Meet Music Code: returns the electronic music and digital art festival

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Meet Music Code: returns the electronic music and digital art festival

from March 01st to 2nd, 2024

Conservatory of Italian Switzerland, Theater Studio-LAC Lugano, Campus SUPSI of Mendrisio

Once again this year, the SUPSI campus in Mendrisio will be transformed into a cultural centre, lit up by day and by night thanks to installations and light shows designed by Bachelor of Interior Design students. A different way of experiencing the campus.

After the success of the first two editions, the festival MMC-Meet Music Code, dedicated to computer music and the converging relationships between electronic music, coding and digital art, will return in Ticino on Friday 1 March and Saturday 2 March, produced by OGGIMUSICA in collaboration with the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland, Lugano Musica and the SUPSI Department of Environment Constructions and Design (SUPSI Campus in Mendrisio).

Three concerts and four workshops will take place in different venues in Lugano (Conservatory of Italian Switzerland, Teatro Studio-LAC) and at the SUPSI Campus in Mendrisio, creating a moment of encounter between digital artists, musicians, researchers, designers, students and people passionate about computer music. An artistic and technical insight into the possible synergies between digital instruments, sound art, composition and computer programming.

The SUPSI Campus becomes a covered square illuminated by installations and light effects conceived and set up by a group of Bachelor of Arts students in Interior Design to give rhythm to the spaces and accompany the music.

The concert at the LAC is free for OGGIMUSICA members (membership card CHF 30), otherwise tickets are available on the LAC website.

Concerts at the SUPSI Campus in Mendrisio are free of charge.

The workshops are free for Conservatory and SUPSI students and for OGGIMUSICA members and associates. Places for the workshops are limited and must be reserved by writing to alberto.barberis@conservatorio.ch.

Meet Music Code is supported by Pro Helvetia, Swisslos, Lugano Musica and the City of Lugano.

Meet Music Code Programme

Workshop 1, 10:00–13:00
Conservatory of Italian Switzerland (Room 305) - Lugano
VCV Rack in the Max/MSP world
Hans Tutschku
Workshop 2, 14:00–17:00
Conservatory of Italian Switzerland (Room 305) - Lugano
Data Sonification and Multichannel Spatialisation with SuperCollider
Daniel Maszkowicz
Concert 1, 19.00
LAC - Lugano
Feldermelder - LIVE AV

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Workshop 3, 10:00–13:00
Department of Environment Constructions and Design SUPSI - Mendrisio (aula A213)
Audio-video-images interaction with Max/MSP and Jitter
Rajan Craveri
Workshop 4, 14:00–18:00
Department of Environment Constructions and Design SUPSI - Mendrisio (aula A213)
Teensy
Marco Lurati & Serena Cangiano | Master of Arts SUPSI in Interaction Design
Concerto 2, 19:30
Department of Environment Constructions and Design SUPSI - Mendrisio (piano terra)
The Waves
Lucie Eidenbenz - coreografia e danza / Daniel Maszkowicz - music and sound / Collettivo Robert Turner – image
Concerto 3, 21:00
Department of Environment Constructions and Design SUPSI - Mendrisio (ramp)
Sonic Immersion
Hans Tutschku

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The three concert-performances

The artistic proposal includes three concerts/performances.

On Friday 1 March at 19:00, at the LAC studio theatre, we start with Freiburg-based musician Feldermelder presenting his latest LIVE AV (live audio and video). Emulating the dynamic forces of nature through the means of physicality, fluidity and vibration, the experience unfolds like a spectral journey. Despite his technical sophistication, the artist remains connected to the tangible realm, prompting contemplation.

On Saturday 2 March, the Festival moves to the SUPSI Campus in Mendrisio, sealing the collaboration with the Department of Environment Constructions and Design. The ground floor of the building will host at 19:30 The Waves by Lucie Eidenbenz (choreography and dance), Daniel Maszkowicz (music and sound) and the Robert Turner Collective (image). An immersive, multi-sensory experience that takes the audience on a poetic journey inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel-poetry.

At 21:00, on the large indoor ramp of the SUPSI Campus in Mendrisio – all lit up by the light effects created by the students of the SUPSI Bachelor of Arts in Interior Architecture – Hans Tutschku performs. Now director of the electroacoustic studio at Harvard University, Tutschku is an international reference in the world of electroacoustic, improvised, and contemporary instrumental music. The programme of his concert-performance Sonic Immersion includes several electroacoustic multi-channel works: the cycle Remembering Japan, a sonic journey to a distant land; Klaviersammlung, composed with recordings of ruined pianos; Agitated slowness, a composition dealing with slowness and timelessness. The programme concludes with an improvised live set.

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The four workshops

The artistic proposal is accompanied by four workshops. The festival opens on Friday 1 March (10:00-13:00), at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana, with the workshop VCV Rack in the Max/MSP world by Hans Tutschku. The workshop combines the programming possibilities of Max/MSP to control the VCV Rack synthesiser.

At 14:00-17:00, also at the Conservatory, we continue with Data Sonification and Multichannel Spatialisation with SuperCollider by Daniel Maszkowicz, a workshop that provides the first tools for programming, creating and developing synthesisers with SuperCollider.

On Saturday 2 March at 10:00 we continue, at the SUPSI Campus in Mendrisio, with the workshop Audio-video-images interaction with Max/MSP and Jitter by Rajan Craveri, who presents the Jitter library of Max/MSP, dedicated to computer graphics and image and video processing.

A workshop dedicated to the Teensy microprocessor for the construction of DIY synthesisers follows at 14:00-18:00 at the SUPSI FabLab (the digital fabrication laboratory).

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