Music, Science and Data-driven Composition

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• June 14-23, 2024, La Solitudine delle Moltitudini, immersive 3D video and music installation, Currents 2024 new media arts festival, Santa Fe, NM.

• April 13, 2024 Gli Spazî dell’Immaginario (The Spaces of the Imaginary), interactive electroacoustic music on fixed media (stereo), for the installation “”Your Magic is Real” by Alicia Eggert and James Akers, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX

• April 3, 2024, La Solitudine delle Moltitudini, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK

• April 2-5, 2024, Network Topology of Generalized Musical Spaces for the workshop "Space, Scale and Scaling in Art", Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK

• March 27 - June 23, 2024, I Am Not a Robot, Am I? in the exhibition "Existência Numérica – Emergências transforma dados em arte", Futuros - Arte e Tecnologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• March 2/9/16/23/30, 2024, Gli Spazî dell’Immaginario, Weekly listening session of works by composers and students from the composition division of the University of North Texas, idea and realization by Marco Buongiorno Nardelli and Federico Fusj.

• December 17, 2023, Networks, topologies and generalized musical spaces, I Workshop on graph theory and applications, Univ. of Texas, Dallas.

• November 16, 2023, A network approach to harmonic evolution and complexity in western classical music, CMMR 2023, Tokyo University of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

• November 15, 2023, La Solitudine delle Moltitudini, Ongaku no tomo Hall, Tokyo, Japan.

• November 4, 11, 18, 25, STUDIEZONTAG with Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, 24 hours monograph on www.radioarte.it

• September 25, 2023 I Am Not a Robot, Am I? , Spectrum, MEIT, College of Music, University of North Texas.

• September 9, 2023 I Am Not a Robot, Am I? , Ars Electronica Festival 2023, Sonic Saturday "Manufacturing Audible Truth", Anton Bruckner University Produktions Studio, Linz, Austria

• September 7, 2023, 3-4pm CET, Music as a Complex Adaptive System , Central European University/Complexity Science Hub joint seminar, Vienna, Austria

• August 29, 2023, A PAROLA, Chigiana RadioArte VIII, special section of the Chigiana International Festival and Summer Academy 2023, Siena, Italy

• August 8, 2023 Requiem between a barrel and a heart, Chigiana RadioArte VIII, special section of the Chigiana International Festival and Summer Academy 2023, Siena, Italy

• June 16-27, 2023 miniature opera project #3– “The Shopping List”, table-top miniature opera for voice and fixed media (binaural audio on headphones, polystyrene, Plexiglas, magnets, electronic components, vintage supermarket toy set (ca. 1950), and multicolored mini beanbags), for CURRENTS 2023 - Art and Technology Festival, Santa Fe, NM

• June 2, 2023 Le Scatole dei Desideri (The boxes of Desires), for string quartet, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, world premiere

• April 21-May 7, 2023, I AM Not A Robot, Am I?, Single channel video, stereo audio, for BINÁLÉ International digital arts exhibition, Crystal Theater, Budapest, Hungary

• April 7th, 2023, “L’Indifferenza dell’Amore Cosmico”, Ginevra Petrucci, flauto d’amore, 2023 SEAMUS National Conference, New York, NY

• February-April 2023, “La Solitudine delle Moltitudini (The Solitude of the Multitudes)”, electroacoustic cantata for 16 female voices on fixed media, MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan, Italy, for the exhibit "The Art of Connection", in collaboration with Laszlo Barabasi (network science/art) and Aliche Grishchenko, Gabor Kitzinger (video art)

• September 21, Miguel Fuentes & Marco Buongiorno Nardelli on Music, Emergence, and Society, on the COMPLEXITY podcast of the Santa Fe Institute, at complexity.simplecast.com or on Apple Podcasts

• September 15-November 27, 2022, I am not a robot, am I?, networked soundspace - electroacoustic sound installation for the exhibition “I AM NOT A ROBOT” – ON THE BORDERS OF THE SINGULARITY” at the Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary – in collaboration with Laszlo Barabasi (network science/art) and Gabor Kitzinger (video) and the students of SoniLab, the sonification laboratory of the University of North Texas (Garrison Gerard, Christopher Poovey, Patrick Reed, Benjamin Shirey and Okan Yaşarlar)

• September 14, 2022, Lecture and masterclass at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary

• July 14, 2022, Requiem, for mixed ensemble, Royal College of Music, London, UK - 

• July 13, 2022, Network Topology of Generalized Musical Spaces, IMA Mathematics and Music Conference, London, UK

• June 23, 2022, Requiem, version for chorus and solo speaking voices, Complex Systems Summer School of the Santa Fe Institute, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

• June 17-26, 2022, Requiem between a barrel and a heart, CURRENTS FESTIVAL 2022: CIRCUITS, Santa Fe, NM

• May 17 - 20, 2022 Complexity and Structure in Music, SFI Working Group, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM.

• May 16, 2022 The indifference of cosmic love, version for for flauto d'amore, clarinet, and cosmic rays, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, world premiere

• May 16, 2022, Requiem, for mixed ensemble, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM world premiere as live performance

• April 12-15, 2022, Miniature Opera Project #1: UNKNOWN a journey, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

• February 1, 2022 "helefini otea agoninisconi (title chosen by the performers)" , MEIT Inaugural concert, University of North Texas

• Sep. 3, 2021 Requiem, recording release on Vimeo (see the press release here)

• Nov. 7, 2020 Miniature Opera Project #2: "The Messengers" a CosmOpera,  Sonic Murals Festival (virtual) at https://www.twitch.tv/untcemi, 5pm CST 

• Oct. 21, 2020, : Network Topology of Generalized Musical Spaces: Bach, Euler and the Statistical Mechanics of Music, (virtual) colloquium, Department of Physics, University of Southern California

• Sept. 22, 2020 Network Topology of Generalized Musical Spaces, NETSCI2020 (virtual)

• Sept. 17, 2020 Tonal harmony, the topology of dynamical score networks and the Chinese postman problem, NETCENT2020 (virtual)

• Aug. 21-30, 2020 un giro d'anello, for string quartet and fixed media - video installation, CURRENTS VIRTUAL, CURRENTS NEW MEDIA virtual festival at currentsvirtual.com

• August 6-9, 2020, Miniature Opera Project #2: "The Messengers" a CosmOpera as multimedia installation and live performance, InterPlanetary Festival, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM. CANCELLED DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

• June 12-20, 2020, Miniature Opera Project #2: "The Messengers" a CosmOpera, as multimedia installation, CURRENTS NEW MEDIA exhibition and festival (currentsnewmedia.org/festivals/currents-new-media-2020) in Santa Fe, NM. CANCELLED DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

• May 15, 2020, Musique et Complexité, Working Group meeting, IMéRA, Marseille, France. POSTPONED TO A FUTURE DATE DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

• April 22, 2020, Miniature Opera Project #2: "The Messengers" a CosmOpera, fixed media and video, Earth Day Art Model, telematic festival at earthdayartmodel.org

• April 17, 2020, Tout ce qu'on perd, for flauto d'amore, flugelhorn, voice and percussion, text and voice, Hyam Yared, flauto d'amore Ginevra Petrucci, flugelhorn, Nathan Hudson, percussion, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, Creativity Quarantine by Flauto d'Amore Project, released on BandCamp.

• April 9, 2020, untitled (four.feel.titles.words) for 2 flauto d’amore (or other melodic instruments) and electronics, Ginevra Petrucci, flauto d’amore, MEIT Theater, College of Music, University of North Texas – world premiere. POSTPONED TO A FUTURE DATE DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

• April 9, 2020, Le resaux de ton souvenir for solo alto recorder, Antonio Carrilho, recorder, MEIT Theater, College of Music, University of North Texas – world premiere. POSTPONED TO A FUTURE DATE DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

• April 5, 2020, Tout ce qu’on perd, for voice, flauto d’amore and flugelhorn, after a poem by Hyam Yared; voice and flauto d’amore, Ginevra Petrucci; flugelhorn, Nathan Hudson. Creativity Quarantine of the Flauto d’Amore Project, Facebook, (world premiere).

• December 16-24, 2019, CURRENTS826, Miniature Opera Project #2: "The Messengers" a CosmOpera as video-installation, Santa Fe, NM

• October 24, BEAUTIFUL DATA: Materials as Musical Muses, UNT College of Science SMART talk, Denton, TX.

• October 14-19, 2019, Miniature Opera Project #2: "The Messengers" a CosmOpera, CMMR (Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research) Conference and GMEM, Marseille, France

• September 23, 2019, Music as Data, Data as Music, Music Now, MEIT Theater, College of Music, University of North Texas

• September 13 and 14, 2019, 7pm - 11pm, Miniature Opera Project #1: UNKNOWN a journey, The PASEO Festival 2019, Taos, New Mexico

• June 21, 2019, Miniature Opera Project #1: UNKNOWN a journey, Festival du Jeu de l’oie, MUCEM, Marseille, France

• 6/3 – 7/31 and 9/1-20 2019, IDEA: la melodia della materia, ELETTRA Sincrotrone Trieste Interactive installation @ Trieste Citta' della Conoscenza (TTC), Piazza della libertà, 8 (in the Central Train Station), Trieste, Italy.

• April 22, 2019, Meditation for viola voice and double bass, ensemble Nu Atmospheres: Kathleen Crabtree, viola; Morgan Horning, soprano; Justin Kujawski, double bass - (World premiere) Spectrum, 8:00PM, MEIT Theater, College of Music, University of North Texas.

• March 26-31, 2019, Miniature Opera Project #1: UNKNOWN a journey, DIFFRAZIONI MULTIMEDIA FESTIVAL, Le Murate - Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Firenze, Italy

• Nov. 7, 2018, Trio, for flute, recorder and cello, Festivais de Outono 2018 – University of Aveiro - Trio Syrinxcello, Antonio Carrilho, recorder, Katherine Rawdon, flute, Catherine Strinckx, cello 

• February 20 - July 12, 2019, residency at IMeRA-PRISM in Marseille (France), as guest researcher with the purpose of carrying out the research project: BEAUTIFUL DATA: FROM VIRTUAL NAVIGATION OF LARGE DATA SPACES TO A POST-SONIFICATION ESTHETICS 

• IDEA, an Interactive Display of Electrons and Atoms, TRIESTE NEXT 2018 European Researchers' Night, 7a Edizione del Festival della Ricerca Scientifica, Trieste, September 28-30, 2018.

• IDEA, an Interactive Display of Electrons and Atoms, “The Olympic games of neutrons and photons” Exhibition at the Science in the City Festival for the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF2018) in Toulouse (France) in July 8-14, 2018

• Miniature Opera Project #1: UNKNOWN a journey, CURRENTS NEW MEDIA exhibition and festival (currentsnewmedia.org/festivals/2018/) in Santa Fe, NM, June 8-24

• APS Physics Feature: Arts & Culture: Materials as Musical Muses, May 4, 2018

• April 27-28, Miniature Opera Project #1: UNKNOWN a journey - NWEAMO Festival 20th anniversary - SDSU Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA 

• March 29-31, Miniature Opera Project #1: UNKNOWN a journey - Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) 2018 National Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.

• February 27, 2018 - Premiere of un giro d'anello, for string quartet and fixed media, Spectrum, 8:00PM, MEIT Theater, College of Music, University of North Texas.

• February 26, 2018 - Premiere of Miniature Opera Project #1: UNKNOWN a journey - Music Now, MEIT 11:00AM - the installation will be on display at the MEIT between 11:00AM-4:00PM, College of Music, University of North Texas.

• July 16, 2017 - Premiere of Trio, for flute, oboe and cello - Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA

• July 2, 2017 - Premiere of on the resonance of the fog, for flute and percussions - Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA

• June 28 - July 26, 2017 - Scientific Delirium Madness 4.0 - Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA

• August 17, 2016 - Society of Composers, Inc. member of the day.

• March 30, 2016 - presentation of the materialssoundmusic project at the Spring 2016 TxHATS meeting, University of North Texas.

• December 2015 - Honored to be the featured member of the Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) for the month of December. You can learn more at http://www.asci.org/artikel1465.html!

• September 25 - October 1, 2015 - materialssoundmusic: a computer-aided data-driven composition environment for the sonification and dramatization  of scientific data streams, 41th International Computer Music Conference, Denton, TX (USA).

• September 30 - Premiere of "Ricercare"  ("Invention n. 2"  from "Inventions for data streams"), 41th International Computer Music Conference, Denton, TX (USA), Concert 23, 11AM Voertman Hall.

• June 17, 2015 - Featured profile on UNT InHouse online magazine here.

• May 21, 2015 - "High-throughput materials discovery and development (and a digression on Music, Science and Data-driven Composition)", University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• April 27, 2015 - "Music, Science and Data-driven Composition", Music Now, MEIT 11:00AM, College of Music, University of North Texas. In this lecture/concert I will discuss the materialssoundmusic project and premier two pieces for MIDI player piano and electronics, “Music for 88 keys” and “Contrappunto” (from “Inventions for data streams”).

• April 27, 2015 - "Tzolk'in" for three marimbas (Justin Mattews, Alex Mendoza and Tim Feerst, marimbas), Spectrum concert, 8:00PM, College of Music, University of North Texas (for score and recordings click here)