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JULIAN SCORDATO
composer, audiovisual artist and technologist
selected works
Spirography
Audiovisual, 3 min, 2020
Description
A journey into a primitive and abstract space inhabited by two subjects who follow independent paths that never
coincide, but move and influence each other. They appear or hide; they linger or run away.
This algorithmic audiovisual work produced during the coronavirus pandemic is based on a dynamic graphic score that
controls the generation of notes on a digital piano according to a set of probability rules.
Past screenings/exhibitions
ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, 2020), Under the Subway Video Art Night (New York, 2020), Saarbrücker
Tage für Elektroakustische und Visuelle Musik (2020).
Technical requirements
video screening/projection system (1080p), stereo sound
Video link
youtu.be/7mgEUi-T_dQ
proposed artwork for Mercartonline 2021 prize
Study for a cosmic city
Audiovisual, 7 min, 2019
Description
Study for a cosmic city is inspired by a utopian urban proposal exposed by the composer and architect Iannis Xenakis in
an essay entitled "La Ville Cosmique" (1965).
In an attempt to relate computer graphics to the formalization of sound, the structures that characterize the utopian city
are designed using superquadratic curves capable of describing reasonable variations in amplitude and pitch. Parameter
values extracted from buildings and paths are used to process sound materials from unidentified radio transmissions
actually received worldwide. In the graphic representation, each building transmits a specific radio signal whose quality
and intensity depend on the position of a cursor, also interfering with the other sound sources. On Paths on the ground,
on the other hand, define the meso- and macro-formal articulation of the audiovisual work as well as the virtual
localization of the processed audio signals.
Past screenings/exhibitions
Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (2019), XVIII Festival Internacional de la Imagen (Manizales, 2019), Digital Art Festival
Sofia (2019), Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce (2020), 16 th Athens Digital Arts Festival (2020), 11a Muestra de
Arte Sonoro e Interactivo In-Sonora (Madrid, 2020), Piksel Festival (Bergen, 2020), Arts & Media Symposium
(University of Montreal, 2020).
Technical requirements
video screening/projection system (1080p), stereo sound
Video link
youtu.be/Mj2bqOIakeoEngi
Audiovisual, 7 min, 2017
Description
Engi is an audiovisual work based on a sonification of stellar data relating to the northern constellations. Parameter
values are graphically represented and related to observational data as well as physical characteristics of the stars: the
sound duration is proportional to their distance from the Earth, the amplitude is calculated considering their apparent
magnitude, while the fundamental frequency changes according to their spectral class. Six temporal dimensions are
used in order to activate the stars with a combinatorial system that produces a continuous change in the articulation of
events over time.
Past screenings/exhibitions
Segnali Festival (Perugia, 2017), Besides the Screen Conference (Vitoria, 2017), Living Lab Music 7 (Padova, 2017),
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (2017), Art & Sound Symposium (Leicester, 2017), Tenerife Espacio de
las Artes (2017), Festival Ecos Urbanos (Mexico City, 2017), Sound-Image Colloquium (London, 2017), Muestra de
Música Electroacústica MUSLAB (Mexico City, 2017), Spektrum (Berlin, 2017), Besides the Screen (Mexico City,
2017), Festival Punto De Encuentro (Granada, 2017), WeSA Audiovisual Festival (Seoul, 2017), Mantis Sonification
Festival (Manchester, 2018), 10a Muestra de Arte Sonoro e Interactivo In-Sonora (Madrid, 2018), Seeing Sound
Symposium (Bath, 2018), XVII Festival Internacional de la Imagen (Manizales, 2018), Electronic Language
International Festival (Sao Paulo, 2018), International Symposium of New Music (Parana, 2018), ZKM Center for Art
and Media (Karlsruhe, 2018), Festival Punto De Encuentro (Granada, 2018), OUA Electroacoustic Music Festival
(Osaka, 2020).
Technical requirements
video screening/projection system (1080p), stereo sound
Video link
youtu.be/bpwlU2DTYGYConstellations
Audiovisual, 7 min, 2014
Description
This work begins from the exploration of an imaginary celestial space which is translated into sound space. How does
each celestial sphere – starting from its manifestation as a unit – interact with the cosmos where it belongs? How does it
react to its law? How does it transform itself integrating with the system, until the loss of identity? In contrast to this
process, the constellations act by highlighting the bodies in their uniqueness through the creation of symbolic links:
beyond their meaning, they stand as a classification and articulation device of the individual within the system.
Past screenings/exhibitions
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (Stanford, 2014), Muestra de Música Electroacústica MUSLAB (Mexico City, 2014),
20th Colloquium on Music Informatics (Rome, 2014), Festival Punto De Encuentro (Granada, 2014), Contemporary Music Research Center
(Athens, 2015), Venice Conservatory of Music (2015), Festival de Vidéomusique de Montréal (2015), Festival Ex Nihilo (Aguascalientes,
2015), Art & Science Days (Bourges, 2015), Electronic Language International Festival (São Paulo, 2015), New York City Electroacoustic
Music Festival (2015), Sirga Festival (Flix, 2015), PoetryFilm (London, 2015), Living Lab Music 6 (Padova, 2015) Centre de Cultura
Contemporània de Barcelona (2015), Colloquium of the Centre Iannis Xenakis (Rouen, 2015), Saarbrücker Tage für Elektroakustische und
Visuelle Musik (2015), 9 a Muestra de Arte Sonoro e Interactivo In-Sonora (Madrid, 2016), PoetryFilm (Skagastrond, 2016), XV Festival
Internacional de la Imagen (Manizales, 2016), Backup Film Festival (Weimar, 2016), 7 th Hack & Art Day (Sabadell, 2016), Festival di
Musica Contemporanea di Cagliari (2016), Malaysia Music Technology Festival (Kuala Lumpur, 2016), Sound-Image Colloquium (London,
2016), Festival Ecos Urbanos (Mexico City, 2016), Sonorities Festival (Belfast, 2016), Spektrum (Berlin, 2017), ZKM Center for Art and
Media (Karlsruhe, 2018), Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow, 2018), 5 th Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and
Representation (Melbourne, 2019), 14 th Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (Marseille, 2019), Radical dB Festival
(Zaragoza, 2019), ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, 2020), Sónar+D (Barcelona, 2020), Festival Ecos Urbanos (Mexico City,
2020).
Technical requirements
video screening/projection system (1080p), stereo sound
Video link
youtu.be/dCVK5wHX6ToJULIAN SCORDATO is an experimental music composer and artist who works mainly with sound and graphics. He studied composition and electronic music at the Conservatory of Venice and sound art at the University of Barcelona. Co-founder of the Arazzi Laptop Ensemble, he has performed live electronics both in group formations and as a solo. As a technologist, Scordato has written articles and presented results related to interactive systems for music performance and graphic notation in conferences and masterclasses. He has worked as a professor of electronic music in several Italian institutions and currently holds the Chair of electroacoustic music composition at the Conservatory of Padua. His award-winning electroacoustic and audiovisual works have been performed and exhibited in international festivals and institutions including Venice Biennale, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Electronic Language International Festival (Sao Paulo), Cervantes Institute (Rio de Janeiro), International Image Festival (Manizales), Gaudeamus Music Week (Utrecht), Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow), Sonorities Festival (Belfast), Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Art & Science Days (Bourges), Athens Digital Arts Festival, ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe), Spektrum Art Science Community (Berlin), Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (Stanford), and New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. His music has been broadcast by Radio UNAM, NAISA Webcast, Resonance FM, RAI Radio3, RadioCemat, Radio Papesse, RadioCona, Radiophrenia, Radio Gracia, Radio Circulo, Radio Tsonami, and other stations. His scores have been published by Ars Publica and Taukay Edizioni Musicali. www.julianscordato.com info@julianscordato.com +39 328 5581273 (updated to March 2021)
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