Marco Trevisani San Juan 2011

Brief Biography.


Marco Trevisani was born in Verona, Italy, on February 26, 1963. He started studying piano at the age of five under the tutelage of his father, himself a pianist. At the age of 15, Marco started to study classical music composition with private teachers: first Professor Giorietto in Verona and later Maestro Bonafede in Milan. He lived six years in Milan where he graduated in architecture at the Politecnico, University of Milan. His final dissertation was on “Relation between Architecture and Mural Painting” with Prof. Mario De Micheli. In Milan he also studied techniques of piano improvisation in jazz and avant-garde music, with Maestro Bonafede and worked as a jazz pianist. Upon completing his degree, he moved to Vienna where he studied classical music composition for three years at the Hochschule fur Musik, with professors Dieter Kaufmann and Tamas Ungvary who introduced him to computer music. From 1992 to 1997 Marco was Visiting Composer at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics) of Stanford University, invited by Prof. John Chowning. At CCRMA he specialized in computer music composition, studying with John Chowning, among others. At Standford he also studied literature and philosophy with John Freccero, Michel Serre and René Girard. All of them played an important role in his formation. Marco has given talks and lectures around the world, including Stanford University, Vienna, University of Padova, Verona, University of Puerto Rico and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). He has composed for various music ensembles as well as computer music; he has produced and composed music theater and computer music theater (often in collaboration with the Drama Department at Stanford), and music for movies and television, as well sound design and stage design for other theater productions. He also wrote music for contemporary dance performances. He worked as a consultant for Apple in a speech recognition project for two years. From 1997 to 2000 he taught classes in Software Synthesis - real time signal processing in digital arts - and Private Music Composition at New York University, in the Music and Technology Department. In 1997 he was also a visiting professor at Columbia University, at the CMC-Computer Music Center. His artistic production has been presented and performed in many different countries including Italy, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Austria, Romania, Slovenia, Germany, France, Hungary and the United States. Marco Trevisani has also toured as prepared piano performer in these countries. Since 1994 he has been working to promote and spread GNU/Linux and free software as an alternative Operating System for computers in the multimedia. Then he has promoted and developed a new distribution, and the first one, totally focused on multimedia, called Debian Multimedia Distribution, DeMuDi, that was funded by the European Community and led by Centro Tempo Reale in Florence, where he was appointed technical director in their research unit. He has been International Coordinator in the organization of the International Computer Music Conference 2001, in La Habana, Cuba, and Chairman of the Music Jury in the same event. From 2001 to the end of 2003 he has worked as technical director of the research group at Centro Tempo Reale, in Florence Italy, a center founded in the 1980s by Maestro Luciano Berio. He also investigated the area of 3D video/animation and as first result he produced a computer music 3D animation, Gritos, that is exhibited at Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Puerto Rico. Since July 2000 he has been living and working in San Juan, Puerto Rico. where has offered classes in the University of Puerto Rico, in the School of Architecture and the Visual Arts Department, an also on Digital Arts in the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 2007 entered the New School of Architecture at the Universidad Politecnica de Puerto Rico where he funded and directed the multimedia lab. Since february 2010 has been working a Dean assistant in the School of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico. He has been offering lectures on music, architecture, digital media, arts and technologies in different institutions in Puerto Rico and internationally. He also founded, with musician Omar Silva, the Colectivo de Electrónica Isleña, that uses technologies to create music, video, graphics in a continuos interaction.







Studies

· 1980-1989 Studied piano jazz and composition with Professor Bonafede in Milano.

· 1987-1988 Workshop for film script-writers and directors in Milano at CIM.

· 1989 “Laurea” in Architecture, Politecnico, Universitá di Milano, with a

dissertation (published in 1990) titled “Rapporti tra architettura e

pittura oggi” (“Relation between Architecture and panting”), with

Professor Mario De Micheli as advisor.

· 1989-1992 Studied music composition at the MusikHochschule in Vienna with

Dieter Kaufmann.

· 1991 Workshop in Orchestra conducting with Zubin Metha at the

MusikHochschule in Vienna.

· 1990-1992 Studied composition in computer music with Tamas Ungvary at

ELAK (Elecrto Akustische Institut) in Vienna.

· 1992 Summer Workshop at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics), Stanford University.

· 1994 PhD fellowship at Italian Dept., Stanford University.

· 1994 Studied with John Chowning, John Freccero. Michel Serres, René Girard.







Teaching activities, lectures, and other music related activities


1972-1976 Organist at San Pietro Apostolo in Verona.

1986 Lecture: New directions in music composition (Architecture in Milan)

1990 Lecture: Computer music and problems related to music notation (Vienna)

1991 and 1994 Lectures: Music notation and ``Artistic'' notation

(Lecture given at Stanford -Comparative literature - and at MusikHoschule in Vienna)

1992 Lecture: Introduction to Verklarte Klang im Raum (Vienna)

1992-1997 Visiting composer at CCRMA, Stanford. University

1993 Lectures: Maderna, conductor and composer, 1973 (1993 Italian Kultur Institute in Vienna)

1994 Lectures at the Italian Department in Stanford: ``Music and Theatre -From mask to virtual mask''

1995 TA in the Italian Dept. for the Italian language class at Stanford

1995 Lecture: Casa Italiana Stanford: Verdi & Shakespeare

1995 Lectures: University of Padova (Italy)

- My recent works and composition theory in computer music

- Space and Time in music

- Linux: a new frontier in multimedia development

1996 Lecture: Casa Italiana Stanford: The transition from XIX century Opera to XX century Opera.

1995 Coauthor, with Michael Edwards, of ARTIMIX, a real-time sound mixing program for Silicon Graphic and Linux machines.

1996 Presentation to the Affiliates meeting at CCRMA of ARTIMIX

1996 Production with Celso Aguiar of two CDs (``Computer Music @ CCRMA'', Volume One and Volume Two), released in spring 1997, including works of computer music by CCRMA composers. A project funded by CCRMA (Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustic, Stanford University)

1996 Graphic project and design, with Peer Landa, for the two CDs ``Computer Music @ CCRMA'', Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

1996 “Designing Conceptual Mistakes” Casa Italiana – Stanford U.

1997 Visiting composer at Columbia University, New York

1997- 2000 Teaching Software Synthesis in Digital Arts at New York University -NYU-, in the Music Technology Department in the School of Education (Music and Performing Arts).

1998-2000 Teaching private composition class at NYU -focused in electronic music-, in the Music Technology Department in the School of Education (Music and Performing Arts)

1998 February, New York University. Concert/Lecture "Mixing prepared piano and electronics"

1998 July, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Lecture "88 percussions in a piano"

1999 March, University of Puerto Rico. Lecture "Designing a concert hall for Electronic Music".

1999 Instituto Superior de Artes, La Habana, Cuba. Lecture "Techniques for playing prepared piano"

1998-2001 International Coordinator, with, Maestro Juan Blanco, Andrew Schloss and Enmanuel Blanco, of the Organisation Committee for ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) 2001, in La Habana, Cuba.

2001 Music Chairman for the ICMC 2001.

2000 Award. A fellowship from Social Research Council in New York, in order to produce and perform his computer music theatre composition, "Così è" , in La Habana, Cuba, opening on March 8, 2000

2000-2004 Technical director for the AGNULA/DeMuDi project at Tempo Reale – Florence

2006 Teaching “Urban Installations” at University of Puerto Rico, School of Architecture

History of Digital Arts at Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, San Juan.

Teaching Web Art and Art History in the Visual Art Department at University of Puerto Rico

2007-2010 Founder and director of the Multimedia Lab at School of Architecture at Universidad Politecnica, San Juan Puerto Rico.

Teaching History of Architecture, Design Workshop first and second year, Multimedia installations, Virtual installation on internet at School of Architecture at Universidad Politecnica.

2010 - present Dean assistant for technologies and internaional relations at the School of architecture, University of Puerto Rico.

Teaching Design Workshop , second year. Web design for the School of Architecture, web portal.

2010 Conference at Museo de Arte Contemporano, in San Juan, on Technology influences over sound, music and their perception.


Music, performances, compositions, concerts

and work in progress


NOTE: The name of the cities in ``italic'' (when is the name of a city) the place where each composition has been premiered.


Due pezzi brevi per piano (1984)

For piano.

Verona,Vienna

Acca(1984)

tape music for dancers

Verona

Quartetto(1987)

String Quartet

Lubjana

Auf der Stille(1988)

For violin and tape

Vienna,Verona, Paris, Santiago (Chile)

Verklarte Klang im Raum (1989) -- theater

Small orchestra, two singers and live electronic and stage design

Vienna

Nunc Stans(1990)

For chamber ensemble

Trieste,Graz, Salisburg, Bucharest, Budapest, Lubjana, Paris, Vienna, Friburg, Geneva. Also recorded and Broadcast by Italian radio (RAI) and from Romania Television (National Television)

Il Bicchiere della Staffa (1986) -- theater

Music theater, for chamber orchestra, singers and actors

(An original adaptation by a Harold Pinter's play)

Vienna

Così è(1992, completely revised in 1999/2000 -Spanish version) -- theater

Music Theater, for computer, actors, one dancer and female singer.

(An original adaptation. Text by L. Pirandello and A. Gramsci)

Stanford(1992), La Habana (2000)

Studi di improvvisazione (1993-1999)

Nine compositions for prepared piano and computer and other instruments

San Francisco - New York

These include:

-Segmentation Fault beta1.1 composed in collaboration with Michael Edwards and presented in San Francisco at the Music Marathon 1996 -Opus 415 n. 2 - , Padova (Italy), Vienna, Verona, Essen (Germany), Stanford, La Habana (Cuba), Belo Horizonte (Brasil) , New York (Roulette 1999)

·O' core dumped presented at the Kitchen in New York in 1995,

Padova, Palermo, Vienna, Verona -version for prepared piano and tape - Stanford - version for prepared piano, tape and electric guitar - San Juan (Puerto Rico) - version for prepared piano, percussion, tape,and alto sax (Neil Leonard) - New York 1999 Roulette - version for percussion prepared piano and live electronics.

-Einalem for prepared piano and computer sounds presented at el Festival de Musica Electroacustica, La Habana (Cuba)(1998), Brasil, San Juan (Puerto Rico), San Diego (California), New York

Up to four and more (1995)

Improvisation for prepared piano, computer and percussion

(written and played in collaboration with Lukas Ligeti)

Stanford Summer CCRMA concert ``Music under the stars''

Including :Untitled N. I, Untitled N. II, Untitled N. III, Untitled N. IV, Untitled N. V, Untitled N. VI, Untitled N. VII, Untitled N. VIII.

El dinosaurio(1994)

for prepared piano, computer soprano saxophone. A composition in three movements.

Stanford,-sax played by Andrea Benatti-, Verona

Frammenti e Variazioni su Aura,(in ricordo di Bruno Maderna). (1996)

Fragments and variations for computer sounds generated, sampled from Aura by Bruno Maderna

Essen, Stanford CCRMA concert, Verona, New York,

Casa de Las Americas, La Habana, Cuba.

Musica por un Apagon(1998)(see also CDs):

(for prepared piano, tumbadora and electronics)

·Macondo, La Habana, San Diego-California- ·Bus Error , La Habana ·Tamu' 'e Mamey , La Habana ·Dead Mute &;Dumplings, La Habana ·Ayano', La Habana

Concerto per piano solo e altri strumenti: (1999)

(concert for piano solo and other instruments)

(for prepared piano, computer created sounds, and live electronics)

Despues de un apagon for 30 minutes.

Roulette -New York-

Bellas Artes- Belo Horizonte, Brazil -

Il Posto -Verona Italia-

(where also Einalem, O' Core Dumped and Segmentation fault 1.3Beta were presented)

41 Shots, quasi un requiem, (Dedicated to Amadou Diallo) (1999)

(Tape solo, computer generated sounds)

New York University - New York

A comerrr, (dedicado a la lucha del pueblo Viequense)(Otcober 2000)

(Tape solo, computer generated sounds)

Isla de Vieques - Puerto Rico

Improvisacion en vivo para Vieques (April 2001)

(live electronics, sampled sounds, and processed melodica)

San Juan - Puerto Rico

Non Si Sente niente, o quasi(September 2001). -- Performance.

(For female voice, live electronics) -- as part of Cori Fanatici

La Habana -Cuba

La passione secondo Oscar (Aprile 2002)

(Tape Solo, computer manipulated sounds based on a Bach choir) -- as part of Cori Fanatici

- Internet broadcast release.

Digital Standard Processing (April-May 2006)

Jazz standards revisited by electronically elaborated piano sound and guitar

Marco Trevisani, piano and live electronics

Rafael Acevedo, guitar and voice electronically processed

Nelson Rvera, computer control

Includes:

  1. Autumn Leaves

  2. SaxRev 1.0 with Michael Edwards on Sax

  3. Rocks River

  4. Quarta

  5. Azules por millas con maelo y ernesto

  6. Horizontes (poema de Rafah Acevedo)

  7. A veces me siento Bukowsky (poema de Rafah Acevedo)

  8. Pezzo breve per piano (revision of a 1984 composition)

- San Juan, Puerto Rico


Colectivo de Electrónica Isleña (Novembre 2009 – present)


A colective group of performers including: Omar Silva (guitars and electronics), Egui Santiago (electronics “objects”), Abdiel Lopez Torres (Dj), Juan Carlos Sulsona (electronic keyboards), Nelson Rivera (real time signal processing with computers), Alex Diaz (graphics and video processing), Marco Trevisani (piano and real time signal processin).


The Colectivo performed in Puerto Rico, at different venues, as the Museo de Arte Cintemporaneo in San Juan, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Humacao campus, at the Sono Mac lab and FAS, both event broadcasted live over the internet.




Animation and computer Music


GRITOS (2004 – 2005)

Dedicated to Julio Anguita Parrado

3D animation and computer elaborated sounds.

Music & Animation by Marco Trevisani.

San Juan – Puerto Rico

Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Puerto Rico

Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica de Santiago de

Chile, "Ai-maako", Ecuador Guajaquil




Sound design and stage design for Theater productions:


-- Job interview (An adaptation from a play by H. Pinter) Stanford -1994

-- In the Jungle of Cities(B. Brecht) San Francisco, Karl Weber director. -1995

-- Rough for Radio I(S. Becket) San Francisco - 1995





Installations:


Non Importa sapere perché (1991)

Installation for an exhibition in a park. For speaking voices, tape, trumpet, saxophone, soprano voice and live electronic.

Boscochiesanuova (Verona)

Also played for a dance performance in Belgium

Il convitato (1992)

Installation for speaking voices, tape and seven dancers

Bruxelles, Verona


Dichosos los llamados a esta cena (2006)

played and written in collaboration with Rafa Acevedo, Deborah Hunt, Kairiana Nuñex

en Ver/visiones táctiles performances- actos artisticos de conciencia sobre los derechos humanos. Organizado por Lowel Fiet

San Juan -Museo de Historia de la Universidad de Puerto Rico



Dandole la vuelta al palo (2007) – Dedicated to Nelson Rivera

a performance with real time manipulation for audio and video of a actress (Kairiana Nuñez) while reading parts from Nelson Rvera's book Susio Dificil.

in Area, lugar de proyectos, Caguas, Puerto Rico


Afuera de Orden (Out of order) (2007)

a live net broadcast performance . a One hour discussion over hypothetical, imaginary, never realized works of art of any disciplines. In collaboration with Melanie Peréz Ortiz and Rafael Acevedo.

started in Area, lugar de proyectos, Caguas in March 2007 and it is repeated weekly every Friday morning.



CDs:

in ``Computer Music @ CCRMA'' Volume two:

Variazioni e Frammenti su Aura

Produced and published by Stanford University

Apagon, recorded in La Habana, September 1998 in collaboration with Michael Edwards

For prepared piano, percussions, live electronics, and computed sounds

This CD includes:

· Enirak · Macondo · O' Core Dumped · Segmentation Fault Beta 1.1 · Melu · Bus Error · Einalem · Tamu' 'e Mamey · Dead Mute &;Dumplngs · Ayano'

Produced and published by Sargasso ­ London: *http://www.sargasso.com





Stage design and Stage Installations:












Computer related skills















Marco Trevisani

Calle Colon 1609 Apt. 401B

San Juan, Puerto Rico 00911


Mobile Phone:(787) 378-9452

e-mail: marco@trevisani.net

Web-page: http://marco.trevisani.net




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