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01 - Associated artist at the Saline Royale d’Arc et Senans (2012-2013-2014)
02 - PRISMA meeting - Maison Française at Columbia University - 2pm-4pm: Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi 10 Years of Research
03 - Decode-II, for percussion and live computer Bertrand Monneret - percussions : Ensemble de Musique Interactive (France) - 23-03-2012 - Prentis Hall, Computer Music Center - 632 West 125th Street New York, NY 10027
04 - Spatio Intermisso (temporis), for oboe and live computer Christian Schmitt - oboe : Ensemble de Musique Interactive (France). 24-03-2012 - Miller Theater, à 19h00 2960 Broadway (at 116th Street), entrance on Broadway, New York, NY 10027
05 - Concubia Nocte - Saline Royale d’Arc et Senans with Anne Quentin Delafosse 07-04-2012
06 - Commande for symphonic orchestra - Natura Phoenix - Staatstheater Cottbus – Germany 11-05-2012
07 - Commande for string quartet and live computer – Quatuor Leonis - Santa Cecilia – Rome 18-05-2012
08 - Igitur Semper for trombone soloist, three percussionists and live computer – 04-05-2012 in Basel (soloists from Basel Symphonic Orchestra)
09 - Igitur Semper versions for trombone soloist and live computer – 07-07-2012 in Paris (CNSMDP)
10 - Installation with Miguel Chevalier : Fractal Flowers 28-06-2012
11 - Cycle of installations with Miguel Chevalier for Hermes 2012-2013 : Paris, London, Rome, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, etc.
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Jacopo Baboni Schilingi was born in Milan on April 4, 1971. He lives in Paris where he composes music for soloists, ensembles, orchestras, for installations and movies, taking part in the most important international festivals. He teaches composition in the Conservatoire of Music in Montbéliard (France), and he is appointed head of the department since 2004. (Here you can download the complete Cursus)
He founded the Hyper–systemic aesthetic and he composes music for soloists, ensembles, orchestras, for installations and movies taking part in the most important international festivals and working with the best known soloists and ensembles. From 1995 to 2000 he was research composer at IRCAM in Paris and, from 1999 to 2005, director of Music Pedagogy Department of Centro Tempo Reale in Florence.
In 2001 he founded PRISMA, a group of twenty composers who work in the field of musical aesthetics, founding the journal PRISMA.
He studied composition with I. Fedele from 1985 to 1993 and conducting with V. Parisi. In 1992 he was selected for the "Cursus de Composition et d'Informatique Musicale" IRCAM. In 1996, he took Master's courses with K. Huber and B. Ferneyhough. He obtained his PhD with distinction (summa cum laude) in "Music and Research" at the Paris8 University under the guidance of G. Vinay.
His music has been performed in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and United States. He worked together with artists from different fields, realising interactive installations, as for instance: A.I.M.T.R. with the architect P.L. Copat (IRCAM, Paris 1996); Daphné with the writers A.G. Balpe and E. Quinz (Anomos, Bolzano 1999); Instruments à gonds with the sculptor Arman and the writer T. Reut (ISEA, Paris 2000); Metapolis, Crossborder, Terra Incognita with the multimedia artist M. Chevalier; Lenteur with M. Tadini, D. Segre Amar and L. Bianchi. Together with J.P. Balpe, a writer for multimedia, he has realised several performances: Trois mythologies et un poète aveugle (IRCAM, 1997); Syntax Error! (CICV, 2000); …nographie (Biennale de Poesie, 2003). In 2007 he won the special reward of Prix Italia with a composition based on Yannick Liron poems.
Since 2001 Baboni Schilingi has realised various film soundtracks for films d'essay together with H. Colomer, A. Fleischer, O. Mille for the Musée d'Orsay and the ARTE channel (France); he also realised the score for the fiction movie Nocturne and Sous les Drapeaux directed by H. Colomer.