• Name: Agostino Di Scipio
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• URL: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/adiscipi/
• Country: Italy
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• Bio: Agostino Di Scipio, born in Naples, 1962, since 1985 he is based in L’Aquila, a medieval town in the inner mountains of the Italian peninsula. Composer of a variety of sound works, including electroacoustic music, sound installations and music scored for instrumentalists (soloists or ensembles) with interactive computer systems. Many of his compositions develop from unconventional sound synthesis/processing methods inspired to phenomena of noise and turbulence. In recent work, Di Scipio focuses on the 'man-machine-environment' feedback loop (for example his live-electronics solos titled Ecosistemico Udibile).

  After many years in low-level computer programming and the development of personal stand-alone audio applications (for a variety of processors and workstations), since 1994 he has continued his computer music research mostly using Kyma. Beside Kyma, he relies on freeshare software, and is taught by his students to use and misuse other (un)popular audio technologies.

  Electronic Music Professor at the Conservatory of Naples, and instructor in live electronics at Centre Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX), Paris. A former visiting faculty member at the Dept. of Communication and Fine Arts of Simon Fraser University (Burnaby-Vancouver, 1993), and visiting composer at Sibelius Academy Computer Music Studio (Helsinki, 1995), in the year 2004 Di Scipio is artist-in-residence of the DAAD Berlin Kuenstlerprogramm, visiting professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and at the Summer School 'Media and Beyond' of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, in Mainz.

  Notwithstanding the very personal, uncompromising and autonomous approach, Di Scipio’s compositional work raised international attention. Recent performances include the Warsaw Autumn, Inventionen (Berlin), Synthése (Bourges), SMC (Lausanne), the Int’l Computer Music Conference (Berlin, Thessaloniki, etc.), League of Composers (New York), Nuova Consonanza (Rome), etc. In 2003 he was guest composer of the Musica Viva festival (Coimbra, Portugal), and of the Institut voor Psychoacoustics und Elektronische Musik (Ghent, Belgium). New works have been recently commissioned by the IMEB, in Bourges (multitrack tape), the Lausanne Conservatorie (flute, bassoon, string quartet, and live signal processing) and CCMIX (percussion and live signal processing). Among his large scale works, Sound & Fury (2 actors, 2 percussionists, electronics, slide projection), has been staged first in the Evora 'Orkestra2000' festival (Portugal) and then in Venice ('Risonanze', 2002). Tiresia, composed together with the poet Giuliano Mesa, first premiered in L'Aquila ('Corpi del suono' festival, 2001), received its complete staging in Rome, at the Nuova Consonanza 2003 Festival.

Di Scipio's writings reflect either his personal experience as a composer, or general issues concerning the methods and the history of musical technologies, and their socio-cultural and cognitive implications. Research papers and musicological essays appeared in numerous conference proceedings and in international journals such as Journal of New Music Research (Swets & Zeitlinger), Computer Music Journal (MIT Press), Contemporary Music Review (Harwood Acadmic Press), Leonardo (MIT Press), Perspectives of New Music (Seattle Univ.), Organised Sound (Cambridge Univ. Press), and many others. Italian journals featuring his writings include Rivista Italiana di Musicologia (Olschky Ed.), Musica/Realtà (LIM/Ricordi), Il Saggiatore Musicale (Olscky Ed.), Sonus (Sonus Ed.) and others. Di Scipio contributed to edited volumes such as Electroacoustic Music Analytical Perspectives (Greenwood Press), Per Giacomo Manzoni (LIM/Ricordi), Musica e tecnologia domani (LIM/Ricordi), and authored essays published in journals devoted to cultural studies, such as Angelaki - Journal of theoretical humanities (Carfax Publishing), and La Revue d'Esthetique (Paris). He served as editor for the Italian translations of Gottfried M. Koenig's Genesi e forma. Nascita e genesi dell'estetica musicale elettronica (Semar, Rome, 1995), Michael Eldred's Heidegger, Hölderlin & John Cage (Semar, 2000) and Iannis Xenakis’ Universi del suono (LIM/Ricordi, Milan, 2003). Editor of the collective volume Teoria e prassi della musica nell'era dell'informatica (G.Laterza, Bari, 1995). Guest editor of the Journal of New Music Research for a monograph issue on Xenakis (to appear, 2004).

A complete list of composition, a list of published papers, and other materials are available from the ADS Re-Direct- web site (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/adiscipi/).

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