enore zaffiri “la voce ed il sintetizzatore” compact disc

• usk > dai passaggi de eliot (1973) 2:58
  
• rannoch by glencoe > dai passaggi de eliot (1973) 4:16
  
• the dark lady > dai sonetti di sheakspeare (1973) 10:01
  
• i clearly saw > da kerouak (1976) 2:37
  
• 199º chorus > da lamantia (1976) 4:10
  
• put down > da kerouak (1976) 6:12
  
• omaggio a webern > da poesie di george (1976) 5:27
  
• pentaconta > capriccio per i 50 anni di vittorio (1976) 6:08
  
• cantico del cantici > da il cantico dei cantici (1981) 14:40

rossbin press release...

author: enore zaffiri title: "la voce ed il sintetizzatore” label: rossbin format: cd catalog #: rs023 time: 56'45" voce > ellen kappel sintetizzatori synthi a e arp2600 > enore zaffiri thanks to: associazione pietro grossi 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 this works, dated between 1973 and 1988 he approche 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. châtel). 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.

enore zaffiri “riverberazioni sonore” seven inch single record and magazine set

• riverberazioni sonore n° 31 (1) (5:26) 1998
  
  
• sonetto cxliv da the dark lady di shakespeare per voce e synthi a (2:37) 1973
  
• riverberazioni sonore n° 31 (2) (2:59) 1998

rossbin press release...

author: enore zaffiri title: "riverberazioni sonore" label: rossbin format: 7” + magazine catalog #: rsep001 time: 11:00 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. he perfected his piano studies with guido agosti in siena at the "accademia musicale chigiana". from 1954 to 1982 he held the chair of general music culture at the "conservatorio g. verdi" in turin. as a composer he won various awards. 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, and he also became a lecturer in this subject. 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. châtel). 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. at the end of the eighties, he produced the video l’arte nella storia published by cooperativa books and video in turin.