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Digital Impact: ACROE in residence in Turin is divided into four sections:  - Workshop : Physical modelingfor sound and image synthesis  - Symposium : Composing music in the IT era - Concert : Electronic and electro-acoustic music. All first performances - Workshop concert : for Music College students and for students attending the AIAM course

Music is not something which exists just as abstract sound. It is an intrinsic component of the act of inventing music, of playing an instrument, of instrumental construction techniques and of all the means used for sound diffusion. With computer music occupying an increasingly significant role in all aspects of European contemporary music, it has become essential that musicians and public alike be able to learn about the latest advances in this area of music research and performance, an area in which ACROE (Association pour la création et la recherche sur les outils d'expression/Association for musical creation and research into new expressive tools) plays a leading role. For this reason AIAM (Accademia Internazionale Arti e Media) and CCF (Centre Culturel Français) in Turin, l'ACROE in Grenoble and CDMC (Centre de Documentation de la Musique Contemporaine) in Paris have joined forces to present a week dedicated to pedagogy, research and information dissemination. The events presented in this week of activities revolve around work undertaken and carried out at ACROE. These events are aimed not only at students, composers and artists but also at all those who are interested in learning more about the application of computers to music and to artistic creation in general. The concerts, the symposium and a central notice board will all contribute to offering the public the opportunity to learn about how computer technology is used in the process of artistic creation.

When in the week from Monday 28 June to Friday 2 July 1999

Where A Workshop-Concert will held on Monday, 7 June at the Conservatorio G.F.Ghedini, via Roma 19, Cuneo The WorkshopPhysical modeling for sound and image synthesis and the Workshop-Concert will held  at AIAM (Accademia Internazionale Arti e Media), via della Consolata 1 bis, Turin The Symposium Composing music in the IT era will held on Friday, 2 July 1999 at the Centre Culturel Français (French Cultural Centre), via Pomba 23, Turin The Concert Electronic and electro-acoustic music will held on Thursday 1 July 1999, 21h, at the Castello di Rivoli, Second Floor halls A Workshop-Concert will held on Monday, 7 June, 5 p.m. at the Conservatorio G.F.Ghedini, via Roma 19, Cuneo

Sound and image synthesis by physical modeling;
- CORDIS-Anima and Genesis programmes, developed by ACROE;
- duration 4 days full time (morning and afternoon);
- the workshop will held on some (4-8) Silicon Graphics workstations;
- five workshop leaders: Annie Luciani, Claude Cadoz, Jean-Loup Florens with two assistants);

During Workshop will be presented meeteings with artists e researcher working with ACROE tools and software:

- Hans Peter Stubbe, composere: Rhizome for harp and electronics sounds
- Annie Luciani and Joel Borges: Épopée pour jamais, dance project of IXKIZIT, first performed in Rome Saturday 3 July1999
- Ludger Bruemmer, composer: Lizard Point, per tape and video projection, video of Silke Brehme; ->Thrill<-, for tape
- Alban Caporossi, stagiaires at ZKM, about software CORDIS-Genesis

- the total number of active participants will be limited to 15; some space will be provided for listeners

As part of the inter-European exchange between Italy, France and Germany there will be a day dedicated to discussion of the problems related to composing and "writing" music in the digital era.

9h15 : Ouverture

- Savino Bellasalma, Directeur of the Accademia Internazionale Arti e Media, Turin
- Patrizia Picchi, Assessorato per la Cultura, Provincia di Torino

9h45 : Introduction

Director of Centre Culturel Français, Turin
- Marianne Lyon, Director of Centre de Documentation de la Musique Contemporaine, Paris

Relations by:

10h15 - Jean-Claude Risset, composer and Head of Research at CNRS
11h00 - Pierre Dutilleux, Engineer, Researcher at the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien ), Karlsruhe, Germany
11h45 Coffee break
12h00 - Claude Cadoz, Director of ACROE , Grenoble, France; research engineer for the French Ministry of Culture
12h45 Questions & discussion
13h00 Lunch
14h45 - Mesias Maiguashca, Professor of Electronic Music at the Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg, Germany
15h30 - Alessandro Melchiorre, composer, Professor at the Music College of Milano, Italy
16h15 - Table Ronde et Débat avec également : Michela Garda, Luciana Galliano, Marianne Lyon, Hans-Peter Stubbe, Ludger Bruemmer.

Conductor : Giuseppe Gavazza, compositeur en résidence à l'ACROE et enseignant au Conservatoire de Cuneo

All performances will be world premieres or first performances in Italy. Jean-Claude Risset's composition Elementa was realized at GRM of Paris. All others compositions use sounds generated with CORDIS-Genesis, a programme for sound synthesis by physical modeling developed by ACROE, Grenoble.

- Jean Claude Risset : Elementa for tape with multi-channel sound projection; commissioned by and realised at GRM, Paris; circa 15'; *
- Giuseppe Gavazza : La natura delle cose for percussionist and synthesised sounds in double stereo; 16'; commissioned by De Sono; **
- Mesias Maiguashca : Tiefen for synthesised sounds with 8-channel sound projection; circa 20'; *
- Ludger Bruemmer : ->Thrill<-for tape 19'12"; **

Alain Lafuente - percussion

* first performance in Italy; ** world premiere

For the concert there will be a special free bus starting 8 p.m. from Piazza Arbarello n.8

The Workshop-Concert is for students attending Music College (in particular those studying composition, percussion, harp and electronic music) and for students attending the course for Arts and Multimedia run by AIAM. It will be led by the composers Hans Peter Stubbe-Teglbjúrg and Giuseppe Gavazza, the harpist Sofia Claro and the percussionist Alain Lafuente, around the compositions Rhizome, for harpe and tape, and La natura delle cose, for percussionist and synthesised sounds in double stereo.
The Workshop-Concert will present the results of the research project carried out by the two composers whilst in residence at ACROE, Grenoble during 1997-1999. This project exploited the possibilities offered by CORDIS-Genesis, the physical model synthesis programme developed by ACROE and culminated in 3 new compositions first performed in 1998 -1999.