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ARTISTIC RESEARCH – IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT The application call for the PhD program in Musical Composition and Performance (42nd Cycle) has been published!

In these last few days leading up to the end of 2025, I would like to share my latest presentations, which I have had the pleasure of giving over the last six months.

In my recent article COMBINED METHODS TO STUDY COLLABORATION, CO-CREATION AND COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE IN THE DIGITAL MUSIC ERA.

Doing analysis of electronic music also means understanding – in addition to the audio, sketches, score (if any) and technology – the circumstances that led an author to create the piece.

What do archives tell us about the person who has collected and organised (or disorganised) them over the years, about their own creative process, about their ‘workshop’?

Atmos?

Posthumous discoveries of unknown and never performed musical works always represent, in the eyes of researchers and the public, a valuable opportunity for new biographical readings and new interpretative scenarios.

Next July 12th I’ll be keynote speaker at the Heroines of Sound Festival in Berlin, in the second panel titled “The engaged body and the aesthetics of electronic music”.

Next Saturday May 18th, I will discuss in Padova with Marta Previti and Maddalena Rizzi about women who have left a strong artistic mark in Veneto, Italy and the world.

Overjoyed that my keynote “Unexplored Archives, Philology and Real People – How to study ‘sound-based art’ through sketches (design thinking, embryonic projects, first meetings, software programming)”, at the TENOR 2024 conference – International Conferen…