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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’…
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Collaboration at the Studio di Fonologia della RAI in Milan (1955-1983)
This week, I will be in the conference TCPM (Tracking the Creative Process in Music) at the University of Huddersfield, UK (September 14-16). In this context I will do an oral presentation of my latest research and will focus on the origins, dynamics and evolution of collaboration at the Studio di Fonologia della RAI in Milan (1955-1983). Abstract Electroacoustic music is a…
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Pioneer Spirits: New media representations of women in electronic music history
“Pioneer Spirits: New media representations of women in electronic music history” is a new important article by Frances Morgan in the current issue of Organised Sound, Vol. 22, Issue 2 (Alternative Histories of Electroacoustic Music) August 2017, pp. 238-249. Teresa Rampazzi is numbered amongst those composers previously “either ignored or thought to be marginal […].…
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Collaborative Creation in Electroacoustic Music. Comparative Analysis of Three Case Studies
I will present my research at the EUROMAC conference, the 9th European Music Analysis Conference (Strasbourg, 28 June – 1 July 2017). TITLE: Collaborative Creation in Electroacoustic Music. Comparative Analysis of Three Case Studies ABSTRACT The revolution of sound recording, analogue synthesis and the birth of computer music, caused the emergence of a new professional profile:…
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Teresa Rampazzi on WDR 3’s “Open Sounds: Studio Elektronische Musik” programme
Frank Hilberg, producer of the channel WDR 3 of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne, and Reinhold Friedl, are the auhors of a two-hour-feature about the Electronic Music of “Nuove Proposte Sonore” (NPS) and Teresa Rampazzi. I was interviewed by Reinhold Friedl on February 3rd for this purpose, alongside Francesca Rampazzi (Teresa Rampazzi’s daughter). The documentary will air next Saturday night, at…
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Teresa Rampazzi: a new entry in the Italian Enciclopedia Treccani
The Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani of the Italian Enciclopedia Treccani (originally published: 1929), is dedicated to notable Italian people (composers, artists, politicians, historians, etc.) past and present. It has been an honour for me to contribute with an entry on Teresa Rampazzi. Laura Zattra: “Teresa Rampazzi”, Enciclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/teresa-rampazzi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ The article contains a biography of…
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“Musique mixte”: Writing of Sound, and the Problem of Sources
In my new publication I discuss the concepts of écriture, micro and macro forms, internal and external writing of sound, and analysis, in musique mixte. Laura Zattra, “Les écritures des musiques informatiques mixtes à la lueur des sources documentaires”. This is a chapter for the book Musique et Technologie. Regards sur les musiques mixtes, Marc Battier, Evelyne Gayou, Daniel…
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10 Jan.: Angelo Paccagnini at the Studio di Fonologia della RAI in Milan
I will be presenting my research on composer Angelo #Paccagnini (1930-1999) at the Study Conference dedicated to his role and presence at the Studio di Fonologia della RAI di Milano. “Angelo Paccagnini allo Studio di Fonologia di Milano della RAI di Milano”: Tuesday, January 10 2017, at the MUSEO DEGLI STRUMENTI MUSICALI / Sala della Balla.…
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Les Femmes de GRM: concert series, Jan. 2017
Les Femmes de GRM: January 2017: Thu, 12.01.2017 – Sun. 15.01.2017, ZKM_Kubus, Karlsruhe Germany. 4 Concerts with music by composers Beatriz Ferreyra, Evelyne Gayou, and Annette Vande Gorne who collaborated closely with the studio. From the concert series program: When considering the GRM one of the striking features is the predominance of male artists in the public’s perception…
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Demetrio Stratos: when exactly did he go to Cuba and listen to Mongolian chants?
These days I’m doing a little investigation work to help Andrew Colwell, a PhD candidate at Wesleyan University working on the global circulation of Mongol xöömeí/throat-singing, including the engagements or perceptions of non-Mongolian actors (such as Demetrios Stratos). His interest was piqued by one of my articles I wrote in 2011 in collaboration with…
Laura is a Scholar in Sound-Based-Art, Creative/Collaborative Practices, Archival Research, Marginalized Figures. Author, Professor @UdineConservatoryOfMusic (Italy) and Researcher @IRCAM (Paris)
