Roberto Paci Dalò is an Italian author,
composer
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and
musician
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,
film maker
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and
theatre director
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, sound and
visual artist
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, radio-maker. He is the co-founder and director of the performing arts ensemble Giardini Pensili and he has been the
artistic director
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of
Wikimania
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2016 Esino Lario. He won the Premio Napoli per la lingua e la cultura italiana in 2015.
Life and career
After musical, visual, and architecture studies in
Fiesole
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...
,
Faenza
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Faenza is home to a historical manufacture of majolica-ware glazed earthenware pottery, known ...
and
Ravenna
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, in 1993 he receives the
DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (German: Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD) is a residential program for artists of all countries and ages run by the German Academic Exchange Service (German: 'Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst', DAAD) ...
Fellowship.
He taught ''Media Dramaturgy'' and ''New Media'' at the university of
Siena
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and teaches ''Exhibit & Experience Design'' at UNIRSM Design Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino. Since 2017 he is founder and director of Usmaradio, radio station and Research Centre for Radiophonic Studies.
In 1993 he conceives the project ''Publiphono''. In 1994, with
Marina Abramović
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and
Barbara Bloom he has been invited to the project “
Bildende Kunst auf dem Theater” at
Hebbel-Theater, Berlin.
In 1995 the
Kronos Quartet
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premiered at the Vienna Opera House his composition ''Nodas''.
In 1997 he creates ''Trance Bakxai'', an artist's
rave
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inspired by
Euripides
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. In 2001, he stages the performance work ''Metamorfosi''. In the same year he presented the film
RAX, dedicated to the artist ''Robert Adrian X'', at the
Vienna
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Kunsthalle. In 2002, he creates with the English artist and musician
Philip Jeck the film and concert performance ''Mush Room''. In 2004, he and
Olga Neuwirth
Olga Neuwirth (; born 4 August 1968) is an Austrian contemporary classical composer, visual artist and author. She is famed especially for her operas and music theater works, many of which have treated sociopolitical themes. She has emphasized an ...
created the staged concert ''
Italia anno zero'' after texts by
Antonio Gramsci
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,
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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and
Giacomo Leopardi
Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. Considered the greatest Italian poet of the 19th century and one of the greatest a ...
widely presented across Europe. In 2006, he created the music-theatre production ''Organo magico organo laico'' featuring
Mouse on Mars
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and Icarus musicians at the REC Festival (Teatro Valli,
Reggio Emilia
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). In the same year he creates the music-theatre work ''Cenere''.
In 2007, he presented his solo exhibition ''City Works'' - urban explorations and interventions in the cities of
Berlin
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,
Ciudad de México,
Linz
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,
Napoli
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,
Rimini
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Sprawling along the Adriatic Sea, Rimini is situated at a strategically-important north-south passage along the coast at the southern tip of the Po Valley. It is ...
,
Rome
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,
Vancouver
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- at the Gallery SESV (University of
Florence
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Florence ...
- Department of Architecture). In the same year he presents his solo exhibition ''Sparks'' (site-specific installation and drawings on paper) at the contemporary arts centre Palazzo delle Papesse
Siena
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and the videoinstallation ''Shadows'' at Studio Zero, the exhibition space of Duomo Hotel created by
Ron Arad in Rimini.
In 2012, he creates in Shanghai the audio-visual performance ''Ye Shanghai''; the project deals with several aspects of the Shanghainese life before 1949. At the core of this work is the story of the
Shanghai Ghetto, an area of approximately one square mile located in the Hongkou District of Japanese-occupied Shanghai. He produced a series of
Berlin
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projects based on
Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller (; 9 January 1929 – 30 December 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postd ...
's texts: ''Greuelmärchen'' - sound/video installation (Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft, Berlin), ''Schwarzes Licht'', ''Roter Schnee''. In 2021, he was stage director and set designer of Repertoire by
Mauricio Kagel
Mauricio Raúl Kagel (; 24 December 1931 – 18 September 2008) was an Argentine-German composer and academic teacher.
Life and career Early life and education
Mauricio Raúl Kagel was born on 24 December 1931 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into an ...
at Aperto Festival in Reggio Emilia.
He collaborates with a number of institutions and research centres including the
Joint Research Centre
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Leadersh ...
of the
European Commission
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, the University of the Republic of San Marino,
University of Bologna
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, IULM University Milan, University of Newcastle Culture Lab (UK),
Domus Academy
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Milan,
Brera Fine Arts Academy Milan, Ascoli Piceno and
Rome
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universities, and
Great Northern Way Campus, where he develops projects between technology, art, and the urban space in collaboration with designers, architects, city planners, artists, programmers, theoreticians and hackers. He is member of the Internationale
Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller (; 9 January 1929 – 30 December 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postd ...
Gesellschaft Berlin. He is artist-in-residence at Djerassi Foundation (
San Francisco
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),
STEIM (
Amsterdam
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), Ars Electronica FutureLab (Linz), Montévidéo and GMEM (
Marseille
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), La Bellone (Bruxelles), Western Front (
Vancouver
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), Tonspur / MuseumsQuartier (
Vienna
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).
Works
Roberto Paci Dalò has developed a multi-layered language out of his background in sound and visual arts, which combines the spoken language with body and architecture. His work uses new technologies in combination with an analysis on classical tragic drama. The areas of work of Roberto Paci Dalò includes
robotics
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Within mechanical engineering, robotics is the design and construction of the physical structures of robots, while in computer s ...
,
cybernetics
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, man-machine interaction,
psychoacoustics
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, realtime video and sound processing. He wrote, composed and directed since 1985 about 40 music-theatre works presented worldwide. He composed music for acoustical ensembles, electronics, voices and a large number of radioworks produced by European broadcasting corporations. His production of films and videos is regularly presented in international festivals. His dramaturgical materials are frequently re-composed in sound and video installations – often site specific and interactive – presented in museums, galleries, and the public space. As performer he developed extended techniques on the
clarinet
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and with electronics and
sampler. His performances range from solo to electro-acoustical ensembles and improvised music projects in collaboration with other artists. His interest in traditional cultures brought him into explorations and field researches through the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, Balkans and the North West European islands. He works on expansions of radio language(s) especially through his long-term collaboration with ORF Kunstradio. Among his on-site/on-air/on-line projects: La Natura Ama Nascondersi (Kunstradio 1992), Napoli (Nantes 1994, official selection Prix Italia), La lunga notte (1993, award EBU/UER), Lost Memories (Graz 1994, official selection Prix Futura), Many Many Voices (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlino 1995, CD Edel Records / Akademie der Künste Berlin), Fuori Luogo (commissioned by SFB Sender Freies Berlin for the Prix Europa 98 opening), OZ (SFB / Sonambiente 1996), Italia anno zero (2005), L'assedio delle ceneri (RAI, 2008). Urban explorations is a fundamental aspect of his work. He collects ''soundscapes'' since the beginning of the 80's. Some of this activity is documented on-line in the permanent website Atlas Linz (since 1998) created in collaboration with the
Ars Electronica Center Linz
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.
Curatorial work
He founded in 1985 the performing arts ensemble ''Giardini Pensili'' with Isabella Bordoni. Between 1991 and 1998, he created and curated in Rimini the International radio + art festival ''LADA L’Arte dell'Ascolto''. He brought to Rimini artists like
Heiner Goebbels
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,
Ensemble Modern
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, Llorenç Barber, Soldier String Quartet,
Scanner,
David Moss, Rupert Huber (Tosca), Sam Auinger, Hannes Strobl, Tibor Szemzö a.o. Since 1990 he is curator and co-ordinator of international projects based on telecommunication systems and the Internet as working places (i.e. trustee of the Mediterranean network of ''Horizontal Radio'', Ars Electronica 1995; ''Rivers & Bridges''). In 1995 opens the Giardini Pensili Web Site. In 1995 he creates ''Radio Lada'' - web art radio. Between 1999 and 2001 he is the curator of Itaca - the electronic stage of the Teatro di Roma - working together with
Mario Martone
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His films '' Nasty Love'' (1995) and ''Nostalgia ...
and he is co-curator of the project Aria-Net (Marseille,
Lisbon
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, Rimini, Vienna). In 2000, he curated — invited by RAI — part of the Radio and Internet programme within the
Prix Italia
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(Bologna-Rimini) and in 2004 he creates the label LADA L’Arte dell’Ascolto. Between 2006 and 2016—when the structure closed down – he was the artistic director of the contemporary arts centre ''Velvet Factory'' (Rimini),
Theatre and Music-Theatre
* Sentieri Segreti, 1985
* Corrispondenze Naturali, 1986
* Sound House, 1986
* Un cantico / partiture sonore, 1986
* A Harmonic Walk, 1987
* Cave di pietra, 1987
* Il calore della terra, 1987
* Nel fondo del giardino, 1987
* Terre Unite, 1988
* Terre Separate, 1988
* Temporale, 1989
* Terrae Motvs, 1991
* Niemandsland, 1992
* Terra di Nessuno, 1993
* Auroras, 1994
* Metrodora, 1996
* Scanning Bacchae, 1997
* Trance Bakxai, 1997
* Nishmat Hashmal, 1998
* Cieli altissimi retrocedenti, 1998
* Enigma, 1998
* Stasimi, 1998
* Sophon Sophia, 1998
* Il Cartografo, 1999
* Affreschi / due porte per Tebe, 1999
* Sirene, 2000
* Shir, 2000
* Animalie, 2002
* Blue Stories, 2001
* Metamorfosi, 2001
* Local & Long Distance, 2003
* Petrolio / Rose, 2003
* Stelle della sera, 2004
* Filmnero, 2004
* Altri fuochi, 2005
* Porpora, 2005
* Italia anno zero, 2005
* Petroleo México, 2005
* Tremante omaggio, 2005
* Qual è la parola, 2006
* Organo magico organo laico, 2006
* Words, 2006
* Cenere, 2006
* L'assedio delle ceneri, 2008
* Roter Schnee, 2009
* Black Beauty, 2011
* De bello Gallico - Enklave Rimini, 2011
* Ye Shanghai, 2012
* Il grande bianco, 2014
* 1915 The Armenian Files, 2015
* Niggunim, 2018
* Niggunim , Nobori, 2018
* Repertoire, 2021
Radio and Telematic Projects
* 1989 ''Segnali radio sulla costa atlantica''. ORF / Kunstradio, Vienna. ORF 1, 26.1.1989.
* 1989 ''Quattro canti sulla circolarità del tempo''. RAI Radiouno / Audiobox. RAI Radiouno, 16.2.1989.
* 1991 ''Combattimento tra Marsia e Apollo''. Opera radiofonica by Roberto Paci Dalò and Jon Rose. SFB Sender Freies Berlin, SFB, June 1991.
* 1992 ''La natura ama nascondersi: Mozart in Budapest 1791-1832''. Giardini Pensili,
ORF Vienna "Geometrie des Schweigens", Vienna, Palais Lichtenstein Museum Moderner Kunst- Innsbruckl,
Tyrolean State Museum in interactive video and sound connection, 1992
* 1992 ''Niemandsland''. ORF Kunstradio Vienna, with the collaboration of Transit Innsbruck and Giardini Pensili Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesmuseum and Landesstudio Tirol, 1992
* 1993 ''La lunga notte'' Halaila Ha'aroch / Leilun Tauil. Österreichischer Rundfunk / Kunstradio, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana / Audiobox, L'Arte dell'Ascolto. 30.8.1993
* 1993 ''Napoli''. Giardini Pensili, ORF Kunstradio, L'Alfabeto Urbano in collaboration with RAI Radiouno Audiobox, October 1993
* 1994 ''Lost Memories''. Giardini Pensili Rimini, ESC Graz, ORF Kunstradio with the collaboration of RAI Radiotre Audiobox, Graz ESC / ORF1, 29.9.1994
*1995 ''Realtime''. ORF Kunstradio. 1.12.1995
* 1995 ''Many Many Voices''. SFB Sender Freies Berlin, Giardini Pensili Rimini, ORF Kunstradio Vienna, RNE Radio-2 Madrid,
YLE
Yleisradio Oy (; ), abbreviated as Yle () (formerly styled in all uppercase until 2012), translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926. It is a joint-stock comp ...
Yleisradio Helsinki with the collaboration of: Institut Français de Berlin, Italienischer Kulturinstitut Berlin, Österreichischer Generalkonsulat Berlin, Elektronisches Studio der TU. Simultaneous Live Broadcasting. SFB 4 MultiKulti and
YLE
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Finland in performance from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin. 29.1.1995
* 1995 ''Horizontal Radio''. 23.6.1995.
* 1996 ''Oz''. Akademie der Künste Berlin, Sender Freies Berlin, Giardini Pensili. Berlin, SFB Lichthof, 7.3.1996
* 1996 ''Terra di nessuno''. Giardini Pensili, RAI Audiobox. RAI Radiotre Audiobox March 30.3.1996
* 1996 ''Shpil''. Phonurgia Nova Arles, Giardini Pensili, RAI Audiobox, San Marino RTV, Kunsthochschule für Medien Cologne, Kol Israel. RAI Radiotre Audiobox 10.8.1996
* 1998 ''Atlanti invisibili''. Giardini Pensili, RAI Audiobox. ORF Kunstradio. 3.9.1998
* 1998 ''Genetliaco''. RAI Audiobox, July 1998
* 2001 ''Blue Stories - Vienna Remix''. Giardini Pensili in collaboration with ORF Kunstradio, RaiNet. ORF Kunstradio, July 3.7.2001
* 2002 ''Devolve into II''. Oesterreich 1 and Radio Oesterreich International. 17.3.2002
Kunstradio Live radio version in conjunction with the on site installation in Vienna. From studio RP4, Vienna Broadcastinghouse. Klangtheater Live radio. March 24.3.2002
Bayern2Radio/ hr2 /WDR 3/ Oe1/ NordwestRadio/ SR2.
Intermedium 2 - radio broadcast (mix from the Klangtheater installation in Vienna).
ZKM Radio/Intermedium2 Radio piece. Oesterreich 1 and Radio Oesterreich International. March 31.3.2002
* 2002 ''Transfert''. musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Transcultures Bruxelles und Wien Modern in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Ö1 Kunstradio. ORF Kunstradio, 3.11.2002
* 2004 ''Italia Anno Zero''. By Olga Neuwirth and Roberto Paci Dalò. Giardini Pensili & Wien Modern in collaboration with Budapest Autumn Festival, ORF Kunstradio, Terra Gramsci supported by Réseau Varèse and the European Commission (Culture 2000). ORF Kunstradio, 28.10.2004
* 2005 ''Kol Beck - Living Strings''. WDR Studio Akustische Kunst, Cologne, 24.9.2005
* 2008 ''L'assedio delle ceneri''. RAI Radiotre. Eleven episodes, June–July 2008
* 2009 ''Merkur''. ORF Kunstradio, Vienna Funkhaus, 6.12.2009
* 2013 ''Ye Shanghai''. ORF Kunstradio, Vienna Funkhaus, 13.1.2013
* 2015 ''1915 The Armenian Files''. ORF Kunstradio, Vienna Funkhaus, 3.5.2015
* 2017 ''For Morton Feldman''. In collaboration with Rupert Huber. ORF Kunstradio, Vienna Funkhaus, 15.1.2017
* 2017 ''Long Night Talks. For Robert Adrian''. ORF Kunstradio, Vienna Funkhaus, 30.7.2017
* 2020 ''CROWN''. Usmaradio, series of 33 episodes
* 2020 ''Hannah''. Radio India
* 2020 ''HA''. ORF Kunstradio, Vienna, 27.12.2020
Discography
* ''Napoli'' (1993)
* ''Ars Acustica International - EBU Selection 1994 /La lunga notte/'' (1995)
* ''
Many Many Voices'' (1995)
* ''Horizontal Radio'' (1996)
* ''Familie Auer'' (1996)
* ''Sumi'' /Various/ (1998)
* ''Ozio'' (2000)
* ''City Sonics'' /EMN40/ (2003)
* ''
In Two Worlds'' (2004)
* ''Pneuma'' (2004)
* ''AVN+RPD'' (with Absolute Value of Noise) (2005)
* ''WITZ FM'' (with Francesca Mizzoni) (2006)
*
''Sparks'' (2007)
* ''Alluro'' (2010)
* ''The Maya Effect'' (with Scanner) (2011)
*
''Japanese Girls at the Harbor'' (with Yasuhiro Morinaga)(2012)
* ''
Ye Shanghai'' (2014)
* ''
1915 The Armenian Files'' (2015)
* ''Long Night Talks'' (2020)
* ''Italia anno zero'' (with Olga Neuwirth a.o.) (2021)
* ''Transcreando Shakespeare'' (2021)
* ''Crown Shyness part 2-3'' (with Francesco Poggianti) (2022)
* ''Live in Verucchio'' (with Andrea Marinelli, Demetrio Cecchitelli) (2022)
Filmography
* 2001 ''Camera Obscura'' - based on the music-theatre performance Metamorfosi starring Anna Bonaiuto (Official selection Locarno Film Festival)
* 2001 ''RAX'' - a documentary - interview to Canadian artist Robert Adrian X (Official selection Locarno Film Festival)
* 2001 ''Blue Stories'' - live cinema (Official selection Locarno Film Festival)
* 2002 ''EMN40'' - film after the audio-video installation commissioned by the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles for its 40th anniversary
* 2003 ''Dust'' - film created as a contribution to the
Rome Quadriennale
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(Official selection Locarno Film Festival)
* 2005 ''Petroleo México'' - filmed in Ciudad de México (Official selection Locarno Film Festival)
* 2007 ''Shadows'' - after the videoinstallation for the Duomo Hotel created by Ron Arad
* 2007 ''IMA Portrait #3 Heidi Grundmann'' - a documentary - interview to Kunstradio's founder and former producer Heidi Grundmann
* 2008 ''Nitschland Napoli'' - film created under invitation of the Fondazione Morra Napoli on the occasion of the Museo
Hermann Nitsch
Hermann Nitsch (29 August 1938 – 18 April 2022) was an Austrian contemporary artist and composer. His art encompassed wide-scale Performance art, performances incorporating theater, multimedia, rituals and acted violence. He was a leading figu ...
's opening
* 2009 ''Atlas of Emotion Stream'' - after Giuliana Bruno's book "Atlas of Emotion". Film commissioned by PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli
* 2013 ''Ye Shanghai''
* 2015 ''1915 The Armenian Files''
* 2017 ''Douala Flow''
* 2018 ''In darkness let me dwell''
* 2019 ''Appunto Angheben''
Books
* AA.VV., ''Re-inventing Radio - Aspects of radio as art'', Heidi Grundmann, Elisabeth Zimmermann, Reinhard Braun, Dieter Daniels, Andreas Hirsch, Anne Thurmann-Jajes (edited by), Frankfurt am Main: Revolver books, 2008, .
* Bordoni, Isabella, Paci Dalò, Roberto, ''Giardini Pensili. Il libro dei paesaggi'', Ravenna: Exit Edizioni, 1987.
* Montecchi, Leonardo, Paci Dalò, Roberto (edited by), ''Officine della dissociazione'', Bologna: Pitagora Editrice, 2000.
* Fragliasso, Savina, Paci Dalò, Roberto, ''Pneuma. Giardini Pensili un paesaggio sonoro'', Monfalcone: Teatro Comunale di Monfalcone, 2005.
* Paci Dalò, Roberto, Quinz, Emanuele (edited by), ''Millesuoni. Deleuze, Guattari e la musica elettronica'', Napoli: Cronopio, 2006.
* Paci Dalò, Roberto, ''Storie di lupi e lepri'', Napoli: Hde, 2009.
* Paci Dalò, Roberto, ''Filmnero'', Milano: Marsèll, 2016.
* Paci Dalò, Roberto, ''Ombre'', Macerata: Quodlibet, 2019.
* Paci Dalò, Roberto, ''eBAU. Art Dreams for the New European Bauhaus'', Macerata: Quodlibet, 2024.
References
Further reading
* ''La porta aperta 2'', Roma: Teatro di Roma, 1999.
* Andrea Balzola, ''La scena tecnologica'', Roma: Dino Audino editore, 2011.
* Tatiana Bazzichelli, ''Networking. The Net as Artwork'', Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Center, 2008.
* Tiziano Bonini,
Roberto Paci Dalò, il drammaturgo dei media', Doppiozero, 1.2.2016.
* Barbara Casavecchia,
Roberto Paci Dalò' in "Frieze", n. 153, March 2013.
* Valerio Dehò, ''Silenzio. Sei meditazioni oltre il rumore'', Reggio Emilia: Comune di Reggio Emilia, 1997.
* Gabriele Frasca and Renato Quaglia, eds. ''Prediche per il nuovo millennio, Dall'assedio delle ceneri'', Venezia: Napoli Teatro Festival / Marsilio, 2008.
* Laura Gemini, ''L'incertezza creativa'', Milano: Franco Angeli, 2003.
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Helga de la Motte-Haber
Helga de la Motte-Haber (born 2 October 1938) is a German musicologist focusing on the study of systematic musicology.
Life
Haber was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein as the first child of Paula Haber, ''née'' Kilian, and the physicist and mathem ...
, ed. ''Klangkunst'', Munich: Prestel, 1996.
* Lorenzo Mango and Giuseppe Morra, ''Living Theatre: labirinti dell'immaginario'', Napoli: Edizioni Fondazione Morra, 2003.
* Peppino Ortoleva and Barbara Scaramucci, eds. ''le Garzantine. Radio'', Milano: Garzanti, 2003.
* Fabio Paracchini, ''Cybershow. Cinema e teatro con Internet''. Milano: Ubulibri, 1996.
* Emanuele Quinz, ed, ''Digital Performance'', Paris: Anomos, 2002.
* Annmarie Chandler and
Norie Neumark, eds. ''Precursors to art and activism on the Internet'', MIT Press, 2005.
* Wolfgang Storch and Klaudia Ruschkowski, eds. ''Sire, das war ich. Leben Gundlings Friedrich von Preußen Lessings Schlaf Traum Schrei Heiner Müller Werkbuch'', Berlin: Theater der Zeit, 2007.
External links
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UsmaradioInternationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft
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1962 births
Living people
People from Rimini
20th-century Italian classical composers
20th-century male composers
21st-century Italian classical composers
Italian theatre directors
Italian film directors
Italian sound artists
Italian installation artists
Italian contemporary artists
Experimental composers
Italian opera composers
Italian male opera composers
Contemporary classical music performers
Academic staff of the University of Siena
20th-century Italian composers
20th-century Italian male musicians
21st-century Italian male musicians