February 24 2012, with works by Ramona Altschul, Julien Berberat, Romain Berger, Sabrina Biro, Nathalie Corthay, Lucie Havart, Charlyne Kolly, Nina Langen-sand, Laura Locher, Guillaume Mausset, Adrien Mesot, Charles-Elie Payré, Viola Pfister, Giordano Rush a reminiscence of Mies van der Rohe “less is more” and maybe of other more…
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DI_stanze 2012 (festival comunitario delle arti sonore)
DI_stanze, festival comunitario delle arti sonore, torna quest’anno per la seconda volta dal 23 al 26 maggio 2012 a Catania. Saranno 4 giorni imperdibili per gli appassionati di musica elettronica, con incontri con compositori e studiosi e numerose installazioni. Il festival è presentato dal C.I.M.A. Centro interdisciplinare Musica d’Arte Come la scorsa edizione, ci sarà la possibilità…
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Venetian sounds… (from my part of the country)
Ascoltare il suono della folla a Venezia o il frinire delle cicale nel parco di una villa del vicentino? Da un po’ di tempo è possibile farlo grazie a Internet e ad alcuni appassionati di field recording, la tecnica di registrare i suoni direttamente immersi nel loro paesaggio sonoro naturale, con l’obiettivo di captare gli elementi particolari…
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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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ebook Studiare la Computer Music
My book Studiare la Computer Music. Definizioni, analisi, fonti is also available as a downloadable electronic version in Italian. Click here for details. 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,…
Laura is a Scholar in Sound-Based-Art, Creative/Collaborative Practices, Archival Research, Marginalized Figures. Author, Professor @UdineConservatoryOfMusic (Italy) and Researcher @IRCAM (Paris)
