mauriziorinaldi

Guitarist, composer and performer of electronic music. Graduated in theoretical physics and music. In his professional artistic and didactic activities, he mainly deals with research and experimentation in the field of contemporary musical languages. Active as a guitarist and live electronics musician in groups and solo projects. He teaches at the academy of fine arts. He promotes and participates as a speaker in cultural activities aimed at the dissemination of sound arts.

His works have been presented and performed at Bushwick Open Studio Festival (New York, USA), Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte (Montepulciano, Italy), Fondazione Teatro Grande (Brescia, Italy), HCI Human Computer Interaction International, SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference, Festival della Scienza (Genova, Italy), Bergamo Scienza (Bergamo, Italy) and more.

Chitarrista, compositore e performer di musica elettronica. Laureato in fisica teorica e in discipline musicali. Nelle sue attività professionali, artistiche e didattiche, si occupa principalmente di ricerca e sperimentazione nell’ambito dei linguaggi musicali contemporanei. Attivo come chitarrista e musicista live electronics in formazioni e progetti in solo. E’ docente in accademia di belle arti. Promuove e partecipa come relatore ad attività culturali volte alla diffusione delle arti sonore.

I suoi lavori sono stati presentati ed eseguiti in numerosi contesti tra i quali Bushwick Open Studio Festival (New York, USA), Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte (Montepulciano, Italy), Fondazione Teatro Grande (Brescia, Italy), HCI Human Computer Interaction International, SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference, Festival della Scienza (Genova, Italy), Bergamo Scienza (Bergamo, Italy).

"...per questo mondo rinato in un oscuro mattino"

(Pier Paolo Pasolini, Comizio, Le Ceneri di Gramsci, 1957)

Brescia: May, 28th 1974. Piazza della Loggia bombing. During a trade union anti-fascist protest, the explosion of a neofascist bomb killed eight people and wounded one hundred protesters. We still have an audio recording of the event captured from the stage of the rally that provokes the utmost sympathy to the social ordeal. This work aims to the memory protection of an historical event of my city, but there is more. The compositions tells us about the distances, the coexistence, the hurdles of balancing the historical dimension of space and collectivity with the private element of everyday life. The idea is to inspect the tragic feature of the human existence in the World. The composition has been created with the following: - sound synthesis; - reinterpretation of samples from Luc Ferrari's archive; - audio recording fo Piazza della Loggia bombing (copyleft Associazione Casa della Memoria); - W.H.D. Rouse's Sounds of Ancient Greek, Linguaphone Institute, 1932 (public domain); - original field recordings: moments of my household while composing; night in Piazza della Loggia, water of Piazza della Loggia fountain, where the bomb was placed and hidden.

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings.”

(Pythagoras)

“There is coming-to-be of not one single thing of mortal things, nor is there any end of deadly death, but only mixture and separation of what is mixed, and nature (physis) is the name given to them by humans.”

(Empedocles, in Plutarch Adv. Coll. 1111f)

“In string theory, each particle is identified as a particular vibrational mode of an elementary microscopic string. A musical analogy is very apt. Just as a violin string can vibrate in different modes and each mode corresponds to a different sound, the modes of vibrations of a fundamental string can be recognized as the different particles we know.”

(Barton Zwiebach, A First Course in String Theory)

Pythagoras with monochord discovered the relation between the length of strings and their perceived pitch when plucked and attempted to explain the cosmos with this mathematical-musical model in his Harmony of the Spheres. Today in string theory a one-dimensional string with particular mode of vibration corresponds to an elementary particle like a sound. The strings can interact by splitting and joining. It seems that everything in the universe is made out of oscillating strings. A sort of twenty-first century Harmony of the Spheres comes to mind. Musical metaphors seem to me to offer the opportunity to provide the imagination to those processes in multidimensional space-time with the creation of various and complex interacting sonic spectra that originate only from concrète sounds of the open E sixth string of the electric guitar. The harmonic field of the composition comes from the overtone series of this string and its subharmonic and inharmonic modulations. All partials, their sonic aggregates and gestures are obtained form digital processing of the original E pitch sounds with custom softwares.

The work, a live performance for electric guitar and laptop, is an acoustic force field made-up of microsounds, texture and pattern generated from real time digital signal processing of the electric guitar. Small audio buffers are constantly recorded and processed by a SuperCollider program developed by the composer. The form is the result of a continuous process of composition and improvisation modulated by the feedback of the sonic material generated by the computer (magical machine). Mobilis In Mobili (trans. moving within the moving element) takes its title from the Captain Nemo’s motto in Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). As the Nautilus, our aural perception can fluctuates in sonic spaces and interacts with the acoustic force field.

Some years before Copernicus consented to the publication of his large work “De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium”, he wrote a brief sketch (Commentariolus) of his astronomical system. The “Commentariolus” was not printed; a number of handwritten copies circulated for a time among students of the science, and the disappeared from view for three centuries.

(1). There is no one center of all the celestial orbs or spheres. (2). The center of the earth is the center, not of the universe, but only of gravity and of the lunar sphere. (3). All the spheres encircle the sun, which is as it were in the middle of them all, so that the center of the universe is near the sun.

./orbis_magnus/. from Maurizo Rinaldi on Vimeo.

On the Origin of Species. A/V sketch. from Maurizo Rinaldi on Vimeo.

A Sonification of the zCOSMOS Galaxy Dataset.

Sandro Bardelli - Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio INAF – National Institute for Astrophysics | Claudia Ferretti - Independent artist | Luca Andrea Ludovico - LIM – Laboratory of Music Informatics Department of Computer Science “Giovanni Degli Antoni” University of Milan | Giorgio Presti - LIM – Laboratory of Music Informatics Department of Computer Science “Giovanni Degli Antoni” University of Milan | Maurizio Rinaldi - Independent artist

Abstract. This paper proposes a sonification for zCOSMOS, an astronomical dataset that contains information about 20,000 galaxies. The goals of such an initiative are multiple: providing a sound-based descrip- tion of the dataset in order to make hidden features emerge, hybridizing science with art in a cross-domain framework, and treating scientific data as cultural heritage to be preserved and enhanced, thus breaking down the barriers between scientists and the general audience. In the paper, both technical and artistic aspects of the sonification will be addressed. Finally, some relevant excerpts from the resulting sonification will be presented and discussed.

Events

2022

- MUSE Museo delle Scienze, Trento. TBA

2021

- II Workshop on Astronomy Beyond the Common Senses for Accessibility and Inclusion, proceedings pubblicati in Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Serie de Conferencias.

- Festival della Scienza di Genova, Palazzo Ducale, Sala del Maggior Consiglio.

- BergamoScienza.

- Planetarium Südtirol, Alto Adige, Museo di Scienze Naturali dell’Alto Adige.

- Sofos Associazione per la Divulgazione delle Scienze di Bologna.

- 23rd Human-Computer Interaction International 2021 conference, proceedings pubblicati da Springer

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2015 Great Ring Road. Audiovisual performance. Spazio Contemporanea. Brescia.

2015 La Création Du... Audiovisual performance. Spazio Aità. Brescia

2015 La Création Du... Audiovisual performance. Associazione Culturale Movente. Brescia.

2014 Quantum Fields. Solo. Electric guitar and live electronics. VillaNO. Brescia.

2014 Contaminazioni. Bando SPOT. Performance. Brescia.

2013 Natura e Cultura, Mostra. Sound design. Brescia.

2012 Fèr. Storie di Ferro, Lavoro, Arte. Teatro. Musiche di scena. Brescia.

2012 ³NO d IA (for John Cage). Solo performance. Innerplay In A Cage. Spazio Aref, Brescia.

2012 La Scienza dell’Uomo e l’Uomo della Scienza. Mostra collettiva. Sound design. Brescia.

2011 Phi4. Tango Tangles (C. Chaplin, 1914) Strade del Cinema. Teatro Romano, Aosta.

2011 Phi4. A Film Johnnie (C. Chaplin, 1914) Strade del Cinema. Teatro Romano, Aosta.

2011 Conforme. Mostra fotografica. Sound design. Svizzera.

2011 Improvvisazione e Ricerca. Talk. Spazio Aref. Brescia.

2010 Ligatura. Audiovisiva 06. Palaghiaccio. Milano.

2010 Short Sleeve (M. Montalbetti). Piattaforma. Casa del Teatro e Giovani. Torino.

2010 Innerplay. Cage Party. Spazio Aref. Brescia.

2010 Stefano Battaglia Theatrum. Rivoli Musica. Istituto Musicale. Rivoli.

2010 Pasceri Rinaldi Saiu Trio plays G. Kanchely, R. Strauss, J.S. Bach, improvisations. Brescia.

2010 Pasceri Rinaldi Saiu Trio plays G. Kanchely, R. Strauss, J.S. Bach, improvisations. Teatro del Lavoro. Pinerolo. Torino.

2009 Phi4. Raggio di Sole (S. Ambrosio, 1912). Musicazione dal vivo. Restauri in Musica. Cinema Massimo Museo del Cinema. Torino.

2009 Short Sleeve (M. Montalbetti). Musica e Spazi. Sala Cavallerizza Teatro Stabile. Torino

2009 Stefano Battaglia Theatrum. Museo Santa Maria della Scala. Siena.

2009 Phi4. A-Trane, Berlino, Germania.

2009 Phi4. Cenere (F. Mari, 1916). Musicazione dal vivo. Luci ed Ombre. Brescia.

2008 Phi4. The Frozen North (B. Keaton, 1922). Strade del Cinema. Teatro Romano. Aosta.

2008 Aurora (F. W. Murnau, 1927). Musicazione dal vivo. Silenziose Donne Perdute. Brescia.

2007 La Terra (A. Dovzenko, 1930). Musicazione dal vivo. Piccolo Cinema Paradiso. Brescia.

2007 Sonosfera. ZTS Zona Traffico Sonoro. Festival di musica elettronica, Brescia.

2007 Phi4. La Guerra e il Sogno di Momi (S. de Chomón, 1917). Arena Sonica. Brescia.

2007 Phi4. Cretinetti e la Paura degli Aeromobili Nemici (A. Deed, 1915). Arena Sonica. Brescia.

2006 Il Gobbo di Notre Dame (W. Worsley, 1923). Oltre L'Immagine. Brescia.

2005 Architetture Loop. Solo. Electric guitar and electronics. Castello Bonoris. Montichiari. Brescia.

2005 Architetture Loop. Solo. Electric guitar and electronics. Moira. Brescia.

2005 Architetture Loop. Solo. Electric guitar and electronics. Limone e Cioccolato Festival. Brescia,

2005 Pagliacci. Musiche di scena per adattamento teatrale. Nodo Teatro. Brescia.

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ABOUT (EN)

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PROJECTS

AUDIO

MINIMALIA

A sound diary[2021]

Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know

Acousmatic [2020]

PAROLE

In memoria della strage di piazza della Loggia, Brescia, Italia, 28 maggio 1974Acousmatic [2019]

MoNoKHORDON

Acousmatic [2019]

Mobilis In Mobili

For electric guitar and laptop [2018]

VIDEO

A/V

./orbis_magnus/.

The first three postulates of Copernicus De Hypothesibus Motuum Caelestium a se Constitutis Commentariolus.A/V [2021]

ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

A/V [2020]

SONICOSMOS

SONICOSMOS.

A sonification of the zCOSMOS GALAXY DATASET.

NEWS

Plutone esploso

22.06 - 26.06 @Giornate del respiro, Flumini Maggiore, Sardegna (IT)

The City and the Stars :: viDEO sAVant + LIGATURA

16.06 @Circolo Dev, Bologna (IT)

The City and the Stars :: viDEO sAVant + LIGATURA

15.06 @Museo Pecci, Prato (IT)

Plutone esploso

17.05 - 21.05 @Spazio Nova, Novara (IT)

SoniCosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset

Conference 17.11.21 @II Workshop on Astronomy Beyond the Common Senses for Accessibility and Inclusion (Mexico). [streaming]

SoniCosmos. Un viaggio nel cosmo narrato dal suono

Sound event and science outreach show 28.10.21 21:00 @Festival della Scienza, Genova (IT).

SoniCosmos. Un viaggio nel cosmo narrato dal suono

Sound event and science outreach show 07.10.21 21:30 @Bergamo Scienza, Bergamo (IT). [streaming]

Opere sonore. Un’esperienza di composizione acusmatica per gli studenti dell'accademia di belle arti.

Notte Europea dei Ricercatori 24.09.21 @Conservatorio Luca Marenzio, Brescia (IT).

SoniCosmos. Un viaggio nel cosmo narrato dal suono

Sound event and science outreach show 21.08.21 21:30 @Planetarium Alto Adige, Bolzano (IT).

SoniCosmos. A sonification of the zCOSMOS galaxy dataset

Conference 27.07.21 @Human Computer Interaction International, Washington (USA). [streaming]

Equilibri - 47° Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte

Live performance 22.07.21 21:00 @Lago di Montepulciano (IT)

SoniCosmos. Un viaggio nel cosmo narrato dal suono

Sound event and science outreach show 12.07.21 21:30 @San Lazzaro Bologna (IT)

Quantum Fields - Between Us: cantiere delle arti

Live performance 03.07.21 21:45 @Carme Brescia (IT)

Take Off

05.06.21 16:00 @Teatro Grande di Brescia (IT)

Take Off

28.12.20 21:40 @SKY CLASSICAHD

Take Off

02.12.20 18:00 & 21:00 @Teatro Grande Brescia (IT)

La città e le stelle :: viDEO sAVant vs ɸ4

27.09.20 7:00 pm PST @Shapeshifercinema Oakland, California (USA)

VIRTUAL SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference 2020 (XXIII)

25.06.20 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Torino (IT). [streaming]

Quantum Fields - Vocoder Festival di musica elettronica

Live performance 17.01.20 @primo piano Brescia (IT)

Connessioni - Banksy Takes Franciacorta

15.01.20 - 08.03.2020 @Galleria Deodato Franciacorta (IT)

Mobilis In Mobili

Live performance 16.11.19 @movente Brescia (IT)

La città e le stelle :: viDEO sAVant vs ɸ4

Audiovisual performance 11.10.19 @spettro Brescia (IT)

Conforme - Spettri di Luce

16.09.18 - 02.09.2018 @Palazzo Martinengo Brescia (IT)

WAV venice audio visual show

Mobilis In Mobili 01-09.02.18 @Palazzo Michel Venezia (IT)

Bushwick Open Studios 2018.

Mobilis In Mobili 29.09.18 @Bushwick Brooklyn New York (USA)

Spazi Sonori del Contemporaneo. Luigi Nono.

15.04.18 @Associazione Culturale Movente Brescia (IT)

Luigi Nono.

18.02.18 @spazio aref Brescia (IT)

A sound diary
[2021]

In memoria della strage di piazza della Loggia, Brescia, Italia, 28 maggio 1974
Acousmatic [2019]

The first three postulates of Copernicus De Hypothesibus Motuum Caelestium a se Constitutis Commentariolus.
A/V [2021]

MAURIZIO RINALDI

[ ELECTRONIC MUSIC . ( PERFORMER + COMPOSER ) ]

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