MASTERCLASS & CONCERTI SPAZIOLEMS: PUCKETTE + DI SICPIO

22-23-24 Aprile 2024 @ Space-Lems

Agostino Di Scipio website

Miller Puckette website

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PROGRAMMA

Lunedi 22 Aprile, 10-13 e 15-18 Masterclass di Agostino Di Scipio “Pratiche musicali ecosistemiche”

Martedi 23 Aprile, 14.30-17 Masterclass di Miller Puckette “Using computers as musical instruments”                           

ore 18 Concerto in sala dei marmi, SpazioLems#5: Agostino Di Scipio – Polveri Sonore con musiche di Di Scipio, Lupone, Roads e Vaggione.       

Mercoledi 24 Aprile, 10-13 e 15-17 Masterclass di Miller Puckette “Using computers as musical instruments”                           

ore 17 Concerto presso Space-Lems, SpazioLems#6: Miller Puckette (per i soli partecipanti ed iscritti alla masterclass, posti limitatissimi)

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Il concerto SpazioLems#5, è aperto a tutti ma con posti limitati, per riservare scrivere a eventi@conservatoriorossini.it.

SpazioLems#6 è per i soli iscritti alla masterclass, quindi NON SERVE LA PRENOTAZIONE

per informazioni:https://www.conservatoriorossini.it/calendari/spaziolems-5/

per approfondimenti: http://www.rossinispace.org/spaziolems5/

Qui troverete la modalità di iscrizione alla Masterclass: https://www.conservatoriorossini.it/masterclass/

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Miller Puckette obtained a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT (1980) and Ph. D. in Mathematics from Harvard (1986), winning an NSF graduate fellowship and the Putnam Prize Scholarship. He was a member of MIT’s Media Lab from its inception until 1987, and then a researcher at IRCAM (l’Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Musique/Acoustique), founded by composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. At IRCAM he wrote Max, a widely used computer music software environment, released commercially in 1990 and now available from Cycling74.com . Puckette joined the music department of the University of California San Diego in 1994, where he is now Distinguished Professor, emeritus. He is currently developing Pure Data (“Pd”), an open-source real-time multimedia arts programming environment. Puckette has collaborated with many artists and musicians, including Philippe Manoury (whose Sonus ex Machina cycle was the first major work to use Max), Rand Steiger, Vibeke Sorensen, Juliana Snapper, Kerry Hagan, and Irwin. Since 2004 he has performed with the Convolution Brothers. He has received honorary degrees from Université de Mons and Bath Spa University and the 2008 SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award.Back to Miller Puckette’s home page

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Agostino Di Scipio (born in Naples, Italy, 1962) approached sound and music as a self-taught musician in his late teenage years, then moved quickly into more adventurous electronics and computer programming, also developing an interest for experimental theatre while a student at Istituto Universitario Orientale, in Naples. He graduated in ‘Composition’ as well as in ‘Electronic Music’ from the Conservatory of L’Aquila (teachers included M.Lupone, G.Bizzi, M.Cardi). At the time, he also studied Computer Music at the CSC (Centro di Sonologia Computazionale), University of Padova. In more recent years, he was appointed research doctor (PhD) from the University of Paris VIII.

Composer, sound artist, and scholar, Di Scipio explores original methods in the generation and transmission of sound, often experimenting with phenomena of emergence and chaotic dynamics. His best-known works include solo live-electronics concert works and sound installations where cybernetic principles and “man-machine-environonment” networks of sonic interactions are implemented and creatively elaborated (e.g. the Audible Ecosystemics series of pieces, and the more recent Modes of Interference series). In 2001, together with poet Giuliano Mesa, he wrote Tiresia, a mix of poetry reading and electroacoustics (earlier on, he had already explored this medium with Sound & Fury, a stage work based on a collaboration with photographer Manilio Prignano and poet Eugenio Tescione, bearing on elements of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and fragments of Auden’s Commentary). Monograph CD portraits are available through RZ_Edition (Berlin), Chrysopeé Electronique (Paris/Bourges) and Stradivarius (Milan). More recordings of his works are included in collective CDs and DVDs by labels such as Wergo, Neuma, Capstone, ecc. With pianist Ciro Longobardi, he prepared and published an extended realization of John Cage’s Electronic Music for Piano Cage (Stradivarius). With saxophonist Mario Gabola he established a duo project in radical electroacoustic improvisation, mostly based on recycled analogue circuitry (Upset, Viande Records). Since 2014, together with Dario Sanfilippo, he has developed the Machine Milieu project (networks of autonomous and semi-autonomous sound-generating agents, ToxoRecords). In Spring 2011, the Berlin-based sound art gallery ‘Galerie Mario Mazzoli’ hosted a personal exhibit of Di Scipio’s installation works, Sound. Self. Other.

Di Scipio mainly works in his own studio in L’Aquila (a small, medieval town in the Appenines mountains, not far from Rome). In 2004 and 2005 he lived and worked in Berlin as artist-in-residence of the DAAD Künstlerprogramm. Guest composer of institutions such as CSC in Padova (1987-1991), ZKM (Karlsruhe, 2005-06) and IMEB (Bourges 2003 and 2005). Professor in Electronic Music Composition at the Conservatory of Naples (2001-2013), today he holds the same position in L’Aquila. In Winter 2007-08, Di Scipio served as Edgar Varèse Professor at Technische Universität (Berlin). Lecturer in live-electronics composition ai CCMIX (Paris, 2001-2007), guest professor in several institutions, a.o. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2004), Universitv of Paris 8 (2013), IRCAM (2013), Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz (2004), Simon Fraser University (Burnaby-Vancouver, 1993), Sibelius Academy (Helsinki, 1995), University of Calgary (2015), University of Edinburgh (2015). He lectured in many institutions worldwide, and delivered opening keynote speeches at the International Computer Music Conference 2013, in Perth (Australia), as well as in international meetings such as ‘Musique et écologie du son’ (Paris, 2013), ‘Beyond Soundscape’ (Belfast, 2013), etc. In 2014 a special issue of Contemporary Music Review has been published (edited by Makis Solomos), with papers on Di Scipio’s work by musicologists and electroacoustic music practitioners, partly the outcome of earlier international scholarly gatherings (Université Paul Valery-Montpellier 2010, Universitat des Kunste-Berlin 2011, Université Paris 8 2013). A book + CD publication appeared in 2015 (edited by Andrea Semerano), Agostino Di Scipio. Polvere di suono: una prospettiva ecosistemica della composizione (La Camera Verde, Rome).

Di Scipio has published numerous research papers, and is the author of internationally published essays often devoted to the issues of music and sound technologies, and related socio-cultural, cognitive and political implications. His textbooks include Circuiti del tempo. Un percorso storico-critico nella creatività musicale elettroacustica e informatica (LIM Editore, Lucca, 2021) and Pensare le tecnologie del suono e della musica (Editoriale Scientifica, Naples, 2013). In 2004 he served as guest editor for a monograph issue of the Journal of New Music Research on Iannis Xenakis. Di Scipio served as editor of the anthology Teoria e prassi della musica nell’era dell’informatica (Laterza, Bari, 1995) and of several other volumes, including Iannis Xenakis’s Universi del suono (LIM/Ricordi, Milan 2003), Michael Eldred’s Heidegger, Holderlin & John Cage (Semar, Rome, 2000), G.M. Koenig’s Genesi e forma. L’estetica della musica elettronica (Semar, Rome 1995) and Tom DeLio’s Circoscrivere l’universo aperto (Semar, Rome, 2000). Between 2009 and 2012 he served as chief editor of the independent scholarly review Le Arti del Suono (http://leartidelsuono.altervista.org/)