Guitar Catalog of the 20th and 21st Centuries

based on the original project by Vincenzo Pocci

rebooting by Cristiano Porqueddu

Di Scipio Agostino (1962)

Italia

Composer of electroacoustics and instrumental music, was born in Naples.

English
(Born 1962)
Composer, sound artist and musicologist. His compositions include tape works, works for instrumentalists and electronics, and sound installations. Many of these works develop non-conventional techniques of sound synthesis or processing, often following from models of noise and turbulence. Other focus on the sonic interactions between human performers, machines, and environments, like in the recent series titled Audible Ecosystemics (solo live-electronics), the installations “Untitled” (Mainz “Crisis and Corporealities”, 2004; Berlin, Zimmerstrasse Galerie, 2005), “Sound & Fury” (Helsinki, 1995; Nettuno, 1997, with the cooperation of Manilio Prignano) and the “Surface Impact Studies” (Antwerpen Muhka, 2005, with Matias Guerra). In 2001 he composed, with poet Giuliano Mesa, Tiresia, a work of poetry and electronic sound. Some of his compositions are available on two recent CDs, “Hörbare Ökosysteme. Live-elektronische Kompositionen” (RZ Edition), and “Paysages Historiques” (Chrisopée Electronique).
Electronic Music professor at the Music Conservatory of Naples, Di Scipio is also a guest professor at Centre Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (Paris-Alfortville). Recently he was artist-in-residence of the DAAD program, in Berlin, and was a guest professor of the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), and Johannes Gutenberg Universität (Mainz). Di Scipio authored many essays and articles in the analysis and critical theory of music technologies, and served as editor of the Italian translation of several publications, including books such as “Genesi e forma” by Gottfried M. Koenig (Semar, 1995), “Heidegger, Hölderlin & John Cage” by Michael Eldred (Semar, 2000) and “Universi del suono” by Iannis Xenakis (LIM/Ricordi, 2003), and monograph review issues, such as the Journal of New Music Research devoted to the legacy of Xanakis.
Web: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/adiscipi/
Italiano
Nato a Napoli nel 1962, realizza musica elettroacustica e strumentale, con gruppi e/o solisti che interagiscono con sistemi informatici, e installazioni sonore, talvolta in stretta relazione con l'ambiente. Eseguiti in numerose sedi nazionali e internazionali, suoi lavori sono stati premiati al Concorsi Internazionale di Bourges (1991, !996) e al Prix Ars Elettronica di Linz (1995), e sono incisi su CD.  Dopo aver collaborato per diversi anni col Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (Università di Padova, 1987-92 ), dal 1993 è consulente del Laboratorio Musica e Sonologia (Università di L'Aquila). Ha insegnato Musica Elettronica presso il Conservatorio di Bari ed attualmente è docente  presso il Conservatorio di Latina.
E' stato “visiting composer” presso la Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, 1993) e la Sibelius Academy (Helsinki, 1995). Membro del consiglio direttivo dell'AIMI -Associazione di Informatica Musicale Italiana. Ha pubblicato numerosi scritti, sia in margine alle tecniche del proprio lavoro sia in generale sulle tecnologie musicali contemporanee e le loro ripercussioni estetiche e cognitive per riviste italiane (Sonus, Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, Musica/Realtà, ecc.) ed internazionali (Contemporary Music Review, Londra; Journal of New Music Research, Lisse; Perspectives of New Music, Seattle) e per la rivista in rete Switch.
Web: http://space.quipo.it/manilio/sito/di%20scipio.htm

Composizioni (4)

TitoloEditoreStrumentazioneAnno
EKTOPOS (guitar solo or several guitars in unison) [in MUSICA INCERTA] UT ORPHEUS 1997
EKTOPOS (guitar solo or several guitars in unison) [in MUSICA INCERTA] UT ORPHEUS 1997
IMPRIVVISO-POLIFONICO-POETRONICO non pubblicata poetry reading and mixing, with 3 poets, el-guit, live signal processing 1998
«VEILLE, SURVEILLE» (Five pieces) non pubblicata folk guit, vladg, electronics 2005

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