The laboratorioarazzi is a series of workshops organised by the Institute for Music, now in its third edition. This year it will focus on the themes of audio in networks and the interactions between performers playing on both acoustic and electroacoustic instruments. The meetings in the fi rst part of 2011 will range from the use of ‘genre’ music technologies – in circuits involving the local community and especially young people – to a specialist seminar on network audio. The fi nal event will be the international festival of laptop orchestras and ensembles.

On 12 March Electronic girls, a one-day workshop, talks and livesets dedicated to women’s electronic music will be held at Laboratorio Morion and S.a.L.E Docks. The event is organised by the association Electronicgirls
(www.electronicgirls.org), a group of musicians and DJs committed to disseminating electronic music performed by women. The website is a blog open to anyone wishing to encourage the spread of stories about the electronic revolution and a completely non-profi t netlabel (creative commons, money-free). The event is part of S.a.L.E Docks cultural project, self-managed by a collective of students, cognitive workers and temporary employees in the performing arts and cultural activities sector. The overall aim is to boost women’s electronic music and to introduce the wider public to the story of female pioneers of electronics, far too often neglected or little-known.

On 20 April the focus will be on audio protocols in the Internet, data-transmitting networks, (both audio and control data), and hardware and software for exchanging data between computers and electroacoustic technologies, with a seminar in collaboration with AES Italia: Audio on IP and in streaming: musicians and technologists.

Lastly, from 11 to 13 July there will be a festival of laptop orchestras and ensembles: Laptops meet musicians. Three days of demonstrations, recordings to listen to, concerts, interactions between musicians and jam sessions involving groups of laptops, acoustic instruments and interactive technologies.