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I’ve been totally busy organizing the XVIII CIM, the Colloquium of Musical Informatics. So busy that I was not able to updated the blog…
On Oct 5-8 we set up 3 days of conferences, 6 concerts, 2 workshops. More details here.
Here some shots: graphic stuff and events
Here we are! Hopeful Monster, the new album by AMP2 is out, inside the 10 CD box set Musica Improvvisa by Die Schachtel. Here the booklet’s text:
“The biologist Richard Goldschmidt introduced the term “hopeful monster” to indicate an individual of a species showing a relevant mutation in its genes. This mutation makes the individual a “monster”, as it differs from all the other individuals of his species. But, at the same time, it is “hopeful”, as it can lead to a radical discontinuity in the otherwise continuous evolution of the species. Our “Hopeful Monster” presents five excerpts from two long, radically improvised, sessions, where no previous structures of any kind were planned. Indeed, improvisation often tends to be shaped as a sort of continuous, slowly evolving flow. But, from time to time, a mutation happens, leading to unprevisible results. The tracks on the album present five of these hopeful monsters”
In “Hopeful Monster”, AMP2 is:
Gandolfo Pagano: Prepared Guitar, Electronics
Dario Sanfilippo: Laptop/Live Electronics – Feedback Network Based Nonlinear DSP System
Domenico Sciajno: Laptop/Live Electronics – Max/MSP Programming
Antonino Secchia: Percussion Set
Andrea Valle: Rumentarium, a SuperCollider-Driven Electro-mechanical Percussion Set
I’ve been invited by SMC to hold a Tutorial on SuperCollider. I’ll be in Barcelona on 21st-24th July.
Many things to do at the conference, btw: Detti del tuono will be performed with flute and four tracks, with live spatialization, and I’ll present a work we did on the recostruction of Xenakis’ spatialization in the Philips Pavilion.
I’ve been invited by Nephogram.net to hold a SuperCollider Crash Course in Roma. On the evening we will have some fun with Franz Rosati playing the Rumentarium and processing it.
Info: 16.6.2010 from 11-19, cost: 50€, inscription: 5.06.2010, write to maxclass[DOT]rdc[AT]gmail[DOT]com
We will play as AMP2 at the Audiovisiva Festival, Milan.
The concert is organized by Die Schachtel labe to present the 10 CD box of Musica Improvvisa (10 Italian improvisers).
Here some photos of last impro party at Studiomars, Torino. Big fun. Helas, Francesco was not able to join the party.
A recording of Detti del tuono, fr G-flute and mechanical percussion, has been played at the GASP SuperCollider Symposium, held by Jeremy van Buskirk at GASP, Boston. Hurray.
In the occasion of the SC workshop, we agreed that some fun was mandatory. You’re all invited to the Live Impro Party at Studiomars, via Tiziano 35, TO. Tue 13, from 10pm. (Helas, Franz would not join us).
andrea valle 