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CSC (Centro di Sonologia Computazionale), University of Padova
CSC’S HISTORY: The Centro di Sonologia Computazionale was funded in 1979 at Padova University. The initial research and works in the field of musical informatics date to the beginning of the ’70s. The institute was first located at the CCA – Centro di Calcolo di Ateneo (the university computing centre). Activites were based on the collaboration between engineers, musicians,…
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Teresa Rampazzi on Late Junction BBC Radio 3
Last Tuesday on Late Junction, BBC Radio 3, Fiona Tarkington played one track from Teresa Rampazzi’s work “Immagini per Diana Baylon”. Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z7cys – BBC Radio 3 – Late Junction, Fiona Talkington with Sam Lee. Fiona Tarkington gives a beautiful introduction to the piece which starts at 1’18’. The musical piece begins at 1’22’20”. The…
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Stria by John Chowning, the ultimate analysis!
Stria (1977) by John Chowning is a milestone in the history of computer music. My analysis of this wonderful piece is now published on the IRCAM site. It brings together the results of my now thirteen-year-old project. http://brahms.ircam.fr/analyses/Stria/ I am particularly proud of this analysis. Together with John Chowning, I decided to create some explanatory videos where Mr. Chowning…
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Video Game Music: 3 new publications
These 3 new publications (2016) record the most recent results and discussions on video game music (received from Tim Summers, Royal Holloway, University of London). Monograph: Tim Summers, *Understanding Video Game Music *(Cambridge University Press, with a foreword by composer James Hannigan). This book provides methods and concepts for investigating music in the video game. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/9781107116870 Collection of Essays: *Music Video…
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(Reblogged) Game Music: How Laura Shigihara Created “Rakuen” and its Soundtrack
Reblogged from Feminatronic: Interview with Laura Shigihara: the creation of “Rakuen” and its Soundtrack High Scores is a monthly column in which Bandcamp profiles a video game soundtrack composer. In the first installment, Casey Jarman talks to Laura Shigihara about her latest game soundtrack, “Rakuen.” Laura Shigihara is a classic overachiever. She’s both a musician and…
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‘Reversal Of The Muse’ – femininity in creativity
REVERSAL OF THE MUSE is a new blog curated by Laura Marling that explores femininity in creativity. The first podcast presents an interview with Vanessa Parr, sound engineer at The Village Studios in LA for 10 years, close collaborator of Elton John, B.B. King, Coldplay and John Mayer amongst others, and now independent sound engineer.…
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Teresa Rampazzi in The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music
Louise Gray gave Teresa Rampazzi’s album IMMAGINI PER DIANA BAYLON (1972) a terrific review in the September Issue of The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music. I’m so proud of this research project of mine. And thanks to Die Schachtel friends Bruno Stucchi and Fabio Carboni. I am delighted to be part of their research team. Teresa…
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Mathemusical Conversations: Mathematics and Computation in Music Performance and Composition
Here’s another interesting book now in print: Elaine Chew (Queen Mary University of London), Jordan Smith (AIST, Japan—currently at ISMIR2016), and Gérard Assayag (STMS: IRCAM-CNRS-UPMC – Sorbonne Universités, France) are the editors of this new book titled Mathemusical Conversations: Mathematics and Computation in Music Performance and Composition (Sep 2016, Imperial College Press / NUS Institute for Mathematical Sciences Lecture Notes Series,…
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Gender Relations In Darmstadt (GRID), Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Aug 3rd 2016
Listen on Soundcloud: this panel presentation on Gender Relations In Darmstadt (GRID) took place at Darmstadt at the 48 Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik, on Aug 3rd. Participants included Ashley Fure, Jennifer Walshe, Electric Indigo, Anne Helde Neset, Georgina Born. From the panel discussion summary: When Ashley Fure — in the context of the historage-project — was invited…
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CFP: Reassessing Pierre Schaeffer’s Contributions to Music and Sound Studies
I’m glad to share this call for contributions (from Patrick Valiquet, organizer). This is going to be a very interesting conference. “Experiments in Music Research – Reassessing Pierre Schaeffer’s Contributions to Music and Sound Studies” 9 December 2016 Department of Music, University of Birmingham The Traité des objets musicaux (Treatise of musical objects) is the…
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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