a r t i s t : Enore Zaffiri
t i t l e : La Voce Ed Il Sintetizzatore
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Rossbin
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Aug/2006
t r a c k s : 09
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 70,4 MB
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Rossbin RS023
Voice > Ellen Kappel
Synthesizers (Synthi A and Arp2600) > Enore Zaffiri
After almost forty years of creative activity, the name Enore
Zaffiri still sounds "new", as his extraordinary artistic
output has remained to a great extent unreleased. Pioneer of
multimedia, electronic and ambient music (he founded the Turin
Studio of Electronic Music in 1964) Zaffiri used the
electronic instrument to find a new musical perspective based
on a structuralist principle derived from Euclidean
geometrics. In these works, dated between 1973 and 1988 he
approached the combination of the electronic music with the
voice - the meeting of the newest instrument, at that time the
arp synth, and the oldest one, the human voice.
Enore Zaffiri was born in Turin on March 29, 1928. He studied
in Turin at the "Conservatorio G. Verdi", taking a diploma in
composition, choral music and pianoforte, and subsequently in
Paris at the "Conservatoire National" with Tony Aubin. From
1954 to 1982 he held the Chair of General Music Culture at the
"Conservatorio G. Verdi" in Turin.
In 1964, he turned his interest to electronic music and
founded SMET (Studio di Musica Elettronica di Torino) which
made its headquarters in Turin at the Conservatorio.
Zaffiri's first objective was to overcome the historical
elementary principles which coordinated the relationships
between the sounds of traditional musical language for
acoustic instruments and then concentrate his efforts on
electronic means, searching for new sound perspectives
originating from a structural principle based on the Euclidian
plane geometrical figure by which means the various sound
parameters can be coordinated and the formal and spatial
dimension extracted.
In 1965, together with other operators in the visual field, he
set up the Studio di Informazione Estetica and started an
interdisciplinary research into sound and visual phenomena.
The main objective of the research was to generate the
elements relevant to the sound and visual fields from a single
basic structure. The extreme limit of the formal rigorism was
achieved in 1968 with the project Musica per un anno, the
purpose of which was the sonorization of environments.
From 1970, Zaffiri turned his attention towards the live
performance of electronic music. He combined electronic sound
with the human voice - sometimes crossing the border into
total theatre (Il giuoco dell'oca from the novel by E.
Sanguineti and Raptus based on a text by M. Chatel). In the
period, the first scores for synthesizers appeared, permitting
the live performance of pieces specifically written for this
instrument.
At the end of the seventies, he extended his research into
visuals to the video, maintaining the interdisciplinary
process using the instruments that technology offered and
which represented, for the author, the means and support for
what he intended to express.
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01-USK [03:01]
02-Rannoch, BY Glencoe [04:19]
03-The Dark Lady [10:03]
04-I Clearly Saw [02:39]
05-199th Chorus [04:12]
06-Put Down [06:15]
07-Omaggio A Webern [05:29]
08-Pentaconta [06:10]
09-Cantico Del Cantici [14:39]
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56:47 min