Ars Electronica Festival · 1995
7 Short Improvisations on the Cold for Trumpet and Real-Time Processed Computer
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 1995
Agostino Di Scipio's “7 Short Improvisations on the Cold for Trumpet and Real-Time Processed Computer” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 1995, category Digital Musics & Sound Art.
If you blow into a trumpet's tube while lowering the piston valves (any combination of the three pistons), you get "the sound of the cold" - a soft, large band of noise slowly phase-modulated (because of the moving pistons), perceived as a continous timbral glissandoing and shifting of formant peaks.
About Agostino Di Scipio
Agostino Di Scipio (I), born 1962, is working at the Laboratorio Musica & Sonologia, in L'Aquila, with a focus on new models of sound and music and on composition theory. He is teacher in Electroacoustic Music at the Conservatory of Bari.
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.