Alessandro Cipriani
"My recent works are an elaboration of oral tradition ... My music does not reference European musical history, but an exchange of energy between human beings."
Alessandro Cipriani is an author and a composer of electronic and multimedia works. His recent work explores traditional religious music from various cultures with electronic sound techniques and processes.
Cipriani's works have received honors at Bourges, ICMC, International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Musica Nova, Newcomp ... He has received the Government of Canada Award. Performances include Nuova Consonanza (Rome), EMS Stockholm, Ravenna Festival, Inventionen (Berlin) ... His music has been broadcast on radio by RAI, CBC ... Cipriani is co-author (with R. Bianchini) of the textbook Virtual Sound, on sound synthesis and signal processing with Csound.
Cipriani lives in Rome, teaches at the Bellini Conservatory in Catania, Sicily, lectures at universities in Italy, Canada, and the US, and co-directs the Edison Studio in Rome.
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