Teresa Rampazzi
Teresa Rampazzi (31 October 1914 – 16 December 2001) was an Italian pianist and composer who was a pioneer of electronic and computer generated music.
Biography
Teresa Rampazzi was born in Vicenza, Italy, and studied piano as a child, then continued her studies at the Milan Conservatory and graduated with a diploma in composition. She lived for a while in Verona, and in 1956 moved with her husband to Padua where she became a member of the Trio Bartók and the Circolo Pozzetto music ensembles.
Rampazzi developed an interest in avante-garde music and attended Ferienkurse Darmstadt where she heard the Eimert sound generator. She sold her piano and with Ennio Chiggio formed the NPS Group (Nuove Proposte Sonore), an experimental collective to research sound generation with analogue devices.[1] (Her husband bought back the piano.)
She continued to work with Chiggio until 1968 and then took a teaching position in 1972 as professor of electronic music at the Padova Conservatory where she continued to work on tone research applying the Bessel functions and to publish professional articles on electronic music. She worked internationally at the Utrecht Electronic studio, at Catholic University in Washington, at the electromusic studio in Stockholm, at the department of computer music at the University of Pisa and at the CSC Computer Music Center in Padova.[2]
After her husband died in 1984, Rampazzi moved to Assisi and then to Bassano, where she continued to compose. She died in Bassano del Grappa in 2001.[3]
Works
Rampazzi's works were composed through electronic sound generation and recorded on tape, and have been used on the soundtracks of documentary films and for ballets. Selected works include:
- ipotesi1 (1965)
- ipotesi2 (1965)
- Research1 (1965)
- Ricerca2 (1965)
- Ricerca3 (1965)
- Ricerca4 (1965)
- Operation 1 (1966)
- Operation 2 (1966)
- Operation 3 (1966)
- Function 1 (1966)
- Function 3 (1966)
- Function 4 (2 tracks)(1966)
- Function 3 (1966)
- Function 5 (1966)
- 5th Function (1966)
- Rhythm 1 (1967)
- Rhythm 2 (1967)
- Rhythm 3 (1967)
- Module 1 (1967)
- Module 2 (1967)
- Module 3 (1967)
- Module 4 (1967)
- Module 5 (1967)
- Interference 1 (1968)
- Interference 2 (1968)
- Dynamics 1 (1968)
- Masse 1 (1968)
- Masse 2 (1968)
- Freq Mod 1 (1969)
- Freq Mod 2 (1969)
- Imp & Ritha (1970)
- Environ (1970)
- Collections (1970)
- Eco 1 (1971)
- Filter 1 (1971)
- Taras on 3 (1971)
- Immagini per Diana Baylon (1972)
- Computer 1800 (1972)
- Hardlag (1972)
- With the light pen (1976)
- noch atmen (1980) (second prize in Bourges),
- Geometry in motion (1982)
- Almost a Haiku (1987)
- Polifonie di Novembre (1988)
A box set of her music was released in 2009, including the first time publication of "Musica Endoscopica" composed for a documentary on endoscopy.
- Musica Endoscopica, Teresa Rampazzi, DIE SCHACHTEL (2009)
- Gruppo NPS Nuove Proposte Sonore 1965-1972, Teresa Rampazzi, Ennio Chiggio et al., DIE SCHACHTEL (2011)
References
- ↑ Chadabe, Joel (1997). Electric sound: the past and promise of electronic music. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
- ↑ "Teresa Rampazzi Musica Endoscopia". Retrieved 25 October 2010.
- ↑ "A pioneer of electronic music in Italy". Retrieved 21 January 2015.