In this page are given the slides of some my conferences and seminars, in inverted chronological order.

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• 13 November 2023, Conservatory "P. Mascagni" in Leghorn, Punti di vista sulla drammaturgia, Masterclass by Proff. Fabio De Sanctis De Benedictis, Girolamo Deraco, with the extraordinary participation of Prof. Gergely Kesselyák.

• 20-23 October 2022, Conservatory "G. Martucci" of Salerno, Italy, XX International Conference on ;usic Analysis and Theory, Il Mazapegul di Corghi: dall'analisi del compositore alla partitura (ITA), Corghi's Mazapegul: from the composer's analysis to the score (ENG).

• FDSDB_XXth_CT. An OpenMusic Algorithmic Composition Library devoted to XXth and beyond Composition Techniques - Lisbon - Escola Superior de Musica - 23-27 of May, 2023.

• Incontro col maestro, Lucca, Archivio GD, 5th of May, 2023.

• Balaenoptera: pòiesis and tèchne. Open Music as tool for developing electronic material - 15.00 – 16-30 on Monday, 28 th November, 2022 - Composition Department, Xinghai Conservatory of Music - Guangzhou, China (online)

• Performing Xenakis - Bologna, LabOratorio San Filippo Neri - November 26, 2022 - Passato e futuro, analisi e formalizzazione, due esempi: Messiaen e Xenakis.

• DiMMI 2022, Dictionary for Multidisciplinary Music Integration - Trento - Conservatory "F.A. Bonporti" - November 25-26, 2022 - Interaction between past and future: the algorithmic composition library FDSDB_XXth_CT.

• XXIII Colloquio di Informatica Musicale – 25-28, October, 2022 – Ancona, Mole Vanvitelliana – OpenMusic e Modalys per Nicola Baroni. (ITA)

• 20-23 October 2022, Conservatory "G. Martucci" of Salerno, Italy, XIX International Conference on ;usic Analysis and Theory, Aroura, profezia di insensibilità? (ITA) Aroura, prophecy of insensitivity? (ENG)

• 19 October 2022, online, Rio de Janeiro, 7th International Conference MusMat 2022, October 18th to 21st (Online Edition), Poisson Trio. Notes about Composition.

• 28-29-30-31 October 2021, ISSM “G. Lettimi”, Rimini (Italy), 18th International Conference on Music Theory and Analysis, Musical Analysis, Theory, Composition: An Eternal Golden Braid.

• 28-29 April, 2021 - Budapest (online) - Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, International HarMA Seminar Event, Open Music as heuristic tool: the case of Fundamental of Composition course in ISSM “Pietro Mascagni” in Livorno, Italy

• 23 March - 21 April, Sassari, Conservatory "Luigi Canepa", Composition and Informatics Masterclass (Algorithmic Composition), in collaboration with M° Francesco Maria Paradiso. M° Paradiso: 12 hours lesson, M° De Sanctis De Benedictis: 18 hours lesson. HERE is possible to download the PDF (Italian language) relative to Informatics Masterclass part, protected by a password that will be given during the lessons. The use of PDF is limited to the Masterclass, every different use must be approved by the author.

• 11 January 2021, online platform, 1st Opusmodus Convention, Music Analysis, Composition, Algorithmic Formalization

• 26-29 November 2020, online platform, GATM 17th International Conference on Music Theory and Analysis, Computer Aided Music Analysis: Open Music operational tools. The videos showed during the lecture can be viewed HERE (Italian language - slides in English):

• 23 May, 2020, at 17 PM (Lisbon time, 18 PM Italian time) - Lisbon, Escola Superior de Mùsica de Lisboa, Semana da Composição | Conferência #3 - De Sanctis + Sannicandro + Prins - videoconference in streaming on Facebook. Video link: https://www.facebook.com/cesemipl/videos/537498933804902/?t=0. Title of the conference: FDSDB_XXth_CT: an algorithmic composition library for OM or PWGL.

• 8 May, 2020 at 6 PM - Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation - La Levi si racconta: La composizione assistita, conversazione con Nicola Baroni e Fabio De Sanctis De Benedictis - video conference in streaming on Facebook.

• 15 February, 2020, - Pontedera (PI) - "G. Gronchi" Library - Beethoven tra invenzione e costruzione. (ITA)

• 25 January, 2020 - Venice - Levi's Foudation - FDSDB_XXth_CT, una libreria di composizione algoritmica per Open Music e PWGL: descrizione, sviluppi, possibili integrazioni con Opusmodus.  (ITA)

• 10-13 October, 2019 - Rimini - ISSM “G. Lettimi” - GATM 16th International Conference on Music Analysis and Theory - Formal values of invertible counterpoint in Bach: a preliminary study.

• 29 September, 2019 - Cagli (PU) - ICSC 2019 - Algorithmic Composition with Open Music and Csound: two examples. The conference video: https://youtu.be/QVpJ7LtFP2w

• 27 August, 2019 - Livorno Music Festival - ISSM "P. Mascagni", Composition Masterclass by M° Stefano Gervasoni - Singing Auditorium.

• 10-13 April 2019 - Siviglia (Spain) - Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel Castillo: FDSDB_XXth_CT, a Library for Algorithmic Composition, Seminar and Workshop, and concert Sax and electronics, Gianpaolo Antongirolami sax.

• 21-23 March, 2019 - Porto - Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Música Analítica 2019: Porto International Symposium on the Analysis and Theory of Music: Simonetta Sargenti e Fabio De Sanctis De Benedictis (Simonetta Sargenti lecturer), Investigating Music by Analysis and Algorithmic Rebuilding: two Examples

• 20-23 November, 2018 - Udine - Conservatorio "Jacopo Tomadini" - AIMI, XXII CIM, Colloquio di Informatica Musicale: FDSDB_XXth_CT: una libreria di composizione algoritmica per Open Music e PWGL dedicata alle tecniche compositive del Novecento (ITA).

• 24 August, 2018 - Livorno Music Festival - ISSM "P. Mascagni", Composition Masterclass by M° Yan Maresz - Pitch-Class Set and Electronic Composition in Balaenoptera and Fabula (ENG).

• 25-27 April, 2018 - Bruxelles (Belgium) - Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, HarMA Erasmus Project: Music Analysis Courses in ISSM "P. Mascagni" in Livorno - Italy. HERE the musical analysis for common session.

• 18-20 January, 2018 - Stuttgart (Germany) - Staatlische Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst: Balaenoptera and Fabula: Open Music as tool fordeveloping electronic material; Pitch-Class Set Theory: Analysis and Composition; Music Analysis, Composition, Algorithmic Formalization.

• 15 May, 2017, Genova, Conservatorio "Niccolò Paganini", Da Schönberg a Babbitt e oltre. Dodecafonia tra Europa e Stati Uniti: differenze e sviluppi ulteriori, in collaboration with Genova University. Language: ITA. For supplementary informations and materials, please, clic HERE.

• 3 and 4 April, 2017 - Siviglia (Spain) - Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel Castillo: Constructive and Declarative Approach in Algorithmic Composition; Music and Mathematics in Piano Music of XXth Century: Antecedents, Relations, Perspectives.

• Genova, February, 18, 2017, Conservatorio "Niccolò Paganini", Numero e suono. La musica stocastica, Poisson e Markov compongono musica. Formalizzazione dei processi compositivi stocastici in Achorripsis e Analogique A, B di Iannis Xenakis.

• Genova, February, 11, 2017, Sala del Munizioniere, Palazzo Ducale, Musica e Matematica, rapporti concreti tra l'arte e la scienza più astratte, esplorati di punti di vista delle due discipline. My conference: Musica e Numero nel secondo Novecento: geometrie, serie numeriche, matrici, probabilità. In the same session the relation by Prof. Carlo Dapueto from Genova University, that can be found  HERE.

• September, 30, 2016 - Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) - Cittadella dei Musei and AIMI - XXI Colloquio di Informatica Musicale (September, 28 - October, 1, 2016): PWGL come strumento per l'analisi musicale assistita: alcuni esempi. Language: ITA.

• April, 21-26, 2016 - Siviglia (Spain) - Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel Castillo: Music and Mathematics in XXth Piano music and Computer Aided Composition and Analysis: an Introduction to PWGL and an Example of Analysis on De Pablo's Per Fagotto Composition.

• November, 26, 2015 - Paris - Ircam, Ircam Forum Workshop, Paris, 24-26 novembre - Balaenoptera, for Bass Clarinet, electronic sounds and live electronics. The video of the conference is online on Ircam site and can be viewed at this address.

• May, 18-23,  2015 - Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel Castillo: Music and Mathematics in XXth Piano music: from Analysis to re-Composition and Working around Flauto ex Machina and Balaenoptera: some examples reatives to Max patches and composition processes.

• January, 16-17-30-31 and February, 13-14, 2015, Genova Conservatory - Masterclass: Composizione algoritmica: PWGL e PWCsound, in collaboration with M° Giorgio Zucco. HERE the complete slides. Language: ITA.

• 23 October 2014 - Rimini - ISSM "G. Lettimi" and GATM - XI Convegno di Analisi e Teoria Musicale (23-25 October): Analisi dell'orchestrazione: punti di riferimento in itinere. Language: ITA.

• 20 October 2014 - Rome - Conservatory "S. Cecilia" and AIMI - XX Colloquio di Informatica Musicale (20-22 October): Dall'analisi musicale alla composizione e formalizzazione algoritmica: esempi applicativi con PWGL. Here you can download a paper extended version. Here you can download PWGL patches. Language: ITA.

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• 07 aprile 2014 - Lucca - ISSM "L. Boccherini" - Open 2014: Flauto ex Machina, conferenza/concerto.

• 05-06 March 2014 - Seville (Spain) - Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel Castillo: Music and Mathematics in 20th Century Music: Analysis, Composition Technique and Algorithmic Formalization. Language: ENG. Here the References. The patches used in the seminar are available here or at the bottom of the page among enclosures.

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• 8 December 2013 - Pisa, Teatro Rossi Aperto: Comporre con la Pitch-class Set Theory. Continuità musicale e discretizzazione parametrica. Following the concert, here the the slides relatives to the performed works. Language: ITA.

• 11-12 April 2013 - Cluj (Romania) - Academia de Muzică "Gheorghe Dima": Avant garde Italian Composers: Dallapiccola, Berio, Nono, Maderna, Donatoni, Manzoni. An introduction to composition techniques and algorithmic formalization. Language: ENG.

• 10 April 2013: lied by Berio and Lumen by Donatoni: from Analysis to Interpretation and Performance, paper for the International Musicology Symposium The Pitfalls and Risks of Intra-Musical Communication: Terminology, Notation, Performance, Academia de Muzică "Gheorghe Dima" Cluj - Romania. Language: ENG.

• Ascoltare il Novecento: un'introduzione al molteplice, tra classica, popular, avanguardia e jazz, Pontedera, Accademia della Chitarra, 16, 23 March and 20 April 2013. Together with: Federico Russo and Martino Rappelli.

• 25 October 2012 - Livorno ISSM “P. Mascagni” - Retorica, figura e simbolismo nella musica del '900, inside the seminars organized for FAI, Italian Ambient Fund. Language: ITA

• 21-23 May 2012 - Castelo Branco (Portugal) - Istituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas, Modern and Contemporary Composition Techniques: Brief Excursus from Analysis to Rebuilding by PWGL. Language: ENG. The patches used in the seminar are available at the bottom of the page among enclosures. The patches are numbered with the same number of the corresponding slide page.

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• 30th September 2011 – Rome – Santa Cecilia Conservatory – EuroMac – VII European Music Analysis Conference: Figure, Process and Parametric Articulation in Lumen by Franco Donatoni. Language: ENG.

• 25th November 2010 – Livorno ISSM “P. Mascagni” – Musica e matematica nei linguaggi compositivi del Novecento, inside the seminars organized for FAI, Italian Ambient Fund. Language: ITA

• 26-29 October 2009 – Lemmensinstituut, Leuven (Belgium) – From Pitch-class Set Theory to Musical Composition. Four files: 01 02 03 04. Language: ENG

• 28th March 2008 – Pisa – Maccarrone Center, L’audio come parte integrante del video. Elementi di multimedialità e semplici tecniche di collage sonoro, tra editing audio e composizione algoritmica, 2 hours seminar during the training course for volunteers “Educatodica. Percorsi di videoeducazione”, organized by CESVOT, section of Pisa. Language: ITA

• 16th February 2008 – Livorno – Fuoricentro – Tecnica compositiva e Formula in Stockhausen, seminar for the commemorative concert devoted to Stockhausen, organized by MuESLi cultural association. Language: ITA

• 31th January 2008 – Collesalvetti (PI) – Sala Spettacolo – Musica ex Machina: per un essenziale storia della musica elettronica, seminar for the presentation of the Electronic Music course organized by MuESLi cultural association. Language: ITA

• 28th September 2007 – Pisa University – Domus Galileiana, Seminars and meetings for scientific program 2007 – Strutture formali e parametriche nella musica del secondo Novecento: alcuni esempi, inside the meeting Matematica e Musica: formalizzazione delle strutture musicali edited by Professors F. Broglia and D. Salvini. Languagae: ITA

• 2nd April 2007 – Pisa – Sala dei Comuni, L’audio come parte integrante del video. Elementi di multimedialità e semplici tecniche di collage sonoro, tra editing audio e composizione algoritmica, 3 hours seminar during the training course for volunteers “Educatodica. Percorsi di videoeducazione”, organized by CESVOT, section of Pisa. Language: ITA

• 4th November 2005 – Pisa, Lucignolo, Center for creativity – Musica e pluridisciplinarità. Nozioni generali. Il percorso di sonorizzazione della Maschera Mediale, 3 hours seminar during the training course for volunteers “Educatodica. Percorsi di videoeducazione”, organized by CESVOT, section of Pisa. Three files joined into one: 01 02 03. Language: ITA

• 5th May 2005 – Pontedera (PI), Accademia della Chitarra – Le Sonate per pianoforte di W.A.Mozart, conference. Language: ITA