In June 2001 a new musical research group called PRISMA has been created inside the Centro Tempo Reale (Florence). The group has developed a project consisting of five fields of activity: research, diffusion, production, promotion and teaching. The aim is to create a music founded on complex formal structures but still able to talk to emotions. PRISMA intends to work on a new composing technique – through interactive models – in order to establish a new practice where calculation and freedom meet into the musical writing.
By means of Computer Assisted
Composition, the PRISMA group is formed by young but renown composers, who decided
to work together to define a peculiar musical identity, while involving several
institutions, research and production centers in Europe as well as interested
researchers. The composers acting in PRISMA make their research by the Centro
Tempo Reale in Florence, institution founded by Luciano Berio and directed by
Nicola Bernardini. The Ecole Nationale de Musique de Montbéliard, directed
by Jacques Clos, shares the principles of PRISMA group and offers the collaboration
of its Ensemble (and its structure), also thanks to a convention defined with
Tempo Reale for a mutual exchange of resident composers.Members of PRISMA group:
Participating composers:
Austria
Johannes Kretz
Brasilia
Guilherme Carvalho
Finnland
Mikael Laurson
France
Gerard Assayag
Jean-Francois Charles
Jaques Clos
Thierry Coudys
Arshia Cont
Frederic Voisin
Italy
Paolo Aralla
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
Nicola Evangelisti
Giacomo Platini
Michele Tadini
Germany
Torsten Anders
Kilian Sprotte
Hans Tutschku
Portugal
Carlos Caires
Sweden
Örjan Sandred
Publication
PRISMA –
01 Euresis Edizioni
Book of articles and essays of PRISMA group
Articles of first volume:
I. Reference Classes – Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
II. Outils informatiques pour la composition musicale assistée par ordinateur:
un état de l’art – Carlos Agon et Gérard Assayag
III. L'analyse musicale contrastive – Frederic Voisin
IV. Morphological analysis – Paolo Aralla
V. L’application des paramètres compositionnels au traitement sonore
dans la composition mixte et électroacoustique - Hans Tutschku
VI. Searching for a rhythmical language - Örjan Sandred
VII. The three levels of interaction in the Interactive Models of Composition
- Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
VIII. Transposition protocols and morphological distance - Giacomo Platini
IX. Geometric figures and music writing : courses and means for the composition
- Nicola Evangelisti
X. Idea and style – Means for the generation and real time sound treatment
- Michele Tadini
XI. Continuous Gestures of Structured Material - Experiences in Computer Aided
Composition - Johannes Kretz
Centro Tempo Reale – Villa Strozzi – Via Pisana 77 – I-50143
Firenze, Italy
Euresis Edizioni – viale Col di Lana 12 – I-20136 Milano, Italy
Info:
E-mail : Jacopo Baboni Schilingi: jbs(at)centrotemporeale.it
Giacomo Platini: giacomo.platini(at)centrotemporeale.it
Johannes Kretz:
Orders: euresisedizioni(at)euresis.net
Price of book: 14 Euro