Teresa Rampazzi was an Italian pianist and composer

Composer

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 who was a pioneer of electronic

Electronic music

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 and computer generated music.

Biography

Teresa Rampazzi was born in Vicenza

Vicenza

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, Italy

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, and studied piano as a child, then continued her studies at the Milan

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 Conservatory and graduated with a diploma in composition. She lived for a while in Verona

Verona

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, and in 1956 moved with her husband to Padua

Padua

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 where she became a member of the Trio Bartók and the Circolo Pozzetto music ensembles.

Rampazzi developed an interest in avante-garde music and attended Ferienkurse Darmstadt where she heard the Eimert

Herbert Eimert

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 sound generator. She sold her piano and with Ennio Chiggio formed the NPS Group (Nuove Proposte Sonore), an experimental collective to research sound generation with analogue devices. (Her husband bought back the piano.)

She continued to work with Chiggio until 1968 and then took a teaching position in 1972 as professor of electronic music at the Padova Conservatory where she continued to work on tone research applying the Bessel functions and to publish professional articles on electronic music. She worked internationally at the Utrecht

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 Electronic studio, at Catholic University

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 in Washington, at the electromusic studio in Stockholm

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, at the department of computer music at the University of Pisa

University of Pisa

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 and at the CSC Computer Music Center in Padova.

After her husband died in 1984, Rampazzi moved to Assisi

Assisi

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 and then to Bassano

Bassano

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, where she continued to compose. She died in Bassano del Grappa in 2001.

Works

Rampazzi's works were composed through electronic sound generation and recorded on tape, and have been used on the soundtracks of documentary films and for ballets. Selected works include:

• ipotesi1 (1965)
• ipotesi2 (1965)
• Research1 (1965)
• Ricerca2 (1965)
• Ricerca3 (1965)
• Ricerca4 (1965)
• Operation 1 (1966)
• Operation 2 (1966)
• Operation 3 (1966)
• Function 1 (1966)
• Function 3 (1966)
• Function 4 (2 tracks)(1966)
• Function 3 (1966)
• Function 5 (1966)
• 5th Function (1966)
• Rhythm 1 (1967)
• Rhythm 2 (1967)
• Rhythm 3 (1967)
• Module 1 (1967)
• Module 2 (1967)
• Module 3 (1967)
• Module 4 (1967)
• Module 5 (1967)
• Interference 1 (1968)
• Interference 2 (1968)
• Dynamics 1 (1968)
• Masse 1 (1968)
• Masse 2 (1968)
• Freq Mod 1 (1969)
• Freq Mod 2 (1969)
• Imp & Ritha (1970)
• Enciron (1970)
• Collections (1970)
• Eco 1 (1971)
• Filter 1 (1971)
• Taras on 3 (1971)
• Babylon 1800 computer (1972)
• Hardlag (1972)
• Queer songs (1975)
• With the light pen (1976)
• noch atmen (1980)(second prize in Bourges),
• Geometry in motion (1982)
• Almost a Haiku (1987)

A box set of her music was released in 2009, including the first time publication of "Musica Endoscopica" composed for a documentary on endoscopy.

• Musica Endoscopica, Teresa Rampazzi, DIE SCHACHTEL (2009)