Researcher/Musician @ CIRMA – University of Turin
In the same occasion, Susanna Legrenzi asked me to join the “Objects (in the name of love)” event chez Walter Voulaz boutique located in via Manzoni, an exhibition of affective objects. In the occasion, I will lend the exposition my fetish object, the Japanese tumbler toy that so well represents the music: “The composer makes plans, music laughs” (M. Feldman).
Objects (in the name of love)
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
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
We played with the Institute for the Very, Very Nervous (Gandolfo Pagano, prepared guitar, Nino Secchia, percussion, Dario Sanfilippo, laptop) at Goethe Institut in Palermo for the Curva Minore festival. Our special guest was Thomas Lehn. We started with Cage’s Sculptures Musicales and ended with a great impro gig.
Synthi A
Some shots here.
I had the pleasure to be invited to participate to the NA-TO vs NATO project, aimed at crossbreeding the impro scenes from Turin and Naples. So here a track from the gig with the DISPNEA duo from Naples composed by Pako-P and Fabrizio Elvetico.
NATO at Café des Artes
I was playing bass and samples. Totally free, of course.
The amazing Quadratonomade project, nomadic artworks in paperboxes, will be shown at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, on Febrary 29th 2012.
Libro delle cento generazioni
My Libro delle cento generazioni is included.
I’ve added on Vimeo a short video of the “Rumentario autoedule” installed in Como for Elettrosensi 2012.
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.
I’m very happy to be invited to hold on Jan 18/19 2012 a couple of seminars at the Conservatory of Como, for the Elettrosensi cycle of this year. I will speak about audio physical computing, mainly showing a bunch of computationally animated rubbish. The “Rumentario autoedule” installation is included.
Elettrosensi 2012
I’m very happy to be featured in the Computer Music Journal winter issue’s DVD dedicated to Live coding. Well, I’m presenting a video on “live writing” with the rumentarium…
Here the issue, the program notes and, above all, the video is publicly available here.
cmj 35/4
On Dec 2nd we will be in Athens at Megaron to present the VEP project with a concert using my 8 chans implementation. Helas I would not be there!
Megaron