Andrea Cera Explained

Andrea Cera
Birth Place:Vicenza, Italy
Occupation:electroacoustic composer
sound designer
sound installation artist

Andrea Cera (born 1969 in Vicenza) is an Italian electroacoustic composer, sound designer and sound installation artist.

Biography

Andrea Cera graduated with MA degree (diploma) in piano and music composition at the in Padua (Italy). He studied computer music at the Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music at IRCAM, in Paris.

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,[1] Pascal Montrouge, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. In the same period he has explored sound art: installation sites have included the Centre Pompidou, 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.[2] 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,[3] 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.[4] Other examples are the collaborations with Renault and IRCAM Sound Perception and Design Team (sounds for the electric vehicle),[5] [6] Phonotonic,[7] the SkAT-VG project (Sketching Audio Technologies using Vocalizations and Gestures, 2014–2017),[8] [9] [10] and a series of works for the Co.Me.DiA European Project.[11] 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,[12] [13] Yan Duyvendak,[14] Francesca Foscarini,[15] 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).[16]

In recent years he collaborated with Taiwanese collective Luxury Logico and IRCAM on a robotic installation entitled The Insomnia SketchBook, premiered in 2022,[17] [18] Renault and Jean-Michel Jarre for a new AVAS sound,[19] and with Infomus-CasaPaganini and the Galliera Hospital, for the sound design of DanzArTe, an exergame dedicated to elderly population.[20] He currently is artist-in-residence for the EU funded S+T+ARTS project ReSilence.[21]

Andrea Cera's music is concerned with hybridization and intrusiveness as tools to explore new uses of sound.[22]

Works

Music for choreographies (selection)

Sound installations (selection)

Instrumental, mixed and electroacoustic music (selection)

Other projects (selection)

Discography

Music videos

Bibliography (Selection)

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.affari-esteri.com Edmond Russo and Shlomi Tuizer Official Site
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYlga0bLtyk Andrea Cera. Reactive Ambient Music. Real time translation of everyday noises into music: A video
  3. http://ismm.ircam.fr/urban-musical-game/ Urban Musical Game
  4. A. Cera (2013) "Loops, Games and Playful Things" Contemporary Music Review, Volume 32, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 29–39 (referenced 01/08/24).
  5. Misdariis Nicolas – Cera, Andrea (2017). "Recherche-projet en design sonore : le cas emblématique du véhicule électrique", Sciences du design 2017/1, n° 5 (referenced 01/08/24).
  6. Misdariis Nicolas – Cera, Andrea – Levallois, E. – Locqueteau, C (2012). "Do electric cars have to make noise? An emblematic opportunity for designing sounds and soundscapes", Acoustics 2012 (Nantes, France, 23–27 April 2012) (referenced 01/08/24).
  7. https://vimeo.com/67874215 Phonotonic Video - Pick an object, dance and make music.
  8. Rocchesso, D., Lemaitre, G., Susini, P., Ternström, S. & Boussard, P. (2015). "Sketching sound with voice and gesture". Interactions, 22 (1), 38–41. (referenced 07/07/21),
  9. Rocchesso D. (2017). "SkAT-VG: Sketching Audio Technologies using Vocalizations and Gestures", Periodic Report, European Community, FP7-ICT-2013-C FET-Future Emerging Technologies-618067 (referenced 07/07/21),
  10. Delle Monache, S., Rocchesso, D., Bevilacqua, F., Lemaitre, G., Baldan, S., & Cera, A. (2018). "Embodied sound design. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies", 118, 47–59.
  11. UE Culture2007 Project Co.Me.Di.A: "An invisible Line".
  12. https://www.cssudine.it/stagione-contatto/2015/1305/ppp-ultimo-inventario-prima-di-liquidazione-ricci-forte Andrea Cera. Music for PPP Ultimo inventario prima di liquidazione by ricci/forte
  13. https://www.teatrobiondo.it/wp-content/uploads/troilo-vs-cressida1.pdf Andrea Cera. Music for TROILOvsCRESSIDA by ricci/forte
  14. https://duyvendak.com/works/single/sound-of-music Andrea Cera. Music for Sound of Music by Yan Duyvendak
  15. http://www.francescafoscarini.it/project/animale/ Andrea Cera. Music for Animale by Francesca Foscarini, DANZA&DANZA prize 2018, presented at La Biennale Venezia 2018
  16. https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/fr/projects/le-cinema-emotif Andrea Cera. Music for Le Cinéma Emotif, un prototype de Marie-Laure Cazin de cinéma interactif ou le film varie suivant les émotions des spectateurs portant un casque à électrodes.
  17. https://www.ircam.fr/agenda/insomnia-sketchbook/detail Insomnia Sketchbook, by Collectif Luxury Logico and Andrea Cera, with Thomas Goepfer IRCAM Computer Music Design
  18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Y_-aNO37K0k Trailer of Insomnia Sketchbook, by Collectif Luxury Logico and Andrea Cera, with Thomas Goepfer IRCAM Computer Music Design
  19. https://www.renaultgroup.com/en/news-on-air/top-stories-2/the-story-behind-the-sound-design-with-jean-michel-jarre-the-documentary/ The story behind the sound design with Jean-Michel Jarre : the documentary, 25 January 2024 - Renault's sound design teams have long worked with partners such as Ircam and composer Andrea Cera. A list to which Jean-Michel Jarre has recently been added.
  20. Camurri A., Seminerio E., Morganti W., Canepa C., Ferrari N., Ghisio S., Cera A., Coletta P., Barbagelata M., Puleo G., Nolasco I., Costantini C., Senesi B., Pilotto A., "Development and validation of an art-inspired multimodal interactive technology system for a multi-component intervention for older people: a pilot study", Frontiers in Computer Science, VOL. 5, 2024, DOI=10.3389/fcomp.2023.1290589 (referenced 31/07/24).
  21. https://resilence.eu/andrea-cera/ Andrea Cera. ReSilence
  22. Cera A. (2019). "How To Remain Successfully Unsuccessful", Links, Series 3–4, Musique – Espace Habité, edited by Hervé Zénouda, pp. 25–31.
  23. http://www.plakart.org/pink-squirrelsC1.html Pink Squirrels video

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