Laura Zattra
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Teresa Rampazzi: sound creations and co-creations as a meeting place between art and life
Next Saturday May 18th, I will discuss in Padova with Marta Previti and Maddalena Rizzi about women who have left a strong artistic mark in Veneto, Italy and the world. I will address how electronic music pioneer Teresa Rampazzi revisited the idea of creative place, from the home, to the collective, to the conservatory, to…
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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
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Teresa Rampazzi and other pioneers – @ Goethe Institut, Rome: 22.3.2024
Happy to have given a lecture last Friday at the Goethe-Institut in Rome Conferenza Teresa Rampazzi ed altri pionieri della musica elettronica in Italia Armando Gentilucci, nel primo libro italiano (1972) dedicato alla musica elettronica, riteneva che i lavori di Pietro Grossi, Enore Zaffiri, Vittorio Gelmetti e altri fossero “applicazioni generalmente molto immature” rispetto a quelli…
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The role of John Chowning in the contruction of Ircam (1973-1977)
During the 1970s, John Chowning founded CCRMA at Stanford University and was also involved in the planning of IRCAM, the computer music center directed by Pierre Boulez. In studying different archives and conducting interviews, as part of the RAMHO project, we have reconstructed this important years between 1972 and 1977 and highlighted the links that…
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L’Ircam et les 50 ans du Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou celebrates 50 years. Next Tuesday, at the Center Pompidou in Paris, I will give a talk about the history of IRCAM (founded by Pierre Boulez to associate the Center for art and culture with a Center for musical creation) in the context of the seminars organized by the History Commission of the…
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Angelo Paccagnini and Eugenio Carmi. In hoc signo vinces
My chapter “Angelo Paccagnini and Eugenio Carmi. In hoc signo vinces” has just been published in the book “Angelo Paccagnini. L’utopista indipendente”, edited by Maria Maddalena Novati and Marina Vaccarini, published by DieSchachtel records and NoMus, produced by Bruno Stucchi and Fabio Carboni, and with an attached CD with music by Paccagnini.
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My keynote speech at the XXIII CIM Colloquio di Informatica Musicale
Last Thursday (October 27) I gave a keynote speech at the XXIII CIM Colloquio di Informatica Musicale in Ancona: “The Computer Instrument: mixed methods to study past, present and future between archives, lost sources and oral history”. I was also able to admire the instruments on display from the Museo del Synth Marchigiano and from…
archives, collaboration, Collaborative Art, Composers & Artists, computer music, Interviews, John Chowning, Live-Electronic Music, Luigi Nono, musicaelettronica.it, Musical Assistant, Oral History, philology of music, sources for the study of electronic music, Technology and Society, Tracking the Creative Process in Music
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The Electroacoustic Music Archives at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: A Review of the Camillo Togni, Fausto Romitelli and Giacomo Manzoni Collections
What can tell a personal archive about the composer or anyone who has collected-organized (or disorganized) their contents over the years? In this article (just published and downloadable for free in PDF) I reflected on the electronic music sources donated to the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice by composers Camillo Togni, Fausto Romitelli and Giacomo…
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Computer Sounds in Luigi Nono’s Prometeo
As part of my research on collaborative creativity, on the music-technology relationship, and on the role of computer music designers / musical assistants, I studied the genesis of the computer sounds used in Luigi Nono’s Prometeo, generated with Giuseppe (Peppino) di Giugno’s 4i workstation.My paper “The Use of Technology in Revolutionary Perspective. Computer Music Research…
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Teresa Rampazzi: “La nuova alleanza tra musica e computer”
Nell’articolo “La nuova alleanza tra musica e computer“, pubblicato sul sito dell’Università di Padova https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it, Francesca Bastianon racconta la storia di Teresa Rampazzi. All’interno, potete ascoltarmi in un video mentre ripercorro le tappe principali della vita di questa importante pioniera, una delle prime donne al mondo ad occuparsi di musica elettroacustica. Per approfondire la storia…
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