My life
by
Pietro Grossi
Pietro Grossi was born in 1917
in Venice. He started his musical studies in 1925 at the
Conservatory of Music of Bologna where he took his degree in
cello (1935) and composition (1941). From 1936 to 1966 he was the
first cellist of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestra; in the
meantime he continued his activity as a performer. From 1942 to
1985 he worked as a professor at the Conservatory of Music of
Florence where he taught cello and electronic music, organizing
also seminars and special courses of computer music. In 1961
Intern2 established the Vita Musicale Contemporanea association
and in 1963 he decided to create the S 2F M studio (Studio di
Fonologia Musicale di Firenze) in Florence.
In 1967 he made the first experiences in computer music; in 1969
he promoted the creation of the computer music division of CNUCE
(Institute of the National Research Council of Pisa) and in 1970
he showed his first software package devoted to computer music at
the Contemporary Music Festival in Venice. In the same period he
made his first approaches to musical telematics organizing a
performance with a link between Rimini (Pio Manzł Foundation)
and Pisa (CNUCE).
For a long time he has been the head of the above-mentioned
computer music division of CNUCE, carrying out researches on the
following fields: computational musicology, automated
composition, design of sound-synthesis systems and musical
telematics. In the middle of the Eighties, Intern2 has started a
series of researches concerning computer graphics. The Homeart
(term coined by himself) project is particularly relevant: it
consists of completely automated visual processes, based on
simple computer programs, where he gives space to randomness in
the context of a single compositive idea, developed into many
different graphic variations.
The last step of his artistic career is the creation of a series
of "unicum" books, electronically produced and
symbolically called homebooks: each work is completely different
from the others, thanks to the strong flexibility of the digital
means.
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