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Audiomobiles, Sculptures and Conundrums
No full textRoberto Gerhard was a pioneer of electronic music in England creating a number of substantial concert, theatre and radio works from as early as 1954. Gerhard’s electronic music is one of the richest repositories for understanding the development of the composer’s late compositional technique. Apart from the Symphony no.3, ‘Collages’, none of Gerhard’s electronic music is published. This paper will discuss aspects of Gerhard’s electronic music, focusing on Audiomobiles (1958-59) and Sculptures (1963)
Roberto Gerhard’s Sound Compositions: A Historical-Philological Perspective. Archive, Process, Intent and reenactment
No full textThis research advances the current state of knowledge in the field of early tape music both empirically and methodologically. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact that the electronic medium exerted in the musical thinking of Roberto Gerhard, one of the most outspoken, prolific and influential composers in the Spanish diaspora whose musical legacy, for the most part unknown, is a major landmark in the early history of electroacoustic music. Gerhard’s personal tape collection, one of the largest historical archives of its kind reported in the literature, is exceptional for both its antiquity (50+-year-old tapes) and its abundance of production materials. Through the digitisation and analysis of the composer’s tape collection this research argues that the empirical study of audio documents sets out a basis for a broader understanding of textual processes. More specifically, the research demonstrates that the reconstruction of works based on magnetic tape sketches is a powerful method to advance the understanding of early tape music. This research also examines Gerhard’s sound compositions in relation to the post-war context in which they were composed. Finally, this research presents performance documentation that proposes an approach to the electroacoustic music repertoire in which creativity is not at odds with rigor and critical discernment demonstrating that archival study can be closely aligned to the concept of re-enactment
Dedalo. L'ombra del padre (catalogo della mostra al Centro culturale Le Muse, Andria, 25 novembre 2018 - 25 gennaio 2019)
No full textCatalogo contenente, oltre al saggio del curatore, riproduzioni fotografiche di opere di Fabrizio Clerici, Alberto Andreis, Agostino Arrivabene, Aurelio Bulzati, Stefano Di Stasio, Stefano Faravelli, Anna Kapor, Pierluigi Isola, Bernardino Luino, Nicola Nannini, Toni Pecoraro, Roberto Rampinelli, Fulvio Rinald
Glandular Morphology Biomodeling
No full textAim of this work is the modeling the parenchymal and vascular/stromal morphology of human glands, from their scintigraphic or echographic images; the model of interest, here, is the adult human thyroid [R. Toni et al, "Ex-situ bioengineering of bioartificial endocrine glands: a new frontier in regenerative medicine of soft tissue organs", Annals of Anatomy 193:381-394, 2011]. Simulation of the thyroid morphology is approached, here, via a hybrid technique, involving a numerical reconstruction of surfaces through edge-detection and data fitting, followed by a fractal modeling of the vascular/stromal skeleton (SSV), constrained by anatomical morphometric data information. A software is developed in Mathematica, constituted of a computational kernel of mathematical and visualization routines. The output of this software is exported in stereo-lithographic format, suitable for rapid prototyping. This work, funded by Grant PRIN 2008, stems from a cooperation of many researchers: M. Sofroniou, A. Gatto and the Research Units at Modena and Bologna Universities, R. Toni and the Research Units at Parma University and Hospital, Bologna CNR and IOR and Faenza CNR
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