DANIELE GHISI’S CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal information

Born in Trescore Balneario (BG, Italy) on 30/06/1984 Mobile phone: +39 347 3165219 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.danieleghisi.com

Studies

- 2003: scientific high school degree, with full mark 100/100 - 2006: bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with full marks and summa cum laude, with a work on the properties of the interval vectors (Musical Set Theory) - 2006-2007: master in Mathematics at the University of Milano Bicocca - 1997-2007: Composition at the Conservatory “G. Donizetti” in Bergamo, with Alberto Colla, Stefano Gervasoni - 2004-2007: High Specialization Master at the “Accademia Perosi” (Biella), with full marks and special mention of the jury. - 2007: Prix de Composition with full marks and summa cum laude - 2008-2009: Cursus I at the IRCAM (Paris) - 2010-2011: Cursus II at the IRCAM (Paris) - 2013: master’s degree in Mathematics with full marks and summa cum laude - 2017: PhD in composition and musical research at Ircam/UPMC/Sorbonne/CNRS

Seminars with Pierluigi Billone, Alessandro Solbiati, Azio Corghi, Helmut Lachenmann, in particular: - 2005: IEMA seminar with George Benjamin and the Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt - 2006: Session de Composition Voix Nouvelles, Royaumont, with Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, François Paris

Residences

- 2009: « Stipendium » and residence at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. - 2011-2012: Membre of the Academie de France en Espagne – Casa de Velázquez, composer in residence a Madrid - 2015: Composer in residence with Divertimento Ensemble, Milan

Prizes

- 2001: second prize at the International Composition Competition « V. Bucchi » - 2002: special mention at the same competition - 2002: first prize at the “Oreste Sindici” competition - 2004: “Rotary” prize - 2007: “J.S. Mayr” prize - 2008: winner of the “Incontri Internazionali F. Donatoni” - 2010: third prize “Eduardo Ocón” International Composition Competition - 2012: “Jeune Chercheur” prize at JIM 2012 - 2012: “Aldo Piccialli” prize at CIM 2012 - 2012: second prize at “GERMI” competition - 2013: Coupleux-Lassalle prize for “Nostre”, for voices and electronics - 2013: roBOt06 prize – “most deserving project” (“Danse Macabre”, with B. Labbé) - 2013: Multivision prize – “best experimental animation” (“Danse Macabre”, with B. Labbé) - 2017: Prize “Una vita nella musica – giovani” (La Fenice, Venezia)

Commissions

- 2006: GAMEC, Bergamo: Sei conversazioni inattuali (for female voice, clarinet, electronic and ensemble) - 2007: Divertimento Ensemble, Milano: Le carte di Pòlya (for ensemble) - 2008: Festival Archipel, Genève: Verso Snàm-dà-én (for oboe, cello and double bass) - 2009: Divertimento Ensemble, MiTo 2009, La notte poco prima della foresta (chamber opera for an actor, mezzo-soprano, baritone, ensemble and electronics) - 2009: Artincidence, Ecume (for 3 dancers and electronics) - 2010: French Ministry of Culture, Royaumont: iCi (en echo), electroacoustic piece - 2010: Divertimento Ensemble, Milano: De Selby Compendium (for violin and ensemble) - 2011: Texture Ensemble: Heran, dran, an (for soprano and ensemble) - 2011: Festival Play It: Concertino (for ensemble) - 2012: Ernst von Siemens Stiftung for music@villaromana: Chansons (for cello, piano and lo-fi elecronic device) - 2012: FontanaMix Ensemble: Zweite Kleine Klavierstück (after Schönberg’s, op. 19, No.2, for ensemble) - 2012: Divertimento Ensemble: Itaca (for groups of children, ensemble and electronics) - 2012: Festival Play It: If your Majesty will only tell me the right way to begin (for two voices and orchestra) - 2013: French Ministry of Culture , Fondation Cumulus, Royaumont, Grame: Nostre for choir and electronics - 2013-2014: Fondazione Spinola-Banna: Come di tempeste, for string quartet - 2014-2015: Divertimento Ensemble-Ircam: An Experiment With Time, for instruments, video and electronics - 2015: RadioFrance: Come un lasciapassare, for orchestra and electronics - 2016 : Ernst von Siemens Stiftung for Internationale Fredener Musiktage : 269 steps away from you (269 steps away from me), for violin, bass clarinet and electronics - 2016 : Ministère de la Culture, GRAME : Any Road, for orchestra, electronics and video (video by B. Labbé) - 2017 : Lucilia Caesar, BUG, quatuor à corps, for 4 actors and electronics - 2017: Milano Musica/Siemens Stiftung: I mille fuochi dell'universo (with the /nu/thing collective) - 2017: Ensemble Intercontemporain: Any Road, version for ensemble and electronics - 2018: Orchestra des Pays de Savoie: La Chute, for string orchestra and electronics - 2018: Teatro La Fenice di Venezia: The listeners, for orchestra - 2018: Milano Musica, Festival Neue Musik Rockenhausen: This is the game, for voice and electronics

Recordings

- 2016: Geografie, Stradivarius (monographic CD)

Teaching

- 2017-2019: Professor of Elettroacustic Composition at the Genoa conservatory - 2013-2018: Professor of Compositional Techniques at the Turin conservatory - Regular masterclass, lectures, seminares, in conservatories, universities and other institutions

Research

- 2010-present: Co-author of the project “bach: automated composer’s helper”, an environment for a computer-aided composition within Max (www.bachproject.net) - 2012-2013: Research composer at IRCAM (Paris) - 2013-2014: Research assistant at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, for the creation and development of “cage”, a high-level library for real-time computer assisted-composition - 2014-2017: Development of “dada”, a library for non-standard GUIs in Max, within the framework of the PhD thesis - 2019: Research consultant at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, for the creation and development of “Orchidea”

Publications

Music scores

— “La Chute”, for string orchestra and video, Ricordi, 2018 — “The listeners”, for orchestra, Ricordi, 2018 — “Any Road”, for ensemble, electronics and video, Ricordi, 2018 — “269 steps away from you (269 steps away from me)”, for violin, bass clarinet and electronics, Ricordi, 2016 — “Any Road”, for orchestra, electronics and video, Ricordi, 2016 — “An Experiment with Time (reloaded)”, for ensemble, electronics and video, Ricordi, 2015 — “Come di tempeste”, for string quartet, Ricordi, 2015 — “Nostre”, for choir and electronics, Ricordi, 2014 — “Come un lasciapassare”, for orchestra and electronics, Ricordi, 2014 — “Meccanica del quotidiano”, for piano, Ricordi, 2013 — “Próxima”, for voice and ensemble, Ricordi, 2012 — “If your Majesty will only tell me the right way to begin”, for orchestra, Ricordi, 2012 — “Concertino”, for 15 instruments, Ricordi, 2011 — “abroad”, for voice and ensemble, Ricordi, 2011 — “Comment pouvez-vous lire à présent? Il fait nuit”, for alto sax and electronics, Sconfinarte, 2009 — “Chalice”, for flute and piano, Net Art Company, 2003 — “Il sangue, il mare”, for bassoon and piano, Net Art Company, 2003

Scientific papers

Journals

— Ghisi, D. and Agostini, “Extending bach: A Family of Libraries for Real-time Computer- assisted Composition in Max”, Journal of New Music Research, 46(1):34–53 (link), 2017 — L. Bigo, D. Ghisi, A. Spicher, M. Andreatta, “Representation of Musical Structures and Processes in Simplicial Chord Spaces”, Computer Music Journal 2015 39:3, 9-24 (link) — A. Agostini, D. Ghisi, “A Max Library for Musical Notation and Computer-Aided Composition”, Computer Music Journal, Volume 39, No. 2, p. 11–27, 2015 (link) — M. Cotronei, D. Ghisi, M. Rossini, T. Sauer, “An anisotropic directional subdivision and multiresolution scheme”, Advances in Computational Mathematics, June 2015, Volume 41, Issue 3, pp 709-726 (link) — M. Bozzini, D. Ghisi, M. Rossini and T. Sauer, “Directional transforms and pseudo- commuting properties”, M. C. López de Silanes, M. Palacios, G. Sanz, É. Ahusborde y C. Amrouche, (eds.): Twelfth International Conference Zaragoza-Pau on Mathematics, 2014, Monografías del Seminario Matemático García De Galdeano. ISBN: 978-84-16028-35-1. — D. Ghisi, “Sources contemporaines”, Musique(s), N.1, Printemps, 2014. — A. Agostini, D. Ghisi, “Real-time computer-aided composition with bach“, Contemporary Music Review, Volume 32, Part 1, p. 41-48, 2013 — J. Mandereau, D. Ghisi, E. Amiot, M. Andreatta, C. Agon, “Discrete phase retrieval in musical structures”, Journal of Mathematics and Music, vol. 5, n° 2, p. 99-116, 2011 (PDF) — J. Mandereau, D. Ghisi, E. Amiot, M. Andreatta, C. Agon, “Z-relation and homometry in musical distributions”, Journal of Mathematics and Music, vol. 5, n. 2, p. 83-98, 2011 (PDF)

Proceedings

— D. Ghisi, A. Agostini, “Pitches in bach”, Proceedings of the TENOR conference, Montreal, 2018 — D. Ghisi, C. Agon, “dada: non-standard user interface for computer-aided composition in Max”, Proceedings of the TENOR conference, Montreal, 2018 — D. Ghisi, M. Bergomi, “Concatenative Synthesis via Chord-Based Segmentation for 'An Experiment with Time'”, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Utrecht, 2016 — D. Ghisi, A. Agostini, E. Maestri, “Recreating Géard Grisey’s Vortex Temporum with cage”, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Utrecht, 2016 — D. Ghisi, C. Agon, “Real-Time Corpus-Based Concatenative Synthesis for Symbolic Notation”, Proceedings of the TENOR conference, Cambridge, UK (2016) — A. Agostini, E. Daubresse, D. Ghisi, “cage: una libreria di alto livello per la composizione assistita da computer in tempo reale”, Proceedings of the XX Colloquio d’Informatica Musicale (CIM 2014), Roma, Italy, p. 17–22, 2014 (PDF) — A. Agostini, E. Daubresse, and D. Ghisi, “cage: a high-level library for real-time computer-aided composition”, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Athens, 2014 — L. Bigo, D. Ghisi, A. Spicher and M. Andreatta, “Spatial Transformations in Simplicial Chord Spaces”, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Athens, 2014 — A. Einbond, C. Trapani, A. Agostini, D. Ghisi and D. Schwarz, “Fine-tuned Control of Concatenative Synthesis with CataRT Using the bach Library for Max”, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Athens, 2014 — A. Agostini, E. Daubresse, and D. Ghisi, “cage: une librairie de haut niveau dédiée à la composition assistée par ordinateur dans Max”,Proceedings of the Journées d’Informatique Musicale (JIM), Bourges, 2014 — A. Agostini, D. Ghisi, “Gestures, events and symbols in the bach environment”, Proceedings of the Journées d’Informatique Musicale (JIM 2012), Mons, Belgium, p. 247-255, 2012 (PDF) — A. Agostini, D. Ghisi, “bach: una libreria per la composizione assistita in Max”, Proceedings of the XIX Colloquio d’Informatica Musicale (CIM 2012), Trieste, Italia, 2012 — A. Agostini, D. Ghisi, “bach: an environment for computer-aided composition in Max”, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2012), Ljubljana, Slovenia, p. 373-378, 2012