Music and New Technologies - Conservatory "A.Casella" in L'Aquila- Italy

Michelangelo Lupone

Biography:

He finished his musical studies with Domenico Guaccero and Giorgio Nottoli. His musical production includes instrumental works and electronic music. Together with the composition activity, he has developed researches in musical and scientific topics. He is the artistic director of the CRM (Center for Musical Resarch) in Rome, and he is cofounder and collaborator of the institute Gramma in L'Aquila - Italy. His musical production in its entirety shows a particular attention to both the linguistic and technological creativity. He has developed new performing techniques for traditional instruments and has designed the systems for digital sound synthesis Fly10 (L. Bianchini, 1983), Fly30 (A. Pellecchia, 1989), the systems for auralization "Planephones" (G. Ruspa, 1997), "Waveguides and reflectors screens" (M.C. De Amicis, 1998), "Olophones" (1999), that he uses for the composition and the performance of his works. Among the most recent works: "Metal string" (Kronos Quartet) based on the physical model of the string and the bow (M. Palumbi, L. Seno, 1997), "Bass Drum" (A. Tomassetti, 1999), "Phases" (R. Parisi, 1996), "Contrapunctus" (Bernini Quartet , 1999). From 1980 he teaches Electronic Music at the L'Aquila Conservatory. From 1996 he is member of the scientific and artistic board of the Cemat.

Papers:

  • "Informatica Musicale", Michelangelo Lupone, Atti del V Colloquio di Informatica Musicale, Università di Ancona, Ancona 1984
  • "System Fly", Michelangelo Lupone, Atti del VI Colloquio di Informatica Musicale, "Quaderni di Musica e Realtà", Edizioni Unicopli, 1985
  • "Dal pianoforte al computer", Michelangelo Lupone , "Piano Time" n. 60, Ed. Publitarget, Rome 1987
    "Musica ricerca", Michelangelo Lupone, saggio introduttivo e presentazione sulla rassegna di musica contemporanea, Bari 1988
  • "Verso l'esperienza informatica", Michelangelo Lupone, in "Suono Sud", n. 1, Ed. ISMEZ, Rome, 1988
  •  "La musica elettronica", Michelangelo Lupone, Luciano Bellini "Professione Musica", 1988.
  •  "Ricerca, attitudine musicale - metodo scientifico" in "Musica-Scienza Il Margine sottile", M. Lupone et altri, ISMEZ, Rome, 1991
  • "FLY30: a DSP system for real-time control of audio signals. Aspects of research and musical interaction", Michelangelo Lupone et altri, in International Workshop on Man-Machine Interac-tion in Live Performance, Pisa, 1991.
  •  "CRM: from the FLY10 to the FLY30 System", De Vitis A., Lupone M., Pellecchia, A., in Atti del IX Colloquio di Informatica Mu-sicale, Genova, 1991.
  • The activities of CRM - Centro Ricerche Musicali", L. Bianchini - M. Lupone, "Leonardo Music Journal", vol. 2 n. 1, Pergamon Press, Gran Bretagna, 1992.
  • "Civiltà del suono. Le questioni del cambiamento", Michelangelo Lupone, in "Il complesso di Elettra, Mappa ragionata dei centri di ricerca e produzione musicale in Italia", Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Dipartimento dello Spettacolo - MusicaDuemila, 1995
  • "Il progetto CRM for una drammaturgia dell'ascolto radiofonico e del suo spazio virtuale", co-autori L. Bianchini, M. Lupone, E. Palandri, S. Tamaro, atti XI Colloquio Informatica Musicale, Bologna 1995 
  • "L'arte di ascoltare: argomenti for un approccio cosciente alla musica contemporanea", Michelangelo Lupone in atti del Convegno internazionale "Musica, Infanzia e Adolescenza ", Città della Scienza - Napoli, 1996
  • "La forma del respiro. Un'esperienza compositiva", Michelangelo Lupone in Psicologia cognitiva e composizione musicale
  • "Spazio, arco e metallo. Una ricerca musicale e scientifica" Michelangelo Lupone in Quaderni della Civica Scuola di Musica Civica Scuola di Musica)
  • Chap.  12  "Musica elettronica" of the  "Manuale di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica". UTET 2005.

Music:

CICLO ASTRALE I, II, III, IV (1985-1992) (choreographer Sahalan Momo) for  4 dancers, violin, percussion section, live electronics, magnetic tape, real time computer Fly10 e Fly30 (48'30")
Première: L'Aquila, Auditorium del Castello, 1992

INCANTO (1988) (choreographer Sahalan Momo) for  2 dancersi, soprano and  magnetic tape (16')
Première: Rome, Goethe-Institut Rom, 1988

OLTRE IL DOPPIO (1989) (choreographer Sahalan Momo) for two dancers, flute, percussios and  magnetic tape (15')
Première: Rome, Palazzo della Cancelleria, 1989

Trasformazione (1989) for soprano e real time computer Fly10 (6')
Première: Berlin, Inventionen, Akademie der Kunste, 1990

CONTRAZIONE (1990) (Video installation by Michelangelo Pistoletto), for two flutes, magnetic tape and video installation (12')
Première: Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1990

Swap (1990) for flute, percussion section and magnetic tape (10'40")
Première: Rome, RAI RadioTre, 1991

SWAPPING (1990) for  video e magnetic tape (3'17")
Première: Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1990

Carillon (1990) for magnetic tape (20")
Première: Rome, 1990

Mobile/Locale (1991) for  1 percussionist, magnetic tape and real time computer Fly30 (11')
Première: Rome, Festival Musica Verticale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1991

Il convitato (1991) for magnetic tape (6')
Première: Velletri (Rome), Sala Comunale, 1991

MUTAMENTI (1992) for video e magnetic tape (20')
Première: Rome, Università La Sapienza, 1992

Varianti di un grano (1993) for magnetic tape (5')
Première: Rome, Sala 1, 1993

Forma del respiro (1993) for magnetic tape (8'50")
Première: Rome, Goethe-Institut Rom, 1993

Strati (1994) for 2 percussion sections, 2 keyboards, live electronics and real time computer Fly30 (14')
Première: Paris, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 1994

I diversi Majakovskji (1994) for solo voice, ensemble, live electronics and  real time computer Fly30 (11')
Première: Rome, Festival Nuova Consonanza '94, Acquario Romano

In Primo Piano (1995) for ensemble and live electronics (7')
Première: Rome, Teatro dei Documenti, 1995

In un grattacielo (1995) for magnetic tape (30')
Première: RAI Radio3, 31/01/95

Scambio (1996) for flute, percussion section, live electronics and magnetic tape (11')
Première: Milan, Civica Scuola di Musica, 1996

FENICE (1996) (text by Sandro Cappelletto), for actress, live electronics, tape  and spatialization (20')
Première: Rome, Musica Scienza '96, Acquario Romeno

IN UN GRATTACIELO (1996) (text by Enrico Palandri), version for actress, video, live electronics and  magnetic tape (30')
Première: Frankfurt, Theaterhaus, 1996

Opposizioni (1996) (text by Enrico Palandri). Radio drama in 21 sections (total time: 110'48")
Première: RAI Radio3, 3-28/02/97

CONTROFIATO (1997) (choreographer Massimo Moricone), performance about the breath of a dancer (18')
Première: Rome, Musica Scienza '97, Goethe-Institut Rom

Corda di Metallo (1997) for quartetto d'archi, live electronics, magnetic tape and spatialisation (17')
Première: Rome, Teatro Olimpico, 1997

CONTROPASSO (1998) (choreographer Massimo Moricone)
for three dancers and real time computer (40')
Première: Rome, Acquario Romano, 1998

Rumori (1998) for magnetic tape (6'6")
Première: Rome, Musica Scienza '98, Goethe-Institut Rom

Fasi (1998) for bass clarinet  and pedal filters (9'.45")
Première: Rome, Musica Scienza '98, Acquario Romeno

Canto di madre (1998) for computer (7')
Première: Radio Vaticana, 5/10/98

Contrapunctus (1999) for String Quartet (14')
Première: L'Aquila, Festival Corpi del Suono '99, Forte Spagnolo

Grancassa (1999) for Basss Drum and live electronics (16')
Première: L'Aquila, Festival Corpi del Suono '99, Forte Spagnolo

Nove studi sul rumore (1999) for magnetic tape
Première: RAI Radio3, August/September 1999

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Michelangelo Lupone is Artistic Director at CRM - Rome, Italy

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