CSC
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My keynote @TENOR 2024 conference (Zurich ZHdK)
Overjoyed that my keynote “Unexplored Archives, Philology and Real People – How to study ‘sound-based art’ through sketches (design thinking, embryonic projects, first meetings, software programming)”, at the TENOR 2024 conference – International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, is now online. 2024: 4 April: Full video (my keynote and other talks): https://vimeo.com/930542621 Abstract: My presentation considers…
Analysis of Sound Design Practices, archives, Collaborative Art, CSC, Ircam, John Chowning, Music and Technology, Musical Assistant, Notation in Electroacoustic Music, Oral History, philology of music, Pioneers of electronic music, Sound Art, sound design, sound engineer, SOundNOiseMUsic, sources for the study of electronic music, Spectral music, Technology and Society, Teresa Rampazzi, Tracking the Creative Process in Music, women and music -
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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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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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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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,…