Laura Zattra
Laura Zattra has used archives in her musicological practice for over 20 years constructing histories of works (J. Chowning, L. Nono, A. Di Scipio, S. Sciarrino…), authors (T. Rampazzi, R. Zatti), centres (CSC in Padova, IRCAM in Paris, CCRMA in Stanford), collaborations (Fabbriciani-Nono, musical assistants, sound designers, spectral composers), instruments (the NAGRA, MUSIC programs and other early software/hardware applied to music) and emerging professions in music (computer music designers, sound designers). In her work, she incorporates philology and archaeology with oral history and ethnography, with an emphasis on Science and Technology Studies. She has pioneered the use of philology in the analysis of computer music.
Laura Zattra holds PhDs from the Sorbonne University and Trento University. She is Research Associate at the Analysis of Musical Practices Research Group, IRCAM (Paris). She teaches the History of Electroacoustic Music and the History of Sound Design in cinema in Bachelor and Master Programmes, and was Invited Lecturer for the Master of Arts Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the Universität der Künste in Berlin (2018) and the Estonian Academy of Music in Tallin (since 2021).
She is co-editor-in-chief of Musica/Tecnologia, (Firenze University Press), founder of www.teresarampazzi.it and member of the editorial board of ‘Projet Analyses’ (Ircam, Paris) among others. Her research has been funded by grants from the French CNRS, The French Labex CAP (Sorbone Paris 1), the University of Padova (2006-12), IRCAM-CNRS (Paris), the University of Calgary (SSHRC grant, collaborator), the DeMonfort University (UK), the MIRA fellowship mobilité intarnationale at the ENS-LSH (Ecole Normale Supérieure – Lettres et Sciences Humaines) in Lyon (France). She is peer reviewer for a number of international journals, conferences and Project Evaluator. She has published in excess of 90 articles, book chapters, and conference papers. Her books include Designing tools and devices (Music/Technology, XV, 2021 with S. Alessandretti & P. Zavagna), La notazione della musica elettroacustica (with S. Alessandretti, 2019), Live-Electronic Music. Composition, Performance and Study (Routledge, with F. Sallis, V. Bertolani and I. Burle, 2018); Studiare la Computer Music (2011); Presenza storica di Luigi Nono (with A. I. De Benedictis, 2011); Vent'anni di musica elettronica all'università di Padova. Il Centro di sonologia computazionale (with S. Durante, 2002).