Centro Multimediale del Conservatorio L. Cherubini di Firenze

(Multimedia Centre of the Conservatory “L. Cherubini” in Florence)

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Name:

Centro Multimediale Conservatorio L. Cherubini di Firenze

(Multimedia Centre of the Conservatory “L. Cherubini” in Florence)

Founding year:

2009

Location:

FIRENZE, Conservatorio di Musica "L. Cherubini", Piazza delle Belle Arti, 2 - 50122 FI

Staff:

The Multimedia Centre of the Conservatory “L. Cherubini” in Florence comprises three sections:

Martlab Section
Multimedia Production Section
Technical Assistance to multimedia activities

Staff

Coordinator Martlab Section: Francesco Carreras
Coordinator Multimedia Production Section: Alfonso Belfiore
Coordinator technical staff: Roberto Neri

Venues:

Music Conservatory "L. Cherubini"- Piazza delle Belle Arti, 2 - 50122 FI, Villa Favard (Conservatory L.Cherubini) via Aretina, 507, 50136 FI

Contacts:

Tel 0039 (0)55 2989319

Official website:

http://www.conservatorio.firenze.it

Objectives:

Even though each section has its specific tasks, the main purposes of the Multimedia Centre of the Conservatory “L. Cherubini” in Florence are the employment of new technologies and the promotion of communication and artistic expression through experimental means and multimediality. Among its objectives there are also the publication, design and realization of multimedia interactive works and the restoration and filing of audio files.

Sectors of intervention:

Electro music, computer art, video art, electroacoustic music, multimedia art, audio-visual installations, interactive art, sound design, live electronics.

Activities:

Promotion, production and post production, research, events organization, didactic and training.

Origin and History:

The Multimedia Centre of the Conservatory “L. Cherubini” in Florence was born in 2009, as a service structure as provided for in article 17 of the Conservatory’s statute. The Centre joins the activities of the Martlab and the production activities of the Dipartimento di Musica e Nuove Tecnologie (MNT – Department of Music and New technologies) of the Conservatory. Since 2009 the Centre has designed and realized many important events and productions: the festival “ Festival Il corpo, la luce, il suono”, the project “Archivi sonori e della musica” (Sound and Music Archives), concerts and participations to festivals, like the “Festival della Creatività” and “Fabbrica Europa”. The Centre has also established important collaborations with Italian and foreign institutions and universities, such as: New York University, ISTI - Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell'Informazione , Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, University of Florence, University of Chester (UK), University of Montréal, CIRMMT Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology Qc. (CANADA).

Technical Equipment:

The Centre makes use of the technical equipment of its sections and of external laboratories.

Projects (fulfilled/ongoing/to be realized):

Realized Projects

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION SECTION

Establishment of the instrumental ensemble MNT_Florence Ensemble. This project was born in the Department of Music and New Technologies during the course of Multimedia Composition and Art Installation. The ensemble made its debut in March 2010 during the multimedia event IL CORPO/LA LUCE/IL SUONO 2010, with a program realized under the direction of Esther Lamneck, from the New York University.

Performing Arts Laboratory. This project is aimed at the development of a multimedia artistic workshop where acoustic and electronic instruments, the languages of the most advanced interactive visual and music technologies, the use of the body - from gesture to dance - and poetry are merged together creating a conscious and intense artistic expression.

Festival il corpo, la luce, il suono: multimedia session. Department of Music and New Technologies

Acusmatic Space: Conference/concert (Sala del Buonumore/24 maggio 2011)

speaker: Simone D’Ambrosio (OICRM – Interdisciplinary Observatory of Music Creation and Research / Université de Montréal -Canada) with an audio-visual intervention by Robert Normandeau (Faculty of Music/ Université de Montréal). Abstract: the spatialization as a prerogative of the composition process, the acusmatic approach realized in the Faculty of Music of the University of Montréal by the research group in Spatial Immersion, directed by Robert Normandeau.

MARTlab SECTION

Project for the recovery and digitization of the Teatro Comunale di Firenze’s audio archive: project Digit@lis on the European Social Fund, (Partners: Ente Teatro Comunale di Firenze, MARTlab (Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Luigi Cherubini” di Firenze, Istituto ISTI C.N.R., Associazione Industriali di Firenze, Facoltà di Ingegneria dell’Università degli studi di Firenze.

Project “Archivi sonori e della Musica” (Sound and Music Archives).

Establishment of the project VivaVoce - Centro di Competenze e di servizi per le problematiche di conservazione, digitalizzazione, restauro e utilizzo nel settore degli archivi sonori e delle tecnologie relative (MARTlab – Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Luigi Cherubini” di Firenze, Istituto ISTI C.N.R., la Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Fondazione Sistema Toscana Mediateca Regionale, RAI Sede regionale per la Toscana)

Projects to be realized

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION SECTION

Workshop of Performing arts at the New York University, The Steinhardt. School/Department of Music & Performing Arts Professions, NY.
Multimedia Concert I at the F. Loewe Theatre, New York.
Multimedia Concert II at the F. Loewe Theatre, New York.
Il corpo, la luce, il suono 2013.

MARTLab SECTION

Development of the Conservatory’s web radio (RadioCampus).

Production:

Events

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION SECTION

18th July 2008 - Mutlimedia Concert Production

IL CORPO/LA LUCE/IL SUONO 2009 Multimedia session. Department of Music and New Technologies

7thNovember 2009- Villa Favard - MULTIMEDIA CONCERT

7thNovember 2009- Villa Favard, REFULGET LABORES NOSTROS COELO, Exhibition of the sculptor Jeremy Turner (professor at the Chester University UK, Department of Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts and New Media)

IL CORPO/LA LUCE/IL SUONO 2010 Multimedia session. Department of Music and New Technologies

March 18th - Sala Del Buonumore, MULTIMEDIA CONCERT

Marzo 19th - Villa Favard, MULTIMEDIA CONCERT

IL CORPO/LA LUCE/IL SUONO 2010 Multimedia session. Department of Music and New Technologies

October 29 th - Sala Del Buonumore , Pathsof sound and light, audio-visual installation (several authors)

October 29 th- Sala Del Buonumore, MULTIMEDIA CONCERT, with MNT_Florence Ensemble directed by Prof. Alfonso Belfiore (electroacoustic music by several authors)

IL CORPO/LA LUCE/IL SUONO 2011 Multimedia session. Department of Music and New Technologies

March 15th and 16th - Villa Favard, exhibition of interactive installations (several authors) and Paths of sound and light, audio-visual installation (several authors)

March 18 th - Sala Del Buonumore, MULTIMEDIA CONCERT, multimedia and electroacoustic works by several authors

IL CORPO/LA LUCE/IL SUONO 2012 spring–Multimedia session. Department of Music and New Technologies

March 25 th - Sala Del Buonumore, MULTIMEDIA CONCERT 1, multimedia and electroacoustic works by several authors

March 26 th - Sala Del Buonumore, MULTIMEDIA CONCERT 2, with the participation of Roberto Castello (dance) and Esther Lamneck (clarinet and tárogató)

March 27 th - Sala Del Buonumore, MULTIMEDIA CONCERT 3, with MNT_Florence Ensemble and with the participation of Esther Lamneck (direction, clarinet and tárogató)

IL CORPO/LA LUCE/IL SUONO 2012 autumn–Multimedia session. Department of Music and New Technologies

28/29/30 September, 1/2 October–different spaces of the Conservatorio Cherubini (Piazza delle Belle Arti, 2 – Firenze), EXHIBITION INTERCATIVE MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATIONS, interactive multimedia works by Paola Lopreiato, Tommaso Rosati, Andrea Venturoli

September 29 th - Sala Del Buonumore – Conservatorio Cherubini (Piazza delle Belle Arti, 2 – Firenze), MULTIMEDIA CONCERT 1, multimedia and electroacoustic works by American and Italian authors, with the participation of Esther Lamneck (clarinet end tárogató)

October 2nd - Sala Del Buonumore – Conservatorio Cherubini (Piazza delle Belle Arti, 2 – Firenze) - MULTIMEDIA CONCERT 2, multimedia and electroacoustic works by American and Italian authors, with the participation of Esther Lamneck (clarinet end tárogató), Giorgio Albiani (guitar and live electronics), MNT_Florence Ensemble, Dario Brevi (dance)

Laboratories/workshops/training activities

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION SECTION

1/20 October 2010/Villa Favard, performing-arts laboratory, Direction: Alfonso Belfiore

15/17 March2010 /Villa Favard, performing-arts laboratory, Direction, clarinet and tárogató:Esther Lamneck

19th March 2010/Villa Favard, workshop: electroacoustic music and multimedia experiences, presentation and performance of multimedia works

14/16 March 2011 /Villa Favard, performing-arts laboratory, Direction, clarinet and tárogató: Esther Lamneck

16thMarch 2011/Villa Favard, workshop: electroacoustic music and multimedia experiences, presentation and performance of multimedia works

24-27 March 2012 /Sala del Buonumore Conservatorio L. Cherubini, performing-arts laboratory, Direction, clarinet and tárogató:Esther Lamneck

25th March 2012 Sala del Buonumore Conservatorio L. Cherubini, SEMINAR - TIMBRE TRAINER, by Tommaso Dini

27/28/30 September, 1/2 October 2012- Conservatorio Cherubini (Piazza delle Belle Arti, 2 – Firenze), PERFORMING-ART LABORATORY, Direction, clarinet and tárogató: Esther Lamneck

28 Settembre 2012 ore 10.30 - Sala Del Buonumore – Conservatorio Cherubini (Piazza delle Belle Arti, 2 – Firenze), WORKSHOP/ electroacoustic music and multimedia experiences, with the participation of Nicola Giannini, Matteo Masi, Tommaso Rosati, Leonello Tarabella, Andrea Venturoli

MARTLab SECTION

Professional course for “Studio Technician” on FSE, (Partners: MART Lab- Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Luigi Cherubini” di Firenze, Istituto ISTI C.N.R., RAI Sede Regionale per la Toscana)

Professional course with Maggio Formazione for “Classical Music Amplification Technician” and “Sound Files Storage and Digitization Technician”

Organization of a training day for VivaVoce, addressed to music librarian, archivists andoperators interested in the conservation of audio files, 18th July 2009.

Organization of a two weeks (from 28/09 to 2/10 and from 19/10 to 23/10 2009) specific training for music librarian, archivists and operators interested in the conservation of audio files

Organization of the international Convention “Documenti sonori” (April 2004)

CD

MARTLab SECTION

Recording and production of the super Audio CD dedicated to the music of Ivan Fedele (I. Fedele, Capt-Actions, catalogue number NEOS SACD 11024)

Storage and restoration activities:

SEZIONE MARTLab

Fulfilled and on-going storage and restoration works

Recovery and restoration of Fondo Grossi

Acquisition, recovery and restoration of Fondo Prosperi

Project for the recovery and digitization of the Teatro Comunale di Firenze’s audio files archive: project Digit@lis on the European Social Fund , (Partners: Ente Teatro Comunale di Firenze, MARTlab (Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Luigi Cherubini” di Firenze, Istituto ISTI C.N.R.), Associazione Industriali di Firenze, Facoltà di Ingegneria dell’Università degli studi di Firenze

Acquisition of Fondo Casella

Acquisition of Fondo Pizzetti

Acquisition of Fondo Sablich

Digitization of the Scarlino discographic collection

Digitization of the Cicconi recordings collection

Recovery and digitization of the Conservatorio di Castelfranco Veneto’s discographic collection

Recovery and digitization of Fondo Piero Bellugi

Acquisition of Fondo Zaffiri

Recovery of the Istituto Toscano della Resistenza’s tapes archive

Designed works of storage and restoration

Inspection and operative technical evaluation for the recovery, digitization and restoration of the Fondo Mila of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze

Inspection and operative technical evaluation for the recovery of FLOG’s tapes archive in Florence

Inspection and operative technical evaluation for the recovery and digitization of the Teatro Comunale di Firenze’s audio files archive

Acquisition of Fondo Terni

External Works:

SEZIONE PRODUZIONE MULTIMEDIALE

Electroacoustic music compositions'

2 STUDYES FOR FLUTE AND ELECTRO - Andrea Mancianti

ARCADIA - Matteo Masi

ELEKTROWALD - Gianmaria Ferlito, for vocal material and electro

ELEMENTI DISTANTI - Gherardo Monti

FANTASIA ELETTROACUSTICA - Matteo Masi

OCEANO - Marco Lanini

PERTURBAZIONI ELASTICHE - Giovanna Bartolomei

SIMULACRA_1 - Andrea Mancianti

TRASPARENZA - Irene Garuglieri

Composition with live electronics

ABYX - Lorenzo Pezzella-PRESS START - Lorenzo Pezzella, music and images for Nintendo DS, clarinet, cello and live electronics

BOTTIGLIE - Andrea Venturoli, for fixed media, images, live electronics and percussion

CON FORZE CHE SI SVOLGONO SFERICHE - Paola Lopreiato, for fixed media, images and tárogató, tárogató: Esther Lamneck, work commissioned and composed for Esther Lamneck, with the contribution of: Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali

PARC (Direzione generale per la qualità e la tutela del paesaggio,l’architettura e l’arte contemporanee), GAI, Associazione per il Circuito dei Giovani Artisti Italiani, work selected for the "New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2010"

DOUBLETHINK - Peyman Salimi, for piano, fixed media and live electronics

ESPERIMENTO #1 - Emiliano Bonafede, for electric bass and fixed media

FORME CAOTICHE - Maurizio Montini, for live electronics and video projections

IO - Gelareh Soleimani - for setar, fixed media, live electronics and multiprojection

JACARANDA - Leonello Tarabella, for tárogató, palmdrive and graphics, Esther Lamneck, tárogató, Leonello Tarabella, palmdrive and graphics

PLATES - Andrea Venturoli, for cymbals, wuhan gong, live electronics, with video projections

PSR 1257+12 - Emanuele Ricciardi, for flauto and live electronics

REACTIVISION - Gianfranco Scuotri/Giulia Vismara, for live electronics

TODOG (waiting for) - Alessandra Panerai

VARIAZIONI PER UNA MATTONELLA DEL SERRAGLIO - Tommaso Rosati, multimedia electroacoustic work

VITA INTERIORE - Paola Lopreiato, for fixed media and video, with live interventions of tárogató by Esther Lamneck

Audiovisual works

09:10 AM - Jaime Ramos Perez

3V - Daniela Cattivelli/Lino Greco

A LIAR SAW IT TONY - Leonardo Barbadoro

ALONE - Giovanni Ferretti/Niccolò Franceschini

ALTRE VOCI, ALTRE STANZE - Paola Lopreiato, audio-visual work

BERLIN ACTE 1 - di Walther Ruttmann, musica di Matteo Masi, Film-documentary

BROKEN DOWN CARS - Daniela Cattivelli e Lino Greco

COLLAPSUS - José Manuel Garcìa López, audio-visual work

COMPLESSI K - Andrea Cuccaro

DIAPOSATURA - Nicola Giannini

DOMINIO ULTERIORE - Edoardo Dinelli/Giovanna Bartolomei

GIOCOLERIA - Filippo Giannico, audio-visual work

IN MEZZO AL NULLA - Gelareh Soleimani Lavasani, audio-visual work

L'/LE OMBRA/E - Andrea Venturoli

L’ALTRO GIRO - Jaime Andrés Ramos Pérez, audio-visual work

LO SPAZIO IN MEZZO - Paola Lopreiato

LOCUS NIGER - Nicola Giannini

LUCEOMBRA - Fulvio Vasarri, audio-visual work

NEBEIS 2.0 - Giovanna Bartolomei/Edoardo Dinelli

ONIRICO - Mattia Borghi

PENSIERI INVISIBILI - Giorgio Albiani, multimedia “attempt" to tell the thoughts that inhabit a travel, multimedia work in collaboration with Serena Meloni and Giammarco Rossi

PORQUE ESCRIBI , Jaime Andrés Ramos Pérez, audio-visual work

QUATTRO PASSI NELL’ANIMA - José Manuel Garcìa López, audio-visual work

RORSACH HANDS - Cristian Gajardo Allende, audio-visual work

SILENZIOSO, INVISIBILE - Paola Lopreiato, audio-visual work

SINE RHYTHM - Gianfranco Scuotri

SMARRIMENTO - Gelareh Soleimani - for fixed media, images, setar

STORIE IMPOSSIBILI - Giorgio Albiani, unusual parallelisms, multimedia work

THE SOLDIER IN THE LABYRINTH - Dario Calamai/Luca Tavanti

THE X AXIS - Andrea Venturoli

TOTAL ECLIPSE - Alessandra Panerai

UN CUORE SOTTO UNA SOTTANA - Paola Lopreiato

UNA CERTA OBLIQUITA' DI LUCE - Paola Lopreiato

VIOLENT DINNER - Nicola Giannini, audio-visual work

Multimedia Installations

MY ROOM - Dario Ferrante, Veronica Fiorini, Mattia Gabbriellini, Giovanni Mazzanti,Eugenio Mininni, Gabriele Pineider, Katharina Stilo, Margherita Toschi, Giada Turini, collective audio-visual multimedia installation

RITORNI - Paola Lopreiato, multimedia installation

Interactive multimedia installations

CUBOIDSQUARE - Antonio Teti, interactive installation

DOVE VOLA LA NOSTRA VOCE? - Gelareh Soleimani, interactive multimedia installation

EMILY AND I - Edoardo Dinelli/Giovanna Bartolomei, interactive multimedia installation

NON MI BASTAVA IL RICORDO - Paola Lopreiato, interactive multimedia installation

SLIDING LIFE - Elham Asadi/Alessandra Panerai, interactive installation

SONUM COELESTIUM VISIONUM - Andrea Venturoli, interactive multimedia installation

THE MUSIC IF THE BULB - Tommaso Rosati, interactive multimedia installation

VISIONI AURALI - Luigi Chelli, a sensorial experience between listening and reality, interactive installation

VISIONI CUBICHE - Alessandro Pierotti, interactive installation

Multimedia performances

IL CORPO/LA LUCE/IL SUONO, interaction with Esther Lamneck e Roberto Castello

IL GIARDINO DELLA MENTE - Paola Lopreiato, multimedia performance for images’multiple projections, sounds, scenic actions and electronic

IL MAR DELLE BLATTE - Alessandra Panerai, multimedia work in three pictures, Verdiana Raw, voice and dance, Alessandra Panerai, live electronics (controlled with Theremin)

ROSE TRIP - Tommaso Rosati, multimedia performance

• STUDIO SULL'OMBRA - Nicoletta Andreuccetti, for fixed media and dance, Dario Brevi, dance

Productions to be realized

SEZIONE PRODUZIONE MULTIMEDIALE

Electroacoustic works

Audio-visual works

Interactive multimedia installations

Multimedia performances

il corpo, la luce, il suono 2013

Performing arts laboratory 2013

Workshop: electroacoustic music and multimedia experiences

Seminar: Live art, performance and multimedia art. A journey that lasts one century: from futurism to dada cabarets, from Eric Satie’s music to Bauhaus events, from John Cage to Pina Baush, from happenings to video-art and cinema.

Communication and self-promotion seminar for young artists, musicians and composers. Learning to observe and use Internet to widen artistic and work perspectives.

Seminar: The Languages of Music: Persian tradition. In collaboration with the University of Tehran

Publications:

SEZIONE MARTLab

Marco Ligabue, “Pietro Grossi: un pensiero al futuro” all'interno di Pietro Grossi. Avventure con suono e segno, A. Mayr (a cura di), Associazione Pietro Grossi/AlefBet, Firenze, 2011

Marco Ligabue, (saggio all'interno di) La musica con l’elettronica nell’opera di Ivan Fedele, Edizioni Suvini Zerbini, Milano, 2009

Rivista “Musica/Tecnologia” (Fondazione Franceschini-SISMEL / FUP-Firenze University Press), n.1/2007

Rivista “Musica/Tecnologia” (Fondazione Franceschini-SISMEL / FUP-Firenze University Press), n.2/2008

Rivista “Musica/Tecnologia” (Fondazione Franceschini-SISMEL / FUP-Firenze University Press), n.3/2009

Rivista “Musica/Tecnologia” (Fondazione Franceschini-SISMEL / FUP-Firenze University Press), n.4/2010

Rivista “Musica/Tecnologia” (Fondazione Franceschini-SISMEL / FUP-Firenze University Press), n.5/2011

Translations

Alberto Gaetti (traduzione di), IASA Guidelines, MARTLab/AIB/Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Roma, 2004

Alberto Gaetti (traduzione di), TC03 IASA, MARTLab/AIB/Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Roma, 2005

Alberto Gaetti (traduzione di), TC04 IASA, MARTLab/AIB/Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Roma, 2006

To be published and other works

Marco Ligabue, Salvaguardia e digitalizzazione del “Fondo audio Carlo Prosperi” presso il Conservatorio “Luigi Cherubini”, in Carlo Prosperi e il Novecento musicale a Firenze, Atti del Convegno, 14/6/2005, a cura di M. Ruffini, Gabinetto Vieusseux, Firenze

Alberto Gaetti, Simone Conforti, Roberto Neri - Recupero della collezione di nastri del fondo Grossi: stato di avanzamento. Rapporto interno Numero 1, 2008

Simone Conforti, Roberto Neri, Modelli e processi di gestione del suono nello spazio, Rapporto interno Numero 2

Exhibitions:

SEZIONE PRODUZIONE MULTIMEDIALE

FESTIVAL DELLA CREATIVITÀ FIRENZE 2009

FESTIVAL DELLA CREATIVITA’ - Firenze 21 October 2010 - Il corpo/la luce/il suono, Loggia del Grano, 21 October audio-visual installation Dipartimento di Musica e Nuove Tecnologie – Conservatorio di Firenze, multimedia works session