External links
- Official website
- The garden of forking paths S2E6 With Andrea Cera, 19 February 2020; topics include psychoacoustics, sci-fi influences, and Andrea Cera's role in the development of sounds for the Renault ZOE.
Andrea Cera | |
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| Born | 1969 (age 54–55) Vicenza, Italy |
| Occupation(s) | electroacoustic composer sound designer sound installation artist |
| Website | Official website |
Andrea Cera (born 1969 in Vicenza) is an Italian electroacoustic composer, sound designer and sound installation artist.
Andrea Cera graduated with MA degree (diploma) in piano and music composition at the Conservatorio Cesare Pollini in Padua (Italy). He studied computer music at the Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music at IRCAM, in Paris. [1]
From 2000 to 2010, Cera has mainly worked with several choreographers including Hervé Robbe at the Centre Chorégraphique National du Havre, Edmond Russo and Shlomi Tuizer, [2] Pascal Montrouge, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. In the same period he has explored sound art: installation sites have included the Centre Pompidou, Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains in Lille-Tourcoing, institutions and art centres in Italy and France. One example of his work is Reactive Ambient Music (2005). This installation is a sort of a waiting room where external sounds of other installations control a generative background music system. [3] In 2004 he realized NightRun, an interactive installation based on the screaming of the visitors. They are here (2008) is an interactive video and sound installation created for the Centquatre-Paris, in collaboration with IRCAM.
After 2010, Andrea Cera focused in research and sound design projects with IRCAM (Paris), NOTAM (Oslo), Integra Project, Infomus – Casa Paganini (Genova). In 2011 he presented Urban Musical Game, [4] in collaboration with researchers from the Real-Time Musical Interactions team at IRCAM – Centre Pompidou, the design agency NoDesign and Phonotonic. For this installation, they used augmented sports balls to manipulate and transform an interactive music environment. [5] Other examples are the collaborations with Renault and IRCAM Sound Perception and Design Team (sounds for the electric vehicle), [6] [7] Phonotonic, [8] the SkAT-VG project (Sketching Audio Technologies using Vocalizations and Gestures, 2014–2017), [9] [10] [11] and a series of works for the Co.Me.DiA European Project. [12] In 2018 he has been nominated for Better Sound (Category: Research & Development) at the ISA International Sound Awards for Renault Symbioz Sound Design. In these same years Cera still kept a few collaborations with dance, theatre and video artist, in particular with ricci/forte [13] [14] , Yan Duyvendak [15] , Francesca Foscarini [16] , and Marie-Laure Cazin (for the project Le Cinéma Emotif, an interactive cinema prototype where the film varies according to the emotions of the spectators, analysed by EEG headsets with electrodes that capture their brain activity - project by M.L.Cazin, music by A. Cera). [17]
In recent years he collaborated with Taiwanese collective Luxury Logico and IRCAM on a robotic installation entitled The Insomnia SketchBook, premiered in 2022 [18] [19] , Renault and Jean-Michel Jarre for a new AVAS sound [20] , and with Infomus-CasaPaganini and the Galliera Hospital, for the sound design of DanzArTe, an exergame dedicated to elderly population [21] . He currently is artist-in-residence for the EU funded S+T+ARTS project ReSilence [22] .
Andrea Cera's music is concerned with hybridization and intrusiveness as tools to explore new uses of sound. [23]
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