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.
Track list:
1. USK - dai passagi di Eliot 1973
2. Rannoch, By Glencoe - dai passaggi di Eliot 1973
3. The Dark Lady - dai sonetti di Sheakespeare 1973
4. I Clearly Saw - da Kerouak 1976
5. 1990 Chorus - da Lamantia 1976
6. Put Down - da Kerouak 1976
7. Omaggio A Webern - da poesie di George 1976
8. Pentaconta - capriccio per i 50 anni di Vittorio 1976
9. Cantico Dei Cantici - da il cantico dei cantici 1981
Voice: Ellen Kappel
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.
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.
Track list:
1. USK - dai passagi di Eliot 1973
2. Rannoch, By Glencoe - dai passaggi di Eliot 1973
3. The Dark Lady - dai sonetti di Sheakespeare 1973
4. I Clearly Saw - da Kerouak 1976
5. 1990 Chorus - da Lamantia 1976
6. Put Down - da Kerouak 1976
7. Omaggio A Webern - da poesie di George 1976
8. Pentaconta - capriccio per i 50 anni di Vittorio 1976
9. Cantico Dei Cantici - da il cantico dei cantici 1981
Voice: Ellen Kappel
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: La Voce Ed Il Sintetizzatore
label: Rossbin
country: Italy
format: CD
title: La Voce Ed Il Sintetizzatore
label: Rossbin
country: Italy
format: CD