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Teresa Rampazzi Prize: Brulicautoma by Mattia Parisse (September 2022 XXIII CIM)

Since 2018, AIMI scientific committee has conceived a prize for the most original electroacoustic composition, called Teresa Rampazzi Prize. The reason behind this prize resides in the will to recognise any composer who is attentive to combine electronic research with aesthetic research, as Teresa Rampazzi did in her music. Besides being one of the first pioneer of electronic music in Italy (alongside Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono, Pietro Grossi, Enore Zaffiri, Richard Teitlebaum, Alvin Curran, to name a few), Teresa Rampazzi distinguished herself for being one of the few women working in this field. Rampazzi (1914–2001) was a composer, electronic music researcher, pedagogue, former avant-garde pianist, who decided to devote herself to electronic analogue music at the age of 50. Together with optical and programmatic artist Ennio Chiggio, in 1965 she founded the N.P.S. Group (Nuove Proposte Sonore). The Group became one of the main Studios active in Italy alongside Pietro Grossi’s in Firenze and Pisa and Enore Zaffiri’s in Turin. Rampazzi approached Computer Music in the early Seventies, thanks to her close friend and colleague Pietro Grossi; at the time she was 60 years old. In October 1972, the Conservatory of music of Padova appointed her the new Electronic Music Course, of which she was a strong advocate (it was the fourth course in Italy after Grossi in Firenze, Zaffiri in Turin and Angelo Paccagnini’s electronic music course in Milan). Teresa taught to her students analogue techniques during her lessons at conservatory, whereas at the newborn CSC (Centro di Sonologia Computazionale), she produced Computer Music. After the death of her husband in 1984, Rampazzi moved to Assisi and later to Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza), where she continued to compose.

The 1st Teresa Rampazzi Prize edition (XXII CIM conference, 2018) to the most original electroacoustic composition selected from the call for music – an award that has accompanied the Aldo Piccialli prize to the most innovative scientific contribution in the research on musical informatics – has been awarded to the piece Astèrion by Rocío Cano Valiño, with special mention to the piece Khēmia I by Demian Rudel Rey.

After a discontinuity in the organization of the CIM conference due to covid pandemic, the 2022 edition of Teresa Rampazzi Prize (XXIII CIM, Ancona) has been conferred to the piece , for the ability to realize a piece with a solid compositional structure, as well as original and organic synthesis techniques.

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Listen on YOUTUBE: Mattia Parisse | Brulicautoma | 2021 | 8:08

“Brulicautoma” is a composition for fixed media, based on the sound materials produced by the self-made instrument “Gurdy Gurdy”.

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Source: Mattia Parisse, BRULICAUTOMA (2021), https://www.idkf.org/past-versions/idkf-2021/artists-2021/mattia-parisse

 

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Laura Zattra talks about Teresa Rampazzi at the SoundMit event

Il video dell’intervento di Laura Zattra dell’11 ottobre su Teresa Rampazzi è visibile al link seguente: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sek8tl1hmSQ

Grazie a Johann Merrich e a SoundMit per l’invito.

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In the article “La nuova alleanza tra musica e computer“, published on the University of Padua website ilbolive.unipd.it, Francesca Bastianon writes about Teresa Rampazzi. Inside the article, you can listen Laura Zattra’s voice in a video recorded at the Centro di Sonologia dell’Università di Padova, followed by Sergio Canazza. They recall the the crucial moments in the life of this important pioneer, one of the first women in the world to make with electro-acoustic music. Link to the video: https://youtu.be/toWha0UFMA8

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Among the latest events, it is great proud to remember the performance of her piece Fluxus in the closing concert of the Internationale Ferienkurse in Darmstadt (August 2021) (Listen to the concert at this link) and the radio programme curated by Giacomo Fronzi on Wikimusic Radio3, aired on October 31, 2021.

For furher information on Teresa Rampazzi (in Italian), see: Laura Zattra, “Teresa Rampazzi”, Biographical Dictionary of Italians, Treccani Encyclopedia, published in 2016.

And Remember: Laura Zattra’s research on the composer is constantly evolving!

Subscribe also to the Teresa Rampazzi facebook page to stay updated.

Teresa Rampazzi back at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse!

Today, the quadraphonic piece Fluxus by Teresa Rampazzi will be performed during the final concert of the 50th Darmstadt Summer Course. After 70 years, Rampazzi is back at the Ferienkurse (she attended the course also in 1954, 1956, and until 1959, according to historical sources).

Wed, 11 August 2021, 19:30h, Sporthalle Lichtenbergschule

Final concert of the 50th Darmstadt Summer Course.

CONCERT PROGRAM

Teresa Rampazzi: Fluxus (1979) – 10’40”
Electronic Music

Rebecca Saunders: Dust III (2018-21) – 65′
World Premiere of the version for several percussion players

More details of the concert here (also in livestream): https://internationales-musikinstitut.de/en/ferienkurse/festival/programm/dust/

Teresa Rampazzi in 1976 at the Conservatory of Music in Padova in front of the ARP 2500 analog modular synthesizer. Photo by Luciano Menini
Teresa Rampazzi in 1976 at the Conservatory of Music in Padova in front of the ARP 2500 analog modular synthesizer. Photo by Luciano Menini

About Fluxus, 1979

Spatialization: 4-tracks
Published LP EDI-PAN PRC S 20-16, Roma, 1984.
Premiere: August 1979, Certaldo (Italy).

Original analogue tapes: Teresa Rampazzi Collection, University of Padua (Italy).

Digitization/restauration of the analogue tapes by MARTLab, Florence (Italy).

Fluxus was realized in 1979 with the use of the language ICMS (Interactive Computer Music System), a software created by Graziano Tisato at the CSC – Centro di Sonologia Computazionale at the University of Padova for the synthesis (connected to Music5 program, one of the early computer music programs), the editing and mixing, connected with a video, whose functions and algorithms were selected by means of a light pen. Teresa Rampazzi made the spatialization directly during the mixing of the 4-tracks. She preferred an acousmatic listening experience during concerts. Her musical works would thus be diffused without any further changes, because she disliked the human gesture in live electronic music.

From Teresa Rampazzi’s concert program [based on a citation by Heraclitus]:

«Fluxus was born from the ambitious desire to seek and find a form more adherent to the means we possess today for making music, both at the technological level and the vision of the world that together have required and caused the birth of these means. The computer suggests to us forms that cannot repeat any past, and that reflect our Heraclitean philosophy, where nothing can ever go back. The acoustic signals, therefore, flow one from the other and after the other, in an evolutionary process without interruptions. The [synthesis] technique of Frequency Modulation has been used here precisely to express, even at the level of the microstructure, this instability and incessant transformation that prevents any pause and, in a certain sense, already destroys the traditional concept of structure. Momentary shortcomings of hardware [an IBM System/7 computer system functioning in differed time] and software [the language ICMS – Interactive Computer Music System] prevented a more radical transformation of the signal and undermined the continuity of the form, which still suggests the flow of a river, sometimes slow, sometimes impetuous, sometimes dense, sometimes sparse. The parameters of density, rhythm, range of heights were therefore taken into consideration». Teresa Rampazzi, 1979.

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“Taras on three dimensions” in the new book Between the Tracks (2020)

The book Between the Tracks-Musicians on Selected Electronic Music edited by Kerry Hagan and Miller Puckette is finally published!

My chapter focuses on the analysis of “Taras su tre dimensioni” [Taras on three dimensions], a work realized by Teresa Rampazzi in 1971-72 in the course of a transitional phase (her transition from the analogue to the computer music technology).

The approximately eleven-minutes work represents an unicum among Teresa Rampazzi’s repertoire. It is made from the juxtaposition of three typologies of sounds: analogue, concrete and computer made sounds, and is also the only piece in her catalogue which incorporates concrete sounds.

To know a little more about this unique piece, read (and listen) from my prevous post): http://www.teresarampazzi.it/2019/07/02/teresa-presenting-her-unique-concreteelectroniccomputer-music-piece-taras/

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Premio Teresa Rampazzi: Call for Works/Scores

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The SMC/CIM 2020 organizing committee announces a call for musical/sonic/media works for the joint 17th SMC Conference (Sound and Music Computing) and XXIII CIM (Colloquium of Musical Informatics), hosted from June 20th to 26th in Torino, Italy. The theme of SMC2020 is Imaging sound. https://smc2020torino.it/uk/default.asp?PID=1

Call for music works: https://smc2020torino.it/uk/page.asp?PID=134

The best work will be awarded the Teresa Rampazzi Prize.

Music submission is FREE.

This will be the second edition of the Prize. In 2018, a novelty of the CIM has been the introduction of the Teresa Rampazzi Prize to the most original electroacoustic composition selected from the call for music, an award that has accompanied the Aldo Piccialli prize to the most innovative scientific contribution in the research on musical informatics. The first edition of the Prix Teresa Rampazzi (2018) has been awarded to the piece Astèrion by Rocío Cano Valiño. Special mention went to the piece Khēmia I by Demian Rudel Rey.

Italian: www.aimi-musica.org/?page_id=3525

English: https://smc2020torino.it/uk/default.asp?PID=1 (17° SMC International conference) – http://www.aimi-musica.org/?page_id=3532 (XXIII CIM Italian conference)

Important dates

Opening of the Easychair portal for music submissions
January 15th, 2020
Paper submission deadline
February 28th, 2020
Music submission deadline
March 1st, 2020
Summer school application deadline
March 31st, 2020
Notification of music acceptance
April 15th, 2020 
Notification of paper acceptance
 April 17th, 2020
Final paper submission deadline
April 30th, 2020
Early Bird registration deadline
April 30th, 2020

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Teresa presenting her unique concrete+electronic+computer music piece “Taras”

This is a unique opportunity to listen to Rampazzi’s voice, presenting her own piece “Taras su tre dimensioni”. The piece (only a few minutes from the entire work) starts at 2:23.

“Taras su tre dimensioni” [Taras on three dimensions] is a work realized during 1971 by Teresa Rampazzi (1914-2001) – the Italian pioneer of electronic music – in the course of a transitional phase (her transition from the analogue to the computer music technology). The approximately eleven-minutes work represents an unicum among Teresa Rampazzi’s repertoire. It is made from the juxtaposition of three typologies of sounds: analogue, concrete and computer made sounds, and is also the only piece in her catalogue which incorporates concrete sounds.

This audio track is part of a radio programme aired in 1985 “Le nuove frontiere della musica” (New frontiers of music; director: Tonino Delfino). The programme consisted in 10 episodes of about half an hour each, for the Radio Verci (Bassano del Grappa, Italy) with Rampazzi and Delfino discussing the evolution of electroacoustic music, and audio excerpts from the most famous works.

Credits: digitization of the radio programme (Radio Verci, Bassano) made by Tonino Delfino. The uploading of this audio file was made possible thanks to Tonino Delfino and Francesca Rampazzi consent.

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8 March 2019: Teresa is a WoMuTe hero!

We are pleased to announce that in celebration of the last International Women’s Day, TERESA RAMPAZZI has been nominated one of the most prominent technological and musical pioneers. This is an important recognition for her work in the early days of Italian Electroacoustic Music.

The other women/heroes in music tech (WoMuTe) are: Ada Lovelace, Laurie Anderson, Margaret Schedel, Liz Phillips, Laurie Spiegel, Delia Derbyshire, Hilde Marie Holsen, and Holly Herndon.

See here ath the following link, the Award Description and all the 9 women heroes’ biographies: http://wonomute.no/2019-03-08-international-womens-day-womute-heroes/

 

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Teresa Rampazzi at the Chalton Gallery in London, March 02-10, 2019

‘What time are you performing tonight?’
OPENING: Friday, March 01; 7pm
Chalton Gallery, 96 Chalton St, NW1 1HJ, London

‘What time are you performing tonight?’, an axhibition curated by Caterina Gobbi, is dedicated to four composers that have shaped the development of early electronic music in Italy: Teresa Rampazzi, Daniela Casa, Ingrid McIntosh, and Maria Teresa Luciani. Their sounds find their way into the exhibition, so do bits and pieces of their histories – or rather what is left of them.
A small publication brings together contributions by Claudia AttimonelliFrances MorganNina PowerSalomé Voegelin, Andrea May, and Laura Zattra.

More info in the Facebook event

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1st Teresa Rampazzi prize (XXII CIM conference)

Read here (http://cim.lim.di.unimi.it/2018_CIM_XXII_Atti.pdf) the proceedings of the XXII CIM conference (Federico Fontana and Andrea Gulli eds., organized by the AIMI – Associazione di Informatica Musicale Italiana), with a great diversity of researches that bring much excitement and promise to the field of Electroacoustic Music, Computer Music, Sound Design and Sound Studies. The general theme of the 2018 edition – dedicated to Jean-Claude Risset – was the relationship between sound and machine.

A novelty of this CIM has been the introduction of the Teresa Rampazzi prize to the most original electroacoustic composition selected from the call for music, an award that has accompanied the Aldo Piccialli prize to the most innovative scientific contribution in the research on musical informatics.

The first edition of the Prix Teresa Rampazzi has been awarded to the piece Astèrion by Rocío Cano Valiño. Special mention goes to th piece Khēmia I by Demian Rudel Rey. Congratulations!

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