23-24/05/13 Le forme del suono

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.

Published on May 22, 2013 9:09 am.
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Imaginary Landscape no. 4

Imaginary Landscape no. 4

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

Published on January 31, 2013 3:22 pm.
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Machina logotelica, an interview

machina logotelica, an interview

Fabio Sibio kindly extracted for me an excerpt from his beautiful video dedicated to the Making together exhibition for Milan Design Week. I’m saying something about machina logotelica installation here.

machina logotelica, an interview

Published on December 30, 2012 11:36 pm.
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A video of Dispacci, 01/12/2012

Dispacci dal fronte interno

Dispacci dal fronte interno [Dispatches from the homefront] is a work for feedback system including ad libitum strings, printer and live electronics, that I presented at Sonic Screens, on 01/12/2012.
Audio from strings, printers and environment is not only manipulated live, but some features are extracted and used to control not only the same sound processing but also the real-time generation and print on the fly of musical notation to be performed by the player. In short, the performer receives “dispatches” which content depends on what s/he is playing.

Here a video by Gianmarco Del Re (thanks!),  featuring:

Èdua Amarilla Zádory - Violin
Ana Topalovic – Violoncello

Dispacci dal fronte interno

Published on December 13, 2012 12:10 am.
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Organo fonatorio news

Organo fonatorio

No Title Gallery has published the catalog of Passenger exhibit including Organo fonatorio, for free here. A video is now on Vimeo here.

Organo fonatorio

Published on November 8, 2012 10:27 pm.
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Making together

Working on the Machina logotelica

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

Published on April 12, 2012 1:23 pm.
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Rumentario autoedule

Rumentario autoedule

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.

Published on February 22, 2012 12:03 pm.
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Elettrosensi in Como

Elettrosensi 2012

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

Published on January 16, 2012 9:22 am.
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SMC11, Padua

Recording an audio physical setup

On July 8th I presented at Sound and Music Conference in Padua my contribution “Audio Physical Computing”, substantially recollecting the experiences I have made up to now on using audio signals to control physical stuff. Nice people and nice concerts, by the way.

Recording an audio physical setup

Published on July 11, 2011 7:40 pm.
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ACM MultiMedia in Florence

Rumentarium in Rome

On oct 28th I will present a poster at ACM MM Conf 2010 in Florence. Too bad I will have no time to stay there more.

The poster deals with the Rumentarium (“The Rumentarium Project”).

Rumentarium in Rome

Published on October 23, 2010 2:25 pm.
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