MusicalInformatics – andrea valle

Bilderatlas Spring Break: live at RKH Studio

On May 7, I debuted with the ensemble Arto Fantasma at RKH Studio in Turin with “Bilderatlas Spring Break”, an audiovisual composition within the Nickelodeon digitale project, using the Im-prompt-u methodology.

A kybernete directs the ensemble in real time through plain-text instructions transmitted via Armillaria, a minimal browser-based system for live textual conduction that I developed. A pre-composed visual atlas in three acts (Ieri, Oggi, Domani — Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow), drawn from open-licensed archival sources, is re-sonified live by the ensemble.

With: Carlo Barbagallo (electric guitar), Dario Bruna (drums), Simone Garino (alto sax), Federico Marchesano (double bass), Bruno Surace (composition and conduction), Edmondo Tedesco (clarinets), Andrea Valle (system development and electric bass).

Giornate della voce

Music, MusicalInformatics, SeminarsAndWorkshops

Ragionamenti sul rapporto tra musica e poesia dalla mia limitata prospettiva, tra ricerca scientifica e musicale

Media and Creative Coding

Conferences, exhibition, Music, MusicalInformatics

Yesterday it was very cool to lecture at Print Club, Torino

Filibus! Live at Cinema Massimo

Cinema, LiveStuff, Music, MusicalInformatics, Recordings

It’s been a while without posting. So, without covering old news, the new news. Arto fantasma played live over Filibus, an impressive film by M. Roncoroni (1915). This time we have bassoon, contrabass, prepared piano, baritone sax, electric guitar, drums, and automated drums. Cinema Massimo, National Museum of Cinema, Torino, March 8th 2024

Periplo at SMC22

Conferences, Multimedia, Music, MusicalInformatics, SeminarsAndWorkshops

This year SMC has not been organized by me (as the previous two online edition, blame COVID). It was in St. Étienne and with my colleague Valeriya Korol we presented a paper, “For LISA. Music Composition from Gravitational waves” explaining the process that went from Valeriya’s GWD data, for the LISA mission, to my piece for prepared piano. On July 28th we also had the chance to present it at LISA meeting. You can check the paper here. And the music is here.

SuperCollider browsable source space for algorithmic composition.

Pigro-zia

LiveStuff, Multimedia, Music, MusicalInformatics

Thanks to Tempo Reale, on 04/05/2022 I had the chance of doing live coding (first time ever in a proper sense…) in the homage they paid to the great Pietro Grossi. So I played my SuperCollisione PiGra, of course with SuperCollider. Here it is on YouTube.

Orchestre residuali: a documentary

Multimedia, Music, MusicalInformatics, SeminarsAndWorkshops

Thanks to Marco Masoero, I’ve been invited for the Teknologhia cycle of events, inside Polincontri, Politecnico di Torino. In the occasione Carlo Barbagallo and Elaine Bonsangue have shot and edited a wonderful documentary on some of my works, here on YouTube. We discussed it live on 22/04/2022 at Politecnico di Torino.

Live at Parade électronique

LiveStuff, Multimedia, Music, MusicalInformatics

On 16/10/2021 I’ve been invited to play at Parade électronique, Teatro Arsenale, Milan. Thanks to the crew at MMTCreativeLab. I performed a set called “Paesaggio con figure”, with radio and custom zither (“cetri”). Live rec on YouTube here. Dialogue with Jacopo Panfili is here.

Lecturing on algorithmic harmonization

Music, MusicalInformatics, SeminarsAndWorkshops

This happened on May 21st, thanks to the invitation of Alessandro Bratus for his course on Popular music. Let’s hope we can work together on an ongoing project.

Regnum animale, Zurich 27/5/2021

LiveStuff, Music, MusicalInformatics

It’s been a long time since we rock’n’roll… After a long hiatus, together with Mauro Lanza we’ve discussed and performed Regnum animale at ZHDK, Zurich. Wonderful situation and performance. Some pics here.