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On 10 and 11 March 2023, the Fondazione Roma Tre Teatro Palladium - Auditorium Parco della Musica hosted Luciano Berio e la multimedialità (Luciano Berio and multimedia), a meeting consisting of a didactic seminar, video projections and study day, curated by Angela Ida De Benedictis and Federica Di Gasbarro.

The expansion of the boundaries of musical language through the interaction between old and new media and the broadening of the means of transmission of the sound message represented an unceasing challenge in the career of Luciano Berio (1925-2003).
His encounter with new media dates back to the first half of the 1950s and reached its first important stage with the founding, together with Bruno Maderna, of the Studio di Fonologia Musicale in Milan at RAI, one of the first electronic music laboratories in Europe. In this Studio, Berio experimented with new forms of interaction between instrumental, vocal and electronic music.
In the 1970s, Berio ventured into the multimedia medium par excellence, television. The cycle of broadcasts C'è musica e musica, first aired on RAI in 1972, stands out as a unicum in the television landscape of the time and makes TV an instrument of high dissemination of international musical culture, destined to broaden the sound horizons and knowledge of Italian television viewers.

Started in 2010 as a collaboration between the centre DMCE (Université Paris 8), Centro Studi Luciano Berio and Fondazione Cini, the project Luciano Berio's musical theatre reached its final stage at the end of September 2013. The last two study days took place in Venice on 28 and 29 September. On the 24th of October a doctorate seminar Poetica implicita vs poetica esplicita: gli scritti di Luciano Berio took place in Siena with the participation of Fiamma Nicolodi, Antonio Prete, Veniero Rizzardi, Talia Pecker Berio, Mila De Santis and Angela Ida De Benedictis. The seminar was organized in the frame of “Pegaso”, a project of inter-regional PhD in History of Art and the Performing Arts (Universities of Florence, Pisa and Siena), in collaboration with Centro Studi Luciano Berio and with the contribution of the Department of Historical Sciences and Cultural Heritage at the University of Siena. For more information, see the attached program.

On the 24th of October a doctorate seminar Poetica implicita vs poetica esplicita: gli scritti di Luciano Berio took place in Siena with the participation of Fiamma Nicolodi, Antonio Prete, Veniero Rizzardi, Talia Pecker Berio, Mila De Santis and Angela Ida De Benedictis. The seminar was organized in the frame of “Pegaso”, a project of inter-regional PhD in History of Art and the Performing Arts (Universities of Florence, Pisa and Siena), in collaboration with Centro Studi Luciano Berio and with the contribution of the Department of Historical Sciences and Cultural Heritage at the University of Siena. For more information on the program, click here.

The CSLB has agreed to participate as official partner in the project Aufführungspraxis der elektronischen Musik. Die “Studio di Fonologia” Jahre, conceived and promoted by ICSC (Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology) at the ZHdK (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste). The project will last three years (2012-2014) and feature four workshops devoted to issues relating to performance practice for electronic music. Various works by Berio are to be investigated during the workshops, including Thema (Omaggio a Joyce); Mutazioni; Momenti, Visage, Différences. The first workshop was held in Zurich on 9 and 10 October 2012 at the ICSC. Further information will soon be available on our web site.

Following the fourth meeting of the project Luciano Berio's Musical Theatre, dedicated to Un re in ascolto, which took place at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, the fifth study day is due November 8 in Paris, at the Centre de Documentation de la Musique Contemporaine (Cité de la Musique). The seminar, dedicated to Outis, hosted lectures by Alvaro Oviedo (Université Paris VIII), Jonathan Cross (Oxford University), Jacqueline Risset (Università di Roma «La Sapienza»), Susanna Pasticci (Università di Cassino), Damien Colas (CNRS-Paris) and Carmelo Agnello (Université Paris VIII).

On September 28 the fourth meeting of the project Luciano Berio's Musical Theatre will take place at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice. The seminar, dedicated to Un re in ascolto, will host lectures by Renata Scognamiglio (Rome), Robert Adlington (University of Nottingham), Carlo Ciceri (Lugano), Gerardo Guccini (Università di Bologna), Tommaso Pomilio (Università di Roma, La Sapienza) and Björn Heile (University of Glasgow). The project is an ongoing collaboration between the Centro Studi Luciano Berio, D.M.C.E, Université de Paris VIII and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

The second and third appointment of the project Luciano Berio's musical theater took place in Paris on November 17 and 18. The study days focused respectively on Opera and La vera storia. The project, directed by Giordano Ferrari with the scientific collaboration of Talia Pecker Berio, Gianmario Borio, Angela Ida De Benedictis and Gianfranco Vinay, was inaugurated a year ago in Venice with a study day dedicated to Passaggio (click here for more details on the project). The venue of the forthcoming meetings was the Cité de la Musique.

On Thursday, September 8, 2011, Mila De Santis will give a lecture on Berio, Sanguineti: A-Ronne, as part of the Garda Summer Intensive Course, Riva del Garda. The cycle of conferences, held between September 5 and 10, is organized by Conservatorio "F. A. Bonporti", Trento.

On Wednesday, June 8, 2011, in the Conference Room of the Biblioteca Statale in Cremona, Angela Ida De Benedictis, scientific director of the Centro Studi Luciano Berio, will deliver a lecture titled Le sperimentazioni vocali di Luciano Berio. The conference is sponsored by the Lions Campus Club Universitas Nova, Cremona.