Curriculum
1946 Riccardo Bianchini was born in Milan (Italy),
on June 23rd.
1961-1973 Studies Piano, Composition and Electronic Music at the
Conservatorio "G.Verdi".
1964-1970 Studies Mechanical Engineering in Milan Politecnico
University.
1973 Begins practicing computer music on mainframes (CNUCE, Pisa).
1973-1983 Italian transations of The Oxford History of Music, vol
X, Charles Rosen's The Classical Style and Sonata
Forms, R.Dick's The Other Flute, Henri Pousseur's
Electronic Music.
1974-1980 Professor of Electronic Music in Conservatorio "L.D'Annunzio",
Pescara.
1977 Founds ensemble edgar varèse, a chamber group with
repertoir from Venetian '500 school to contemporary music, and conducts it
in over 20 concerts.
1978 Computer Music Workshop in Padua (CSC), works with MUSIC360 on
a IBM mainframe.
1980-1984 Professor of Electronic Music in Conservatorio "G.Verdi",
Milan. Works with Music11 on a PDP-11.
1987-... Professor of Electronic Music in Conservatorio "S.Cecilia"
in Rome
(http://space.tin.it/musica/ilipc)
1980-1990 Produces and presents a number of concerts and programs
about contemporary music at RAI-Radiotre (Italian State Radio).
1990-1992 Hypermusic, a software package for learning music
(PC and Mac versions).
1981-1987 Computer Music summer courses in Varenna, Città di
Castello (Festival delle Nazioni) and Montepulciano (Cantiere Internazionale
d'Arte).
1992 Founds Farfensemble, a chamber group with repertoir from
Venetian '500 school to contemporary music, and conducts it in concerts,
broadcastings, recordings.
1995-1997 Computer Music courses at EUM (University Music School)
in Montevideo, Uruguay, and LIPM (Laboratorio de Investigacion y Produccion
Musical) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1997 Computer Music course and lecture at Istituto Italiano di Cultura
in Cordoba, Argentina
1990-1997 Writes Computer Music: a manual of musical informatics
(in italian).
1997 Collaborates to Csound Book, MIT Press.
1998 Co-author of The virtual sound, sound synthesis with Csound
for PC and Mac, with Alessandro Cipriani, published by
ConTempo
1998 Computer Music courses at EUM (University Music School) in
Montevideo, Uruguay, LIPM (Laboratorio de Investigacion y Produccion Musical)
in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Cordoba,
Argentina
1998 Partecipates in XII Colloquium of Musica Informatics (Gorizia,
Italy)
1998-1999 Csound courses on the Internet (in Italian)
Articles and essays published in: Rivista IBM, Musica, 1985 La Musica,
Musica Domani, musica/realtà, Perspectives of New Music, Lettera
dall'Italia (Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana).
Member of: direction of association
Musica Verticale, National Committee
for Musicology (Italian Ministery of School and University).
Computer Skills: programming in Fortran, Basic, Visual Basic, C,
C++.
Languages: Italian, Latin, English, basic Spanish, French and
German.
Hobbies: astronomy, olive-tree cultivation and olive oil production,
mountain climbing.
Family: Ambretta (wife), Pablo (b.1967), Cecilia (b.1978) and Carlotta
(b.1983).