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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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My co-edited issue “Notation in Electroacoustic Music”, Music/Technology XIII, 2019
This marvel is now out! The new issue of Musica/Tecnologia (XIII), edited by Stefano Alessandretti and me, is titled “La notazione della musica elettroacustica. Scrutare il passato per contemplare il futuro” (Notation in Electroacoustic Music). The journal is committed to OPEN ACCESS, so enjoy it! (for paper version, please contact the publishing house). https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/mt/index TABLE…
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My contribution for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art
It’s out! I am honoured to have a chapter in this new book edited by Sanne Krogh Groth and Holger Schulze. My chapter “Audiogrammi of a Collective Intelligence. The Composers-Researchers of S2FM, SMET, NPS, and Other Mavericks” revisits the impact of 1960s-1970s Italian electronic music experiences in the light of their interdisciplinary experimentation opening up to Sound Art,…
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A JOURNEY AMONG ELECTRONIC MUSIC SOURCES #3 | ITALIAN ARCHIVES
Preservation and Electroacoustic Heritage in Italy: this is the focus of my third article for the blog http://www.musicaelettronica.it/ (dedicated to the sources in electronic music). Italy is home to outstanding electracoustic music stories and centers. With this contemporary grand tour I am bringing my readers on a quick journey throughout Italy to visit the most famous…
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Premio Teresa Rampazzi: Call for Works/Scores
The SMC/CIM 2020 organizing committee announces a call for musical/sonic/media works for the joint 17th SMC Conference (Sound and Music Computing) and XXIII CIM (Colloquium of Musical Informatics), hosted from June 20th to 26th in Torino, Italy. The theme of SMC2020 is Imaging sound. https://smc2020torino.it/uk/default.asp?PID=1 Call for music works: https://smc2020torino.it/uk/page.asp?PID=134 The best work will be awarded the Teresa Rampazzi Prize. Music submission is…
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A JOURNEY AMONG ELECTRONIC MUSIC SOURCES #2 | MUSIC PATENTS AND ONLINE RESEARCH
I am writing a column for the blog http://www.musicaelettronica.it/ about the less known or forgotten sources in electronic music. I have used private and institutionals archives, physical or digital, in my musicological practice for 20 years and this investigation never fails to amaze me. The second article is dedicated to patents and online research of patents…
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Symmetrical Collaborations. Jonathan Harvey and his computer music designers
My chapter “Symmetrical Collaborations. Jonathan Harvey and his computer music designers”, just published in «Nuove Musiche», Vol. 4 (2018), Special issue on Jonathan Harvey, edited by Candida Felici and Stefano Lombardi Vallauri, Pisa : Pisa University Press, pp. 29-57, DOI: 10.12871/97888333922572. ABSTRACT: The work of Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) has been influenced by computer technology since…
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Recent developments of our APDS project [Analyse des Pratiques du Design Sonore]: 28/29 Nov.
Next week, Nicolas Misdariis, Frank Pecquet, Nicolas Donin, David Fierro and I, will present the last developments of our project: “Pratiques et praticiens : résultats du projet APDS [Analyse des Pratiques du Design Sonore]”. IRCAM (Paris), 28-29 November 2019. Free Subscription here: https://www.ircam.fr/agenda/sound-design-days/detail/ ABSTRACT Le micro-projet APDS (Analyse des Pratiques du Design Sonore – Labex CAP, 2018-19)…
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A journey among electronic music sources #1 | The first Italian books
I have used private and institutionals archives, physical or digital, in my musicological practice for 20 years. I am writing a little about this and the sources I can find when I dip into this faboulous world in my column “Viaggio tra le fonti elettroniche” for the amazing blog http://www.musicaelettronica.it/. The first post is dedicated to…
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How do they work? An analysis of the creative process in Sound Design obtained through an online questionnaire
Nicolas Donin and I will be presenting our talk “How do they work? An analysis of the creative process in Sound Design obtained through an online questionnaire” on behalf of our team, at the next Tracking the Creative Process in Music in Lisbon (10-11 October 2019). http://tcpm2019.fcsh.unl.pt/program/ Laura Zattra, Nicolas Misdariis, Frank Pecquet, Nicolas Donin and…
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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