
Keynote speaker invitation!
I'm delighted to announce that I've been invited as keynote speaker at the International CSound Conference, next September! The focus of my talk will be the recent discovery of the material from the IRIS research center, founded by Bontempi-Farfisa in Italy to develop novel algorithms and Digital Signal Processors for the musical industry. Photos, hardware, documents and software are now investigated by me and other colleagues from the Acusmatiq-MATME association. In my talk

A Patent is on the Way
Yep! Good news! The review of a new patent proposal has just arrived. I've never received such a neat review from a patent referee: the patent is inventive and improves the state of the art. Full stop. Research activities just go straight when the goal is clear, the team is clever and funds are sufficient. This is not always the case in the academic system, and sometimes, the presence of a company that has a strong commitment to advancing research is necessary. The Italian re

Networked Music Performance reloaded
I am at the 147th AES convention right now and I'm excited to see great recent developments in the audio networking field. But let me start from the beginning... I was a PhD student when I built up two special networked music events using wireless technologies (IEEE 802.11) with pieces by K. Stockhausen and A. Curran. The "special" part of these was not from my side (terribly boring technical work), but the very idea of separating performers over a large space, the waterfront