Barberis Alberto

Versatile artist, Alberto Barberis is active as composer, electroacoustic performer, code artist, programmer, sound engineer and electronic music teacher. Since 2017 he has taught 'Electronic Music', 'Musical Technologies' and 'Live Electronics' at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana of Lugano (CH). As a guitarist, he obtained the Diploma and the Master Degree at the Conservatories of Turin and Brescia (IT) studying, among others, with Maurizio Colonna, Giorgio Mirto and Bruno Giuffredi. He studied also engineering and composition, stimulated by his interest for algorithmic composition, electronic and computer music, code-art and digital-art. At the Polytechnic University of Turin (IT) he graduated in Cinema and Media Engineering. After attending the courses of mathematician and composer Giovanni Albini he moved to Lugano (CH) where he graduated with full marks at the Master of Arts in Composition and Theory and then at the MAS (Master of Advanced Studies) in Composition at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana of Lugano (CH), under the guidance of Nadir Vassena, Giovanni Verrando and Sylviane Sapir. Since 2012 he is the Assistant Artistic Director of the highSCORE New Music Center, and he is part of the collective of musicians linked to FloatingForest Record, record label of improvisational and experimental music. Since 2019 he is the executive Producer of the Association for contemporary music OGGIMUSICA. Recently he has worked with several contemporary music ensembles including Ensemble Recherche (D), Eutopia Ensemble (IT), and has participated in international festivals such as La Biennale di Venezia (Biennale Musica) (IT), ElectroPark Festival (IT), Nachtstrom (CH), Art Test Fest (IT), Lugano Musica (CH), Lugano In Scena (CH), Maggio Elettrico (IT), AFEKT (ET), Teatri di Vetro (IT), Oceano Indiano (IT), Festival Aperto (IT). He performed in important theaters such as Teatro Goldoni (Venice, IT), Teatro Argentina (Rome, IT), Teatro LAC (Lugano, CH), Teatro della Tosse (Genoa, IT), Teatro Valli (Reggio Emilia, IT), Teatro dell'Opera di Lausanne (Lausanne, CH). He is the winner of the Werkjahr2017 of the Christoph Delz Foundation of Basel (CH), with a research project about the interaction between orchestral instruments and electronic devices, with which he created the show INVISIBLE THROUGH BACH, a concert-installation for resonant motorized metal plates, cello, live electronics and visual art. In parallel to his artistic activity he develops softwares for music creation and education, including tiascolto (ear-training), FRAMES (graphical spectral processor), EARME and Ormé (sound spatialization). In his creations he combines acoustic instruments, electronic instruments, digital art and programming with a personal "biological tension".