Music Concert
ICCC 22 will offer an electronic music concert!
On Thursday 30/06 at 15:30 the Electronic Music Department of the Conservatory Claudio Monteverdi will host a music concert.
The concert on Thursday will be held at Sala Michelangeli in the Music Conservatory Claudio Monteverdi. Check it out here.
Concert Program
Cello & live electronics, audiovisuals and multichannel electroacoustic music by Electronic Music Department (Bachelor and Master programs) directed by Prof. Gustavo Delgado.
Special guest: Prof. Nicola Baroni.
Conservatory Claudio Monteverdi
Sala Michelangeli
Total duration: 47′
Kobane (2015/2019)
Cello and interactive system
[8 channels @ 10’]
Prof. Nicola Baroni
Andata e ritorno (2022)
Electroacoustic [8 channels @ 7’]
Francesco Failo
Zero Room
Audiovisual [8 channels @ 5’]
Written & directed by Edoardo Vitaletti
Re-sounding by Christian Daldoss, Olavo Lachner, Dino Tadè
AD_23 rev. 2 (2021)
Electroacoustic [8 channels @ 7’30″]
Gianni Tamanini
Ritual (2021)
Audiovisual [8 channels @ 8’]
Daniele Alessi
Permanente e transitorio rev.2 (2018)
Electroacoustic [8 channels @ 10’]
Prof. Gustavo Delgado
The Electronic Music Department is headed by Prof. Gustavo Delgado. For the realisation of the concert the following people are involved:
- Prof. Gustavo Delgado
- Daniele Alessi
- Matteo Beberi
- Francesco Failo
- Dario Pio
- Sara Raffaelli
- Fabio Zuliani
Composers and program notes
Prof. Nicola Baroni
He was cello student of Alain Meunier and Siegfried Palm, followed the stages on Live Electronics at IRCAM and developed a PhD in Composition at the University of Edinburgh. He is cello teacher at the “Verdi” Conservatory in Milano. As a soloist, he collaborated with composers such as Bussotti, Donatoni, Malec, Harvey. He is involved in electro-acoustic composition, principally interactive performance with Digitally Augmented Cello and real-time Software. For many years he has been active in the concert scene, he is also engaged in conferences and workshops throughout the world.
Kobane (2015/2019)
Cello and interactive system [8 channels @ 10’]
Kobane is an interactive composition originally created for an Augmented Bass Flute and premiered in Bologna in 2015. A new version of the work performed with the cello integrates an original approach to the generation of music scores in real-time (in common notation) with the performance and interactive analysis of melodic fragments mainly coming from the Persian collection Radif. The electroacoustic sound treatments are integrally dependent on music as performed by the cellist, who is engaged in a multilayered action. The system offers the soloist the opportunity to drive multiple electronic sound qualities at the same time, networking different forms of multi-agent mapping.
Francesco Failo
Born in Trento, Italy, in 1999. He gets the diploma in Automation Science in 2018 at the ITT M. Buonarroti school at Trento. He’s currently studying Electronic Music at Music Tecnonolgy Department of Conservatory of Music “Claudio Monteverdi” in Bolzano under tuition of Professor Gustavo Delgado.
Combining his passion and devotion for electronic circuitry and for playing and composing music, his journey started with hip hop and EDM productions and recordings, at the moment he’s focused on acousmatic composition and classical recordings.
Andata e ritorno (2022)
Electroacoustic [8 channels @ 7’]
This composition wants to make the listener compare the feelings the acousmatic material gives to him/her. Representing a journey, a dream, to a world rich of synthetized sounds, and the return to “reality” with discrete material. The aim is to describe the emotional effect of the concept of “source bonding” as explained in Denis Smalley’s Spectromorphology paper.
Christian Daldoss
Student for the Bachelor’s Degree of “Electronic Music” at the Conservatory “C. Monteverdi” of Bolzano under tuition of Prof. Gustavo Delgado. Christian is interested on pure synthesis through the connection to real-world acoustics: manipulation of the internal parameters of sounds in the imitation of concrete sounds. Mixing and mastering are essential in the search of depth of soundscape, organicity of sound texture, articulation and polyphony of sound objects.
Zero Room
Audiovisual [8 channels @ 5’]
Written & directed by Edoardo Vitaletti
Re-sounding by Christian Daldoss
The sound design has a multichannel dynamic spatialization and a fluid motion. The sound is predominantly composed through pure synthesis. The oniric and hallucinative ambient seems to be a materialization of the psychological reality. The two elements, real and unreal, are united in one dimension. The objective of the sound is to create a way for the immersion in the subjective experience of the subject. The foley become an instrument to dissect, modify and blend to the soundtrack.
Gianni Tamanini
He has got a BA (hons) in Electronic Music at the Conservatory of Bolzano under tuition of Prof. Gustavo Delgado, and a Master degree in Sociology (course in Music) at University of Trento. He is currently enrolled at the MA of Electronic Music at the Conservatory of Bolzano.
As electro-acoustic music composer he was one of the finalists of the National Arts Contest (2019/20, and he won the call of works 2021 by Mid-Side. His piece Ad_23 was published by Empirica Records and performed at the Arte e Scienza Festival (Goethe Institut – Rome).
He has also collaborated as sound designer in many soft movies and documentary productions.
AD_23 – rev. 2 (2021)
Omaggio a K. Stockhausen, a J. Dee e a mio padre
Electroacoustic [8 channels @ 7’30″]
The piece represents a dialogue between three characters played by pulsar synthesis sounds. The first two (synthesis) are human voices transfigured that are running after the third one (samples of voices). It takes place in a soundscape that reminds an electronic forest full of micro-sounds. Their development in the micro-time has been built with the techniques created by Stockhausen.
The spazialization has been designed with the diagram of sigillum dei aemeth made famous by the English alchemist dr. Dee. In this structure the sound objects keep moving according to the figures of the sigil.
Daniele Alessi
Born in Bolzano, in 1991. Daniele study at the Conservatory Claudio Monteverdi at the Electronic Music program degree under tuition of Prof. Gustavo Delgado. Daniele has developed his interest in electronic music from his early teenage. He is one half of the producer duo Alpi and co-founder of the independent label Autarchy Records. He also participated in different cultural projects and composed soundtracks for various short film.
Ritual (2021)
Audiovisual [8 channels @ 8’]
Ritual is an eight-minute audiovisual work intended as an electroacoustic reinterpretation of tribal ritual sounds. The visual represents natural elements in raw form (stone, gold, silver), aesthetically and symbolically referable to ritual acts. The video was created through the design of an audio-reactive algorithm that allows the 3D shapes to react to the impulses of the music. The techniques used to create the audio are mainly granular synthesis and the processing of samples such as percussive sounds of drums, breaths, choirs, horns and Tibetan bells. The structure of the piece is cyclical, it begins with recurring gestures that slow down, plunges into a metaphysical stage of calm, returns to the initial gestures enriched with new sounds and meanings.
Prof. Gustavo Delgado
Buenos Aires, Argentina (1976). Composer, sound artist, acousmatic and live electronics performer. Full-time Professor of Electronic Music at the “Claudio Monteverdi” Conservatory of Music, Bolzano (Italy)
His compositions explore topics such as spectral morphing, sound synthesis and resynthesis, advanced mixing techniques, gestural control systems for sound spatialization, microform sounds and the aesthetic and stylistic study of sound objects.
He graduated both from the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory of Music in Rome in Electronic Music Composition with Professor Giorgio Nottoli and from the National University of Quilmes (Argentina) with Professors Pablo Di Liscia, Carmelo Saitta and María Teresa Luengo.
Permanente e transitorio
Electroacoustic [8 channels @ 10’]
The composition deals with two seemingly opposite concepts: permanent and transitory. The piece continuously takes the audience to virtual spaces of unexpected featured and articulated sound gestures of opposing attributes. There were several impact sounds organized by their dynamical and spectral envelopes as “transitori”. Resonant frequencies have been then extracted from the so-called “impact” materials to obtain the “stable sounds” or “permanenti”. The latter were processed by synthesized sounds to create reciprocal or ambiguous “Färben” recognition zones/sources between the permanent and transitory materials. The composition has been awarded with the Third price at “SIME 2017” Electronic Music Contest (France), First price at the international electroacoustic music contest “EFME 2016” (Argentina); Winner of International Electroacoustic Contest “El laboratorio del espacio 2016” (Spain), Finalist selected piece at GRM “Banc d’Essai 2016” (Paris) and International Electroacoustic Music Contest “Taukay 2016” (Italy); selected piece at the festivals/calls for works “New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2017”, “Festival 5 Giornate 2017” (Italy), “Muslab 2016” (Mexico), “influx – L’Espace du son” (Brussels), “SPECTRA festival” (Malaysia), “EMuFest 2015” (Italy) and “Concerti di Primavera 2015” University Roma 2, Tor Vergata (Italy).
