Four seminar-workshops on electroacoustic music in a space – the Salone
degli Arazzi – adapted for live music thanks to the installation of an
eight-channel broadcasting system. A group of students or former
students of Alvise Vidolin, who has taught electronic music at the
Venice Conservatory for thirty-five years.
A homage in the workshop spirit of the maestro with performers of acoustic instruments, sound directors, historic
excerpts and new productions. A living space resounding with a “laptop
orchestra”, voices and pieces by established composers, acoustic
instruments and electronic sounds.
On Saturday 11 July the concert for Alvise Vidolin will close the four all-day events serie.
Program
9.30am
Analisi di 5 interazioni cicliche alle differenze sensibili, per
quartetto d’archi e live electronics, e illustrazione degli algoritmi
di elaborazione del suono
12.30am
lunch
1.30pm
Il rapporto compositore/esecutore: allestimento e prove aperte del
brano 5 interazioni cicliche alle differenze sensibili (in
collaborazione col Quartetto Paul Klee)
6.30pm
concluding remarks
Agostino Di Scipio is a composer of a variety of sound works, including electroacoustic music, sound installations and scores for instruments and digital sound processing systems. Many of his works explore original sound syntheses and processing and have recently featured the theme of the “man-machine-environment” relationship (e.g. the pieces in the Audible Ecosystems series and in numerous sound installations). A professor of electronic music at the Naples Conservatory, he has been visiting professor at the Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, 1993), the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, 2004), and the Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet (Mainz, 2005). He has also held courses at the Centre Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX, Paris-Alfortville, 2001-2007).
He was Edgard-Varèse-Gastprofessor at the Technische Universitaet, Berlin (2007-2008) and composer in residence at the DAAD, Berlin, the ZKM, Karlsruhe and the IMEB, Bourges. His works have been presented in numerous Italian and international venues and are partly collected on two CDs: Hörbare Ökosysteme. Live-elektronische Kompositionen (RZ Edition) and CD Paysages Historiques (Chrisopee Electronique). One of his recent installations, Stanze Private, is a permanent part of the Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, and was presented at the Arte Fiera, Bologna and the international Digicult exhibition, Modena.
Di Scipio is also the author of various writings on his own compositional and sound research and on the relationship between the arts and technology in history and in our own age. He has published critical and cultural writings in Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities (Cambridge) and in Revue d’Esthetique (Paris). His analytical and critical writings have also been published in anthologies such as Electroacoustic Music Analytical Perspectives (Greenwood Press), Per Giacomo Manzoni (LIM) and Musica e tecnologia domani (LIM). He has also translated various books: Gottfried M. Koenig, Genesi e forma. Nascita e genesi dell’estetica musicale elettronica (Semar, Rome, 1995), Michael Eldred, Heidegger, Hölderlin & John Cage (Semar, 2000), Iannis Xenakis, Universi del suono (LIM/Ricordi, Milan, 2003), and Teoria e prassi della musica nell’era dell’informatica (G. Laterza, Bari, 1995); he was guest editor at the Journal of New Music Research for a special issue dedicated to Xenakis (2004).
The repertoire of the Quartetto d’archi Paul Klee – Alessandro Fagiuoli and Stefano Antonello violins, Andrea Amendola viola, Luca Paccagnella violoncello – is rooted in 20th-century music. The quartet also takes a keen interest in contemporary music and often performs world premieres.
The Quartet’s most significant performances include concerts at the Santander International Festival (Spain), the Galway Arts Festival (Ireland), the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, the Alicante International Festival (Spain), the Teatro Regio, Parma, the Cantiere d’Arte, Montepulciano, the Nuovi Spazi Musicali season, Rome, the Festival Romaeuropa, the National Concert Hall, Dublin, the Auditorium Nacional, Madrid, the Music Under Construction Festival, New York (1999) and in Istanbul, Lisbon, Hamburg, Salzburg and Ljubljana.
In 2004-2005 the Quartetto Paul Klee was quartet in residence at the Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, France, where they were involved in intense concert activities.
In 2005 the quartet was given the patronage of the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi, Rome to promote Giacinto Scelsi’s works for quartet.
The quartet is currently in residence at the University of Evry, Paris. It has made recordings for labels such as Stradivarius, Blue Serge, Niccolò and New World Records (New York).
8 April 2009, 2.00 pm
Salone degli Arazzi
Fondazione Cini, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Free entrance
