Annotazioni sulla teoria dell’ascolto di Luca Marconi

Authors

  • Andrea Valle University of Turin

Abstract

The contribution discusses the «Theory of listening, for analysis and musical education» that Luca Marconi proposed in 2008. In particular, it starts from the dense summary figure that closes the essay to verify its generality and propose an extension that assumes it as a theory of listening as acting, capable of merging phenomenological and pragmatic aspects through the notion of the subject as a filter coupled to the environment. This feedback loop in Marconi's original proposal also allows us to highlight the variety, empirically detectable, of the different listening actions.

Author Biography

Andrea Valle, University of Turin

Andrea Valle is Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities of the University of Turin, where he teaches Audio and Multimedia, Audiovision and Media and Media Semiotics. Graduated in Communication Sciences at the University of Turin, he obtained a PhD in Semiotics at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici of Bologna. He is a founding member and current Director of CIRMA, Interdepartmental Research Center on Multimedia and Audiovisual, of the University of Turin. He participated in the European project VEP (Virtual Electronic Poem), which reconstructed the Philips Pavilion in virtual reality. He was a member of the Board of Directors of AIMI (Associazione di Informatica Musicale Italiana).

In addition to international scientific publications, he is the author of Audio and Multimedia (with V. Lombardo, 5th ed. 2024), Introduction to SuperCollider (2015, English ed. 2017) and Contemporary Music Notation (2002, English ed. 2018).

He studied musical composition with Alessandro Ruo Rui, Azio Corghi, Marco Stroppa, Trevor Wishart. An electric bass player, his work as a composer is mainly focused on algorithmic methodologies, both in the electro-acoustic and instrumental fields. Since 2008 he has worked
extensively in the field of physical computing, developing computer-controlled ensembles that typically include everyday and recycled objects. His works include multimedia installations, film music, and theater. He has collaborated extensively with Marcel lí Antunez Roca (Cotrone, 2010; Pseudo, 2012; Ultraorbism, 2015; Alsaxy, 2015).

With Mauro Lanza he composed the cycle of pieces Systema naturae (2012-18). With the ensemble Arto fantasma he compose sonorizations for silent films.

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Published

2025-09-15

How to Cite

Valle, A. (2025). Annotazioni sulla teoria dell’ascolto di Luca Marconi. Gli Spazi Della Musica, 13, 89–99. Retrieved from https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/spazidellamusica/article/view/12586

Issue

Vol. 13 (2024): Semiotica, musicologia e popular music studies in dialogo – Per Luca Marconi (I)

Section

Essays

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