Corrado Canepa

In CO-ME-DI-A he developed with Andrea Cera the distributed installation “An Invisible Line”.

Biography : Corrado Canepa joins expertise in electronics design and multimedia systems with those of  musician and composer: his work embraces, for over thirty years, the field of sound communication in every application, each time involving music, electronics, computer, video, entertainment, education. As a composer, he won four awards in international competitions with his electro-acoustic works, created in the studio with equipment built largely by himself. His electro-acoustic repertoire was performed both in Italy and abroad (Vienna, Paris, Sao Paulo-Brazil), and also during festivals, monographic concerts, theater and dance. He designed systems and composed for theater, dance, cinema, video production in general, in particular on the sound, speech and music.

Since 1984, he works as scientific collaborator at InfoMus Lab of DIST– University of Genoa, where he contributed to the design and development of several applications, multimedia systems for the music theatre performance as well as for the virtual exploration of cultural heritage, for the  exploration of a virtual orchestra as well as exploration of the sounds of the environment in a naturalistic experience of cultural heritage.

Roberto Girolin

In CO-ME-DI-A he composed “Lo specchio confuso dall’ombra” (2008) – World Première at the NIME 2008 Intl Conference, “Installazione concertante” for invisible voices, multimodal interactive systems and live electronics.

Biography : Roberto Girolin (1975) was born in Pordenone, Italy, and after studying of the classical guitar he began to study the piano and composition at the “J. Tomadini” Conservatory in Udine. He studied the vocal and instrumental counterpoint, graduating in choral music and conducting in the same Conservatory. He has conducted many choirs and orchestras, exploring different kinds of repertories from Gregorian music to contemporary music. He has deepened the study of contemporary music at the University of Udine with Dr.A.Orcalli and then with Dr.N.Venzina at “B.Maderna” Archive in Bologna (Italy). He has followed several Masterclasses and seminars: choral music, chamber music, composition (Salvatore Sciarrino, Fabio Nieder, Mauro Bonifacio), electronic music (Lelio Camilleri, Agostino Di Scipio). He graduated with full marks in Electronic Music and Multimedia at the Musical Academy of Pescara (Italy) and in 2006 he also got his degree at the Conservatory of Venice under the direction of Alvise Vidolin with full marks (cum Laude). He is actively involved in performing and investigating the compositional and performance potential offered by electronic&multimedia music systems. His music is performed in Italy and abroad. He has recently won the “Call 2007”, (Italian CEMAT Competition) and a Mention at the 34th “Concours Internationaux de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges”, France.