Alessandro Cipriani(I)
- Composer
Alessandro Cipriani completed his studies in music composition and
electroacoustic music at the Conservatorio S.Cecilia in Rome. He
studied for a time with Barry Truax in Vancouver, (Canada). He attended
the School of Sound in London (Walter Murch, Dogma 95, etc.) and
seminars with Philip Glass.
Since 1989 he has worked on intermedia pieces and audio-video multichannel and interactive installations, often in collaboration with visual artist Alba D'Urbano and director Giulio Latini, and on pieces for instruments and electronics. More recently he has composed He has composed the soundtrack for the movie The Girl from Nagasaki (2013) by Michel Comte, and the soundtracks for two theatre/dance works by Robyn Orlin in collaboration with Luigi Ceccarelli.
He has also composed electroacoustic pieces with traditional religious singers and musicians from China, South Africa, Ghana, Congo, Japan, Morocco, Lapland, Bulgaria, and soundtracks for creative film-documentaries and silent movies, integrating an advanced concept of fusion between dialogue, sound environment and music, including the soundtracks of _L'Inferno (1911/1)_ , _Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeii (1913)_ (The Last Days of Pompeii), "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" _Il gabinetto del dottor Caligari (1920)_, the expressionist masterpiece by Robert Wiene, and the silent version of "Blackmail" a movie by Alfred Hitchcock, in collaboration with Edison Studio composers.
His works have received honors and have been selected for performance at Bourges, Government of Canada Award, International Computer Music Conference 94, 95, 99, 2002, 2003, 2008, CalArts/RedCat Festival - Walt Disney Hall, Los Angeles, Festival d'Automne (Paris), Venice Biennale, Opera Theater Leipzig, (Germany) International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Musica Nova (Praha), Newcomp (U.S.A.), Inventionen (Berlin - Germany), Nuova Consonanza (Rome), Ravenna Festival, Engine 27 (New York), etc.
He has been tenured professor of electroacoustic music at the Conservatory of Catania (Ist. Mus. V. Bellini) from 1995 to 2003 and at the Conservatory of Frosinone (Rome) since November 2003. A compilation of electroacoustic pieces by his students from Sicily has been published on Electronic Music Foundation label (New York). He has taught and lectured about his music and his theory of 'electroacoustic tradition' at several Academies (Sibelius Academy - Helsinki, Accademia S.Cecilia- Rome etc.) and Universities in Europe, Canada and the U.S. (Simon Fraser University - Burnaby B.C., Californian Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles), University of Rome "Tor Vergata, University of California - Santa Barbara, Univ. of Catania, MedienKunst Dept. of Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, DMU University Leicestser (England) etc.). He has published analytical and theoretical papers in several journals (Organised Sound, Musica/Realtà, etc.) and has published the textbooks "Virtual Sound" and "Electronic Music and Sound Design", on sound synthesis and signal processing (in collaboration with R.Bianchini and M.Giri on ConTempoNet, Rome) Both books have been adopted for computer music courses in various Universities and Conservatories in Europe, South and North America. His CD "Il Pensiero Magmatico" in collaboration with Stefano Taglietti is available on Edipan label. Other pieces can be found in the International Computer Music Conference '95 and ICMC'99 CDs. A monographic CD, "Al Nur", including all his works with oral tradition musicians and his trilogy on religious chant, was released on CNI Compagnia Nuove Indye in 2001. Computer Music Journal selected one of his multi-channel pieces (in surround 5.1) to be included in the annual DVD in 2003, released on CMJ 27 (4). A piece written for Iranian percussionist Mahammad Ghavi Helm has been published on CNI-RAI Trade label in 2006. A 5.1 piece on DVD has been released in 2007 on Everglade Records (USA) and an acousmatic piece on XXI Musicale - Elettronica Italiana Vol.2. Recently the DVD of the movie "Inferno" with Edison Studio's soundtrack has been published by Cineteca di Bologna. His music has been broadcast by RAI, CBC and several other national radio networks as well as performed at festivals in Europe, China, Singapore, South-America, Canada, and the U.S.A. He is one of the founding members of Edison Studio in Rome. He is also member of the Editorial Board of the review Organised Sound (Cambridge University Press). For this review he has been guest editor of a special issue dedicated to the relationship between electroacoustic music and Local/Global culture.
Since 1989 he has worked on intermedia pieces and audio-video multichannel and interactive installations, often in collaboration with visual artist Alba D'Urbano and director Giulio Latini, and on pieces for instruments and electronics. More recently he has composed He has composed the soundtrack for the movie The Girl from Nagasaki (2013) by Michel Comte, and the soundtracks for two theatre/dance works by Robyn Orlin in collaboration with Luigi Ceccarelli.
He has also composed electroacoustic pieces with traditional religious singers and musicians from China, South Africa, Ghana, Congo, Japan, Morocco, Lapland, Bulgaria, and soundtracks for creative film-documentaries and silent movies, integrating an advanced concept of fusion between dialogue, sound environment and music, including the soundtracks of _L'Inferno (1911/1)_ , _Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeii (1913)_ (The Last Days of Pompeii), "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" _Il gabinetto del dottor Caligari (1920)_, the expressionist masterpiece by Robert Wiene, and the silent version of "Blackmail" a movie by Alfred Hitchcock, in collaboration with Edison Studio composers.
His works have received honors and have been selected for performance at Bourges, Government of Canada Award, International Computer Music Conference 94, 95, 99, 2002, 2003, 2008, CalArts/RedCat Festival - Walt Disney Hall, Los Angeles, Festival d'Automne (Paris), Venice Biennale, Opera Theater Leipzig, (Germany) International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Musica Nova (Praha), Newcomp (U.S.A.), Inventionen (Berlin - Germany), Nuova Consonanza (Rome), Ravenna Festival, Engine 27 (New York), etc.
He has been tenured professor of electroacoustic music at the Conservatory of Catania (Ist. Mus. V. Bellini) from 1995 to 2003 and at the Conservatory of Frosinone (Rome) since November 2003. A compilation of electroacoustic pieces by his students from Sicily has been published on Electronic Music Foundation label (New York). He has taught and lectured about his music and his theory of 'electroacoustic tradition' at several Academies (Sibelius Academy - Helsinki, Accademia S.Cecilia- Rome etc.) and Universities in Europe, Canada and the U.S. (Simon Fraser University - Burnaby B.C., Californian Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles), University of Rome "Tor Vergata, University of California - Santa Barbara, Univ. of Catania, MedienKunst Dept. of Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, DMU University Leicestser (England) etc.). He has published analytical and theoretical papers in several journals (Organised Sound, Musica/Realtà, etc.) and has published the textbooks "Virtual Sound" and "Electronic Music and Sound Design", on sound synthesis and signal processing (in collaboration with R.Bianchini and M.Giri on ConTempoNet, Rome) Both books have been adopted for computer music courses in various Universities and Conservatories in Europe, South and North America. His CD "Il Pensiero Magmatico" in collaboration with Stefano Taglietti is available on Edipan label. Other pieces can be found in the International Computer Music Conference '95 and ICMC'99 CDs. A monographic CD, "Al Nur", including all his works with oral tradition musicians and his trilogy on religious chant, was released on CNI Compagnia Nuove Indye in 2001. Computer Music Journal selected one of his multi-channel pieces (in surround 5.1) to be included in the annual DVD in 2003, released on CMJ 27 (4). A piece written for Iranian percussionist Mahammad Ghavi Helm has been published on CNI-RAI Trade label in 2006. A 5.1 piece on DVD has been released in 2007 on Everglade Records (USA) and an acousmatic piece on XXI Musicale - Elettronica Italiana Vol.2. Recently the DVD of the movie "Inferno" with Edison Studio's soundtrack has been published by Cineteca di Bologna. His music has been broadcast by RAI, CBC and several other national radio networks as well as performed at festivals in Europe, China, Singapore, South-America, Canada, and the U.S.A. He is one of the founding members of Edison Studio in Rome. He is also member of the Editorial Board of the review Organised Sound (Cambridge University Press). For this review he has been guest editor of a special issue dedicated to the relationship between electroacoustic music and Local/Global culture.
