T he Living Composers Project

Baboni Schilingi, Jacopo (b. April 4, 1971, Milan). Italian composer, now resident in both France and Italy, of mostly chamber, vocal, piano, and electroacoustic pieces that have been performed in the Americas and Europe; he is also active as a music researcher.

Mr. Baboni Schilingi initially studied classics at the Istituto Gonzaga in Milan from 1985-90 and then studied composition with Ivan Fedele and orchestral conducting with Vittorio Parisi at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano and earned his diplomas at the Conservatorio G.B. Martini in Bologna in 1994. He has studied at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne since 1997, where is he working on his PhD under the direction of Danielle Cohen-Lévinas. He also attended the annual Cursus de Composition et Informatique Musicale at IRCAM in 1994-95 and studied with Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber at Royaumont in 1996.

Among his numerous honors are Third Prize in El Callejón del Ruido algorithmic competition in Guanajuato (1995, for Profils), the Premio Ferrari as best student (1995) and a prize in the CEMAT Quarant'anni nel 2000 competition (1998, a commission to write Odyssée). His works have been performed throughout France and Italy and in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, The Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the USA, including at the Gaudeamus Muziekweek (2001). He has received commissions from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, CICV in Belfort, the Centro Tempo Reale, the Federazione CEMAT, the government of France, IRCAM, the city of Milan, the Museo MARCO in Monterrey, Radio-France, Saarländischer Rundfunk, the festival Settembre Musica, and other organizations.

Mr. Baboni Schilingi is also active in other positions. He co-founded with Anne-Gaëlle Balpe and Emanuele Quinz the interdisciplinary cultural association anomos in 1998. He was appointed by Luciano Berio to found the Dipartimento Educazione at the Centro Tempo Reale in Florence in 1999 and has since served as its director. He founded the twenty-member group PRISMA (Pedagogia e Ricerca sui Sistemi Musicali Assistiti) in 2001, which works on computer-aided composition and musical research at the Centro Tempo Reale. He also contributed articles to the yearbook PRISMA-01 (2003, Euresis Edizioni and Centro Tempo Reale) and has written more than 20 articles for French and Italian publications.

As a music researcher, he developed the theory of composition by interactive models at IRCAM in 1994-95 and co-created with Mikhail Malt and Frédéric Voisin two programs, Morphologie and Profile, still used by IRCAM. He regularly did research at IRCAM from 1996-2001, where he also created the CD-ROM Atelier Jeunes (1999), a new method of musical pedagogy for children between ages six and ten. At the Centro Tempo Reale, he created the interactive software library CMI (Composizione per Modelli Interattivi).

He has taught composition at the École Nationale de Musique in Montbéliard since 1999 and regularly gives courses in musicology at the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne. He has also lectured in Argentina, Belgium, Chile, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal.

Edizioni Suvini Zerboni publishes his works.

CONTACT INFORMATION

E-mail address: jbs@centrotemporeale.it

Street address: Mr. Jacopo Baboni Schilingi, c/o La-Kitchen, 78 Ave. de la République, F - 75011 Paris, France

Telephone (c/o La-Kitchen): + 331 5679 0289

Fax (c/o La-Kitchen): + 331 4380 5318

COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS

CHAMBER MUSIC: Quintetto, piano, string quartet, 1992; Shift, clarinet/tenor saxophone, live computer ad libitum, 1992; Wide, flute, bass clarinet, piano, 1992; Crossfade, bass clarinet, marimba, 1992; Profils, oboe, clarinet, percussion, 2-track tape/CD, 1995; L'instant relatif, 6 percussion, 1996; Il colore del bianco, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, 1997; Il colore del nero (requiem in forma di musica), flute, oboe, clarinet (+ bass clarinet), bassoon, string quartet, double bass, piano, percussion, 1998; Il colore del blu, string quartet, 1999; Il colore del rosso, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, string quartet, double bass, piano, percussion, 2000; L'effet fantôme, violin, viola, cello, piano, 2001; Intermezzi, baritone saxophone, trombone, tuba, 2003

CHORAL: Alleluia, 8 mixed voices, mixed chorus (30 voices), 8-track tape/CD, 2002

VOCAL: Sei frammenti sparsi per una voce sola (text by the composer), soprano, 1996; Frammenti sparsi per una voce accompagnata (text by the composer), soprano, 2 oboes, bassoon, 1998

PIANO: Frames, 1993; Réflexion pour piano, 1995; Troisième réflexion pour piano, 1997; Cinquième réflexion pour piano, 1998

ORGAN: Natura Morta, organ, 2-track tape/CD, 2000

ELECTROACOUSTIC: Deuxième réflexion, piano, live computer, 1996; Decode, percussion, live computer, 1996; Trois mythologies et un poète aveugle (musica e poesia, text by Jean-Pierre Balpe), soprano, 3 speakers, 2 synthesizers (1 player), percussion, 6-track tape/CD, live computer, 1997; Quatrième réflexion, piano, live computer, 1997; Syntax Error! (text by Jean-Pierre Balpe), bass, small orchestra (27 players), live computer, 2000; Odyssée (text by Jean-Pierre Balpe), bass, 8-track tape/CD, live computer, 2001; Prima nocte, flute, 2 clarinets, bassoon, live computer, 2002; Prima sonata, piano (+ harpsichord), live computer, 2002; Trois profils pour alto, viola, live computer, 2002; Le château (text by Yannick Liron), bass, female chorus, live computer, 2003; Wide-II, flute, bass clarinet, piano, live computer, 2003; Shift-II, baritone saxophone, live computer, 2003; ...pornographie (text by Jean-Pierre Balpe), bass, baritone saxophone, trombone, tuba, live computer, 2003; ...sténographie, tuba, live computer, 2003; ...monographie, trombone, live computer, 2003; ...nographie (text by Jean-Pierre Balpe), bass, female speaker, male speaker, baritone saxophone, trombone, tuba, live computer, 2003; Concubia nocte, in memoria di Luciano Berio (text from the Book of Ecclesiastes), soprano, live computer, 2003; Notturni (text by Jean-Pierre Balpe), bass, live computer, 2003

MULTIMEDIA/PERFORMANCE: A.I.M.T.R. (interactive installation), live music generator (camera sensors activated by audience), architecture (by Pier Luigi Copat), 1996; Daphné, text generator (by Anne-Gaëlle Balpe), 4-track tape, space conception (by Emanuele Quinz), 1997; Venus à gonds (interactive installation, text by Tita Reut), 4-track tape, live music generator (sensors activated by audience), sculpture (by Arman), 2000; Metàpolis (interactive installation), live text generator (by Jean-Pierre Balpe; sensors activated by audience), live amplified music generator (sensors activated by audience), live image generator (by Miguel Chevalier; sensors activated by audience), 2001

FILM SCORES (DIRECTOR): Böcklin, 2001 (Olivier Mille); Le roi Rodin, 2002 (Alain Feischer); L'exilé – Victor Hugo, 2002 (Henry Colomer)

(Last updated on June 8, 2004)