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The role of John Chowning in the contruction of Ircam (1973-1977)
During the 1970s, John Chowning founded CCRMA at Stanford University and was also involved in the planning of IRCAM, the computer music center directed by Pierre Boulez. In studying different archives and conducting interviews, as part of the RAMHO project, we have reconstructed this important years between 1972 and 1977 and highlighted the links that…
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L’Ircam et les 50 ans du Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou celebrates 50 years. Next Tuesday, at the Center Pompidou in Paris, I will give a talk about the history of IRCAM (founded by Pierre Boulez to associate the Center for art and culture with a Center for musical creation) in the context of the seminars organized by the History Commission of the…
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Angelo Paccagnini and Eugenio Carmi. In hoc signo vinces
My chapter “Angelo Paccagnini and Eugenio Carmi. In hoc signo vinces” has just been published in the book “Angelo Paccagnini. L’utopista indipendente”, edited by Maria Maddalena Novati and Marina Vaccarini, published by DieSchachtel records and NoMus, produced by Bruno Stucchi and Fabio Carboni, and with an attached CD with music by Paccagnini.
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My keynote speech at the XXIII CIM Colloquio di Informatica Musicale
Last Thursday (October 27) I gave a keynote speech at the XXIII CIM Colloquio di Informatica Musicale in Ancona: “The Computer Instrument: mixed methods to study past, present and future between archives, lost sources and oral history”. I was also able to admire the instruments on display from the Museo del Synth Marchigiano and from…
archives, collaboration, Collaborative Art, Composers & Artists, computer music, Interviews, John Chowning, Live-Electronic Music, Luigi Nono, musicaelettronica.it, Musical Assistant, Oral History, philology of music, sources for the study of electronic music, Technology and Society, Tracking the Creative Process in Music
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The Electroacoustic Music Archives at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: A Review of the Camillo Togni, Fausto Romitelli and Giacomo Manzoni Collections
What can tell a personal archive about the composer or anyone who has collected-organized (or disorganized) their contents over the years? In this article (just published and downloadable for free in PDF) I reflected on the electronic music sources donated to the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice by composers Camillo Togni, Fausto Romitelli and Giacomo…
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Computer Sounds in Luigi Nono’s Prometeo
As part of my research on collaborative creativity, on the music-technology relationship, and on the role of computer music designers / musical assistants, I studied the genesis of the computer sounds used in Luigi Nono’s Prometeo, generated with Giuseppe (Peppino) di Giugno’s 4i workstation.My paper “The Use of Technology in Revolutionary Perspective. Computer Music Research…
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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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My review of Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde, by Jennifer Iverson (2019)
The final version of my review of this wonderful book was published in August 2021 in the Journal of the American Musicological Society.
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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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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…
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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