Category: MusicalInformatics

23-24/05/13 Le forme del suono

exhibition, LiveStuff, Music, MusicalInformatics, SeminarsAndWorkshops
trilobite
trilobite

I will be at “Le forme del suono” festival in Latina on 23-24 holding a SuperCollider crash course. I will also present the “Trilobiti” installation:

A population of 8 radioclocks, each one listening to the surrounding environment. When a sound is detected, each radioclock starts emitting a pattern deriving from the letters composing the word “telegraph”, translated into Morse code. Both listening and emitting happen through radioclock’s loudpspeakers.
To be premiered on May 24th, the day when Morse sent the sentence “What hath God wrought”.
A feedback system, you know when trilobites start singing, but not when they stop.

On 24 I’ll be with Simone Pappalardo and Franz Rosati for a gig at Circolo Hemingway, Latina.

Imaginary Landscape no. 4

exhibition, LiveStuff, Multimedia, Music, MusicalInformatics

On a Cage concert at Conservatorio di Torino (“Changes of Music”) we will premier an automated version of   Imaginary Landscape no. 4. Originally scored for 12 radios and 24 performers, as a collaboration between CIRMA and Politecnico di Torino we have implemented a SuperCollider/Arduino version that automatises it. See here for the whole stuff. Proud of the project and of the crew.

Imaginary Landscape no. 4
Imaginary Landscape no. 4

Sonic Screens 2012

LiveStuff, Music, MusicalInformatics

I’ll be in Milan on Dec 1/2012 with friend from U.S.O. Project for the 2012 edition of their Sonic Screens. I’ll present Dispacci dal fronte interno, a new piece for violin and cello with printers dispatching notation sheets in real-time in the framework of a feedback system. (who knows what will happen…). The performers will be the Èdua Amarilla Zádory – Violin and Ana Topalovic – Violoncello.

Sonic Screens 2012
Sonic Screens 2012

ICMC: paper and performance

Conferences, exhibition, Music, MusicalInformatics

I will be at ICMC12 in Ljubljana on 11-12 sept 12. I will present with Dario Sanfilippo the paper “Towards a typology of feedback systems”. The paper has received the Best Paper Award. Yai! Honored and proud. We will also present a paper + performance “Heterogenously-coupled feedback systems”, of course concerning the Bar Dot Project. We will present the Dark Store setting.

Bar Dot rec session in Turin
Bar Dot rec session in Turin

Pseudo at Grec Festival, BCN, 24-26/07/12

LiveStuff, Multimedia, Music, MusicalInformatics

I’m proudly presenting Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca‘s new work Pseudo, to be premiered on Thu 24 July at Mercat de les Flors for the Grec Festival, in Barcelona. An impressive mechatronic peformance featuring a polar bear, a mechanical head, a miniprojector helmet, loudspeaker tits, 3 screens, a guncam, four channel audio, of course interactive and in real time, ‎(not to speak of pressure carpets and the usual exoskeleton). I made some 20 pieces, interactive, working in real time, on four channels, and developed the software structure for interconnecting the music application to the other (many) software components used in the performance. Of course, entirely developed in SuperCollider.

Pseudo!
Pseudo!

Making together

exhibition, Multimedia, MusicalInformatics

I’ve been asked by Stefano Maffei and Susanna Legrenzi to participate to the Making Together event, powered by Logotel for the Milano Design Week on April 17-22.

I will present the new “Machina logotelica”, an installation resulting from an assemblage of scavenged stuff (rumentarium style, ça va sans dire…), motors, hair driers, radioclocks. Custom hardware based on audio control will be used (thanks Guru Francesco Richiardi!)

Working on the Machina logotelica
Working on the Machina logotelica

Hommage to Enore Zaffiri

Conferences, LiveStuff, Music, MusicalInformatics

On March 27/28, together with Stefano Bassanese, we organized a two-day seminar dedicated to Italian pioneer of electronic music Enore Zaffiri. In the occasion, we discussed his opus and dedicated him a concert with electronic and instrumental music. I played my reconstructed version of Zaffiri’ 1968 masterpiece “Musica per un anno” on four channels. Some shots here.

Musica per un anno, SuperCollider sw interface
Musica per un anno, SuperCollider sw interface

Rumentario autoedule

exhibition, Multimedia, Music, MusicalInformatics, SeminarsAndWorkshops

I’ve added on Vimeo a short video of the “Rumentario autoedule” installed in Como for Elettrosensi 2012.

Rumentario autoedule
Rumentario autoedule

In the “Rumentario autoedule” installation the Rumentarium electro-mechanical ensemble, made up of 24 acoustic generators, is coupled with audio analysis capabilities. Two mics capture the surrounding soundscape.
Retrieved pitch and loudness profiles are used to drive the orchestra. As the soundscape around is mostly (even if not only) made up of the same rumentarium, the latter reacts to itself.