Percorsi di Musica d'oggi
@ Teatro Franco Parenti
Milan, 22nd October 2009
Michele Tadini live and work in Paris. He composes music for soloist, ensemble, orchestra, with or without electronics, for theater, dance and interactive installation, collaborates with video-makers, painters, directors and writers. He was the chief of production at AGON acustica informatica musica (Milan), co-directed Centro Tempo Reale (Florence) and, now, coordinates the activity of IRMus, Istituto di Ricerca Musicale (Milan). His music is performed all over Europe, USA, South America, Canada and Japan. He recently earned the Prix Italia with the radio-opera "La Musica Nascosta". He teaches composition and technologies in the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse of Lyon. He has an intense activity of conferences and master classes. Suvini Zerboni, Rai Trade and Edipan publish his music.
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The 'live electronics' is the real-time electronic processing of acoustic instruments and voices. This practice has infinitely expanded the horizon of compositions. Michele Tadini reflects with U.S.O. Project about the historical aspects of electroacoustic music of the last 50 years.
The concert presents works of composers Tadini, Francesconi, Manzoni, Stroppa and Boulez. It will available for deferred broadcast Sunday, January 24, 8:30 p.m. (GMT+1) on RAI-Radio 3.
The concert presents works of composers Tadini, Francesconi, Manzoni, Stroppa and Boulez. It will available for deferred broadcast Sunday, January 24, 8:30 p.m. (GMT+1) on RAI-Radio 3.
Michele Tadini (1964)
...da viva Voce (2009)
for Voice and electronics
Premiére
Luca Francesconi (1956)
Animus II (2007)
for Viola and electronics
IRCAM Commission (Paris)
Giacomo Manzoni (1932)
Sei canti dal Kokin Shū (2007)
for Soprano and live electronics
MiTo SettembreMusica Commission
Marco Stroppa (1959)
I will not kiss your f.ing flag (2005)
for augmented Trombone and chamber electronics
Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik Commission
Pierre Boulez (1925)
Anthèmes 2 (1992/1997)
for Violin and electronics
Laura Catrani, Soprano
Garth Knox, Viola
Benny Sluchin, Trombone
Jeanne-Marie Conquer, Violin
Michele Tadini, sound director
Luca Francesconi, sound director
Alfonso Alberti, Keyboard
Marco Stroppa, sound projection
Special thanks:
Cecilia Balestra - Associazione Milano Musica
Michele Tadini
[www.milanomusica.org]
Good to hear Michele here. What he says at the end touches an important subject in live electronic music: should composers consider that "the program (max patch, or software for dedicated hardware platform) is the score", or should they write / describe the sound processing, so that later on it might be reproduce by different technological means?
ReplyDeleteStockhausen insisted that Mantra (for 2 pianos & live electronic music) be performed using the hardware ring modulators he used when he composed it. Silly when a ring modulator is very easy to program on a laptop? Not so silly if you can hear the sonic difference.