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MA/IN 2017 matera intermedia festival >> SUPPORT \\ _CONTENTS_ 5_ ma/in festival introduction 6_ The organizing committee 7_ Technical supervisors 8_ Selection panel 19_ MA/IN~spaziomusica commission 2017 20_ MA/IN venues 24_ festival overview 25_ awards 26_ LISTENING | visual room With the generous support of / col generoso supporto di 35_ Sound installation 36_ live concerts 56_ shots 60_ performer BIOGRAPHIES Under the patronage of / col patrocinio di 68_ COMPOSER BIOGRAPHIES 2 3 MA/IN 2017 matera intermedia festival /// INTRODUCTION ||| The LOXOSconcept and KEYHOLE organizations, with the generous support of the “CARICAL” Foundation, Casa Cava Auditorium, the “E.Duni” Conservatory in Matera, the “Fondazione Sassi”, the “Spaziomusica” oganization of Cagliari and the patronage of “Matera 2019 Foundation” promotes the second edition of MA/IN [MAtera INtermedia festival]. The MA/IN festival is aimed at the production and promotion of sonic and digital arts at an international level. Its focus is to become an annual meeting point between artists and composers, within a unique and lovely background of the city of Matera. Every year A/V performances, live electronics, electroacoustic music events, sound installations, workshops and masterclasses will be organized in several evocative venues like the ancient hypogea of Casa Cava. Within the MA/IN, an annual call for artists will be announced. It involves an international jury panel consisting of famous international composers and artists in the feld of electronic arts. The festival is composed by four diferent categories : [A] Acousmatic ~ [B] Mixed Media ~ [C] AudioVisual ~ [D] LivePerformance/SoundArt ~ With the support of SPAZIOMUSICA organization of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) the MA/IN has issued a special call. The aim was the creation of new works for Voice and Electronics commissioned for ELEONORA CLAPS (soprano). 4 5 MA/IN 2017 matera intermedia festival The organizing committee technical supervisors LOXOSconcept organization – ARTISTIC DIRECTION / ADMINISTRATION FONDAZIONE SASSi ( LISTENING | VISUAL ROOM ) Giulio Colangelo ARTISTIC DIRECTOR / EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Giulio Colangelo TECHNICAL MANAGER Donato Corbo ARTISTIC DIRECTOR / WEBDESIGNER - COMMUNICATION Donato Corbo TECHNICAL MANAGER Valerio De Bonis ARTISTIC DIRECTOR / TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR Valerio De Bonis SOFTWARE DESIGNER valerio vitale TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR Co-Organizers conservatory of matera ( auditorium Gervasio ) ORGANIZATION Keyhole Giulio Colangelo TECHNICAL DIRECTOR ORGANIZATION spaziomusica Donato Corbo TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR/PROGRAM MANAGER ORGANIZATION materelettrica Valerio De Bonis TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR ASSOCIATION BLUECATBLUES davide sergio TECHNICAL A/V ASSISTANCE diego d’ambrosio STAGE ASSISTANCE economic support olindo linguerri SOUND ENGINEER gerardo criscio STAGE MANAGER fondazione carical (CASSA DI RISPARMIO DI CALABRIA E DI LUCANIA) CASA CAVA AUDITORIUM art patronage Giulio Colangelo TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Donato Corbo TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR/PROGRAM MANAGER matera 2019 fondation domenico filitti TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE COnservatory of mAtera davide sergio TECHNICAL A/V ASSISTANCE comune of mAtera diego d’ambrosio STAGE ASSISTANCE olindo linguerri SOUND ENGINEER SPONSORS gerardo criscio STAGE MANAGER CYCLING 74 [ max / msp ] giovanni lancellotti VIDEO PRODUCTION / PHOTOGRAPHY fra i sassi residence Angelo Gabriele Mazzolla VIDEO PRODUCTION / PHOTOGRAPHY osteria malatesta WAVE SERVIce AUDIO RECORDING residence san pietro barisano 6 7 MA/IN 2017 matera intermedia festival Rome, as composer, researcher and musical # The selection panel »» assistant. She studied Flute with Enrico Renna, Annamaria Morini and Peter-Lukas Graf; Composition with Mauro Cardi and Guido Baggiani, Agostino Di Scipio (Naples, Italy, 1962) Music Technology with Michelangelo Lupone and composer, sound artist, scholar. Graduated Giorgio Nottoli and she has achieved the Diploma in Composition and Electronic Music from the of Flute at Conservatoire of Salerno, the Diploma of Conservatory of L’Aquila, studied Computer Music Composition and the Diploma of Electronic Music at CSC, University of Padova. Di Scipio explores at Conservatoire of L’Aquila and at Conservatoire of original methods in the gener¬ation and transmission Rome. Silvia Lanzalone’s work is oriented towards of sound, often featuring phenomena of emergence experimentation and research into new expressive and linguistic solutions, primarily using and chaotic dynamics, in either live electronics the computer technology in order to process sound in real time. Recently her interest in performance contexts, chamber music contexts or mainly focused on the creation of pieces characterized by improvisation and a gestural sound installation works. Many of his recent works component. In these works the use of the computer is generally combined with the creation implement “man-machine-environonment” net-works of purely sonic interactions (e.g. the of interactive instruments and sound installations. In Silvia Lanzalone’s works, technology, Audible Ecosystemics series, and the more recent Modes of Interference series). A recent rather than imposing itself on the natural sound in order to modify it trough artifcial special issue of Contemporary Music Review draws on Di Scipio’s artistic achievements in algorithms, becomes part of the whole physical-acoustic structure of a new ‘instrument’, this direction. His music is available on various labels (RZ Edition, Chrysopeé Electronique, conceived and designed in parallel with the music in order to give life, each time, to a Wergo, Neuma, etc.). With pianist Ciro Longobardi, Di Scipio published a full-length specifc and independent artwork, both plastic and sonorous. The interest towards the realization of John Cage’s Electronic Music for Piano (Venice Biennale 2012, available on visual element is based on the aesthetical idea that the work of art is an intermedial Stradivarius). With saxophonist and political agitator Mario Gabola, he runs the Upset duo experience in which several perceptual items do converge into it. Silvia Lanzalone’s most exploring recycled analog circuitry (Upset, Viande). His output also includes two chamber recent works have been produced with the collaboration of instrumentalists, dancers, flm theatre works with poetry reading and electroacoustics, Tiresia and Sound & Fury. Artist- directors, actors and visual art performers. In 2000 Silvia Lanzalone won the “Quarant’anni in-residence of DAAD Berlin (2004-2005) and other international residency programs, Di nel 2000” International Prize of Composition organized by Federazione CEMAT - Centri Scipio has served as full-time professor in Electroacoustic Composition at the Conservatory Musicali Attrezzati, for the creation of a musical theatre work for children, called Junofrst of Naples (2001-2013) and today holds the same position in L’Aquila, a small medieval (KHJay e Neuroboy contro i pirati del Web), that has been produced by Società Aquilana town in the Appennine mountains, where he lives. Edgar-Varèse-Professor at Technische dei Concerti “B. Barattelli” and by CRM - Centro Ricerche Musicali in Rome. In 2006 she Universität, Berlin (2007-2008), guest professor in various international institutions, active won the “Franco Evangelisti International Prize of Composition” with the work Il suono member of the research team Ecologies du son at University Paris 8. His writings focus Incausato, improvise-action for suspended clarinet, clarinettist and electronics (2005). In on cognitive and political implications of sound and music technologies (e.g. the volume 2009 she had a grant from the “C. M. Lerici Foundation” to make a research project on Pensare le tecnologie del suono e della musica, Naples 2013), issues that are also central female voice in contemporary music at the KTH - Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm, in many of compositions and sound works (see the recent book + CD Polveri sonore, La Department of Speech, Music and Hearing. In 2013 her work for digital medium Alba Camera Verde, Roma, 2014). Guest editor of the Journal of New Music Research for a d’oro was selected in the call of Federazione CEMAT “6° CD Call Punti di Ascolto”, for the special issue on Iannis Xenakis, and editor of various volumes including Xenakis’ Universi production of a CD of electronic works. In 2015 she created the music for Teresa d’Avila, del suono (Milan 2003), Gottfried Michael Koenig’s Genesi e forma (Rome, 1995), Michael Esclamazioni dell’anima a Dio, a two-hours drama realized with the complete text of Santa Eldred’s Heidegger, Holderlin & John Cage (Rome 2000). http://agostinodiscipio.xoom.it/ Teresa D’Avila, translated and performed by Silvia Schiavoni, whose voice was elaborated adiscipi/ and transfgured by computer, together with the sounds of Gianni Trovalusci’s fute and other electronic sounds; this work was commissioned and broadcast by Radio Vaticana, introduced by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi and Monsignor Melchor Sánchez de Toca, and SiLVIA LANZALONE (Salerno 1970), composer. Silvia Lanzalone is the Head of the produced Marco Di Battista. Silvia Lanzalone did write some articles which were published Department of New Technologies and New Languages and professor of Electronic on specifc books and magazines (Organized Sound-International Journal of Music and Composition at the Conservatoire ‘G.Martucci’ of Salerno, since 2009. She also collaborate, Technology, Syrinx, Music@, Equipeco, Le arti del suono, UTET Università) did lectures and since 1997, with CRM collaborate,