This release should appeal to collectors of old school electronic music circa (1950s - 1970s).
A 7" record is included with #8 edition of Miele magazine which includes an interview with
Enore Zaffiri and other articles. The text is Italian (no English), but the music is universal.
Limited to 125 copies!
SIDE A:
1. Riverberazioni Sonore n° 31 (5:26) 1998
SIDE B:
1. Sonetto CXLIV (2:37) 1973
2. Riverberazioni Sonore n° 31 (2:59) 1998
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 (released by Die Schachtel) , 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.
A 7" record is included with #8 edition of Miele magazine which includes an interview with
Enore Zaffiri and other articles. The text is Italian (no English), but the music is universal.
Limited to 125 copies!
SIDE A:
1. Riverberazioni Sonore n° 31 (5:26) 1998
SIDE B:
1. Sonetto CXLIV (2:37) 1973
2. Riverberazioni Sonore n° 31 (2:59) 1998
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 (released by Die Schachtel) , 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.
artist: ENORE ZAFFIRI
title: Riverberazioni Sonore
label: Rossbin
country: Italy
format: magazine + 7" record which (plays at 33 ⅓ RPM)
title: Riverberazioni Sonore
label: Rossbin
country: Italy
format: magazine + 7" record which (plays at 33 ⅓ RPM)