Enore Zaffiri's 'Musica per un anno' Reissued Digitally by Mazagran

Mazagran has released a digital version of Enore Zaffiri's 1968 work 'Musica per un anno', curated by Andrea Valle. The piece, originally a textual score meant to be instantiated in infinite occurrences, has been coded into a program that generates a precise digital rendition respecting the slow, continuous transformations of sonic parameters. Zaffiri, a Turin-born composer (1928), pianist, and founder of SMET and the Studio di Informazione Estetica, taught electronic music at the Conservatory. The new edition includes a booklet with texts by Vincenzo Santarcangelo. The work explores the concept of each moment having its own unrepeatable sonority, contrasting with earlier electronic music utopias by Berio and Maderna, whose 1954 radio piece 'Ritratto di città' sought silence. The launch event is March 28 at 6 p.m.