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Sound chaser. The invention and impact of the NAGRA recorder
The video with my talk about the NAGRA recorder is out! “L’invention et l’impact du NAGRA, chasseur de sons” (in French), 8 June 2018, IRCAM, Paris, Seminaires Musique Science Technologie. Full video: https://medias.ircam.fr/x957613 Sound chaser. The invention and impact of the NAGRA recorder This research focuses on the invention and impact of the NAGRA recorder. It is based…
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Italian Electronic Music Studios (1950s-60s-70s)
My presentation at the Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi in collaboration with the Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, October 13-14 2017, at the “POLISH RADIO EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO” conference, is now online. Italian Electronic Music Studios of the First and Second Generation (from the 1950s to the 1970s) with a focus on the the triangulation between the S 2F M (Florence),…
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Making sound-based practices come alive
Busy week next week!! I am super thrilled to teach at the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts – UdK Berlin (Master of Arts) as Guest Faculty Member. Alongside Scott Cazan, Peter Cusack, and Christina Kubisch! Can’t wait to meet my class! June 25-29, 2018. https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/courses/sound-studies-and-sonic-arts-master-of-arts/faculty-staff/guest-faculty/ Course Title: “Making sound-based practices come alive. Sources and issues…
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“Is Originality Undetected Plagiarism?”
I am excited and honoured to be keynote speaker at the 2018 EMS (Electroacoustic Music Conference), next Wednesday, 20 June 2018, in Florence at Villa Finaly, www.ems-network.org/ems18. Is Originality Undetected Plagiarism? And, after all, what is originality? It is merely undetected plagiarism. This quotation, which seems to have been uttered by English writer Herbert Paul in 1896, but was echoed…
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Marino Zuccheri (and Angelo Paccagnini) @ the Studio di Fonologia della RAI in Milan
OUT NOW! A tribute to Marino Zuccheri, the eclectic sound engineer of the Studio di Fonologia Musicale Rai di Milano. The book MARINO ZUCCHERI & FRIENDS, with a selection of Zuccheri’s graphic designs, concert diagrams, photos with John Cage, Bruno Maderna et al., and articles devoted to heterogeneous activities at the Studio. The book also include…
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Teresa Rampazzi in the last issue of Positionen n. 114 “Heroines of Sound”
I just uploaded the full text of my new article on teresarampazzi.it site! Laura Zattra (2018), “Sie war ihrer Zeit voraus. Teresa Rampazzi, eine wichtige Komponistin elektronischer Musik in Italien”, Positionen. Texte zur Aktuellen Musik, n. 114 “Heroines of Sound”, pp. 9-11, ISSN: 0941-4711. Enjoy the reading. DOWNLOAD HERE
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La musique spectrale. Une révolution épistémologique
My review of Hugues Dufourt’s book “La musique spectrale. Une révolution épistémologique” just got published in the Twentieth-Century Journal. Laura Zattra (2018), “Hugues Dufourt, La musique spectrale. Une révolution épistémologique (Paris: Éditions Delatour, 2014), ISBN 978-2-7521-0206-5 (pb)” (Review), Twentieth-Century Music, Volume 15, Special Issue 1 (Special Issue: Spectral Thinking), February 2018 , pp. 125-130, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478572218000099 (Published online: 26 April 2018). Click here for…
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Positionen n. 114 (2018): New article on Teresa Rampazzi
Out Now! The first article in the German language devoted to Teresa Rampazzi, is presented in the latest issue of Positionen. Texte zur Aktuellen Musik, n. 114 “Heroines of Sound” (2018). Laura Zattra, “Sie war ihrer Zeit voraus. Teresa Rampazzi, eine wichtige Komponistin elektronischer Musik in Italien”. www.positionen.net/ Other articles in the same number: Bettina Wackernagel, Never…
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The School of Radio
The School of Radio — radio art symposium Repubblica di San Marino 9-10-11 marzo 2018 Antico Monastero Santa Chiara, Teatro Titano, Usmaradio tavole rotonde, laboratorio, installazioni sonore, performance 40 anni da Il treno di John Cage 20 anni da L’Arte dell’Ascolto A 40 anni da Il treno di John Cage e a 20 anni dall’ultima…
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LIVE-ELECTRONIC MUSIC. COMPOSITION, PERFORMANCE, STUDY (Routledge)
I am pleased to announce that the book LIVE-ELECTRONIC MUSIC. COMPOSITION, PERFORMANCE, STUDY (Routledge), edited by Friedemann Sallis, Valentina Bertolani, Jan Burle and me, is now available: https://www.routledge.com/Live-Electronic-Music-Composition-Performance-Study/Sallis-Bertolani-Burle-Zattra/p/book/9781138022607 Contents (340 pages) Introduction (FRIEDEMANN SALLIS, VALENTINA BERTOLANI, JAN BURLE AND LAURA ZATTRA) Part I Composition 1 Dwelling in a field of sonic relationships: ‘Instrument’ and ‘listening’…
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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