Pietro Grossi (Venice 1917 – Florence 2002) was an Italian composer pioneer of computer music, who first in Italy experimented with electronic techniques in the early sixties.[1]
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Biography
Pietro Grossi was born in Venice, and he studied in Bologna at the taking a diploma in composition, and violoncello. In the sixties Grossi teaches at the Conservatory of Florence and begins the research and the testing in the electroacoustic music.[2] From 1936 to 1966 he was the first cellist of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestra.
In 1963, he turned his interest to electronic music and founded the S 2F M (Studio di Fonologia Musicale di Firenze) which made its headquarters in Florence at the Conservatorio, and he also became a lecturer in this subject.
In 1964 he organizes events with the association Contemporary Musical Life that introduces for the first time in Italy the work of John Cage. In 1965 he obtains the institution of the first professorship of Electronic Music in Italy.
In 1967 he made the first experiences in computer music.[3]
In 1970 he made his first approaches to musical telematics organizing a performance with a link between Rimini (Pio Manzù Foundation) and Pisa (CNUCE). In the eighties, Grossi starts to developvisual elaborations created on a personal computer with programmes provided with "selfdecision making" and that works out the concept of HomeArt.[4]
He collaborates in order to experiment electronic sound and composition with the computer music division of "CNUCE" (Institute of the National Research Council of Pisa).[5]
His later works involved automated and generative visual music software, which he extended beyond the realms of music into the interactive work for the Internet, conceiving and collaborating with Sergio Maltagliati [6] in 1997 of the first Italian interactive work for the web netOper@ [7], entertaining in his own house study the first on-line performance.
Selected works
- 1961 Progretto 2-3 this piece consisting of several different high monotones that follow one another, is extremely minimal and ambient, controlled by a computer algorithm.
- 1965 Battimenti an electronic work composed and realized from “working material” for the electronic Studio di Fonologia Musicale (S 2F M), made by the 94 combinations of near frequencies.
- 1969 Collage where the concepts of music being an open process where no work of music is a finished piece but rather something to be manipulated.
- 1980 Computer Music transcription and elaborations (with Soft TAUMUS synthesizer TAU2, IBM 370/168 Institutes of CNR CNUCE and IEI) from the following authors: Bach, Scarlatti, Paganini, Brahms, Chopin, Strawinskij, Debussy, Joplin, Satie, Webern, Hindemith, Stockhausen.
- 1985-90 Mixed Unicum another ambient drone piece, similar to Progretto 2-3 and yet far more varied and rewarding, as the shifting tones create an alien topography of sound.
- 1986 HomeArt Grossi has developed the concept of HomeArt. It consists of completely automated and generative visual processes, based on simple Qbasic computer programs .
Bibliography
- Girolamo De Simone, Il dito nella marmellata, Musica d'arte a Firenze, 2005, ed. Nardini - EAN:9788840427041
- Francesco Giomi ; Marco Ligabue, L' istante zero. Conversazioni e riflessioni con Pietro Grossi, 1999, ed. Sismel - ISBN 888702765X
- Lelio Camilleri, Pietro Grossi. Musica senza musicisti, scritti 1966-1996, ed. CNUCE CNR Pisa
- Lelio Camilleri, Computational Musicology in Italy, Leonardo, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and technology, The MIT Press, Cambridge, U.S.A., vol. 28 n. 1, 1995, pp. 454-456.
- Francesco Giomi, The Italian Artist Pietro Grossi. From Early Electronic Music to Computer Art, in Leonardo, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and technology, The MIT Press, Cambridge, U.S.A., vol. 28 n. 1, 1995, pp. 35-39.
Discography
- GE-115 Computer Concerto (General Electrics, 1968)
- Computer Music (CNUCE/CNR, 1973)
- Computer Music - Bach/Grossi (LP, Ayma, 1980)
- Paganini al computer (LP, Edipan, 1982)
- Computer Music - Satie/Joplin/Grossi (LP, Edipan, 1983)
- Sound Life (LP, Edipan, 1985)
- Battimenti (CD, ants records, 2003) [1]
- Suono Segno Gesto Visione a Firenze 2 -Grossi, Chiari, Cardini, Mayr, Lombardi, Aitiani, Maltagliati (Atopos 2005) [2]
- Musicautomatica (CD, Die Schachtel, 2008) [3]
Dvd video
- CIRCUS_8 dvd video Quantum Bit Limited Edition / (2008) QuBIT 005
References
- ^ Girolamo De Simone (2002-02-23). "Goodbye (Addio) Pietro Grossi". il manifesto. http://www.konsequenz.it/a10.htm.
- ^ MartLab. "The Music Academy "Luigi Cherubini"". http://www.martlab.it/html/en/storia.htm. Retrieved 2000.
- ^ [|Gaburo, Kenneth] (1985). Reflections on Pietro Grossi’s Paganini Al Computer. University of Iowa USA The MIT Press.
- ^ Pietro Grossi. "“HomeArt”". http://www.leonet.it/art/homeart/homeart_e.html. Retrieved 1996.
- ^ Roberto Doati. "Homage to Pietro Grossi". http://gsd.ime.usp.br/sbcm/1998/papers/cDoati.html. Retrieved 1997.
- ^ Luca Cartolari. "Pietro Grossi and Sergio Maltagliati". http://www.quantum-bit.it/pietrogrossi/info-eng.htm. Retrieved 2008.
- ^ FYLKINGEN'S NET JOURNAL. "netOper@ Sergio Maltagliati & Pietro Grossi". http://www.hz-journal.org/n3/netopera.html. Retrieved 10-03-2003.
External links
- Associazione Pietro Grossi official web site (Italian)
- Pietro Grossi (English)
- autom@tedVisualMusic da Home@rt (English)
- netOper@ (English)
- Music Academy "Luigi Cherubini" (English)
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