Alessandro Giovannucci EDUCATION 2011: Ph.D. in Musical History and Criticism (Università del Salento, Lecce). Dissertation: Il secolo acusmatico. Rapporti tra ricerca elettroacustica, civiltà dell'ascolto e attività compositiva nel XX secolo (The acousmatic century. The relationship between electroacoustic research, aural civilization, and composition activity in the twentieth century). 2006: M.A. in Conservation of Cultural Heritage (Università di Bologna). Dissertation in Musical Aesthetics: Prospettive storico-estetiche nell opera di Fernando Liuzzi (Historical and aesthetic perspectives in the work of Fernando Liuzzi). 110/110 with highest honours FURTHER EDUCATION EXPERIENCE 2013: Member of International Forum Klanglandschaft 2013: Member of American Comparative Literature Association 2013: Member of Performance-Philosophy International Research Network 2012: Member of European Sound Studies Association 2010, February: Seminar on Max/MSP software, IRCAM, Paris, France. 2010, January-December: Research Student, Department of Philosophy, Université Paris X, Nanterre, France. 2010, July: Summer School Sound and Music Computing, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. 2005, April-May: Seminar on Come trovare musiche interessanti in rete? Tecnologie, industria e gusti musicali, University of Bologna/Sony-France.
2004, August -2005, June: Student in the Overseas Programme, Faculté de Musique, Université de Montréal. 2003, March-May: Seminar on Musical Discography, University of Bologna. 2001, January: Seminar on Informatica per la trattatistica musicale, University of Bologna 2001, January - September: Scholarship, Faculté de Musique, Université Pierre Mendes- France, Grenoble, France. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Publications in academic journals: "Capire la modernità attraverso la musica. Tra estetica e tecnologia". In "Pensare la modernità" (ed. G.Grimaldi), Monza, Limina mentis, 213-233. " Musica ex machina. Il détournement dei mezzi tecnologici nella produzione nella produzione musicale di John Cage". In "John Cage. Una rivoluzione lunga cent'anni" (ed. G. Fronzi), Milano, Mimesis, 217-237. "Exploitation des concepts di Luc Ferrari: un caso di "acusmatismo diffuso". Itinerari 2 (2012). 111-121. Nuove prospettive estetico-musicali sulla questione dell'ascolto. Itinerari 2 (2011). 113-121. La musicologia come strumento di comprensione della realtà sonora. Itinerari 2-3 (2010). 93-104. Prospettive storico-estetiche nell opera di Fernando Liuzzi. Itinerari 3 (2007). 129-145. Forthcoming publications: The nomad technobody of the dj. in E. Sampanikou, S. Sorgner (eds), Audiovisual
Posthumanism. Conference Proceedings, Aegean University (Lesvos), 2013. Lectures and paper presentations: Musical non-performative genres- a paradoxal way to enhance Performance Philosophy in music?, paper presented at What is Performance Philosophy? Staging a New Field, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom, 12 April 2013. The Materiality of Sound as a Critique to Phonocentrism, paper presented at The American Comparative Literature Association s 2013 Annual Meeting, University of Toronto, Canada, 5 April 2013. "Il Secolo Acusmatico: rapporti tra ascolto e attività compositiva," paper presented at XV Incontro dottorati di ricerca in discipline musicali, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy, 21 May 2011. Luc Ferrari's Exploitation des concepts - a case of autogenerative archive, paper presented at the Conference The Ghost in the Machine, McGill University, Montréal, 2-3 February 2011. All'ascolto della tecnologia, paper presented at XIV Colloquio di Musicologia del Saggiatore Musicale, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy, 19-21 November 2010. The nomad technobody of the Dj, paper presented at the Conference Audiovisual Posthumanism: Aesthetics, Cultural Theory and the Arts, University of Aegean, Mytilini, 23-27 September 2010 Musicology and Sound Studies. A guide for the analysis of the auditory circuit bending, paper presented at the Conference Sound as Art - Sound in Culture - Sound in Theory - Sound in History, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 23-25 September 2010 "Il Secolo Acusmatico, ipotesi di un percorso estetico-analitico," paper presented at EMUFest, International Symposium on Electronic Music, Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, Roma, 13 November 2009.
Teaching Experience 2013: Adjunct Professor, Departement of Communications, University of Teramo, Italy, Courses taught: Music and communication 2012: Instructor, Department of Communications, University of Teramo, Italy, Courses taught: Music and communication 2011: Instructor, Department of Performing Arts, University of Chieti, Italy. Seminar taught: History of Contemporary Music. 2009: Instructor, Department of Communications, University of Teramo, Italy. Courses taught: Applied musicology, Musical communication. OTHER SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS Languages Italian, native speaker French, very good spoken and written English, B1 (European language learning framework) Performing Arts Piano Accordion Keyboards and Synthetizers Turntablism (digital and analogic, live electronics, audio devices) Computer Skills Audio softwares: Pro-Tools, Max/MSP, Audiosculpt, Ableton Live, Propellerhead Reason. Operating system: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS9, Mac OSX, Softwares/Applications: Office package (Word, Excell, PowerPoint, FrontPage and Outlook), Keynote, NeoOffice